At last, the mainstream media have started to look underneath the the Government's thin veneer of spin-laden bullshit than normally gets repeated verbatim in the press.
However, it doesn't come as a suprised that the person who is at last questioning Darzi's 'Polyclinic evolution' is George Monbiot in the Guardian:
So why is this happening? In seeking to surreptitiously privatise healthcare, the government has a problem. Primary care is already in private hands - GPs run their own practices. But they are the wrong hands: the corporations demanding guaranteed streams of income from the taxpayer can't play in this field. Polyclinics are perfectly designed to let them in, while preventing doctors from competing.
Fuck me, He's Got! I really think He's got it!
George is something of a rarity in modern Britain, where intellectual exertion is regarded as 'discriminating against thick people'. He's a true independent thinker, and as such should be regarded as a national treasure. Having said that, he does occasionally come out with some really crazy shit! However, if you could stuff the whole concept inside a nutshell, Monbiot would would be the king of the fucking squirrels.
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I love your commentary. Fresh, frank, and god so honest. Our health care system in the states is getting pretty F#$%cked too! I have been in it 25 years. The latest loophole is the sudden pop-up of all these free standing "surgery" centers that are bloody unregulated. You see, the US just doesn't know what to bloody do with them. IN the meantime, the docs are $$$ in collect mode. Where the is a will $$ there is a way!
Only one point of disagreement - Monbiot's item did not require any great intellectual ability (although he may be a clever guy) given the wealth of information that now exists exposing NuLabs true intentions.
No, anybody can see (if they care to read a few newspaper articles, or happen to work for the NHS) that Polyclinics are little more than the latest plank in NuLabs burgeoning privatisation by stealth campaign - following on, as they do, from the disastrous PFIs and ISTCs.
I must admit I did not realise that so many post-op complications were arising from ortho surgery carried by ISTCs, 20% according to Monbiots sources.
Given the complexity of primary care the Polyclinics would probably view a 20% screw-up rate as almost mouth wateringly good ?
Since the PCTs and hospital Trusts are in the pockets of the DoH, I suppose the public will only begin to realise how much vandalism is going on when it starts to affect them in sufficient numbers, either because of lack of access or poor outcomes, (a la ISTCs).
his article on 13/3/08 is good too- see www.monbiot.com
George Monbiot did a good job shining the light to those as in the dark as the contents of Darzi's rectum.
C'mon GPs! Surely there is something you lot can do to stop these Arsey Darzi polyclinics. Think of the numbers of patients that will be turfed to NHS hospitals because of the cock-ups.
What about the worried well and their choice of investigation on demand? Who is going to wipe their fevered brow after the poly exhausted their in-house expertise. Off to the NHS on call doctors they go.
(I'm speaking form experience- a man with achondroplasia and OA knees, which no right minded orthopod in the SouthWest would touch- on account of the non-standard anatomy- went to his local ISTC for a shiny new knee. He ended up in my ward a fortnight later. My boss said he should go back to his ISTC which he couldn't do because he has been 'discharged' without any follow-up.)
I have seen some of the first effects of the worried well accessing investigations at will. Have you come accross "Lifescan" yet. Basically, a CT. It always finds a little something. Then we NHS docs have to look into it at great time and expense. I have only had problems with the poorly written, poorly formatted, unreadable report. Mind you I have only seen 2 well middle aged people. Both had incidentallomas, both needed a shit load of NHS Ix and my time as an inpatient and outpatient. Pah
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Wait until enough people have had a "screening CT" and sooner or later you'll get a few radiation induced cheeriomas which will need sorting as well
Look at Henry Kravis and HCA and then at Boots.....
This morning, HCA, the nation's largest hospital company, announced it would go private in a massive $33 billion leveraged buyout led by Bain Capital, Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts, and Merrill Lynch.......
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