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For a slightly more balanced view http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/verdict/nhs-being-privatised

About 95% :thumbsup: Thanks HT I appreciate such a compliment from the master of mirth. Always enjoy our exchanges going back and forth for no apparent reason .. We're a bit like the chuckle brothers :jester: Looking forward to this exciting sector of medical Science developing further and...

21st Century Healthcare Getting away from the all Doctors are saints, Nurses are angels, here's my wallet theme perhaps time to think outside of the box. They could save some cash and free up resources and space by replacing some Doctors with an internet based diagnostic service. Save on the...

True although not as much as it did under the last Labour government.

Fair enough I had to check as many people contributing to this thread seem to think money grows on trees.

Good luck getting elected arguing for large scale income tax increases .... simples!

If it's good enough for the Germans and the French then I can't see why we cannot create a system including some of the best aspects of these and other examples while retaining the many good parts of the NHS. The ideologically driven public = good, private = bad argument is as flawed as the...

We have a rapidly increasing ageing population and a shrinking tax base combined with ongoing advances in medical Science .The future funding of the NHS will become unaffordable unless some form of private health Insurance element is introduced. Hopefully the public will be persuaded that this...

Easy to splash the cash during an economic boom. Are we really spending less and less on health than our European counterparts? We spend more as a percentage of GDP than Spain, Italy, Ireland and countries who appear to spend more mostly have a larger percentage of private health provision so...

It is certainly complicated and I can't say I am across all the minutia of the negotiations but it appears to come down to money. The new imposed contract seems to offer significant concessions and I doubt we will see the suggested flight of junior doctors to other countries. It hasn't been...

The government is offering extra pay after 5pm But they have offered to top up the pay by 30% for those who work regular Saturdays - defined as at least one in four The BMA wants all day Saturday for everyone to be paid at 50% above the basic rate Agreement has not been reached on on-call...

Interesting to see if that turns out to be true or ends up being shown to be just another scare tactic that was used to try and get more money out of the government.