This is a must watch by everyone in the U.K.

[Red Lead Ted]

The Dirty War On The NHS
A film by John Pilger
John Pilger's new documentary, The Dirty War on the NHS, is a powerful and timely investigation into the National Health Service.
The ‘last bastion of true public service’, says Pilger, the NHS was designed to give millions of people ‘freedom from fear’. He explores how the NHS has been influenced by the insurance-based healthcare system in the US that denies medical treatment to millions.
Filmed in Britain and the United States, Pilger's compelling film, his 61st, gives voice to those who warn that time may be running out in the battle to save both the NHS and the fundamental human right to medical care.
Written, Directed and Produced by John Pilger
Executive Producer: Christopher Hird
This is a Dartmouth Films production for ITV

It was scheduled to be aired on the 27/11/19 But because a general election was on the horizon was shown late last night on I.T.V. 11/12/19. This link is a shorter version of what is a compelling documentary that everyone in the U.K should watch on catch up I.T.V. if you missed it regardless of your political beliefs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTnIOh6yl6Y

[Keith at Tregenna]

Will watch this tonight. K.

[happy daze john in oz]

Terry, from what we see here in Oz medical treatment in many countries now is under threat.
Rising cost of equipment and medicines along with a shortage of medical staff is putting the systems under enormous pressure.
Medical science is also seeing people living longer, another strain on the system.
Here the gov has put a limit of how much insurance funds can increase premiums next year in an effort to reduce some of the stress such increases cause.

[Ivan Cloherty]

More doom and gloom, the difficulties in the NHS will never be resolved until management is tightened up and streamlined instead of appointing assistants to the vice assistant to the first assistant of Dr or Mr/Mrs 'X'

Also stop the NHS being a free for all who walk through the doors whether they have contributed to the system or not, I have no objection to the unemployed, the elderly, legal immigrants having access to the service, but we have a lot of 'health tourists' and illegal immigrants who take advantage of our system, do not pay their bills and are given free medicines to boot.

When I visit Spain and am unfortunate enough to require some medical attention and despite holding a European Health Card and being an Octagenerian I still have to pay between 25 and 40% for any medicines issued. Even over here in the UK I have to pay for my special plasters (£3.00 per one piece, not a box!) because I am allergic to ordinary plasters (they take my skin off) and I have been paying into the system for over sixty years and still paying tax on my miserable State pension. The problems of the NHS could be resolved if it wasn't run as a management club and procedures were tightened up.

[Captain Kong]

The NHS is used and abused by so many Bums. This is one CON........
We have immigrant Doctors, GPs, here, who have immigrant Patients, also immigrant Pharmacists,
My friend is an assistant in the pharmacy, near the Doctors, they go in and get a prescription , it is enough to treat a village, go into the Pharmacy, and come out with a BIG Box of medicals, go across the road to the Post Office, and come out without the box. It is on its way to the Mid east.
Costing the NHS millions.
The last two times I have been an in patient in Hospital here, my ward was full of residents of the khyber regions. I was the only Englishman there.
They were disgusting, they stood on the toilet seats, never sit down on one, and crapped over the cistern and floor.
I signed myself out each time and went home., the poor Nursing staff and cleaners had to clean up their disgusting mess.

At night in A&E is full of drunks and druggies, .
Any Self inflicted injury or illness should be Paid for by the patient. If they can pay for drugs or booze then they can pay for treatment. Also a separate unit away from normal patients.
All Tourist who have never paid into it should also pay.
In Hawaii I HAD TO PAY $85,000 FOR my treament in hospital , so they should do that here.
Brian

[Keith Tindell]

During a fairly recent hospital stay, i spoke to several nurses with regard to what's going on in the NHS, all of them said that the main problems are top heavy management , staff shortages, and wastage, so even if Bojo chucks money at it, there are still major problems that want sorting. The project 2000 was introduced by the government in that year, which meant nurses had to attend a university type course, with the debt that that would incur, and home recruitment plummeted, my son was one of the last to qualify on the old scheme, hence we now have a shortage of nurses, and bleed them away from the poorer countries, such as Indonesia, Bojo has just reinstated the nursing bursary of £8000, kt

[John Arton]

There is now almost as many non medical staff working in the NHS as there are medically trained staff. My eldest daughter is an NHS nurse now working as a specialist pediatric nurse for the NEAS 999 service and the way the public treat the ambulance service is terrible. She regularly gets calls from idiots demanding they send an ambulance to them for things such as a simple cut or a cough, also they often claim stupid mental health problems, which they know will make them a priority.
Rgds
J.A.

[Red Lead Ted]

So, I therefore ask have any of you actually watched John Pilger's Program { The Dirty War On The NHS.] What if you have are your thoughts on what he reports. And not so much on personal experiences. I was personally horrified and if that would have been aired at a prime time on I.T.V. As was intended before the general election we could be looking at a very different Government. p.s. I was never going to vote Labour either even if I had watched this program. But I could or cannot ever bring myself to vote Tory I remember the Thatcher years that was enough for me. Terry.

[Graham Payne]

Hi All
Ivan, Cpt Kong, Keith, and John, I make you all so correct.
Well said Gentlemen.

[Red Lead Ted]

Graham, My good friend, A lot of what they post is true but its all been said before, I am after a reaction on Pilger's compelling insight into privatising the N.H.S. Which we can never rule out.Blue Circle took the franchise over on Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire, They may be ok cementing bricks but totally inadequate running an N.H.S. A care a Quality Commission report was as follows,
"Our inspection highlighted a number of serious concerns surrounding staffing and risks to patient safety particularly in the A&E department and medical care.
"There were substantial and frequent staff shortages in the A&E department. There were a number of other areas of concern, some of which related to the way in which the trust is led and run."
He added the findings "highlight the significant failings at Hinchingbrooke hospital".
He said: "They are not a judgment on the role of the private sector in the NHS or on franchise arrangements. Where hospitals are failing to promote good care, we will say so regardless of who owns and runs them."
Circle took on Hinchingbrooke in early 2012, as it faced closure. Terry.