More evidence of the effect of the #Tories defunding of the #NHS:

we can agree that its hard to maintain a functioning #healthservice if the buildings & equipment are in bad repair or failing.

One way to measure that is the expected cost(s) of meeting current required repairs.

Those maintenance needs that expose the NHS to low risk have actually remained stable while those that offer higher risk of problems have expended.

It will take years & billions of £ to repair the wreckers' work

@junesim63

yes, it all sounds familiar from the #healthservice doesn't it.... the #Tories small-state 'philosophy' (although its more like a prejudice to be frank) which underpins their agressive defunding of the #publicsector while syphoning off money to their chums is having widespread real wild consequences.... the difficulty is the media often don't want to put 2 + 2 to get 4!

@KimSJ @Davidjackson

Agreed; starving a model of funding does not provide evidence of the need for reform, ir provides evidence that you cannot run an under-funded #healthservice!

There is a certain irony in the news that the number of senior #NHS doctors migrating to better paid jobs with better working conditions is growing.

For years, the UK has 'benefitted' from recruiting staff from poorer countries (who have trained #HealthService staff) for the the NHS.

Now, we have become one of those countries; as the NHS remans subject of #Tories wrecking, defunding & attrition on working lives, so the prospects of working abroad grow.

What goes around, comes around!

The #NHScrisis & associated #strikes enters a new phase with the consultants' strike.

You may be thinking this is a group who are hardly strapped for cash, but this is a classic result of militancy prompted by bad (political) management.

Like other NHS professionals their pay has fallen by a third in real terms over the last two decades, but the real issue is how the #Tories have progressively antagonised all parts of the #HealthService.

A lack of goodwill puts the focus squarely on pay!

Following the current #JuniorDoctors strike (yes, I know JDs are misnamed, they're a lot more mature than 'juniors' & have more responsibility), the #Consultants strike last next week will make it a pretty full spectrum of #NHS staff taking strike action....

What is there not to understand?

The #healthservice needs proper funding, well-paid/happy staff (with reasonable conditions) and an an end to the endless budgetary attrition from the #tories.

#SupportTheStrikes
#supportourNHS
#GTTO

Finally, finally the #NHS has a #workforce plan which involves a doubling of the training places for #Doctors & #nurses.

This is (perhaps) a decade late, but welcome nonetheless. However, now the Q. is how to retain them once they've been trained?

Here's an idea:
listen to the #strikers & pay NHS staff properly!

as has been demonstrated conclusively by the #Tories defunding of the #healthservice, you cannot have a world class #publichealth system on the cheap.

#SupportTheStrikes

If you only read one thing on the #NHSCrisis today, make it this:

Seven people working in & around the #NHS explore the scale & scope of the #healthservice's difficulties - they pull few punches & tell it like it is - this is powerful stuff & needs to be widely read;

once you've read it please boost this (or your take own it) so as many people as possible can clearly understand what the #Tory wreckers have done in the last decade.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/11/nhs-dying-statistic-crisis-healthcare-75th-anniversary

So what is the latest wheeze from the #Tories to address aspects of the #NHSCrisis?

yes, appeal to volunteers to help with discharging patients....

So, their workforce plan is to go head-to-head with #NHS staff over wages, while reducing investment in other aspects of the #healthservice, and then expect unpaid, volunteers to replace paid professionals;

Seldom has the #Tories defunding strategy been so blatantly applied;

we need to urgently stop the wreckers!

#GTTO

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/06/ministers-seek-volunteer-social-care-army-to-speed-up-hospital-discharges

Yet more data on the (slef-funded) use of private #healthcare;

The #Tories plan to make the use of private #medical firms more normal is working; they've engineered an #NHScrisis, 'incetvising' those who can pay for private treatment to do so.

Even when they have left office (as they will) their lasting legacy will have been to corrupt & compromise a once world class #healthservice built on an ice of equal access, replacing it with a tiered service based on wealth!

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/may/24/record-rise-in-people-using-private-healthcare-amid-nhs-frustration

@gligongdaxue

Yes, but of course now I often see side-swipes at the 2012 ceremony by those on the right; similar to (but more toxic than) the general American bemusement at the time about why we would celebrate a #healthservice

More evidence of the wreckers impact on the #NHS... no organisation could function successfully with these levels of staff turnover, especially where roles are best delivered by those with tacit knowledge best gained through experience...

we all know the #NHS is not safe in #Tory hands, but the evidence is mounting about quite how wide a spectrum of damage has been caused by 12 years of miss-rule & active hostility to what was once a world-leading #healthservice

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/23/nhs-ambulance-staff-england-quitting-better-paid-jobs

More evidence, should you need it of #Tory defunding of the #NHS;

At the same time private #healthcare is trumpeting instant access to health professionals, waiting times on #NHS111 have reached nearly half an hour (on average) with nearly a fifth of callers just giving up;

so now the service the Tories pretended would help deal with capacity issues in the main #healthservice is also under staffed;

the wreckers continue to laugh all the way to their backers' bank!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/10/tory-neglect-blamed-for-36m-abandoned-calls-to-nhs-111-in-england

Another report on the #NHS telling us what (surely) we knew already (which doesn't make the analysis any less true, of course).

The proliferation of targets across the #HealthService makes little positive difference but skews medical/clinical priorities; better to have broader national health priorities...

and so; prevention is better than cure; the #NHS needs to refocus 'upstream' to keep people out of #hospital in the first place.

But is anything going to change?

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/03/nhs-england-scrap-number-national-targets-review

#JuniorDoctors #strike starts today, and so as before; when your appointment has been cancelled, when your #healthcare has been disrupted, please do not get annoyed at the striking #HealthService staff.

They have gone on strike as a last resort, after years of #tory attrition towards the #NHS and a radical decade long program of defunding of our health service.

Direct your anger & blame towards the #Tories & #JeremyHunt who have been instrumental in causing the #nhscrisis

#SupportTheStrikes

Another day another revelation about the #NHScrisis - a survey suggests half of #ambulance workers have seen a patient die due to delays in A&E or delays in getting to the scene due to overstretched ambulance services...

The #Tories have engineered this crisis & whatever its particular (local) elements behind the crisis is a desire to wreck our #HealthService!

we need to see the back of these wreckers & soon

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/06/more-than-half-of-ambulance-workers-have-seen-patient-die-because-of-delay

Our paper from ICORIS conference 2022 has been published. It is about the development of #chatbot agent, collaborating with Liramedika Hospital. This field of research is going to get more important than ever! 😊. Anyway, you can check the abstract in this link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10031400 . Thus, If you want to read the paper, please kindly contact me personally. I will send it to you 🙂 #AI #healthservice #healthinformatics #bioinformatics @academicchatter @academicsunite @academiamemes

If your friends in #EuropeanUnion have a better experience of their national #healthservice that we duo currently, this might be part of the issue.

If the spending on #healthcare by the Govt. matched the per-capita rates in Europe then we'd have spent over a fifth more & the #NHScrisis would not be as deep or long-running... yet more proof the #Tories are defunding the #NHS (should you need it)

#SaveOurNHS

It can be no surprise that there is a #mentalhealthcrisis in the #NHS, causing more lost staff-days than #coronavirus - the gap between what professionals want to be able to do & what is possible within a defunded system purposefully put under pressure but the Government is the perfect environment for the ballooning of #stress.... the only answer is to end the attrition on our #healthservice
#SaveOurNHS
#generalelectionNOW
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/05/stress-nhs-staff-absence-than-covid-figures-show

He can't help himself can he?

#RishiSunakPM's lunch-time pledge to make an unprecedented improvement in A&E by spending a £1bn includes:

no new money; so its a case of robbing one part of the #healthservice to fix a problem in another;

and its only possible to have unprecedented 'improvement' because base line service delivery in health under the #Tories has dropped so far that a large (indeed unprecedented) improvement is required to return the service to where it was relatively recently!