As long as we are chained to the loons in Westminster it will always be the same.
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More cuts on the way
As long as we are chained to the loons in Westminster it will always be the same.
It’s sufficiently funded , just allocated in the wrong areas
Free prescription services in wales costs close to £700m
https://gov.wales/prescriptions-wale...arch-2021-html
Have a look at the prescription data link...1.5m prescriptions for aspirin, 1.2m for paracetamol...Gps should not be prescribing this stuff they should be sending people to the local pharmacy for it. But with no prescription charges people want it for free. BUT.. the cost is huge. Your local pharmacy gets paid about £1 for dispensing the aspirin, plus a relatively good ingredient cost, plus an allowance for a container.....what a waste of money.
So this post should be critiquing the funding and management of the NHS England land, Scotland, Wales, NI ?
Well thats a different thing as if you feel the NHS is in the shit uk wide and you feel the answer is not more money but more reorganisation then who is going to offer you that ?
Liz Truss ?
Mr Jeremy Cnut who attacked the NHS last time he was health Secretary?
Good luck with that
The arguement those that support free prescriptions is that taking everything into consideration the chronic health problems of Wales mean people will take their medication if its provided for free ......and less people are bothering the doctors and hospitals with illnes
The situation is not as easy to resolve as you think imo
~Unfortunately Wales is the worse of the home nations and it's been managed by the same party for over 20 years. The easy answer is that they are putting more money into this into that or that the issue is lack of money. Try going into A&E at UHW ..it's a disgrace...patients cant even get a cup of water.
I went for a an annual OP checkup recently and asked to make another appt for 12 months time. Do you want a reminder letter they said...No a text will do I replied. Oh we are just getting funding to allow us to send text they said. I asked why when I already get text about covid jabs from `Cardiff and Vale...Oh we are not allowed to use that system....
Well daft procedures are not going to be just evident in Cardiff or Wales or England
In the same way that ambulances are a problem in Wales they are a problem in England
Social care is poor all over the UK......and that's because the conservatives privatised it all . The shame of Blair was that he did nothing about this .
Wales is behind on performance and targets but the Tories accuse Labour in Wales of being defensive without realising these problems are as you say uk wide .
I find drakeford annoying and would like to see the back of him but unless there is root and branch reform of the NHS and sensible budgets ......and it will be because of the Truss episode that cuts to Wales will be made ......we are not going anywhere
I enjoyed seeing RT Davies on the end of a leathering , he's a wealthy farmer using the NHS for votes .
Have a read of that
I am sure the reason is by people taking their medication as prescribed and paid for the spend less time in the doctors chair
BBC News - Free prescriptions 'saving Welsh NHS money for 10 years'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-39457033
The argument is not as you say...It was that people may get not all their medicines dispensed if they had to pay for each item, or even might not take the prescription to the chemist.
There is some validity in that. However even in England most people get free prescriptions..I think it's over 85%. Those that pay tend to be younger adults with no chronic illness and not on benefits...the sort they you would say should be paying anyhow.
What is not acceptable in Wales is turning up at the doctors for a prescription for paracetamol because its free.