Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Fair comment.

That is certainly the direction of travel - but it doesn't have to be that way.

A small start would be to end the public subsidy of private profit - fraudulent contracts as exposed during Covid, and public investment in training for future private sector medics. And the waste of the internal NHS market. And the disappearing 40 new hospitals promised by the Blond Buffoon. And the drift towards funding Big Pharma profits at the expense of the taxes and lives of working people (we are not in the situation of the USA yet - but it is on the table in the post-Brexit trade negotiations with the Americans).
It's a difficult topic the NHS, most of us will have depended on it during our lifetime, but it has become a subject that's impossible to debate before the shouting and screaming starts, the NHS needs to continue not everyone can opt to go private when needs must, however a root and branch reform IMO is required. It cannot be the cash cow it is, accountability is required, we all have probably views of procedures and practices that should be cut, this isn't easy, change and expectations of the NHS will have to be re evaluated.

I see 3 goals in this 2nd half.