...future of the health service

[ecuworrier]

...back to reality...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/healthcare-network/2011/may/06/healthcare-week?INTCMP=SRCH

One in three GPs is planning to leave the NHS in the next five years, a survey reported in the Independent suggests.


The survey of 576 doctors for Pulse magazine found GPs under strain, with 46 per cent saying they suffer stress, 19 per cent anxiety and 7 per cent depression. Of the entire sample, 35 per cent are planning on leaving or will retire in the next five years

er this sounds a bit heavy for natural wastage.... and it jettisons us into a crisis or does it cos if we can't get an appointment who needs healthcare... the budget deficit will be sorted in no time so good news ..or who cares

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[AndrewF]

I wonder how many of those thinking of leaving are planning to set up as private doctors (i e just leaving the NHS rather than General Practice) and how many will just be going into a different area of medicine? I don't think anything like all GP's work in General Practice for their whole careers.

[AndyHB]

Whilst this would certainly be a concern if it really is true, I'm not sure that a survey of 570-odd is a valid sample; what is more, I'm not sure that the proportions have changed much over the past 10 years.

[ecuworrier]

last night i heard the first and when i heard her speak only tory MP i have ever warmed to can't recall her name but she's a new west country MP totness? and was elected to representative or the tory party... under a 'primary' system something being piloted i guess.... 

anyhows a new MP she was offered one of those junior posts.... and she turned it down and why cos her previous job was as GP and being hoovered up into govt she would not be able to speak her mind! she is no fan of the NHS reforms... silly i know

meanwhile Shirley Williams has a piece in the guardian complaining about some comments that gov spokesp[erson made abroad http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/15/liberal-democrats-nhs-health-bill-changes
silly i know


GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[AndyHB]

ecu, rather than blindly ranting on about the Tory/Lib Dem approach to the NHS, why not acknowledge that they have at least tried to do something to overhaul what has become a very sick project over the past 25-30 years.  This has partly due to unnecessary Government interference in the project by, now, all three of the major parties and partly by the public purse being simply unable to bear the weight of rapid medical advances in that same period - advances that would probably strain a budget 4 or 5 times its current size!!

I agree with you that what has been proposed seems to have got out of hand, and lost what shape it might have originally had, not always helped by posing and economy with the truth from both sides of the debate,

Would you be willing, albeit quite simply perhaps, to outline how you believe the NHS ought to be being brought into the 21st century?

[ecuworrier]

ecu, rather than blindly ranting on about the Tory/Lib Dem approach to the NHS, why not acknowledge that they have at least tried to do something to overhaul what has become a very sick project over the past 25-30 years.  This has partly due to unnecessary Government interference in the project by, now, all three of the major parties and partly by the public purse being simply unable to bear the weight of rapid medical advances in that same period - advances that would probably strain a budget 4 or 5 times its current size!!

I agree with you that what has been proposed seems to have got out of hand, and lost what shape it might have originally had, not always helped by posing and economy with the truth from both sides of the debate,

Would you be willing, albeit quite simply perhaps, to outline how you believe the NHS ought to be being brought into the 21st century?

hey it makes a change that you encompass a time span that predates 1997!

i look forward to some solutions from you first...  your comments on the welsh situation for example that labour ran into the ground though the welsh assembley i believe is a new phenomenon

GOD BLESS!

Peace and Love,

[AndyHB]

hey it makes a change that you encompass a time span that predates 1997!

only a change for those who don't read my posts properly, ecu.  I regularly encompass timespans up to 40 years - so that's back to the 1970s and includes, now, 4 Tory and 4 Labour PMs.

[Boudi]

It must have been all that riding up a big hill on a penny farthing to get some bread that makes you so knowledgeable.