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nightowl
Barsoom
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 Posted - 24/01/2008 : 02:14:39
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Another story of total incompetence by NHS management, they must get the money up front and banked before all this skill and man hours put into this brilliant idea of Patricia Hewitt...!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7205240.stm
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long time no see
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 11:49:18
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Typical of Neo Conservative New Labour.
Utter Incompetence of New Labour NHS. |
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Miriam Binder
Earthsea
United Kingdom
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 11:59:07
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Originally posted by long time no see
Typical of Neo Conservative New Labour.
Utter Incompetence of New Labour NHS.
from Nightowl's link:
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A spokesperson from the trust said 90% of its debt was from overseas patients to whom it had provided emergency treatment, and less than 10% to private customers who had booked their treatment in advance.
So what would you have the NHS do LTNS? Turn away a tourist with a burst appendix, and to almost certain death, unless cold hard cash exchanged hands first? |
"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin |
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld
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Posted - 24/01/2008 : 21:38:24
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Then there`s the odd other side of the coin, British patients who go abroad for treatment that they can`t get here without a stupidly long wait, and that`s not even Private, it`s Contracted Out!! No, it doesn`t make much sense, does it.
I would also like to reassure folks who go abroad, get ill and need urgent treatment, then come home to recuperate, there`s some bloody Brilliant Emergency care in Spain, France & Greece. Also in a certain Muslim state too. There may be also in other countries but I`ve no first hand experience of nursing folks who got sick/suffered trauma elsewhere. NO `foreigner` should be given anything less than the best care just because they`re `foreign`, wherever they are when they`re stricken, or wherever they are from!
Would you really WANT to be treated by a doctor who had so little regard for the sick that he`d just turned away the chap in front of you the A&E queue on the grounds of `foreign - unable to PAY` ??? |
Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski! |
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