I work at a hospital in London. I’ve been under NHS employment for a considerable time, now.
I wish the scaremongering and poorly directed propaganda assault would be aimed at the ludicrous amount of administration and management staff with no prior medical or front line experience.
We have people better suited to marketing and PR making decisions that affect front line staff. Have done for years. Even down to wastage on agency doctors.
I find a positive correlation to this and the negative connotations brought about regarding ‘benefit scroungers’ when we have billions to recover from multi millionaires. But what do I know…
Yes – health tourism is a cause for concern but given the rarity of it in comparison to the overall logistical problems we face in the NHS – it’s NOTHING. Just something to work well as distraction because the real issues lie in the management and administration process. You may wonder why the NHS is always struggling financially and bla bla bla – it’s because 30% of the people are NOT needed. Here we were thinking technology would replace humans…. Oh deary me. :)
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