The NHS is failing...

The NHS is failing, it's on its knees and I am sat here wondering is the general public so deluded that they believe that a world class health service can continue to be run on a shoestring?

We have loved ones dying on trollies in corridors so some form of taxation, insurance or something needs to be created before the one and a half million NHS staff loose their last ounce of faith in an institution that they passionately believe in.  

On 16 July 2015, Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary was giving a speech at a health think tank known as the King’s Fund, that morning Mr Hunt caused massive damage, I personally believe that it is irrepairable and he infuriated doctors up and down the UK.
Mr Hunt claimed that patients up and down the country were dying unnecessarily because consultants refused to work weekends, therefore causing an excess of deaths at the weekend.
If I remember correctly, in his speech, Mr Hunt claimed there were six thousand avoidable fatalities a year, days after the speech, the figure became around eleven thousand weekend deaths a year.  He wanted seven day working.

Soon after on social media the hashtag #ImInWorkJeremy exploded all over twitter.  No wonder twenty thousand doctor's marched in London alone.   

Doctor's, Nurses, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Dieticians, Physiotherapists and I could continue with this list of professions are leaving our NHS by the coach load.  Britain has fewer doctor's per capita than almost any other country in Europe, despite Mr Hunt preaching on about the 10,000 that has been bought into our NHS since 2010 and still the Government expects the staff in the current NHS to save £22 billion by 2020.

Staff in our hospitals are demoralised, disillusioned and permanently exhausted and local CCGs have staff that wouldn't know the first thing about what patient safety or patient expectations are and yet they earn treble what a nurse does. 

People go on about Mid Staffs but I believe currently this has the potential to happen anywhere.  The official government response to Mid Staffs back in 2014 emphatically vowed that finance would ‘never again be allowed to come before quality of care’. The irony was not lost on NHS staff that, later the same year, NHS England’s ‘Five Year Forward View’ was published, estimating that, if NHS funding and demand continued at current levels, the health service would be £30 billion in debt by 2020.
The government, in refusing to provide more than £8 billion of this shortfall, condemned the NHS to five years of the most draconian cost cutting in its history.
Even from my position in Medicines Management in a CCG, I can see that the government has rigged the system. Staff and Trusts have to excel in patient care while being denied the basic resources to enable them to do so, and the government want to save £22 billion? Bullshit, Mid Staffs apparently was caused by £10 million pounds worth of cuts.  It doesn't take much imagination to think what would £22 billion cause??

Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics and even Hospital Managers are all being treated like fools, they work so hard operating within a system that in turn makes a mockery of them.  Virtually every hospital trust in the UK is in debt to the tune of several millions because patient need today outstrips the money coming through the double doors, so trusts do not stand a chance.