Saturday, March 27, 2010

KHOODEELAAR! Exposed them for years. Now new evidence emerges that the Crossrail scam-peddling touting regime are at it again. While they are borrowing right, left and centre to fund Big Biz agenda scam Crossrail they are also at the same time plotting to close down UK NHS hospital wards! What a neat way to show G Brown has 'vah-loos'! Or, rather, to show what G Brown's 'vah-loos' are like!


Labour's secret plans to axe tens of thousands of NHS jobs

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 11:51 AM on 27th March 2010

Tens of thousands of NHS workers could be sacked and thousands of hospital beds lost under plans outlined by strategic health authorities, it was reported.
The plans could also see procedures such as hip replacements scrapped and patients encouraged to email doctors rather than visit surgeries.
Proposals were drawn up by the 10 English strategic health authorities for productivity and efficiency savings.
The plans come after NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson spoke of the need to make between £15 and £20 billion in productivity efficiency savings over three years.
NHS cuts
A document marked 'restricted' and circulated among SHA board members suggests 10,000 or more of the region's 100,000 NHS workers may lose their jobs
The Department of Health said it was 'committed to protecting the NHS frontline'.
Documents from SHAs show how the cuts could fall on hospital services, according to the Daily Telegraph.
The newspaper said that in the South East Coast region, which covers Surrey, Kent and Sussex, up to £1.6billion must be saved.
A document marked 'restricted' and circulated among SHA board members suggests 10,000 or more of the region's 100,000 NHS workers may lose their jobs.
It stated: 'The new financial environment demands that the trend in workforce growth must be reversed.'
It said staffing in the acute sector, covering hospitals, 'can be expected to decline faster and further' than elsewhere.
A spokesman for the South East Coast SHA told the newspaper the document was a discussion paper and not a final plan.
NHS cuts
Health Secretary Andy Burnham discusses progress with Dr Jane Barrett at the Cancer Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital
In London, which faces £5 billion in cuts, documents show managers believe up to £2 billion can be saved from community care budgets, which cover GPs' surgeries.
It said this would include 'changing how patients get in contact with and receive services, such as through greater use of the internet and email'.
A Department of Health spokesman said: 'We are committed to protecting the NHS frontline. All the efficiencies in the frontline will be reinvested in the NHS.
'To ensure that the quality of NHS services continues to improve, service must be more productive. Better designed services can deliver both better quality and value for money. Service change proposals must demonstrate a strong clinical case for change, promoting better outcomes for patients.
'We will be clear with trusts that they must not make short-term cuts that harm patient care. 
'Service change is important to drive through our reforms and must be guided by the need to improve quality for patients and secure best value for taxpayers' investment.
'Right now we are confident, based on good financial management over the last few years, that the NHS can continue to improve and deliver the high quality care that patients, public and staff rightly demand.'
A spokeswoman for NHS South East Coast said the document was an early draft and its final version states that the 10 per cent growth of the workforce in the region since 2007 would be halted in 2010-11.
She said: 'We will have to manage costs over the coming years to live within our available budget, but we intend to do this through raising productivity and driving quality and efficiency through innovation - designing local services to bring all parts up to the level of the best.
'This is not about quick fix cuts but about planning sensibly for the future to maintain quality, sustainable services for patients. We will protect the quality and safety of patient care.
'We are confident that the NHS in Kent, Surrey and Sussex can continue to improve and deliver the high quality care that patients and the public rightly demand, whilst ensuring that we live within our available budget and offering best value for taxpayers' money.'

 
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I thought the increase of National insurance tax we paid from 10% to now 12% was to fund the NHS? Are we being mislead and the money is going somwehere else?
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Hip replacments scrapped !!!!!! what next no painkillers allowed why not just close all hospitals clinics gp's and any other medical places and give everyone a pill to end their life when it comes unbearable. I think we should all move to a third world country as they seem to get a lot more funds off this country than the people that live here.
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Gordon Brown said that the Tories were the Party of Cuts. He wouldn't lie, would he? He said the NHS was ringfenced. But then he would before a General Election.
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It seems the genuine sick will be the first to be culled as at some NHS hospitals.

Management and all the PC ops like gender realignment or whatever it's called will continue as will treatment of illegals and foreign day visitors.

The NHS is just that, not the worlds health service or cosmetic ops R us.
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See how many NHS and PCT staff appear on these delegates list for the UK National Smoking Cessation Conferences and you will see where the money is being spent.


2010 Delegates 275 ( Registered so far )
http://www.uknscc.org/2010_UKNSCC/delegate_list/delegate_list.html

2009 Delegates 846
http://www.uknscc.org/2009_UKNSCC/delegate_list/delegate_list.html

2008 Delegates 759
http://www.uknscc.org/2008_UKNSCC/delegate_list/delegate_list.html

2007 Delegates 603
http://www.uknscc.org/2007_UKNSCC/delegates.html

2006 Delegates 523
http://www.uknscc.org/2006_UKNSCC/delegates.html

2005 Delegates 585
http://www.uknscc.org/2005_UKNSCC/delegates.html
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A local hospital has already started to talk about losing 100 beds and merging wards. Thanks Labour......for nothing.
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