United Kingdom: National Health Service (NHS) news

Probably largely responsible for the disastrous finances of the NHS now through the PFI fiasco though. If he had invested public money in 2000-2005 we wouldn't be paying back vasts sums in rent to private equity firms. The long term value for money was appalling.

 

Aw gawd both seem personable outside our arena but historically regarding me/cfs these seem two very different beasts not that I know for sure what Jacquu thinks on all the tendrils that massively affect us?

but then I don’t know much about Meddings or whether it’s normal for that role to have ex politicians near it

chairman is always a funny one that can depend on the person the the role about how ‘hands on’ it is as a position in some places

 

Am I remembering wrongly in thinking millburn was very pro CBT and iapt etc back in the day? Of course I’m very open to someone having read the results and changed their mind on things over such a time period and if so that insight being more useful than a naive kind to persuade with the same sakes spiel etc

 

10 Bucks says its Wessely

 

If they're anything like the local schools built under it, their useful lifespan isn't much longer than the rental contract. We'll soon be back to square one, with the only durable asset gained being a ready-levelled building plot and an asphalt drive.

In the case of the NHS, the building plot's probably more likely to be the wrong size and in the wrong place as well.

 

An asphalt drive! Thee wert looky. At UCH we had nowt. Nowhere to park an ambulance rickshaw monocycle.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/society...-crumbling-nhs-buildings-soars-to-almost-14bn

 

Still just reading through this and not opened the reports and plans and research it refers to. It’s from 2002/3

https://hansard.parliament.uk/Commons/2002-01-22/debates/a75516dc-531d-4229-8959-33b20f9081ae/CfsMe

So no idea yet if this is where it went from a good medical officers report to a different path, or if this is good and the rest happened later and where and how?

couldn’t help but note the same conundrums we still deal with now where on prevalence Jacqueline smith has had to say they don’t have central figures but are basing need on the estimate if 4,000 per million of population.

 

Yep

I think this one needs looking into carefully

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improving_Access_to_Psychological_Therapies

I also have a memory of a tv programme that looked back on new labour where he is an architect of strong views on certain things

 

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2024/10/06/dwp-nhs-co-working-job-advisors-hospitals/

Another mention when you get half way down to the ‘Work Well’ job programme (pretty sure that was deliberately named in order to create confusion and stop us mentioning and being heard on the WorkWell Foundation - can they do something to get it changed eg trademark etc???) of Millburn

 

https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/p...th-secretary-alan-milburn-in-nhs-reform-role/

Starting to doubt he’d be offering anything other than a repeat performance?