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?

 

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Wes Streeting dumps women’s health target from NHS plan

 

“There already is a men’s health strategy: it’s called the NHS; it’s already designed by men for men,” she said.

I find that sort of remark offensive. I spent most of my life looking after women. The more that people make such simplistic comments the more justification there is for sticking to equality not special pleading.

'Women's Health' in the US became a dumping ground for complementary medicine and psychologising. What's the point?

 

Maybe it should be equity? Tackling barriers faced by groups of people should be prioritised according to potential for harm and budgeted in line with the solutions most likely to work, not influenced by political expediency or the relative amounts spent on the groups.

Money for facilities might actually help with the problem of some men being diagnosed with life threatening diseases so late it affects their outcomes—there've been successes with community and workplace-based screening. But the issue of serious reproductive health problems in women being trivialised or denied is more about attitudes than it is about clinics. As is the history of transgender people not being offered health screening appropriate to their post-transition bodies.

What it definitely shouldn't be is a competition.

 

But everything is a competition for resources limited by Politically motivated decisions .

 

Yeah.

We’re gonna have bad outcomes for the people as long as this continues.

 

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BBC reporting live from Royal Free Hospital, London. Asking for patient experiences

Today in the news:
“The BBC is spending a day inside the Royal Free Hospital in north London, finding out how the NHS is coping after intense, annual winter pressures.”

Link HERE

They have been reporting live and are also asking for patient experiences of the NHS:
Get in touch about your experiences:
Email bbcyourvoice@bbc.co.uk, WhatsApp +44 7980 682727 or click here

 

I think it’s a good idea to highlight the crisis of treating people on corridors etc, but you’re never going to get a true picture when staff are aware that journalists are reporting on their work.

I personally don’t feel the experience of people with ME (and chronic illness in general) are at all represented in this live reporting. I found it quite hard to scroll through the praise for how well staff have treated people with acute issues that are recognised as physical problems, when so many of us in the ME community have had a different experience.