This NHS crisis is not economic. It's political As the health services endures its biggest squeeze, talk of it being unviable is wide of the mark. We cannot afford to do without it.
How many times have you read that the NHS is bust? No need for answers on a postcard: I can tell you.
Over 2015, the number of national newspaper headlines featuring “NHS” alongside the words bust, deficit, meltdown or financial crisis came to a grand total of 80. Call this the NHS panic index – a measure of public anxiety over the viability of our health service. Using a database of all national newspapers, our librarians added up the number of such headlines for each year. The index shows that panic over the sustainability of our healthcare isn’t just on the rise – it has begun to soar.
Demoralised staff can resign, go on an agency book, pick their shifts and earn more Continue reading... The Guardian
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How many times have you read that the NHS is bust? No need for answers on a postcard: I can tell you.
Over 2015, the number of national newspaper headlines featuring “NHS” alongside the words bust, deficit, meltdown or financial crisis came to a grand total of 80. Call this the NHS panic index – a measure of public anxiety over the viability of our health service. Using a database of all national newspapers, our librarians added up the number of such headlines for each year. The index shows that panic over the sustainability of our healthcare isn’t just on the rise – it has begun to soar.
Demoralised staff can resign, go on an agency book, pick their shifts and earn more Continue reading... The Guardian
See also:
- Surge in privatisation threatening free NHS treatment, unions say The Guardian
- US firms look to capitalise as NHS becomes increasingly privatised The Guardian
- Don’t believe the myth that the NHS is unaffordable | Neena Modi The Guardian
- How paying for your treatment would help save the NHS | Christopher Smallwood The Guardian
- NHS: Rules preventing tax-avoiding companies from securing health care contracts scrapped The Independent
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