tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post2771337037138083899..comments2024-01-11T10:25:57.007+00:00Comments on Labour of Gove: Doctor Blue: High Friction High Fiction Dr RantChris Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15679067503215414300noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38067964.post-46244428772009512232007-09-08T22:15:00.000+01:002007-09-08T22:15:00.000+01:001. Waiting lists are much shorter YES/NO2. Hospita...1. Waiting lists are much shorter YES/NO<BR/>2. Hospitals and equipment are newer YES/NO<BR/>3. There are more doctors YES/NO<BR/>Doing clinical work? No.<BR/>Lots of double counting of doctors that move (for example, locums moving from one area to another are counted each time they move). Lots of new medical management posts. Yes.<BR/><BR/>4. There are more nurses YES/NO<BR/>On the wards doing ward work? No.<BR/>Nurse:Patient ratios have steadily fallen in the last 10 years.<BR/><BR/>5. There are more clinicians YES/NO<BR/>On the front line? No.<BR/><BR/>6. Doctors pay is much better YES/NO<BR/>Yes, but few of us give a fuck. We prefer to have patients who actually get better rather than lying in their own piss, shit and vomit and are told by nurses to shit themselves because there is no-one to take them to the toilet.<BR/><BR/>7. Nurses pay is better YES/NO<BR/>Yes, but it was a fucking disgrace before and is still a fucking disgrace now. But at least heading in the right direction.<BR/><BR/>8. Clinicians pay is better YES/NO<BR/>See above.<BR/><BR/>9. Cancer survival rates are much better YES/NO<BR/>Than the rest of Europe? No.<BR/><BR/>10. Heart attack survival is much better YES/NO<BR/>Yes, but it's been made a target. What about care of the elderly or psychiatry. They have gotten a lot worse due to the skewing of targets.<BR/><BR/>11. Live births/1000 are better YES/NO<BR/>Maternal mortality is rising for the first time in recorded history. So that's a big NO!<BR/><BR/>12. There are modern walk in centres YES/NO<BR/>What do they do? Isn't that so fucking like a politician? Nice shiny building that is fuck all use but looks good. Waste of fucking money.<BR/><BR/>13. Real expenditure is much much higher YES/NO<BR/>Yes, but where is it all going?<BR/><BR/>Either catch up money because of funding cuts for decades or being siphoned off to big business buddies of the government, or wasted on crap 'big ideas' like the new OOH system, NHS DIre, NHS IT system.<BR/><BR/>The list of fuck ups is endless.Dr Ranthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03564231420965979362noreply@blogger.com