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08-03-2010, 03:42 PM
http://itn.co.uk/545a2f400100597e0f5a5db599fd5f68.html
Sun Jun 27 2010 15:46:42
Doctors' warning over NHS cutbacks The economic crisis could have "devastating" consequences for the NHS, doctors' leaders have warned.
Frontline services are already feeling the pressure, with some 40 per cent of hospital doctors questioned saying treatments or therapies are being limited for financial reasons, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).
The BMA warned that redundancies, recruitment freezes and service cutbacks are the "early signs of the impact of the economic crisis" on the NHS.
It published survey results from 92 doctors on the eve of its annual conference in Brighton, where NHS finances are likely to dominate the debate.
Some 72 per cent of the doctors surveyed said their health trust had postponed or cancelled clinical service developments because of financial pressures, while 42 per cent said there were limitations on prescribing.
NHS trusts have been told to find up to £20 billion in "efficiency savings", which some campaigners say will lead to large cuts in patient services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10530621
Thousands of NHS jobs 'being cut' despite promises
"Thousands of NHS jobs in England are being cut despite government promises to protect frontline services, a union says.
The Royal College of Nursing has identified nearly 10,000 posts - double the number from two months ago.
The RCN said this was just the start of what was shaping up to be a "crude" round of cuts which would harm patient care.
But managers said some job losses were necessary."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/4146-england-plans-to-decentralize-healthcare
"...NYT reporter Sarah Lyall writes of the struggles the NHS has encountered since 1948. “Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.”
Finally coming to terms with the impossibility of maintaining central control over something as important as healthcare, the plan, which is not entirely hammered out, is to remove control of the $160 billion health budget from the government and return it to local doctors.
Ideally, the plan will save $30 billion by 2014 and “reduce administrative costs by 45 percent,” explains Lyall. Likewise, the shrinking of the bureaucracy will result in the loss of thousands of jobs.
In a statement given by the British government outlining the plan for decentralization, the government admitted, “The current architecture of the health system has developed piecemeal, involves duplication and is unwieldy. Liberating the NHS, and putting power in the hands of patients and clinicians means we will be able to effect a radical simplification, and remove layers of management.”
The decision to decentralize the NHS could not have come soon enough. In a July 9 TNA article written by Joe Wolverton, he addressed Berwick’s praise of England’s healthcare system and pointed to the inconsistencies between what Berwick said and what is true of the NHS: “That is an interesting endorsement considering that according to a recent study published in the respected medical journal Lancet Oncology, the five-year cancer survival rate in England is 45 percent compared with 66 percent in the United States. The difference when taking only women into account is 53 percent in England, 63 percent in the United States.”
Likewise, I wrote an article on April 2 entitled “England’s Version of Obamacare,” which discussed some of the horror stories involving the NHS, including a man dying of thirst in an English hospital...."
Sun Jun 27 2010 15:46:42
Doctors' warning over NHS cutbacks The economic crisis could have "devastating" consequences for the NHS, doctors' leaders have warned.
Frontline services are already feeling the pressure, with some 40 per cent of hospital doctors questioned saying treatments or therapies are being limited for financial reasons, according to the British Medical Association (BMA).
The BMA warned that redundancies, recruitment freezes and service cutbacks are the "early signs of the impact of the economic crisis" on the NHS.
It published survey results from 92 doctors on the eve of its annual conference in Brighton, where NHS finances are likely to dominate the debate.
Some 72 per cent of the doctors surveyed said their health trust had postponed or cancelled clinical service developments because of financial pressures, while 42 per cent said there were limitations on prescribing.
NHS trusts have been told to find up to £20 billion in "efficiency savings", which some campaigners say will lead to large cuts in patient services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10530621
Thousands of NHS jobs 'being cut' despite promises
"Thousands of NHS jobs in England are being cut despite government promises to protect frontline services, a union says.
The Royal College of Nursing has identified nearly 10,000 posts - double the number from two months ago.
The RCN said this was just the start of what was shaping up to be a "crude" round of cuts which would harm patient care.
But managers said some job losses were necessary."
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/europe-mainmenu-35/4146-england-plans-to-decentralize-healthcare
"...NYT reporter Sarah Lyall writes of the struggles the NHS has encountered since 1948. “Perhaps the only consistent thing about Britain’s socialized health care system is that it is in a perpetual state of flux, its structure constantly changing as governments search for the elusive formula that will deliver the best care for the cheapest price while costs and demand escalate.”
Finally coming to terms with the impossibility of maintaining central control over something as important as healthcare, the plan, which is not entirely hammered out, is to remove control of the $160 billion health budget from the government and return it to local doctors.
Ideally, the plan will save $30 billion by 2014 and “reduce administrative costs by 45 percent,” explains Lyall. Likewise, the shrinking of the bureaucracy will result in the loss of thousands of jobs.
In a statement given by the British government outlining the plan for decentralization, the government admitted, “The current architecture of the health system has developed piecemeal, involves duplication and is unwieldy. Liberating the NHS, and putting power in the hands of patients and clinicians means we will be able to effect a radical simplification, and remove layers of management.”
The decision to decentralize the NHS could not have come soon enough. In a July 9 TNA article written by Joe Wolverton, he addressed Berwick’s praise of England’s healthcare system and pointed to the inconsistencies between what Berwick said and what is true of the NHS: “That is an interesting endorsement considering that according to a recent study published in the respected medical journal Lancet Oncology, the five-year cancer survival rate in England is 45 percent compared with 66 percent in the United States. The difference when taking only women into account is 53 percent in England, 63 percent in the United States.”
Likewise, I wrote an article on April 2 entitled “England’s Version of Obamacare,” which discussed some of the horror stories involving the NHS, including a man dying of thirst in an English hospital...."