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Post by meoleshrew2 on Apr 7, 2005 20:35:36 GMT 1
The public private debate is interesting, a few years back my father paid for a private appointment with a consultant £120 for less than 10mins, to get further tests done in Stoke on the NHS, which were arranged within 2 weeks in stead of 3-6 months. The private sector and NHS have been working together for years, I suppose if you away the private sector then the consultants who do work for both would work full time for the NHS and so on for other staff, which would compensate for extra patients. So it still comes down to you get what you pay for if you can or want to.
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Post by The Shropshire Tenor on Apr 7, 2005 21:13:41 GMT 1
The debate is academic anyway, no political party is going to abolish private health and education. Actually the present government is privatising the NHS on the sly and ensuring that millions of public money is finding its way into the coffers of big companies who are usually labour benefactors. Just read up on PFI's and ITC's.
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Post by meoleshrew2 on Apr 7, 2005 21:34:59 GMT 1
Well if they are its working, My family have And I have to use the NHS a lot, my mother believed local press and thought she would have to wait 12 months or more for a brain scan, 2 weeks wait for consultant then 4 days brain scan, 3 days another test can't name it. I'm not going to suggest for a minute that it all works that well etc, but on the whole if its urgent ie: stroke then all seems to go like clock work, as it has for my father with his strange cancer, I go by what I experience myself and family friends, etc. Apart from the odd appointment foul up the nhs for us has been working great.
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Post by Rob on Apr 8, 2005 12:10:49 GMT 1
Blair lied about the war, he lied about student top up fees and he lied about tax. Its time for a change after 8 wasted years. I'm voting Lib Dem
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