tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post7935326584708713763..comments2023-08-13T09:15:04.565+01:00Comments on MILLFLATS MERCURY-formerly the Tarff Advertiser: What we can learn from the NHS in England?Mad Jock McMadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17088238215251518226noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6042131604091564151.post-21122312148396108012014-03-14T13:51:02.224+00:002014-03-14T13:51:02.224+00:00Very interesting Peter,thanks.
Health services in ...Very interesting Peter,thanks.<br />Health services in the developed world are facing the problem of baby boomers such as myself (hopefully) living much longer and how to fund the ongoing additional demand for services.<br />I think that savings can be made through efficiency measures such as new technology and improved working practices although the expensive technology failures in the English NHS are not a good example of how to do that.<br />Trying to enable people to have more healthy lifestyles would also help but that is probably a longer term solution.<br />Raising taxes is probably going to be an option in iScotland because people are more amenable to that idea than our cousins in the south. <br />We are fortunate in Scotland that we have a relatively small population so joined up thinking should be possible for service delivery which will be more efficient and care driven rather than budgetary.<br />However,should we decide to continue to have Westminster rule,and we believe the Labour promise to do away with the Scottish Health Service as an entity,the future will be pretty bleak.<br />Having to integrate the Scottish health service with the English one will be disruptive and costly with no clear benefit to patients,however that hasn't stopped Westminster politicians in the past so probably will happen again in future if we allow it.<br />Our health service is not perfect but the point is that it is our health service and we can call local politicians to account when things go wrong or need changing....at least in theory.<br /><br />bringitonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10712089398887269381noreply@blogger.com