Hospital sell off

• Guest 645

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  17 April 2011     05:53102166
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  The Trafford Hospital in Manchester, the St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals in Merseyside and debt-ridden Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridgeshire could be sold or run by private firms.
  
  The sell-off of Trafford would be hugely symbolic as it was there in 1948 that then Health Minister Aneurin Bevan accepted the keys of the new hospital - the first in Britain to offer free treatment under the newly-formed NHS.
  
  And only three years ago David Cameron, then leader of the Opposition, visited Trafford and declared that the ­Tories had a "historic ­opportunity" to steal Labour's clothes as the party of the NHS.He went on to win the General Election under the slogan: "We'll cut the deficit, not the NHS." Doctors and nurses fear the changes will mean thousands of job losses as private firms cut staff numbers in their drive for profit.
  
  "The NHS is safe in Tory hands" - bollocks.
  Marek
  I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
• Keith Sansum1

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  17 April 2011     05:58102167
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  MAREK
  You are correct but where as at that time DC was given the opportunity to govern
  now people are starting to realise the NHS isnt safe under the tories, nor is much else
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• Bern

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  17 April 2011     09:39102197
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  It isn't safe under anyone, and quite right too as it is at present. The principle is admirable but the practice is abysmal - and it is self defeating for nurses to claim an overwhelming vote of no confidence in a health minister when there is so much evidence of no confidence in many nurses. Nurses need to be trained and free-ed up to nurse, not to manage budgets and services. They are different skills. When they start to think that because they have a degree they can save the world they lose their focus.
• Keith Sansum1

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  17 April 2011     11:20102212
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  BERN;
  The NHS without doubt has it's problems but for all it's faults i would prefer an NHS to one of private medicine where you get treatment if you have the dosh, otherwise hard luck.
  
  we have seen in parts of America where this takes place where ambulance drivers ask first if the casualty has private medical insurance before taking them.
  that's not what i want to see.
  
  
  so if you feel the nurses positions are not working campaign to change it
  
  don't just say let's dismantle the NHS which is what is wanted by some
  the NHS is needed today more than ever.
  
  fight for a better NHS
  thats the way forward
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• Bern

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  17 April 2011     11:58102218
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  I didn't say dismantle it Keith - I support the NHS and I think that is quite clear. It is how it is run that sucks. And there are many ways to campaign for change, some might say it is better done from within.
• Keith Sansum1

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  17 April 2011     14:49102225
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  I agree bern
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• Sarah P

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  17 April 2011     15:26102237
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  Bern , you are so right ,
• howard mcsweeney1

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  17 April 2011     18:58102261
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  i doubt those hospitals will be sold off, there will be a strong outcry that will frighten the government into caving in.
  
  private companies would only be interested in the straight forward procedures not the long term expensive stuff.