N.h.s abroad
- 21 August 2012 08:43187984some "out of the box" thinking on this one.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/global-network-of-nhs-hospitals-to-exploit-brand-8063512.html - 21 August 2012 09:17187986
Ah...well now , was there a grand plan afoot?. The NHS was heavily featured in the Olympic Opening Ceremony, and Mr Cameron followed up our hugely expensive Olympian extravaganza by saying that the expense of it all will be recouped through various business deals around the world. So...Did he have the NHS in mind?
The idea seems quite radical and on the face of it a good one, selling NHS expertise around the world, but Andy Burnham of Labour claims the idea was his own. No matter who thought of it first though, if the NHS could treat people around the world for profit then it could aleviate some of the financial stresses placed on it here, as the indigenious can hardly afford to keep it going any more.
But long may it live. How we keep it alive is open to interpretation.email: dover7@msn.com - 21 August 2012 09:47187993I thought we already had a well respected, if expensive, brand that trades around the globe and yet even with it's world-wide earning the domestic cost rises year upon year, curtailed only as a matter of political expediency...the BBC.
A cross-governmental agency is to marry those hospitals 'wishing' to expand with markets identified through the commercial work of Embassies.
The profits to be ploughed back into domestic care and the financial 'risks' to be taken on by the private sector.
Setting to one side the occurrence on these pages of complaints related to medical care delivered by those whose knowledge of our native tongue is not all it could be and factoring in, of necessity, the 'fact' that as we have been teaching Mandarin to schoolchildren for some time now many of those same children will now be major players in the medical professions. For it surely must be so?
Perhaps it is best that we wait until the US elections are over to see whether the Health Insurance industry is to driven from those shores to seek out suckers further afield.
That Andy Burnham claims authorship is yet more proof that the Red and the Blue dance cheek-to-cheek, and what do two cheeks make if not one complete arse?Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing. - 21 August 2012 16:09188021Thought this one might get a bit more comment. is it a good idea to flog our NHS services overseas?? It could actually save our health service, think of all that revenue going back into healthcare direct, we have the worlds premier health service..of a kind, havent we?...so there surely must be an export market in all that accumulated knowledge.email: dover7@msn.com
- Keith Sansum1
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21 August 2012 16:25188023I don't know to much about this scheme, but wondered why/who is going to run all these new ventures overseas????
we don't have enough front line staff in the N.H.S. let alone trying to expandALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - 21 August 2012 16:34188026Once these private centres are up and running and considered to be the norm some bright spark will decide its a blue print for the NHS in the UK. It would be better to sort out the taxation system in this country and fund the NHS properly from within.
- 21 August 2012 17:41188032keith
it would be local staff employed, probably locally managed - just set up by successful trusts from the u.k
in a word, franchise. - Keith Sansum1
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21 August 2012 17:42188033mark
think that was the way i was leaningALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS - Brian Dixon
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21 August 2012 18:55188050back door to barrys world.
- 21 August 2012 19:20188052Ho well, Foreigners wouldn't have to travel to abuse the system.
- 21 August 2012 19:39188057the bit i like is that the blues have readily latched onto an idea by the reds instead of just dissing it.
what we need now is for the chancellor to plagiarise the work of gordon and alistair and drag the economy back to a good position again. - 21 August 2012 19:48188058# 6...totally agree......# 11..spot on.........
- Brian Dixon
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22 August 2012 05:59188076howard,you bad boy,dont give them ideas like that.we might get out of debt that way.
