Die öffentliche Zufriedenheit mit dem NHS erreicht ein Rekordtief

Unhealthy population – an ageing population – upstream determinants of health that become expensive health issues down the line (prevention cheaper than cure / treatment).

Then there’s public expectation that everything can get done on the cheap; that only if we could sack some admin staff and NHS managers; that systems can be changed ever so simply a la Reform.

But hey let’s just do another a poll.

My satisfaction with the public hits a new low every time I go out!

The believe that there is waste (which there is) and dissatisfaction with availability is diametrical opposed. You can’t have extra capacity with some degree of waste.

We’ve somehow accepted that supermarkets chuck inordinate amounts of food away throughout the supply chain, but when it comes to healthcare all of a sudden everything has to be 100% efficient.

There’s a lot of work that needs to be done in the NHS, but to truly ‘fix’ things will cost money. We’re sitting on dilapidated estate that costs more to maintain than it would to replace for example. Capital investment is urgently needed but the way the NHS is funded makes that reliant on central government investment. Let’s start there.