Andy Burnham sagt der BBC, dass der NHS ohne eine Reform der Sozialfürsorge „zusammenbrechen“ wird
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0n5xpzlz2o
Von Tartan_Samurai
Andy Burnham sagt der BBC, dass der NHS ohne eine Reform der Sozialfürsorge „zusammenbrechen“ wird
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0n5xpzlz2o
Von Tartan_Samurai
20 Kommentare
years of tories left everything on the brink of collapse, fixing it takes time and uncomfortable decisions
The NHS has been collapsing for decades it hasn’t stopped them still hiring unnecessary roles and wasting millions removing the word mother from care documentation. The NHS needs reforming from the ground up not more money.
This may be unpopular, but bring back mental care homes.
They don’t have to be the grim places they were in the past. But having the ambulance, police, and fire service deal with mental health issues is a massive waste of time, money, and resources and the outcomes are… well there are no positive outcomes.
When neo-liberal grifters sell off public utilities to their rich mates, its fine if they are Tories, because class war is sort of the whole point of the Conservative party. No so much if you are a Labour PM.
>“The prime minister also suggested making it harder to claim benefits, saying the country had to get serious about getting the welfare bill down.“
Reading the article. he doesn’t say what benefits should be made harder. So its difficult to really say.
I hope he doesnt go down the hole like starmer did with pip and disabilities.
If its job seekers theres got to be alot more done to help them. Since at the moment theres only around [710,000 jobs](https://www.statista.com/statistics/283771/monthly-job-vacancies-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/?srsltid=AfmBOopxoUrxXANkOR1AeUlBUvLW9uGEpplJsPPlaYjTp8iDT1JPBZtm) currently. [Aditional statistics](https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/jobsandvacanciesintheuk/march2026). With many jobs requiring years of experience for entry level, Companies using AI to skim through CVs for key words or comapnies outsourcing jobs for cheaper staff as a couple of examples of hurdles that doesnt help with gaining a job in the uk
>“The prime minister also addressed the issue of benefits in his interview.
>He said he might „increase the conditions on people required to receive benefits“, telling the BBC he believed „there are people out there who, with the right support, can go into work.“
>He added: „It’s about changing the nature of the support and making some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented in front of them. So you might increase the conditions required to receive benefits. “
>He said he would not go „straight to blaming “ people on benefits, saying „there are people in the benefits system, young people in their 20s who have been quite seriously let down because the support wasn’t there for them when it should have been there“.“
So im a bit confused. Why make it harder for people to get help or is it to free up space for the support for those who need it by making more conditions?
so we are getting rid of the triple lock right for starters
The amount of waste in a hospital is unreal, as are the amount of managers for managers of managers about… meetings etc
Cut all that out and get it on ground floor level
Tax cigarettes higher and sugar too.
Sooo many overweight/super obese binge drinking on soft drinks and sugary foods costing billions.
I recently read that the UK gets 10 billion from taxing cigarettes…. But the cost for NHS to treat smokers is 20 billion 🤡
Wow so taking £1,500 a week from pensioners needing care to completely rinse their savings before they die or any poor relatives receive an inheritance doesn’t help the country . Who knew giving private individuals millions of other people’s life savings didn’t help the country . Maybe we could try not having the current system and maybe those who can pay could pay an NHS nurse in nhs care home rather than a minimum wage carer in a private home. Maybe those who could pay would help offset the costs a little bit if they gave all those thousands a week per person to the NHS.
I like the guy, but cutting taxes (council tax and stamp duty etc) in one hand and increasing spending on social reforms is a massive recipe for disaster.
I know what will happen. The middle class will get clobbered with income tax and some strange form of land value tax while the rich find loop holes like creating a ltd company to hold their assets. The middle class will have yet another reason not to have kids (can’t go beyond a two bed house without getting anally pummelled) and the poor will find another reason ( on top of the child benefit cap lift) to pop out more.
Meanwhile, no noticeable improvement will be seen by anyone with regards to our public services.
I need more then sounds bites, I need actual business plans on how he plans to do this while targeting the right people for taxation. And making sure that those that work hard are not paying for those that don’t.
Well, yes it will. But is the country ready for a grown up conversation about this and the need to pay more tax?
We need to stop blaming just the politicians. It’s also the public.
Everyone who eats, drinks and smokes to excess. Everyone who takes cash in hand jobs, takes the piss with benefits. Everyone who doesn’t do even a minimum level of exercise.
I know someone who worked in respiratory for the NHS and you’d have people with extreme COPD (couldn’t leave the house to attend appointments) who still smoked 30 a day.
Take the American led private sector companies out of the NHS immediately, and bring everything in house. No more NHS leaders who need to satisfy shareholders or buy another luxury yacht!
Erm can someone clarify for me.
My dad has been unable to get a penny of funding from the NHS for his Alzheimer’s. He’s in a care home which costs £1500 per week. Let’s ball park it at £75,000 per year.
He’s completely non-verbal, occasionally violent and needs 24/7 care.
Cost to the tax payer? Fuck all.
Forgive me for not feeling sympathy for the dear old nhs. But in terms of social care I just don’t get it.
Can’t we just use the money that the Brexit bus promised?
Charge people to see a GP. There, I said it. Charge £5 to see a GP. Pretty much every other country with a national health service does this.
I’m not from the UK, but this rhetoric of getting more disabled people to work is always highly irritating to me. Like we all want to work desperately. Not being able to work sucks. I’m in a job against the explicit recommendations of my psychiatrist, because of my mental health conditions (treatment resistant recurrent depressive disorder with severe depressive episode with psychotic symptoms, GAD, possible ASD) tending to become much much worse from work stress and it’s probably gonna take me to an early grave, even though I have a job that „accommodates“ my condition in terms of non-rigid work schedules and liberal work from home policies (because getting out of bed, because of depression, or the house, because of anxiety, is impossible some days).
This rhetoric of lazy disabled people using their condition as an „excuse“ not to work is just so far removed from reality and borderline insulting.
What is wrong with the BBC?
A said B. Sure, it is true, sure, it is a fact, sure, it can be evidenced. And yes, it should be reported, if A is of significance.
But the key question remains whether B is correct, and that is where the BBC should do some actually journalism. But no, just some waffling that could be written by AI.
Not just the NHS, local government will as well. Adult social care is ripping the country apart. It is wholly unaffordable without a pretty significant tax increase.
Implement Dilnot. No more enquiries. However many enquiries we hold we won’t solve it more cheaply.