The cuts and changes planned for your local NHS

Gramaisc

Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
If you're running a government as a business, the following may be how you might look at it...

Existing government owned healthcare system? - sell it and receive an instant cash windfall.

Tax revenue will no longer have to be used to fund the system.

People will have health insurance - tax their policy payments for a steady income.

The insurance companies will make taxable profits, too.

"Health tourism" can now be put into the + column.

Government ceases to be blamed for state of the healthcare system.

Use the spare 'new money' to reward those you believe to be deserving.

You know it makes sense.


It's worked for the railways.....
 
proactive

proactive

Enjoying a drop of red.
Plan D.

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Glam

Glam

Mad Cat Woman
The George Bryan centre at Tamworth is also being closed down, loss of around 20+ beds,I think. Can't remember off hand. Those patients will need places go.
St. Georges struggles find beds for the elderly at the best of times.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
proactive said:
Brexit pretty much disproves that.
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No, brexit was a random off order menu. Brexit means you may have ordered chips, or you may have ordered cabbage, or even pea soup. You don't know what you've ordered, you just know you want whatever it is you are given because that's what you ordered, whatever it happens to be. And you're proud of your order, and you want the world to know you ordered, but you'll accept whatever you are given because anything else is to lose face.
 
John Marwood

John Marwood

I ♥ cryptic crosswords
The Brexit order was to simply to get rid of the foreign waiter

But not think about who would cook , where it might be cooked, what might be cooked, how much it would cost or how much the new local waiter would skim off your card
 
arthur

arthur

Nixon Garden Neatness
Councilor Ian Parry, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, said: “If we want to have an affordable council in the future it means we have to be smaller and smarter.

“That’s the journey we are on and it means making some tough choices.

“So far we haven’t flinched from doing so when necessary.”

The council’s budget for 2017/18 totals £475.6m of which £312.8m will be funded through council tax.

Health and care accounts for £205.8m of the budget, with the council to pay out an extra £19.9m next year when it takes over the long-term care placement budget for older and disabled people from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust.

Read more at http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...fordshire-county-council/#uiSDw2QecG0ewMTQ.99

SO................................... With the council taking over the long term care placement budget for older and disabled people - how long before they over spend on that budget and decide that they can’t look after the elderly and the disabled after all.

Maybe if would help the councillors if they went to Citizens Advice to learn how to do a basic budget sheet.

Oh no they can’t – they have cut ALLCitizens Advice's funding too.and they never 'flinched whilst doing it'
 
S

Sir BoD

Well-Known Forumite
arthur said:
Councilor Ian Parry, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Finance, said: “If we want to have an affordable council in the future it means we have to be smaller and smarter.

“That’s the journey we are on and it means making some tough choices.

“So far we haven’t flinched from doing so when necessary.”

The council’s budget for 2017/18 totals £475.6m of which £312.8m will be funded through council tax.

Health and care accounts for £205.8m of the budget, with the council to pay out an extra £19.9m next year when it takes over the long-term care placement budget for older and disabled people from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Partnership Trust.

Read more at http://www.expressandstar.com/news/...fordshire-county-council/#uiSDw2QecG0ewMTQ.99

SO................................... With the council taking over the long term care placement budget for older and disabled people - how long before they over spend on that budget and decide that they can’t look after the elderly and the disabled after all.

Maybe if would help the councillors if they went to Citizens Advice to learn how to do a basic budget sheet.

Oh no they can’t – they have cut ALLCitizens Advice's funding too.and they never 'flinched whilst doing it'
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It was always the Council's (our) money that the Trust was / is spending - the Council and the Trust drew up an agreement (part of the Section 75 Agreement). What they're doing now is bringing part of that responsibility back in-house.
 
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