Streeting is a weasel, always has been.
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
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Beat me to it. Evergreen tweet.
Private health is why the quality of your PCP visit has gone down. Clinic managers now book your doctor like they are an airport. Fifteen minute slots for each patient, no buffer except lunch, a literal assembly line of patients. There used to be empty appointment slots to provide for patients who needed earlier slots (a patient finds a lump, as one example) or to be spent as time to chew through when a patient runs late.
As such, late isn’t allowed any more. There are even clinics that will charge fees for being late or not showing up.
The long game means people step over to the emergency room for that appointment instead, thus increasing wait times with lots of individuals not having medical emergencies. Alternatively, they try to use urgent care such that urgent cares are almost not walk ins any more they’re so full.
Private health. This is its impact thus far
Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded, that nobody believes anyone can make a difference any more. After the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals, the contracts for friends – even in a crisis like the pandemic – people think they’re all just in it for themselves.
Think? A lot of people know most of them are in it for themselves. It's just a career to a lot of them, lining up the next job, and sorting a lot of their mates out.
That’s a quote from Keir Starmer
I know it's a stupid thing to base opinions on, but has anyone else noticed the tie/accessory colour choices of the current crop of "Labour" politicians?
Of course he does. He wants to further privatise the NHS. This should surprise no one.