December 2025 blog
Why on earth do we not make improvement to Our NHS the FIRST PRIORITY FOR THE UK???
Campaigning groups
Keep Our NHS (and CARE) Public
Lord Hutton... Not surprising he favours PFI as "the only way out" when they tanked the economy...
In 2024, he became chair of a new organisation representing PFI investors,
The Association of Infrastructure Investors in Public Private Partnerships.
It was set up as many PFI contracts were coming to an end over the next few
years, particularly those involving schools, hospitals,
military bases and housing developments. The body aims to encourage collaboration
to avoid costly legal actions.[18][19] ---PFI hospitals, to get approved, had
to give good return to investors in the Consortia...
They had to be smaller, fewer Doctors, Nurses, Beds,
built cheaply-using RAAC cheapo concrete
Repaid over 30 years, index linked, increasing, out of decreasing hospital income
included vicious maintainance charges
resulted in the greatest hospital closure plan ever... FAILURE!!!
NHS frontline workforce
Bernie Saunders
"Do not listen to anybody who tells you the NHS should move in the American direction.
"Our system is wildly expensive, inefficient and very very cruel."
Bernie Sanders sends a message to those looking to privatise the NHS: Get lost
Bernie Saunders defends NHS
Bloody stupid ideas
Private finance, PFI for new NHS buildings- 7-10 times the
original cost
Community hubs, Darzi centres Privately owned, privately run, to DHSS rules,
stuffed with PAs, no GPsPrivate diagnostic centres
ISTCs-take teams from the NHS
Private hospitals used to treat NHS patients
Failing to award pay restoration
Failure to pay Nurses, Midwives well
PAs, AAs, ACPs and alphabet soup new consultants
Total attack on GPs by reducing capitation payments, no full reimbursement individually,
Many older systems work perfectly: if it ain’t broke, don’t reform
it…
Privatisation: their prime duty is to increase profit and pay CEOs and shareholders
Brexit
made it difficult for NHS workers to enter
should have been given UK citizenship
Immigration rehash-makes NHS workers unwelcome-those here will leave
GP surgeries closing-by Wes Streeting intention
Community hubs/neighbourhood centres
GP surgeries already exist-fund them properly
Darzi centres unpopular, expensive, registered few patients, private finance,
government control, new contracts
Inconvenient in Boots town centre buildings...
stuffed with PAs, no GPs
not enoughh GPs in UK
Full Pay Restoration: still 20% down from 2008 levels
Five years of hard intensive learning at Medical School, wirth £100k
debt, struggling to find hospital positions, at £17 an hours
Elevan years total to become a GP-with exams, books to pay for
Accreditation to be a GP-practices cannot afford to hire additional GPs because
the ARRS scheme promotes PAs, bans GPs
The aim in any country-even a forth world system like the UK-should be A PRUDENT SURPLUS OF DOCTORS-BOTH RESIDENTS (JUNIOR) AND GPS
Need more Doctors, Nurses, Midwives, BEDS!!!
Enlarged hospitals, not smaller-
PFI ensured PFI hospitals were smaller, had fewer beds, fewer Doctors, Nurses, Midwives
They cost SEVEN TIMES the original cost.
Index linked repayments rising for THIRTY YEars
out of diminishing hospital income
NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY FOR OPERATIONS AND TREATMENT-STAFF...
From the brilliant Lowdown, at Keep Our NHS Public
EveryDoctor
As you know, our team has been investigating the situation for some time- and has revealed the staggering interest payments that are being paid; that 69 NHS Trusts are locked into paying another £21 billion to private companies over the next 2 decades, and that 2 of the old PFI projects are ultimately owned by United Healthcare, a massive US private healthcare company
Health Centre GP closures
Keep Palentir out of our NHS data!
They will steal it despite government assurances
Junior Doctors Residents action:
Junior Doctors Residents are merely asking for their pay-which is still 20% down on 2008 lebvels to be RESTORED-not a pay rise
and more training places so every qualified medic can get training to be a surgeon or GP
GP funding model
GPs request uplifted funding to keep up in real terms, and individual practice expenses to be individually reimbursed
No Comunity Hubs, Darzi failures, designed to freeze out our brilliant devoted hard working GPs
NHS nurses also require Full Pay Restoration: their pay is woefully low...