Tag: NHS

Lately I’ve seen something incredible rare on social media these days: some posts about the NHS that are so sensible it’d be rude not to share, and not let them fade into obscurity:

The NHS does not need any more of our taxes. It gets more than enough already. It needs to cut the bureaucracy, cut the waste, stop treating the third world, focus on core requirements and charge health tourists the full whack. https://t.co/51ule7gDAi

— David Vance (@DVATW) May 24, 2018

What has happened to the NHS in the 10 years since the recession? Here’s some facts Labour won’t want you to see or share.

After inflation and population, NHS spending in England is up £180, in Wales it is down £300.
Health expenditure as a share of GDP is up.
What cuts?#PMQs pic.twitter.com/snsOzGRqMH

— Alastair Thompson (@AlastairJT) May 23, 2018

Jeremy Hunt says Brits wouldn’t mind paying more tax for the NHS? I reckon if you polled people, more would prefer the NHS became a tad more efficient first

— steve hawkes (@steve_hawkes) May 24, 2018

When Labour came to power in 1997, spending on NHS managers was less than £190m. By 2010 this had increased by 450% to over £1bn per year.

— Roger Da Costa (@Roger_Da_Costa) April 28, 2018

26k hospital beds were cut in Labour’s final years in office. https://t.co/ZFTr3IGZdF

— Roger Da Costa (@Roger_Da_Costa) April 28, 2018

We can’t just tax our way to our better NHS https://t.co/dGnFXo2oC1

— Brexit Home (@BrexitHome) May 25, 2018

If funding is the only change to the #NHS we’re willing to make, the failures of the system will still make the headlines.

The only difference will be that the horror stories will be more costly, in every way imaginable. @spectator https://t.co/GSpD25sJqk

— Kate Andrews (@KateAndrs) May 24, 2018

DISGRACE: @TheIFS report on demand for NHS virtually ignores mass migration, suggests “substantial tax rises”.

OR how about slash migration so there’s far less demand, geniuses? https://t.co/aeEAfpJFv8

— Westmonster (@WestmonsterUK) May 24, 2018

103 PFI deals were struck by Labour for the NHS w/ a combined value of £11.4 bn. By the time they are paid off, they’ll have cost more than £65 billion. These are the same schemes Andy Burnham said in ’07 were “the right schemes & offer value for money.”https://t.co/uVujD3GJkd

— Matt Lynch 🇬🇧 (@MattLynchGB) May 24, 2018

TaxPayers’ https://t.co/mfvOJhYath singled out 1,129 “unnecessary” bureaucrats employed by the NHS.
Among them was Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust’s art curator and programme manager, who costs £33,258 a year in salary, pension payments and London weighting.

— john locke (@jlocke13) May 24, 2018