NHS doctors call on prime minister to increase spending

[Northerner]

About 2,000 senior NHS doctors have written to Prime Minister Theresa May to urge her to increase spending on health and social care.

The letter - read and signed by NHS consultants, associated specialists and GPs - is due to be posted from Brighton at 14:00 GMT on Thursday.

It reads: "We have reached unacceptable levels of safety concerns for our patients within the NHS."

A government spokesman said it was committed to investing in the NHS.

The letter was organised by emergency consultant Dr Rob Galloway and consultant anaesthetist Anita Sugavanam, both doctors at the Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38906914

 

[grovesy]

Unfortunately I don't think she will listen or take anything on board.

 

[Ljc]

I would love to be proven wrong, I think just like previous PMs , she'll go on and on about how much more money is being put into the NHS .

 

[grovesy]

I would love to be proven wrong, I think just like previous PMs , she'll go on and on about how much more money is being put into the NHS .

She does this every time she is challenged in Parliament on any health matters. The other one is quoting have many more staff that are employed.

 

[Northerner]

I would love to be proven wrong, I think just like previous PMs , she'll go on and on about how much more money is being put into the NHS .

It's the government's favourite (and only) tactic - try to impress people with what are unimaginable sums of money to everyday folk, but ignore the questions about the actual problems that are NOT being resolved. What world do they live in where everyone has the money and resources they need and there are all these extra doctors and nurses, and the local authorities can raise so much more from council tax that no-one really has a problem? 😡

Actually, I have noticed a new tactic from TM - she will cherry pick a couple of examples where things are under better control and makes out that the same should apply everywhere, ignoring the massive complexity and variation in need. I also think that comparing now with what happened moneywise under the last Labour government has worn very thin. Mistakes were made under Labour, like PFI, but let's not forget how massively underfunded the Thatcher and Major governments had left the NHS, and Labour restored it to the sort of funding received by other countries' health services. And whilst I'm ranting, I think it is despicable that TM has the gall to praise the NHS staff for doing such a wonderful job in difficult conditions when her government are relentlessly undermining those very people and creating the massive stresses. 😡