Britain's health service faces the worst workforce crisis in its history

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A new report released by a group of bipartisan MPs says Britain's National Health Service is now short 12,000 hospital doctors and more than 50,000 nurses, calling it the worst workforce crisis in NHS history.

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Every country says that about their healthcare workers but do nothing to solve the issue. They're trying so hard to make healthcare private

haboubia
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Capital says “labor shortages requires increased wages”. It’s supply & demand.

scasey
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And the Tory government refused to raise their pay adequately a few months ago, which is a crucial issue that the news report did not mention.

sandie
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But this started with Tony Blair and his PFI programs where his private sector buddies were lending money to the NHS hospitals to upgrade and extend their buildings. However they were charging much more than high street banks. They were insisting on being awarded other contracts at inflated rates like catering, security, maintenance, laundry etc. I remember the farce of it costing 60 pounds to change a light bulb. So much money was stripped out of patient care to fund these massive mortgages at inflated rates plus the associated inflated contracts. It’s not been 25 years yet. So when labour get confused as to how given the same levels of funding as many other western countries it fails to deliver in a similar way. Hello, look at the structural debt. The hidden national debt as it is underwritten by the taxpayer. The hidden debt that would make the nations debt to gdp ratio look very bad that no one talks about it. So bad that it might impact the countries credit rating.
They reduced the numbers of beds massively, at the time they talked about not needing the beds as post op care had improved. Since then the population has gotten older and sicker and gone up by 6 million in the last 12 years. Also the real reason the beds had to be cut was they could afford to keep them open and pay the PFI partners their cut.
So over the last decade and more the wages of doctors and nurses has been suppressed to pay for this structural debt. Consequently the doctors and nurses aren’t very happy and don’t want to work for low wages.

Jamal-jvyc
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How about talking about the shortage here and the poor treatment we get

rachnachohan
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What is the shortage of health care workers in Canada?

randyrodgers
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Four doctors in Ontario just reduced the carbon footprint, solid comrades.

chasethreshing
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Well you can always go to the states where money talks.
Better bring lots and lots of money though.

TheKingOfInappropriateComments
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Increase their salaries and see if those positions will not be filled. The NHS is just being selfish and wicked. The pay packet is absolutely just too poor...

omehenwanneka
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You get what you pay for. Free healthcare means the sooner they get you into a pine box, the sooner they stop having to pay out for you. I am an RN in the USA & I will never forget a conversation I had with a patient who flew in from Canada for a cardiac bypass. I asked him why he was here getting it done when he had free health care in his own country, he answered: The Dr. said if I didn't get this done immediately, I had 6 months to live & The state put me on a 2 year waiting list. That about summed up the difference in our 2 health care systems.
(To be fair, the UK healthcare system is much more prevention oriented since they have to pay if you are ill, so in those areas, they are better, whereas in the US, they make money off you if you're ill so there is little focus on preventative care).

nickisnyder
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These are typical staffing problems every country faces. In Canada people are dying in emergency rooms waiting to get help. Look to your own selves about critical problems being created by your governments failures.

kushman
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Put carers benefit up and encourage more people to become carers!👍

davidjohn-nonx
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THEY ARE KIDDING US ALL OVER THE WORLD WHY?

yvonnerout
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Almost like more than a decade of the Tories systematically underfunding the NHS doesn't work.

Fun fact, or depressing, the Tories keep claiming that they're raising funding but in reality they're giving the NHS more money to pay private providers.

cupguin
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Its not that bad, 13 hours waiting for a paramedic or ambulance to turn up, then a 15 hour wait in the ambulance waiting to get in the the hospital trauma unit. Then inside you have to lay on the floor for a couple of days, and told to to home and wait as you are in a queue for the MRI and a ward bed. What more do you want.

NHS has lots of management thou, most are over £100, 000 per year salary, it just the NHS has no medical staff.

UK we have no dentists for the last 8 years due to dentists want to work privately and not for the NHs. NHS GPs doctors want to work a three day week, even thou they are on a minimum salary of £120, 000 pa.

pqrstzxerty
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No mention of Serco and GSK take over rolls in the

pqrstzxerty
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i wonder where the 50, 000 promised nhs staff went when we elected this

jaxamilius
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This report says nothing about other countries such a USA and Canada arriving in the UK expecting to use the NHS for free, example to give birth, instead of paying $5, 000+ in the USA, but pay $500 for a air ticket to the UK instead.

Why don't the people of the USA and Canada start paying for travel insurance when coming to the UK, $20, 000, 000 worth.

pqrstzxerty
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UK doesn't need to worry. The number of nurses in India is above the total population of entire UK. Indian nurses love to come in a western country like UK than coming in GCC.

Monthly salary of a nurse working 6 days per week in India is between 50 pounds & 100 pounds. But in UK it is 2000 pounds as starting (Note : 3-4 days work only in week).
Rishi Sunak knows it well.

The only way to overcome NHS crisis is to reduce the OET cut off. A lot of my nursing friends are dreaming to come in UK. UK give good family benefits also.

If UK reduce the cut off of OET again, they can overcome the NHS crisis. very easily.

melvinvarghesemathews
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Both a lovely and terrible choice of blazer lol

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