I'll give you three examples - I don't have time to waste on researching figures.
1) On four different occasions over the last few years being offered consultant appointments between 6 and 18 months out and then having them cancelled twice two weeks beforehand because they had run out of budget. That's not acceptable handling of the patient and it is not an acceptable lead time either. In almost all cases, appointment lead time should be one month absolute maximum. I can get that with private cover, yet I also have to pay outrageous sums to support an outmoded state system. 2) Emergency facilities at at least two local hospitals inferior to several that I've seen in the 3rd world. 3) Money wasted on the wrong things. One simple example. One local hospital has construction work going on involving the use of a tower crane. There's an enormous illuminated blue sign with NHS on it. Why? Marketing? A public service organisation spends money on marketing because we don't know it's there? What a waste of money.As a very minimum there should be a voucher system so that I can take my contributions to the state health system and spend them where I like.
Ideally, the whole thing should be shut down and operated on a 21st century basis, not an early 20th century one.
.andy
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