The utterly brilliant satirist Cold War Steve positions media mogul Rupert Murdoch with his loyal supplicants in a palatial context ripe with the air of corruption.
He didn’t seem to spot this:
There he is with the other private health corporation-funded Labour lot.
When Cold Water Steve doesn’t even notice you, how sad is that?
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Murdoch and the corruption. GE soon. The layabouts will be laid off. The rats and the sinking ship. Empty barrels. Murdoch being sued all over. Especially in the US paying £Billions in damages. Won’t be long now.
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O/T Some media outlets e.g. C4 News, are covering the findings of a new report on the NHS in the UK by The Kings Fund.
Source: The Kings Fund (June 2023) How does the NHS compare to the health care systems of other countries? (https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/sites/default/files/2023-06/How_NHS_compare_2023.pdf )
From the report: ‘The UK performs substantially less well than its peers – and is more of a laggard than a leader – on many measures of health status and health care outcomes. These include health outcomes that can be heavily affected by the actions of a health system (such as surviving cancer), and outcomes such as life expectancy, which are significantly affected by factors beyond the direct control of any health system.’
All of the reporting takes for granted that the UK has just ONE NHS and it’s all the same. However, the actual report – which does the same – at least provides this explanation:
‘Data used in international comparisons is more commonly available for the UK as a whole rather than the four constituent countries of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
‘So, an aggregated UK figure underplays the substantial differences in how the health system in each of the four home nations operates – from health spending per capita to commissioning structures to charges for prescriptions and hospital car parking. However, none of these differences alter the fact that the health service in the UK is fundamentally tax-funded and largely free at the point of use.’ – but will alter how resources and performance issues are documented and reported!
And the cautionary remarks add: ‘Because of its size, the English NHS will clearly account for a dominant share of the overall performance of the UK health system. But it is important to remember that most international data reflects the UK health care system as a whole and not just the English NHS.
At 1950 hours today, nothing about this appears on the BBC News’ website’s UK page, nor its England page but on the Health page there is this: ‘UK’s high rate of avoidable deaths linked to NHS woes’. (Imagine if this was a report just about NHS Scotland)
The article includes this: ‘For these reasons, it (The Kings Fund author) concluded the UK health service was neither a “leader nor a laggard”.’
OK but the BBC, interestingly, OMITS to report this next bit from the same report and only a few paragraphs later:
‘The UK performs substantially less well than its peers – AND IS MORE OF A LAGGARD THAN A LEADER – on many measures of health status and health care outcomes. These include health outcomes that can be heavily affected by the actions of a health system (such as surviving cancer), and outcomes such as life expectancy, which are significantly affected by factors beyond the direct control of any health system.’
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