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Wes Streeting’s privatised English NHS is failing badly compared to Scotland’s better run NHS . Fact !
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…but Wes is doing nicely out of it with private donations to help his ambition to be the next Keir Starmer .
Is that an ambition ? Such a low bar !
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Today (30 March) much of the Anglo-centric mainstream print media are running with a version of the following story about the NHS in England:
‘GPs told to delay referring 1 in 4 patients to hospital in ‘awful’ new drive to cut waiting lists’.
‘GPs have been ordered to delay referring at least one in four patients to hospital as Labour scrambles to meet NHS waiting list targets.’
‘Under a new GP contract that comes into effect from Wednesday, family doctors will have to seek permission to refer some patients to hospital. Critically, the decision on whether the patient can be referred, and therefore added to the official waiting list, will be taken by someone who has not seen them’.
See https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/other/gps-told-to-delay-referring-1-in-4-patients-to-hospital-in-awful-new-drive-to-cut-waiting-lists/ar-AA1ZItu4
Are stories from MSM sources to be taken uncritically, even ones about NHS England and Westminster? No? However, are there previous instances of ‘problematic’ interventions to make NHS England’s performance statistics more favourable? Yes!
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