Problems in the health service

IF we look at today’s population, there is nowhere near enough medical professionals to cope with the rising growth of the population. This is the main reason why the health service is struggling to cope with the high demand of the medical service. We need to change how the service is operated and funded. Visitors and those staying in the country temporarily should pay into an insurance to cover the cost of treatment. The national insurance number should be issued at birth to all that are born in the country. From the age of manhood or womanhood, the NI should have a photo included for identification and to be similar to that of the driving licence. The NI number could then be used for all needs, then doing away with all other record numbers i.e. like hospital or health numbers. It makes sense; in the long term it would save millions of pounds in wasted costs of today’s systems.

Privatisation is the biggest problem brought into the health service. It drains vital funds away from the hospitals and practitioners.

We need to return the services back in-house and not feed private shareholders with public money.

Tony Blair failed the people when opening the door bring in PFI to build hospitals. Now we see the results; hospital staff having to pay to park their cars. To me this is an insult to our professional working staff who take years to study in medicine to treat the public workforce that keep the economics and growth of this country alive.

Nye Bevan and his team set the system up – now its been broken up by privatisation. John Bevan Binley