If we want the NHS we have to value staff

MR Javid, Conservative Health Secretary, made a speech explaining Tory priorities about caring for the nation’s health, oneself, family, friends, charities for citizens unknown to you and finally, if necessary, the involvement of the state. He stated, as Secretary of State, his reluctance to consider that only as a last resort.

Javid’s list coincides with historical development over 2,000 years, from individual kindness, to the dedication of monasteries to strangers at the gate, to physicians, collective charities, and charity and private hospitals, before Labour politicians created the NHS, based upon the ethical principle ‘that each shall care for all, and all shall care for each’ after the sacrifices of war.

They also believed that ‘universal health care’ could win the hearts of staff, and be more efficient.

The NHS discarded the pre-war practice of hospitals competing, to attract wealthier patients, to make a profit, which Conservatives believe to be uniquely efficient, when all employees are self-motivated. Instead, NHS hospitals all share medical knowledge nationwide, arising from successful treatment and research.

Clement Attlee believed that one funding method was best, that every citizen should be proud to support the NHS, by a fair system of taxation, where every citizen should pay, in accordance with his wealth, as a secure, reliable basis for a nation’s health, and advancement of medical knowledge for all humankind. The

fit shall gladly serve the sick, before they also have a similar need.

Some present Conservative voters do value the NHS and social care homes, based on public money, for self-convenience, not principle, but show no interest in the living standards of the staff, in accordance with Tory economics, to deprive the poor beyond reason, in their worship of the rich.

Secretary Javid will never understand.

CN Westerman Brynna, South Wales