🚨 NEW: Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting has launched an independent investigation to diagnose the problems facing the NHS. 🌟 Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust Professor Lord Darzi has been appointed to lead the work. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gRmtgwhu
Tom Morton
1mo
What? Another report? What was wrong with the last dozen or so? What is wrong with listening to Care England; The Home Care Association; The Telecare Association; hell, why not just LISTEN to those on the front line - the Consultants, Nurses, and GPs - they have Unions and trade bodies; The Kings Fund, the ADASW, jeez even Age Concern and the man on the Clapham Omnibus can tell you everything you need to know!! Frustrating to learn that even more taxpayer cash is used to create yet another report that confirms just how much worse it has become since the last report. Plus, how long will this report take to produce? FFS - read the last report then Get on and DO something! Anything!
Emma Gunatilleke
1mo
Perhaps they need to talk to the staff on the ground rather than just the endless number of managers to get some real insights & suggestions 🤔
Kathryn Whitaker
1mo
Another one???? And ‘running it as a business’ won’t ever work. That’s not what the NHS started as and should never be ‘just a business’. It’s an entirely different animal and should be treated as such. Going back to grass roots and providing again the service which was celebrated worldwide is what’s needed. Pay the staff what they’re worth, including offering a proper salary to healthcare students (who are actually treated as staff members when they are in clinical). Once the staff feel looked after, the staff will look after the patients and wait times will decrease. We don’t need another report.
Whilst it may seem like a good idea there are already so many good reports out there - can someone not just consolidate the hundreds we have? Kingsfund, Marmot reviews, the problems we have today are the SAME problems we had decades ago…. Why keep recreating the same instruction manual — shouldn’t we just start #doingbetterthings?
Good to see - I have worked in front line NHS for 40 years and we need to preserve the “free at the point of care for all “ but also look at how other countries manage to deliver better outcomes and a service their public is more satisfied with. Tinkering won’t work.
Cynthia Abankwa
1mo
Perhaps engaging with staff especially frontline workers for their views in my opinion will be a good start.
Sue M.
1mo
Lots saying ask the staff - but most important to ASK THE PATIENT - they are the ones we are supposed to be focusing on but we have lost the way. Last four admissions of family via A/E in my local trust over 2 months shows complete breakdown in systems and processes, appalling lack of communication, focusing on the wrong priorities and failing our communities. As has been said, plenty of reports highlights the shortcomings and what is needed. Rapid actions are needed if we are to prevent avoidable deaths and improve the quality of care
Ian Mackenzie
1mo
Please don’t tell me that one of the usual consultancy firms is going to be paid a very significant sum of money to produce a report that leads to recommendations that leads to inactivity. Ask patients what they want - don’t be surprised if they talk about joined-up services, good communication, quick GP access, etc etc (ie nothing surprising) and then do the radical thing - listen to them and respond accordingly. My fear is that this will be another expensive, buzzword burdened report that will lead to masterly inactivity.
Here are the NHS’s main problems: Top heavy with senior administrative execs who are paid far too much which creates hatred within the poorly paid clinical staff. Poor contracts which means it’s £80 to change a light bulb. Shambles IT systems. Each Trust have their own systems which don’t communicate effectively. Poorly paid doctors and nurses which make them go to highly paid agency work. Agency work contracts. No multi million pound enquiry needed, you’re welcome.
The funny thing is, the shortcoming are quite self evident and you don’t need to spend money and time to get an assessment report. Every NHS trust knows why it is struggling. I would simply ask the leadership to make proposals with credible solutions and put an execution team to get things going. Here are some ideas that many people won’t like but I will share it regardless. What we do need to remember is that, NHS is an important national asset and it needs to be managed well. It can also create wealth and revenue for itself, and partially invest that revenue into community care. To keep the system efficient and sustainable. What we need to do is to move beyond the current industrial sick care system to more a proactive, personalised and preventative health & wellness ecosystem. This is where public healthcare system and private sector could collaborate creating enormous value for the community. We could build a pioneering system. A collaborative model not only makes NHS more sustainable over the long run, it also creates additional revenue for both the public and private healthcare providers. The clinical excellence and expertise of NHS has to be leveraged well and effectively monetised. There are many ways to do it.