FabSwingers.com forum: NHS Reform

By *lirty14u OP Man
over a year ago

Milton Keynes

Shamelessly pinched off the web, but funny all the same...if you like sarcasm...

NHS REFORM TO WORK THIS TIME

THE government is to press ahead with massive structural changes to the NHS because this time it is obviously going to work.

Health secretary Andrew Lansley insisted all the previous massive reforms had missed out something really simple and that all he had to do was to make sure that did not happen again. Lansley admitted that the word 'hospital' may lose up to 15% of its letters.

And he stressed that this time it would definitely work because the government had asked a lot of doctors what they think.

Mr Lansley said: "The key problem is the primary care trust system which has reduced hospitals to being nothing more than a lot of doctors and nurses in a big building treating people who aren't well.

"We need to erase that idea from our national consciousness and instead see hospitals as large buildings, staffed by distinct types of medical professional who are focused on making sick people feel better."

He added: "It is time to put patients in charge of their own healthcare. While that may lead initially to some catastrophic misdiagnoses and thousands of easily preventable deaths, it is surely better than some top down, centralised bureaucracy where ordinary patients are constantly told what to do by qualified medical professionals who see them as nothing more than a human being that is displaying a set of symptoms of which they have a high degree of expert knowledge.

"And also the term 'primary care trust' was invented by someone from the Labour Party, so it's shit."

Patients have welcomed the latest massive reform claiming it could not possibly fail and that they were all really looking forward to going to hospital now.

Roy Hobbs, 56, from Huntingdon, recently took part in a pilot scheme which he described as 'fresh and exciting' and 'easily the best NHS reform' he has ever seen.

He added: "When I went in it for some tests it was just Peterborough City Hospital, but when I came out three hours later it was the Edith Cavell Wellness Delivery Interchange, Powered by Diet Fanta.

"They still don't know why my head is the size of a basketball, but I feel much happier knowng that Fanta is on my team."

... but in reality... why can't they cut all the bureaucracy and leave the Angels who are Nurses to get on with their jobs?