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Jack Hollis
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On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:35:26 GMT, Steven Bornfeld
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Robert Chung wrote:
>> Jack Hollis wrote:
>>
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>>>Britain spend less on health care than the US because the budget is a
>>>fixed amount. So it's not efficiency that doing it, it's rationing.
>>
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>> They spend less and get better outcomes -- sounds like their "rationing"
>> is pretty efficient.
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>
>An Inconvenient Truth
You want some inconveniet truths.
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NHS scan delays 'put lives at risk'
NHS patients in Scotland are being forced to wait up to nine months
for potentially life-saving tests for heart disease, cancer and other
serious illnesses.
Drastic shortages of staff and equipment have led to "unacceptable"
and "ridiculous" delays for diagnostic tests that the NHS classes as
routine.
Figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday show thousands of patients are
waiting - often in fear and pain - for up to 36 weeks to receive brain
scans, heart checks, endoscopy and other procedures.
The delays are all the more serious because, from next year, no
patient should have to wait more than nine weeks for most diagnostic
tests.
The new figures suggest it will be virtually impossible for hospitals
to come anywhere near these targets.
Politicians and patient groups fear the massive waiting times are
allowing many patients' conditions to worsen, and could even be
contributing to avoidable deaths.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1178402006
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Here is a list of the waiting times for hospital admission in England
from the NHS website
http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/waitingtimes/2004/q4/kh07_y00.html
It's an absolute discrace.
Anyone who thinks health care in the UK is anywhere near as good as
whats available in the US is living in a fantasy world.
<[email protected]> wrote:
>Robert Chung wrote:
>> Jack Hollis wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Britain spend less on health care than the US because the budget is a
>>>fixed amount. So it's not efficiency that doing it, it's rationing.
>>
>>
>> They spend less and get better outcomes -- sounds like their "rationing"
>> is pretty efficient.
>>
>>
>
>An Inconvenient Truth
You want some inconveniet truths.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NHS scan delays 'put lives at risk'
NHS patients in Scotland are being forced to wait up to nine months
for potentially life-saving tests for heart disease, cancer and other
serious illnesses.
Drastic shortages of staff and equipment have led to "unacceptable"
and "ridiculous" delays for diagnostic tests that the NHS classes as
routine.
Figures obtained by Scotland on Sunday show thousands of patients are
waiting - often in fear and pain - for up to 36 weeks to receive brain
scans, heart checks, endoscopy and other procedures.
The delays are all the more serious because, from next year, no
patient should have to wait more than nine weeks for most diagnostic
tests.
The new figures suggest it will be virtually impossible for hospitals
to come anywhere near these targets.
Politicians and patient groups fear the massive waiting times are
allowing many patients' conditions to worsen, and could even be
contributing to avoidable deaths.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1178402006
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is a list of the waiting times for hospital admission in England
from the NHS website
http://www.performance.doh.gov.uk/waitingtimes/2004/q4/kh07_y00.html
It's an absolute discrace.
Anyone who thinks health care in the UK is anywhere near as good as
whats available in the US is living in a fantasy world.