If NHS Was an Airline 'Planes Would Fall Out of the Sky All The Time', Says Inquiry Chief

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

This is what the Labour liars don't want us to hear about their Nationalised Death Service.

The chairman of the inquiry into the Mid-Staffs hospital scandal has warned that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) is so unsafe they if it were an airline "planes would fall out of the sky all the time."

Robert Francis QC, one of Britain's top lawyers, also said that the public have been given a false impression as to how safe the NHS is thanks to a lack of information and an unwillingness by politicians to criticise it.

In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the barrister said Britain's health service needs to make radical changes, and to focus more on making the system fit the patients, rather than vice versa.

He said that those in charge of the nationalised health-care system have been "complacent" for too long about the quality of care for patients, believing that it was fine for some to be badly treated as long as the majority were treated well.

Mr Francis said: "If we ran our airline industry on the same basis, planes would be falling out of the sky all the time. We've just got to change the attitude that because it's provided by the state it's all right for a number of people to be treated badly; well it's not. Airlines would go out of business very quickly if they worked that way."

He went on the praise current Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for speaking up for patients. He said that politicians had previously been too scared to point out failings in the NHS due to its cult status. Ministers had been too eager to close down debate because they wanted to be seen as the "spokesperson for the NHS", and respected it far too much as an institution.

Mr Francis said: "Mr Hunt, from time to time delivers a view that he's not satisfied with mediocre services of one sort or another and is then criticised for dissing the health service, when actually what he is doing is promoting the views of patients who want better care."

Robert Francis chaired the inquiry into the Mid-Staffs scandal in which hundreds of people died due to "appalling" failings. Patients were left lying in their own faeces for days, forced to drink water from flower vases or given the wrong medication.

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/27/If-the-NHS-Were-an-Airline-Planes-Would-be-Cras...

[upthecreekyetagain]

Surprising that those posters who were keen to say they were voting UKIP in the recent elections haven't posted on this thread supporting the idea of NHS services being provided by outside organisations.

There again, maybe it isn't surprising

[joe_bloggs*]

You probably won’t have seen much in the mainstream press of a recent international survey which has ranked the UK’s NHS number 1 in the world for healthcare – above countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Norway:

But shhh! Whatever you do. Keep it to yourself !

[upthecreekyetagain]

It's not me that you need to convince about the quality of service most of the NHS offers but those who voted for UKIP who want to encourage people to opt out of the service.

[al**bear]

NHS total budget

Why are the massive payouts for pensions paid to past employees, included in NHS spending ? . Surely that should be included in Government figures

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

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@joe_bloggs* wrote:

You probably won’t have seen much in the mainstream press of a recent international survey which has ranked the UK’s NHS number 1 in the world for healthcare – above countries like Sweden, Switzerland, Germany and Norway:

But shhh! Whatever you do. Keep it to yourself !

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That survey, emphasising socialist systems and judging the United States worst out of the 11 countries, missed the point.

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/jun/17/nhs-health

The only serious black mark against the NHS was its poor record on keeping people alive. On a composite "healthy lives" score, which includes deaths among infants and patients who would have survived had they received timely and effective healthcare, the UK came 10th.

So, the NHS is great except that it kills people! 

As Labour and the unions say, shhh! Whatever you do. Keep it to yourself !

[upthecreekyetagain]

  

[joe_bloggs*]

In Arfurs selective quoting he missed out:

"On a composite "healthy lives" score, which includes deaths among infants and patients who would have survived had they received timely and effective healthcare, the UK came 10th. The authors say that the healthcare system cannot be solely blamed for this issue, which is strongly influenced by social and economic factors"

The article explains that issues around poverty account for some of the difference, rather than problems with the healthcare system,as should be obvious to most people by the phenomenal rise in food bank usage and a new report stating "The poorest fifth of British households are among the most economically deprived in western Europe and suffer levels of poverty on a par with those in the former Eastern bloc,"

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/837a7b40-f534-11e3-91a8-00144feabdc0.html

from that left wing rag The Financial Times