Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "NHS Trust punished doctors raising safety concerns, whistleblowers allege - BBC Newsnight" video.

You may like that kind of treatment. I would not want to be in such a hospital. If I was very ill, I'd want the care and comfort of other human beings.
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I guess the management has a private sector mindset i.e. cover up rather than address issues. My brother died at the QE hospital in 2018 and my sister in 2022. I've no evidence that there was any maladministration but my brother had an immune system transfer and yet was not isolated during this vulnerable time. I don't know why. He did share with someone else who had the same procedure. They both got infections when their immune systems were not functioning. My brother died. The other guy recovered from the infection. When I visited my sister and asked the nurse a simple question she appeared to react fearfully before answering me. The management should listen to the medical experts who have the welfare of patients at heart.
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It's not that at all. Years of underfunding and underpayment of staff have ensured many hospitals are in debt and have a high turnover of staff with high vacancy levels. The management is often brought in from the private sector with financial targets to meet to avoid their contracts being ended. There's a lot of cost cutting and rationing. Bureaucracy in the American system is actually higher but it's a profit driven system. People who are covered by health insurance can get treatment quickly but those not covered my not be able to afford treatment. The Tories have always preferred the idea of a private system and the suspicion is that they are content to let the NHS fail in order to bring about a move to a private system. Many parts of the NHS have been privatised (such as some primary care and ambulance services) but the money for that still comes from the taxpayer funded NHS budget. Profit and shareholder payments is the siphoning off of funds that could otherwise be used for healthcare.
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The Tories have brought private sector management into the NHS, often without experience of health management, because they assume the private sector management will ensure efficiency. They are mostly on contracts where they can be sacked for not meeting financial/cost targets. If you started again, the Tories would ensure the same kind of managers ended up in the NHS. What's needed is a change of government.
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@banana9106 Management are there to manage the money and ensure no waste. Many of them have been brought in from the private sector. Health of patients is a secondary issue. Many NHS Trusts are in debt due to years of underfunding.
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@rGxDale Healthcare should be entirely separate from business. The ethics are entirely different. Managers in the NHS are sacked for not being able to do the impossible. There is too little money in the system and it's impossible to get out of debt without compromising healthcare. This has been going on for some years with changes of management. If it was possible management would have done it by now.
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@rGxDale Managers used to learn in house on training schemes, not be parachuted in from outside with no knowledge. Skills needed are finance skills, management skills (including people skills) and knowledge of the health sector they are working in). Savings are already being made in the digital area but there are risks attached, and the savings are not enough to compensate for an ageing and sickening population. It's been proven by research that poverty worsens people's health. Also there's a drain on the NHS from the inadequately funded social care sector. In the past the government made large cuts to the social care budget. Frankly the government told people what they were going to do and people were stupid enough to vote for them.
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Just stay and vote this government out.
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@whatayaDO543 Just google. Russia has free healthcare. China is more complicated but about 95% of the population is covered by basic health insurance. I don't think souls are sold in Scandinavian countries.
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It's what the Tories always wanted.
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@rGxDale Data always = money once it gets outside of the NHS and it should be private unless a person gives consent, but I think the UK government (Tories) recently changed the data protection act to allow them to sell off or share people's data.
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@rGxDale Management is not just about managing or manipulating data. It's about managing people and systems too so that organisations work coherently, efficiently, and safely to achieve their aims.
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