Comments by "Helen Trope" (@heliotropezzz333) on "Sir Simon Stevens to stand down as NHS boss in the summer" video.

They tried this on with my brother in law. Their explanation to my sister (his wife) was that 'the government wants us to free up hospital beds'.
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He did stand up against them at times. As a replacement, the government will be looking for someone who won't stand in the way of ever greater privatisation of services under American health companies.
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@ed.771 The Lords are sometimes the only ones with sense when governments lose theirs.
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@ed.771 I agree with you there. At least Stevens is going to sit as a cross bencher (non aligned) rather than a Conservative.
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@vijayafernando1 If that were true it must be the ' I Saw You Coming' care homes. Lol, They could be looked after at home with support for a fraction of that amount.
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@misc.endeavours8343 Ventilators were a last resort for the sickest people likely to die, but ventilators can't save many of them. Given that the number of ventilators were limited, they would hardly be putting people on them unless there was no other choice.
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@poosnip He certainly worked in the US healthcare industry previously and was appointed to run NHS England because of that experience and because he probably had no objection to running a service where some of the services get handed to private contractors as the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 opened the way to that. He may be leaving because the government handed a lot of their former responsibilities to NHS England and now they plan to take those responsibilities back to have more direct control.
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@poosnip I'm sure you know more than me about his background. 👍
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@poosnip I agree with you but I do think that some of these zealots change their minds when they are in charge of the NHS and realise how good it is - not all though. The fact that the government wants to take back control of the NHS is either because he wouldn't do everything they wanted or because they want to ensure more privatisation by stealth. That's my guess anyway.
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@poosnip I'm sure money must be high up in the equation but there are other areas, like working for banks, where much more money is to be made, if money is the primary goal. My view about what the Tories are doing in regards to the NHS is stealthily and gradually putting out its work to private health companies under the NHS brand so people aren't so aware. Also awareness can be reduced by the fact that the government still funds it and it's free to patients at the point of delivery. The other way they push the private sector is to allow NHS waiting lists to grow long (as happened when they removed treatment time targets, and under Covid) because then more people will buy private treatment to escape waiting lists. The last stages would be to privatise hospitals and move to an insurance based systems but both those moves would attract massive opposition by voters so maybe they could only achieve it by massively running down the NHS so that people perceive it as a poor service.
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@poosnip I thought they had already loosened controls. At one time there used to be limits on the amount of private work consultants could do. I believe the Tories removed or increased the limit for NHS Trusts anyway.
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