Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Nhs bureaucracy is not working well" video.

The only administrators in the NHS should be senior doctors who have worked in the system and know it inside out. Not fresh from economic school management types. Over a decade ago many of us pointed out how the Tories were repeating their enforced Privatisation methods in the NHS. Cutting funding, reducing incentives for workers, and creating more layers of unnecessary administration until the Service is no longer fit for use. Then they offer private finance as a solution until the service is fully privatised and controlled by mercenary profiteers.
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@Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television I'm not sure how the most incompetent, greedy and dishonest clinicians are seen as the most experienced and best suited to administer a hospital and I'd be interested in any data you have to support that hypothesis. However, even considering your point, it would seem that the worst senior doctor would still have a far more potent understanding of the hospital's workings than a straight-from-university economics and administrative graduate.
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@olegfedorov3225 Using senior doctors as administrators means they no longer actively perform medical procedures. It was always the way the NHS worked as logic dictates those with experience of the issues have a better understanding and therefore can resolve issues more effectively. The idea that we need specialist administrators who know nothing of the NHS workings has only been the case for the past decade or so. Governments create laws and regulations so your last two sentences are a contradiction...
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@Matt Quinn - Caledonian Television We agree on many points. But statistics always have a source with original figures that represent facts. Yes, they are misrepresented by narrowing the field or changing the timeline, exclusion and inclusion of relevant or irrelevant factors. Unequal comparisons and misrepresented conclusions. But the raw data will always provide factual analysis that is far superior to one's own narrow perspective of events. It's a matter of analysing the original figures and the language used to define the parameters. But yes, administrators and economic experts full of their own importance are the bane of modern society. For instance, think-tanks that advise governments on financial matters that then crash the economy. As we saw recently with our previous PM.
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@jolantahill787 Funding has gone down of that there is no doubt. But yes the debt, outsourcing, partial privatisation and mismanagement are all part of the puzzle.
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