Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "NHS performing 'substantially less well' than health systems in similar countries, study finds." video.

4:30 I'm sorry, while some of the things he's saying are indeed true how can we be expected to take a man wearing fluoro green nail polish seriously? That's clearly not a person with sound decision making capacity. Edit: With regards the earlier piece and the conclusions. The conclusions are not apt or reasonable. The UK under funds because the UK is bankrupt. More importantly however, beyond a basic staffing level which the UK already has, the positive impact of more staffing in healthcare on patient outcomes is minimal. By your staffing chart Australia, New Zealand and Japan all do poorly but have amongst the best healthcare outcomes in the world. You mentioned emmigration to Australia and New Zealand but failed to mention that Australia's medical body AHPRA is seriously investigating a category change for medical and healthcare workers immigrating from the UK to require additional training before they are allowed to practice. NZ's medical council is considering the same. The reason for this is poor outcomes involving graduates from the UK. You can not fix an NHS staffed by under/poorly trained medical and healthcare personnel without fixing the training first. Let me give you a first hand anecdotal example of their poor training. My FIL died of lung cancer last year. He caught covid in 2020, then again in 2021. He survived both. He had reduced lung capacity afterwards, so NHS practitioners were "monitoring him closely". He had ct scans, he had an mri, he had xrays. They diagnosed him with COPD. But that was a misdiagnosis. He actually had lung cancer which they didn't detect despite looking right at it for a year, until it progressed into his throat and he was stage 4. He died 3 and a half weeks after diagnosis. I have been in medicine for 18 years, I've run hospitals and that level of utter incompetence floored me. Looking at his records after the indicators of lung cancer appear in his scans and blood work towards the end of 2020 and they were obvious to anyone adequately trained. If diagnosed then he had a good prognosis. Australia and New Zealand are starting to see these exact kinds of outcomes, and they're coming from UK healthcare immigrants. The AHPRA stats don't lie. They are not adequately trained. The problem starts long before university, it starts in primary school. The UK has a fundamental education problem and it's global education rankings reflect that. The NHS doesn't just need a bunch of money the country doesn't have thrown at it to up wages for people who arguably don't know what they're doing. NHS needs staff that have adequate education and training, and that means in the short to medium term those people largely need to be sourced from other OECD nations. As do lecturers in UK universities. Meanwhile education needs a complete overhaul. Ground up because the poor education outcomes aren't just affecting healthcare graduates, they're damaging the entire economy, and then poor healthcare outcomes damage the economy further. This is long term policy the UK desperately needs, so the next generation come into the work force capable.
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@taffyterrier If Australia and NZ were actively trying to recruit them for more money and better conditions, do you really think they'd all be striking instead of on a plane? Nurses, techs and paramedics are just as bad.
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