Health Boards
Sat-16-06-2018, 22:33 PM
I AM NOT ELDERLY !!!!!!!!!!!!
I am just knocking on a bit and on Stelara , the problem is that if you are ELDERLY !!!!!!!! the NHS tend to write you off and you don't get a fair crack of the whip when it comes to funding for treatments .
I find it obscene when I hear of some of the ways that we are treated if you are over 65 years old , my GP is not happy about the cost of the Stelara as it effects his budget and effectively he is a private company.
Labour in the late 90s began to dismantle some of the previous Conservative government’s experiments with “marketisation” – ending GP fundholding (under which some family doctors operated budgets on behalf of their patients) and re-emphasising collaboration over competition between different parts of the system. This led to the extraordinary spectacle of a Labour government adopting a policy direction not even the Tories had dared to explore. The NHS had to become so responsive and user-friendly that there would be no incentive for anyone to go elsewhere. In short, it must be able to compete with the private sector – and the way to do that, it seemed, was to make it “compete”.
I am just knocking on a bit and on Stelara , the problem is that if you are ELDERLY !!!!!!!! the NHS tend to write you off and you don't get a fair crack of the whip when it comes to funding for treatments .
I find it obscene when I hear of some of the ways that we are treated if you are over 65 years old , my GP is not happy about the cost of the Stelara as it effects his budget and effectively he is a private company.
Labour in the late 90s began to dismantle some of the previous Conservative government’s experiments with “marketisation” – ending GP fundholding (under which some family doctors operated budgets on behalf of their patients) and re-emphasising collaboration over competition between different parts of the system. This led to the extraordinary spectacle of a Labour government adopting a policy direction not even the Tories had dared to explore. The NHS had to become so responsive and user-friendly that there would be no incentive for anyone to go elsewhere. In short, it must be able to compete with the private sector – and the way to do that, it seemed, was to make it “compete”.
