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A Wrong Path

My weekends are normally spent dealing with red diesel suppliers and reading news. You may wonder why Red diesel suppliers, well that’s because we have recently moved into a new neighbourhood and are still looking for a reliable source for red diesel. On the other hand reading news has always been my favourite time pass, needless to say my wife hates it. Here’s the gist of the story that I have been following for quite some time.

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UK Facing a Third Recession

The UK is facing a third recession in its modern financial history and after the collapse of the Barings Group in the 1980s. The consumer confidence levels currently trending the market have never been lower except for 2008 and 1990 - the most significant and powerful financial recessions in the UK and the world as general. Considering this fact, economists believe that the country is on the edge of experiencing another financial collapse and economic overburdening.

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More Jobs But Where Will The NHS Be?

The biggest news this summer may have been all about the riots in the UK and liberation of Libya from Colonel Gaddafi, but one of the hottest news stories has been about health care. In particular the proposed changes to the NHS in Britain have been hitting the headlines more so them anything else in the past few months. These changes form part of the new health care bill proposed by the coalition government which is making its way through the legislative jungle right now.

What are the proposed changes?

There has been a rise in the care home jobs that have become available along with the number of social care jobs advertised. On the surface this appears to be good news for anyone looking for work in these sectors. Both the medical and social sectors are in need of qualified professionals to fill in the gaps that are increasing in both markets. Doctors and nurses have never been in higher demand but concerns remain throughout the industry. The changes that are being proposed to the NHS would allow private companies to take over some of the services that are provided by the public organisation currently. Naturally this has provoked a lot of reaction in both political and medical circles and has led many medical practitioners to denounce the coalition government for even tabling the changes in parliament.

The opposition have seen these changes as another opportunity to attack a government already under severe pressure from the public and private sectors. Facts are facts however according to David Cameron. The public purse is empty thanks to the administrative errors of the last Labour government. Savings need to be made and the public finances of the UK need to be put in order. This means that even services like the NHS which the Conservatives swore to ring fence before the election are under financial scrutiny. The alternative to not allowing private companies to take over some of the services was to let the NHS decay and die according to David Cameron. Yet many GPs would not agree.

As local budgets are now being placed under direct control of the GPs responsible for treating patients, many doctors are concerned this will force them to place financial concerns ahead of medical care. The reasoning behind this is simple. By being budget holders GPs will now have to think about how much money they can spend on their patients. Questions like ‘do I need to spend money on flu vaccine sooner rather then later?'begin to arise. Doctors are also concerned that they will be forced to delay referrals and treatments to save money or prevent overspending.

These are valid concerns yet the legislation has been pushed through and GPs and medical staff across the entire industry will have to see how they adapt to these changes. Overall there is widespread agreement amongst medical and political circles that by allowing private companies into the NHS, we will be removing the first foundation stone of an organisation that was created to serve the public interest.

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