Last week I caught some of David Cameron’s propaganda spiel at the Conservative party conference. It was the biggest load of bollocks I have heard in a long time. Check out, this out and out lying from the Government. It appears in the Pulse magazine and it shows no lie is too big to tell.
Soon the NHS as we know it will be gone. One day the great unwashed will start waking from their TV and lager induced coma’s and wonder why they have to wait a week to see their GP and stump up £50 for the privilege. By then it will be too late. Yet another great institution will have been flogged off to the idle rich and hedge fund spivs.
Eddie
Exclusive An extended GP hours scheme in Manchester
praised as ‘successful’ by the Government and cited as a model for its
£50m scheme to pilot practices opening in the evenings and weekends has
yet to start seeing patients, Pulse has learnt.
The scheme was
praised by health secretary Jeremy Hunt as ‘leading the way’ and was
described in the Department of Health’s press release as being
‘successfully piloted’ when it announced last week the plans for GP
practices in nine areas to open seven days a week. The claim was
repeated widely in the national media, with the BBC among those to state that ‘Manchester is already piloting an extended-hours scheme’.
But
local GPs have told Pulse that they were ‘mystified’ by the
announcement and the claims that the pilot scheme had been ‘successful’
as it is still at a preparatory stage and is not due to begin until
Christmas.
After queries from Pulse, the DH admitted it had made a ‘mistake’ in its press release, which it said would be amended online.
The
original press release said: ‘The extended hours approach is already
being successfully piloted in six GP practices in Manchester, where
groups of GPs are coming together to offer evening and weekend GP access
as part of a six-month trial to crack down on needless A&E visits.’
Health
secretary Jeremy Hunt also said at the time: ‘Cutting-edge GP practices
here in Manchester are leading the way, and we want many more patients
across the country to benefit.’
More on this story here.
2 comments:
Agree 100%
James
This is not really anything new several hospitals in my neck of the woods have Health centres attached. These are the out of hour’s centres for any practices and work in conjunction with A&E. Distraction tactics.
Kath
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