[MD] Low quality health care

[ian glendinning]

You answer yourself Platt where you quote
"the problem is worsened by the bureaucracy of the internal market"
Ian

On 7/29/07, Platt Holden <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> >From today's front page story in the UK's well regarded newspaper, "The
> Independent:"
>
> "Whistleblower: Surgeon breaks cover over NHS beds crisis"
>
> "Specialist wards full to breaking point. Patients with serious injuries
> denied care. A health service paralysed by arguments about funding. Martin
> Bircher, one of Britain's most senior consultants, speaks out. Exclusive
> report by Andrew Johnson and Marie Woolf"
> Published: 29 July 2007
>
> "One of Britain's leading trauma surgeons has broken cover to expose the
> scandal of a national shortage of emergency trauma beds which is leading
> to thousands of serious injury victims suffering in agony.
>
> "In an unprecedented intervention by a senior practitioner in the NHS,
> Martin Bircher, a consultant at St George's hospital in London, one of
> Europe's leading centres in the treatment of major accident victims, has
> revealed a system paralysed by red tape and disputes over funding, which
> is putting thousands of patients waiting for treatment in specialist wards
> at risk.
>
> "His revelations have prompted calls for a review of funding for A&E
> services and a shake-up in the management of Britain's leading trauma
> centres.
>
> "Mr Bircher says the problem is worsened by the bureaucracy of the
> internal market. He has become so frustrated that he has broken free of
> NHS strictures against speaking to the press and agreed to talk to The
> Independent on Sunday about the suffering patients are put through.
>
> "Every one of Britain's specialist trauma beds is full, which means some
> patients can wait up to three weeks after their accident before badly
> broken bones can be repaired. The delay, says Mr Bircher, can jeopardise
> recovery. With nothing but praise for frontline staff, he says patients
> who have been critically injured in road or other accidents have to wait
> an average of 12 days - often in agonising pain - before they can receive
> the vital specialist treatment."
>
> For the rest of the story, see:
>
> http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2814751.ece
>
> Universal health care for the U.S.? Thanks, but no thanks.
>
> Platt
>
>
>
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