The BBC has been blitzing us with tales of doom about the ‘crisis’ in the NHS…a target of 95% of patients seen to inside of 4 hours at A&E….the crisis being that only 92.6% has been achieved.
The NHS is crumbling…never mind it was recently named as the best health service in the West and other health services do not have anywhere near as stringent targets.
Notably the BBC completely ignored the good news about the NHS being the best.
And kept on ignoring the story.
No coincidence that Labour launched their election campaign with its central theme being the NHS a day before the figures for A&E targets were released….but the BBC doesn’t seem to have noticed that engineered ‘coincidence’ merely saying the timing could ‘hardly be worse for David Cameron’, as if it was a matter of luck.
Also curious that the Macmillan Cancer Support charity has today released a broadside at the NHS demanding more money for the looming disaster that is approaching as cancer rates rise….and the BBC has been giving this claim plenty of airtime.
You remember the MacMillan Cancer Support charity…the one that teamed up with Miliband at PMQs in 2011……As Guido noted:
Labour Cancer Stitch Up Unravels
With Miliband using all of his questions at PMQs to pin down the Prime Minister on figures from Macmillan Cancer Care that suggest 7,000 patients will be losing out on benefits, the attack was clearly planned in advance. Suspiciously quickly, as in within three minutes after the PM sat down, Mike Hobday from Macmillan was on the Daily Politics defending Miliband’s use of their figures.
Is the BBC being biased? In reality it doesn’t have to be openly biased…it just has to highlight and possibly exaggerate the problems that the NHS is suffering and keep them in the headlines for as long as possible…..helped by charities and other groups that seem to daily be revealing new ‘crises’ in the NHS and all reported by the BBC with little to no challenge.
Doing so will create an air of panic and doom and the belief that the NHS is under threat even if it is not in reality. With an election coming the BBC knows that is a powerful message.
An example of the BBC’s desperate twisting of the facts…..The BBC is making a huge fuss about these A&E figures…the targets not being met…and yet here their health correspondent, Nick Triggle, asks the question….‘Is the obsession with NHS targets justified?’ He concludes they have good and bad points but are a blunt instrument that can have detrimental effects on other parts of the NHS that suffer as resources are concentrated in one area to meet a specific target.
Curiously a week later, as Labour launches its election campaign, he has a change of heart asking ‘A&E: Does missing the target matter?’ This time he concludes they very much matter….‘It is these figures that are sending a shudder across the NHS and government.’
Curiously as I listened to various discussions on this subject during the day the condition of the Welsh NHS, under Labour control, was dismissed as irrelevant by Norman Smith, and other BBC reporters, telling us the situation has gone beyond party politics and is about who has a grip on the NHS in order to deal with the crisis…..erm…so it is political then…..it was after all Norman Smith who stated that the missed targets in A&E would have ‘profound political ramifications’. The BBC then went on to defend the Welsh NHS telling us of the wonders that the Labour government had done to try and restore a proper service. The A&E figures from Wales are seemingly irrelevant to the BBC.
All the Liebore friends and sleepers in the Pubic(sic) sector have woken up on demand to convince us that everything is rotten and the sky is about to collapse.
Absolutely pathetic that ALL the BBC and their leftist Useful Idiot Komrades can do is scare the populace that the ‘Ospitals&Skools’ will all self-destruct if the Tories get elected and complete the (mythical) Toricutz.
They think we haven’t noticed the enormous Elephant in the Room………………………………………..UNCONTROLLED IMMIGRATION.
Remember liebour’s new indoctrination? Whatever happens you don’t discuss immigration, change the subject, ignore it, do anything but face the truth.
The sudden NHS ‘disaster’ is embarrassing, the elderly are being blamed once again..the same elderly who have paid taxes to keep this country going, who lost loved ones to wars to allow the liberal scum to destroy their legacy and who have no dignity left even in the twilight of their lives.
Not a word of blame goes to the immigrants who use the NHS as a local doctors surgery for every ailment they have.
No-one, except Labour and its PR arm, the bBBC, cares how long it takes to get treated. What matters is how well we are treated.
As long as the bBBC keeps banging the ‘time waiting’ drum, they can try to cover up Labour’s Nationalised Death Service where mid-Staffs, Furness, Basildon, Tameside, etc, were killing patients, while Burnham ignored them.
The obsession with targets, or process, over result is an odd one, which surely only a certain breed of bubble-dwelling box-ticker could love.
“..within three minutes after the PM sat down, Mike Hobday from Macmillan was on the Daily Politics defending Miliband’s use of their figures.”
Gordo’s NGOs, Labour… and the BBC. Not really a triangle of virtue.
Playing ‘Bash the NHS’ as they are seems a risky strategy, especially with ever more frantic ‘Labour calls for’ PR repackaged as news. They seem to have moved now to demanding a summit? What next… Ed the Inquisitor? No one would expect that.
Thing is, the volume and hyperbole of whinge is now matched by available information elsewhere, free of the BBC’s studio invitation list, softball set-ups and careful editing of vox-pops.
So people are aware of core causality, and their history. Every Burnham bare-faced, doe-eyed whopper is easily seen against what he and his party managed while in charge of vast purse-strings. And, as mentioned, can still be seen in action in Wales.
And whilst using colleagues as political clubs may serve, it may be worth remembering there are many in work with pride in what they do. Telling everyone it’s all pants may irritate more than inspire.
Not every NHS worker is a Pilgrim.
http://order-order.com/2015/01/07/envy-of-the-world-update-4/
“Andy Burnham is gleefully touring the TV studios this morning demanding a summit where he can tell Jeremy Hunt how he “repeatedly warned throughout this Parliament that severe cuts” would cause an A&E crisis. Forget the actual long-term structural causes, this is a political gold mine for Labour…”
Agreeing Mr. Cameron and crew have blundered into this one, and Guido serves to gleefully kick any power around, especially when down, I for one do not feel minded to ‘forget’ the structural causes in favour of Westminster Willy Waving.
Nor do I forget the media studiously not holding those to account who should be in service of political gold, and ratings.
I am convinced that there is a union organised go slow in some hospitals. The winter has not been particularly cold or harsh. There has been no flu outbreak, why then can’t the some hospitals cope? Could it be the organised sick leave in key departments? Or the omission to arrange necessary cover by union members?
It’s all rather a coincidence isnt it?
Is it too paranoid to suspect that may be common purpose is at work here? The BBC does a preplanned series of news reports on the state of A&E, coinciding with a glut of reports from the NHS about how stressed they are, all at the same time as a attack from labour. Looks like a co-ordinated attack from NHS managers, the BBC, and labour to make the Conservatives look bad on one oftheir vulnerable areas.
Because every year we have 500,000 more people living in the UK, we probably need a couple of new hospitals every year but just expect the current levels to manage. One of the many great ‘benefits’ that come from unfettered immigration that you will never hear about on the Biased BBC.
Was speaking earlier this week to a GP ( he being an immigrant some 40 years ago from Jordan)practising in London who told me 15% of his patients are recent immigrants and they take up 60% of his time. These include EU nationals who come to UK purely for benefits and in one particular instance a family of 8 of whom 4 of the children were those of the parent’s friends who they brought over temporarily for treatment. He also mentioned interviewing a north african couple who wanted to register with him but who refused to produce passports/visas, proof of residence and who complained to NHS England when he refused to register them. The NHS telephoned the GP and advised him that he was obliged to register them, notwithstanding that they may be illegals, in line with new guidelines applicable only to London practitioners. Don’t hear much about this from the BBC.
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Its time to pull up the drawbridge and get out of the EU. It has been nothing but hassle and grief. Lets hope that our border controllers are vigilant. There are more migrants at Calais waiting to get in.
It’s an Election year, I shall need to stop watching the BBC news, I fear for the safety of my Television..
When, about 18 months ago, Professor Jarman published his report into excess mortality in the NHS, the report was picked up by all of the media, including the Guardian and Chanel 4 News who broadcast it as the lead story from an NHS hospital. The shocking report disclosed that there had probably been 13,000 (THIRTEEN THOUSAND) unnecessary deaths at the 14 worst performing NHS Trusts
Unlike their wall to wall coverage today, there was ONE organisation that completely ignored Jarman – THE BBC.
Now you tell me; what would you prefer? – an under pressure NHS that still manages deal with record numbers of patients and is able to see 93 out of 100 patients in less than 4 hours – and the most seriously ill triaged and prioritised considerably sooner – or one that kills 13,000 (or by some estimates 50,000 patients across the country) through neglect and poor practice.
I omitted to mention that the Jarman report covered the period 2005 – 2010; Labour years. Is it any wonder that the corrupt BBC had no time for the good professor whose report went on to deliver considerable improvements in NHS Governance and patient safety.
The BBC and the activists that infest it are rotten to the core.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/heal-our-hospitals/10178296/13000-died-needlessly-at-14-worst-NHS-trusts.html
As said before I worked in NHS/social care during all the years of the last Labour government and believe me things were dire.
Everything was target lead and ways would be found to meet those targets no matter what .The DOH was constantly on the case.They were paranoid about bad publicity.Managers were employed to manage the targets.
If targets aren’t being met in A&E to my mind that means people are being treated more compassionately, no matter about the targets .Some people especially elderly need longer than 4hours.
Then as now A&E was full of drunks and time wasters.
The BBC these days is unwatchable on so many levels.
Is it the burden of immigration, of enlargement of the UK population that has had created a problem for the nhs? Or thought the skilled immigrants where/are being allowed in to the lands of the UK, to help de-escalate the pressure’s of the nhs. Remember the chants of the political cheerleaders “doctors n’ nurses”, “doctors n’ nurses, people”, “skilled workers, for skilled positions, especially for the burden of the nhs!”
Mish-mash-mosh! Feed the public a lot of tosh!
Oh dear the BBC really are pushing the virtues of Labour just now.
The headline that stayed stuck in top place all day yesterday(A+E waiting is for a decade) was just the BBC saying “it’s the Conservative’s fault”.
I see today that, “Labour seek summit to find A+E ‘fix’ “.
And “Labour calls on the government to hold an urgent summit”.
This translates as “Labour are coming to the rescue”.