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Hi Steve

Not exactly, but I've volunteered to join a project, at Bournemouth hospital, to give feedback to them from a patients perspective. None of this Zoom nonsense either- all face to face! Part of our role is to support cancer patients, who are just starting their journey. 

Believe Macmillan are partly, if not fully, funding the project. We should be getting a Macmillan 'stand' to hand out leaflets etc too.

Regards

Stuart

Hello Scampidoodle 

All I can say is a very well done. I hope it goes well.

Best wishes - Brian.

Hi Steve

I have actually been to several meetings where this plan has been discussed. There seems to be 3 basic shifts within this latest plan:

sickness to prevention, hospital to community, analogue to digital.

All of this is to make services more efficient, try to keep people well for longer and, if they get sick, to treat as much within the community as possible.

I have worked through so many NHS plans at national and local level for quite a few years now. Whereas each time I see the plans I think they sound good but the public experience seems to be that things don't improve.

Personally I think the needs and expectations of the public (an ageing demography with multiple illnesses) out strip the resources. This will only continue to get worst as the baby boomer generation is now approaching the age of maximum need of health and care services.

As I read somewhere - 'the NHS is a victim of its own success' as we are all being kept alive for longer and then need more treatment and care!

But --- my cup is half empty

HTH

Stuart, that is a brilliant opportunity.

I don't like the zoom nonsense either.

Thanks Brian!

If it works, it will be good, but from what I saw, honest answers won't be added to the statistics, only ones that agree with them.

The analogue to digital could be a game changer, but it all depends on what systems they use.

Not a fan of the GPs farming out patients to non NHS places.  It should depend on the actual needs of the patients, not the monetary needs of the GPs.

As you read somewhere:

Worriedwife said:

'the NHS is a victim of its own success' as we are all being kept alive for longer and then need more treatment and care!

This is so true!

Hello Steve

At the moment the different NHS digital systems do not always talk very well to each other !!! There are also different patient digital facilities depending on where you are accessing the services!

In actual fact Integrated Care Boards are commissioning and paying for services from non NHS services at no cost to the patient and helping to reduce waiting lists. 

The NHS is driven by data to the nth degree now. There is data at local, regional and national level about performance,illnesses, waiting lists, etc etc Your GP practice, public health, social care and hospital will have data which t all goes up the 'food chain'. Take a look at https://digital.nhs.uk

I think the really big game changer might be the use of AI but I am not a tech whizz and may be influenced by media comment and political rhetoric in this one!

My own particular grouse is that my generation were told that, if we paid our due taxes, we would be cared for by the NHS from the cradle to the grave. This is a contract most of us kept to because we had no choice thank to PAYE (Government controlled). Now we are nearer to our graves rather than our cradles I feel successive Governments are reneging on their side of the contract and the care we should be getting seems to be ever more rationed.

On the other hand, like my own bank balance - we can only pay for what we have the financial resources for - sadly.

Hello Worriedwife 

Cracking post.

Worriedwife said:

I feel successive Governments are reneging on their side of the contract

Lorraine (Mrs Millibob) has "lost" 6 years State Pension due to broken promises. Don't even go there at Millibob Towers.

Kind regards - Brian.

I still can't believe that the NHS systems don't talk to each other.  Fixing that alone would be massive, not just for the GP's and Hospitals, but for the patients who could have access.

I agree with this:

Worriedwife said:

My own particular grouse is that my generation were told that, if we paid our due taxes, we would be cared for by the NHS from the cradle to the grave

Brian, you both will always have Turkey.