Sunday 28 April 2024
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'The only cure is a Labour government': Tory MP and doctor Dan Poulter defects over NHS 'chaos'
Former health minister Dan Poulter said "chaos" in the NHS has led him to defect to Labour from the Conservative Party. The part-time GP said the Conservatives had become "a nationalist party of the right".
"Working on the frontline of a health service under great strain left me at times, as an MP, struggling to look my NHS colleagues, my patients and my constituents in the eye," he said.
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I know, let's make GP's remuneration depend on the number of people they treat a year, not the list of all people registered to them.
That seems far more more socialist and less conservative. I bet Dan Poulter wouldn't like it though.
I don't believe that Poulter was ever a Conservative. And I don't believe that the Tory Party has figured out what they've been doing wrong. I doubt if they ever will.
Off topic. Only a complete moron would give any consideration to sending UK soldiers to drive lorries into Gaza. If it's too dangerous for the Yanks....
Shirley, our Dan's defection is not based on the premise that, as a Tory candidate, he may lose at the next election but, as a Labour candidate .......?
Nothing like trying to make sure your MP status isn't affected.
Penseivat
All I can add is: “Sigh.”
'Looking people in the eye' was an essential centre of the Government's Nudge Unit. It looks as if the Doctor has not moved on from four years ago.
Wonderful story in The Tel this morning. The NHS is going to use drones to transfer blood samples between two London hospitals.
But only on weekdays, 9.00 - 5.00.
Under Labour, the NHS will be in the capable hands of a man who thinks that some women have penises. I would imagine that for a doctor, that's in the same area as saying that some clinically insane people have a firm grasp of reality.
DJ - yes, it's most unlikely that Dan Poulter would be keen on being paid that way. I don't think our GPs would like it either, all of them are part time.
decnine - I don't think he was ever a Conservative either. As for the lorries, it does suggest we have plenty of morons.
Penseivat - he says he isn't going to stand, but it would be no surprise if he does.
James - dire isn't it?
DAD - yes, it's part of the persuader's approach.
dearieme - sounds like a good idea, but I bet restricting it to weekdays, 9.00 - 5.00 is only the first of the bureaucratic shackles being put on it.
Sam - that was my reaction. I couldn't quite believe that a doctor would see Starmer as a suitable leader for any party, but of course some go much further on this issue.
@ AK
"I couldn't quite believe that a doctor would see Starmer as a suitable leader for any party, "
There again there's no guarantee that Sir IKEA will last beyond the first few months when Labour activists find out that every major change they wanted is just too difficult or too expensive.
DJ - yes, there is the possibility that his majority will be so large that factions within his party feel they can make trouble. A replacement would have the same problem though.
DJ, the sooner the better:
“Doctors get an average of £150 a year for each patient on their list, but records show there were 3.6 million more patients in the system last year than there were people in England.”
BBC news 2019
@Macheath: but the census is (probably) so inaccurate that the number of people in England is effectively unknown.
Macheath - it would be interesting to know how quickly they strike them off their lists, and if the process is automatic. Possibly not.
dearieme - numbers could be very uncertain. Mrs H used to hear of streets where families shared children to boost benefits.
The only cure may well be a Labour Government. It might take a complete collapse of everything to make people wake up and look for a Government that isn't totally incompetent. Labour could easily provide that collapse
Bucko - that's the worry, collapse or something like it may be needed to change course.
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