I caught quite a few BBC news bulletins yesterday and was left under the impression that the NHS was in meltdown, especially in A&E which has had its ‘worst week on record’, and from what I gathered it is due to a reckless lack of resources…apparently.
Here is a clue as to why the BBC’s coverage might be less than honest:
The scale of the drop is causing concern not only to the health service, but to the government too with an election just around the corner.
Here the BBC makes no mention of the real causes of the innundation at A&E in the last week:
A&E has ‘worst week’ in England
Nor here:
Why are hospitals under so much pressure?
Nor here:
Hospitals struggling as winter hits
Oh…that last one gives a hint as to one of the real reasons but then instantly dismisses it as being too early in Winter for it to occur:
A&E units across the UK are struggling to hit their waiting time target as winter hits, latest figures show.
Demands on the NHS tend to increase during the colder months because of illnesses like flu and norovirus.
But with winter just getting under way, pressures are already reaching record levels.
That last sentence suggesting the NHS is buckling already before such illnesses make an impact.
Is that true?
Here this Express article suggests not:
NHS beds crisis as flu hits three-year peak
With flu levels at their highest seasonal level since 2011, NHS England revealed there had been 111,062 emergency admissions last week.
There were also 440,428 patients at A&E departments – more than 24,000 up on the same week last year.
Casualty wards could hit major difficulties if the numbers suffering from flu and norovirus continue to rise, experts warned.
Public Health England data showed flu infection rates last week were 66 per cent higher than last year.
Rates of norovirus are more than a third higher than last year, while flu is at the highest level for three years.
The BBC merely mentions the illnesses as a future pressure on the NHS, one that isn’t happening yet quoting this but failing to bring us the news of the record levels of flu and norovirus already happening:
So what next? “Predictions are very hard to make,” says Chris Hopson, of NHS Providers, which represents hospitals. “What we don’t know is what will happen with Norovirus or flu.
But it seems we do know…..the Express and the Telegraph reporting so.
The BBC prefers to emphasises and concentrate on other causes of pressure on A&E.
The BBC tells us that ‘attendances are going up across the UK ‘ but fails to say why…that GP services are so hopeless that people head to A&E instead…and that with the massive population growth from immmigration there is even more pressure both on GPs and A&E…..the BBC merely tells us that ‘GP surgeries are struggling to cope with unprecedented levels of demand.’
The Guardian telling us that GPs get an extra 40 million consultations a year in 2012, presumably more now…‘The number of consultations has increased – from 300m in 2008 to 340m in 2012 – and doctors are seeing more patients with complex needs.’….but it also doesn’t mention immigration…..preferring instead to blame an ageing population.
The BBC tries to blame cuts in social care budgets but offers no proof or analysis:
A significant factor in this is the squeeze on councils’ social care budgets. Many of the patients who end up in hospital are frail and elderly, and when they are ready to be released need support in the community to get back on their feet. If it’s not there, they have to stay in hospital, which occupies a bed often needed for other patients.
The BBC goes on to blame the GP failure to cope on the government of the day for imposing heavy workloads:
Both the Royal College of GPs and British Medical Association have been vocal about the workload their members are facing.
A recent BMA survey found three quarters of doctors said their caseload was “unsustainable” – and that seems to have started impacting on patients, as latest data from the official NHS England patient survey shows they are finding it more difficult to get an appointment.
No mention that Labour’s reworking of the GP contract gave them huge amounts of money in return for less work…..one aspect of why people can’t get an appointment…the other being the huge influx of immigrants and the massive number registering at GP surgeries.
Listning to some of Peter Allen today and we were led to understand that the problem with GPs was really one of too much paperwork and bureaucracy…GPs were buckling under a mountain of the stuff apparently…so again the government is to blame….no suggestion of what that paperwork is for and why it is imposed…and no suggestion that the GPs employ, with the large budget they are given, someone to do that work.
So a genuine story about flu and norovirus at very high levels is ignored and in its place the BBC brings us a highly political ‘analysis’ of why the NHS is under pressure…..government imposed bureaucracy and an ever increasing workload (unattributed to the major cause) imposed on the poor GPs, an NHS crippled by a failing structure and lack of funding, and cuts to council budgets.
Must be an election coming.
As ever when something comes ‘under pressure ‘ be it schools transport , hospitals , or housing etc . that stonking great tusker in the corner of the room never gets a mention ,MASS THIRD WORLD IMMIGRATION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To be fair to the BBC in the news bulletin I saw (possibly BBC at 10pm) they gave three reasons for the pressure on A&E. The first reason they gave was immigration but the word stayed up on our screens for milliseconds. There were then two other reasons given and I am sure one was ‘budget cuts’ which stayed on our screen for ages… and a third which again stayed on the screen for some time. So immigration given first but dismissed so quickly you could easily miss it but then blame the government and allow plenty of time for the audience to absorb the message.
Yes, I too was listening for the “Elephant in the room” from the BBC, but as you might guess, not a mention. Mind you, it was just the same with the news from Classic F.M., they must use the same script writers.
I believe that they use Global News as they are part of that group. Heart, Capital and LBC are also in that stable. Like I have said before, the socialist infiltration and control of all news sources is almost complete. That is why the fall of the BBC is vital for democracy in the UK. We need to cut off the head of the MSM snake.
Sorry if I am behind the news but I noticed that Sheila Fogarty is now on LBC. It looks as if they are shoring up the defences. It may explain Nick ferrari’s change in demeanor toward Nigel Farage on his monthly spot and UKIP in general.
Something else that the BBC forgot to mention. The records only go back for 4 years. The last Labour government never told anyone how bad things were.
I never understand why he’s not challenged either. One rare time, he was challenged on the Today programme they pushed him a bit about some things that happened on his watch.
He goes ballistic and we get to see how much they really like to be held to account.
Every year in December Andy Burnham dusts off the same old script and gets his “concerned of Rotherham” face on. And the Biased BBC sucks it all up, not a pause, not ‘how was it when you were in charge’, not a single searching question, just re-gurgitation of the same old same old.
Yes, every time I see Burnham on the BBC, I scream at the screen, ‘What about Stafford’, but somehow the BBC never asks him that.
About the time patients were drinking out of vases Burnham was ordering cases of champagne for his department. If he had been a Tory I think that might have been mentioned on the BBC once or twice.
The BBC. Proponents of scaremongering, lying, obfuscation, and pure, unadulterated political bias.
On other news outlets it was made clear the NHS has treated a record amount of people, so it’s not surprising they are stretched. BBC and Labour are desperate for a winter crisis .
I worked in A&e under previous government and believe me things were dire but targets were met any way possible.
Part of the reason is that there ARE a record number of people – every year 500,000 immigrants enter the UK. So this year there are simply half a million more people exposed to the possibility of getting colds – this is not rocket science!! No mention of that from the Biased BBC.
There can be absolutely no doubt about it now!
The only plausible explanation is the BBC are part of the ‘Labour’ ploy, not to discus immigration as a deliberate indoctrination of the masses:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30475483
The BBC wrongly still think that their traditional reach into every home still allows them to indoctrinate us with the ‘left’ debunked positive view of immigration, not understanding that this myth has been well and truly blown out of the water with the rise of UKIP, social media and our personal experiences!
The days are over of promoting the ‘Racist’ and ‘Bigots’ labels to be successfully deployed on those who understandably, logically, wanted to discuss the real negative issues of immigration costs and problems.
On this one the BBC is riding into the valley of death like the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, since the odds have now changed:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge_of_the_Light_Brigade
The BBC just does not get it about what an increasing amount of us really see as results of mass immigration: You know the affects of:
Overwhelming numbers – 300,000 per year average over a decade.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2246288/Census-2011-UK-immigrant-population-jumps-THREE-MILLION-10-years.html
J IHAD – against us – being taken up by those we welcomed here!
Housing shortage/high prices – Labour building programme took us back to the 20s (average 20,000 per year housebuild starts during their time in office)!
GPs, A&Es waiting times – exacerbated by Labour disastrous changes to Doctors contracts:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/05/25/andy-burnham-labour-gp-contract-ae_n_3336342.html
Enormous pressure on schools:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2813035/British-schools-need-help-cope-influx-immigrant-children-says-Ofsted-chief-Sir-Michael-Wilshaw.html
Social cohesion,
Trojan Horses,
M uslim abuse of non-M uslim girls.
FGM – those poor millions of M uslim girls.
HALAL – terrible animal cruelty – where are the ‘lefts’ animal rights brigade now?
Unskilled and blue collar wage depression:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6766003.stm
PC – Being labelled racist by lefty rentagobs!
S haria Courts.
Benefit abuse.
Social Housing prioritising immigrants!
Muslim Patrols.
Our Prisons disproportionately full of immigrants.
Child Benefit being paid to children not even living in the UK.
Importing foreign criminals.
Tower Hamlets.
M uslim radicalisation – 7/7 – Lee Rigby etc.
Blind dogs not allowed in M uslim taxis, buses, supermarkets.
100s Roma sleeping in London Parks and shop doorways.
Sham Marriages by the thousand.
The True negative cost of immigration:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/464556/The-true-cost-of-immigration-148billion
Practical experience; I had a minor infection last week and made an appointment with the Practice nurse on a Wednesday. This is a practice of 8 doctors.
When I arrived there were 3 of us in the waiting room at 2pm. One for a test and 2 of us to see the nurse.
Our practise works office hours, 9am – 6pm (an hour for lunch) don’t work Saturday or Sunday or Wednesday afternoons apparently.
Well if these are the hours they keep its no wonder its hell on the other days.
NHS meltdown?…bloody global warming strikes again.
Wonder if the veterinary services are similarly in crisis after the Toricutz?
Free Rolf Harris!…and see what happens to the NHS when the Beeb don`t slip a Saviloy in with a camera as they used to do?
Crisis, what crisis?
Just been to the local walk in centre in Andy Burnham’s constituency , with daughter as she had stepped on glass and felt something in her foot
In, x-rayed, diagnosed and treated within 2 hours
Bloody toricutz
Went to Watford General A&E this afternoon and was seen within 1 hour. Pleasant receptionist and clean and tidy waiting area.
Was interesting to see large poster in A&E waiting area “visiting uk?” and outlining that fees may be payable for any treatment provided to non UK residents
Phoned GP last Weds at 3pm for appt and was seen at 3.20pm!
No sign of any crisis just efficient professional service.
My GP’s surgery, a couple of weeks back, apologised profusely that they couldn’t offer me an appointment that morning…’would I be able to come down in the afternoon?’
“Revealed: The REAL reason so many young Britons can’t get jobs as nurses … even though last year we shipped in more than 7,000 from abroad ”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2881469/The-REAL-reason-young-Britons-t-jobs-nurses-year-shipped-7-000-abroad.html#ixzz3MT5vwpnO
DOOM..GLOOM, DOOM…GLOOM, I’m sick of the scum at the bbc feeding people the same negative shit every day.
The weather is going to kill us all..everyone is in need of a food bank because half of us are starving whilst the other half are going to explode from obesity (guess who the workers are?)…we are racist bigots who don’t know what is good for us…the NHS is dead…we all live in the 1930s…we should all subscribe to the nazislamic ideology because it’s so peaceful..blah,blah,blah!!
This is just the start, May election is on the way, come 2015 there will be strikes galore form the public sectors, rabid attacks on UKIP, lies,lies and more lies. Is it any wonder the INDIGENOUS British feel the way they do when the ‘drip drip’ feeding from the bbc is designed to make us all feel that liebour is our only hope??
I hope that you don’t mind, but I feel it appropriate to repost something from the open thread yesterday.
‘Yes. The BBC keep saying it was the ‘worst week in A&E since records began.’
That the NHS saw 440,000 people in a week – 20,000 more than the same time last year …and dealt with 9 out of 10 (nearly 400,000) of those within 4 hours (the remainder would have to wait while real emergencies were dealt with), makes me think that far from being the worst week…it was the BEST ever week for the NHS.
The BBC and Labour have been itching for an NHS crisis for years. They forecast one that never arrived last year, now they’re getting desperate. This is the last chance for a NHS crisis before the election. If there isn’t a real crisis the BBC and Labour will have to resort to inventing one.
Actually Hunt and Cameron are complete amateurs when it comes to NHS crises, why couldn’t they have delivered a Stafford / Burnham style disaster? – the BBC wouldn’t have let us hear the last of it. ‘
As a footnote, I was speaking to a GP only a few weeks ago, who was treating a seriously ill family member, about their paper work as he was filling out reams of records and documents listing the dangerous drugs he was administering (having had to wait for a third party to check his work). ‘All of this’, he said, ‘All of this paper work and these procedures, are the consequence of one mad doctor – Harold Shipman.’
In the carefully stage managed Labour Republic of Wales the propaganda surrounding the collapse of the Welsh Assembly controlled NHS must be manipulated as if the Labour Ruling parties life depended on it.
Anything less would give succour to the fact that Welsh Labour couldn’t run a drinks do in a brewery let alone an organisation as complex as the Welsh NHS ( same goes for Welsh education (well the English Medium kind that is found traditionally in the Valleys anyway….the Welsh Language schools have money thrown at them like confetti but I digress) and not to mention transport/manufacturing jobs/infrastructure/roads/economy/tourism//etc/etc)
Who do we turn to in such a time of crisis?…Welsh Health Minister Prof Mark Drakeford…a man who makes Herman Von Rompuy look positively dynamic!
As I drove past the Heath Hospital today there were 7 Ambulances queuing up outside and a Paramedic response vehicle all parked up with patients with nowhere to go.
Crisis?…what crisis?…it’s all the fault of those spiteful beggars in London isn’t it?
Meanwhile the Welsh politicians get this costly upgrade while the rest of us all sit and wait (since 1999) for the Welsh Assembly to do something to improve our lot….
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/ams-work-stations-refurbished-cost-8313521
There’s lovely!
Whilst I have no idea how the bigger picture looks across Wales, or for that matter the uk as a whole, I was inside the A and E dept of the Prince Charles Hospital in Merthyr Tydfil on Monday two weeks back.
My mother-in-law had taken a fall at night and went off to hospital by ambulance around 5am, Mon morning.
So, Mrs Dysgwr and I arrived at said hospital around 12:30 pm to find her still on a trolley adjacent to the nurses station. She wasnt alone, the corridors were filled with patients on trolleys, lord knows how many were actually in the curtained off cubicle areas.
It’s true that by then she had been xrayed and diagnosed, a fracture of the pelvis, but up to then, there was no bed on a ward for her.
Mrs Dysgwr decided to tackle one of the nurses at the station, regarding her mother not having been offered any food, or asked about toilet needs. While this was going on one of the male staff approached me to explain they were operating under ” crisis conditions” and he kept using that phrase.
I have spent many long hours at various A and E depts in Wales, but have never seen anything like it. I have no grumbles about the staff, they were most pleasant, efficient, and hard-worked, but something, somewhere is wrong.
She was put on a ward later that same day, where the staff have been wonderful, and I have seen no sign of the previous chaos.
There were only 2 ambulances outside by the way, and I suspect the patients were in the a and e dept, as were the ambulance staff too.
Whenever I visit any hospital these days, I am struck by a seemingly overstaffed situation. Now dont misunderstand me, I dont want staff numbers cut, but if they keep on throwing more and more staff into too small a facility it simply wont help! It’s the bricks and mortar that now appears to be the problem.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30566207
Ambulance targets: Plan for longer times in England revealed
“Target times for ambulances to reach some seriously ill patients could be lengthened, the BBC has learned.
A leaked NHS document includes plans to change the response time for some Red 2 patients – those with “serious but not the most life-threatening” conditions – from eight to 19 minutes in England.
It said the plans had been approved by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, subject to approval by ambulance trust bosses.
The government said no decisions had been made. LABOUR HAS DEMANDED ANSWERS…..”.
I see Burnham was on Five Live again this morning, talking about this…nothing from the Tories though. The BBC did say, belatedly, that they’d approached the Government but ‘no comment was forthcoming’. Nasty Tories.
This explanation was though only after some listeners had apparently got in touch to ask, so it does beg the question just when did the BBC seek a comment…and just when was Burnham lined up? Surely there is a log of some description that the BBC might want to share with us? !
There have been a number of occasions recently where the BBC have run stories critical of the government but have not given them the right of reply, a couple of times on the economy, on Newsnight and a few weeks ago when Adrian Childs interviewed Burnham (him again) on the Cancer Drugs Fund.
This seems to be a growing trend…Oh! and it seems that someone in the BBC likes Andy Burnham.
Apparently, nothing is going to change on ambulance response times, despite the media
(inc Beeboid) scare stories.
An ambulance can only respond to an emergency if they are called in time and have no difficulty getting through the traffic , and not to many others just happen to be out on call at a given time ,targets are nonsense ,it all depends on several sets of unrelated circumstances , luck being a major factor .
BBC systematically running Labour propaganda – NHS scare after scare. Every Sunday the Labour Party has a hare running, and the BBC dutifully fall into line.
All today the ambulance non-story. At 1:00 pm today the BBC carried a long interview with Burnham in which it was alleged that decisions had already been made. Later they had an interview with a representative from the NHS Executive who made it clear that this was not the case. Did they bring back Burnham to challenge him on this issue? Of course not, it would ruin their propaganda.
The BBC with its one-side ideological approach to issues is a major threat to democracy. If it was genuinely non-partisan, its much-prided investigative journalism would turn the spotlight on the NHS – is it really as wonderful as it is made out taking account of international comparisons – rather than hounding poor military servicemen striving to do their duty in appallingly difficult circumstances.
On the NHS: ‘Until you accept that the aim of Leftists is to hurt, not help, none of their actions makes sense. Leftism, Liberalism, Progressivism are all words for the politics of hate. They hate the world about them. And with motivations like that behind them, principles pass them by like a fart in a breeze’
http://dissectleft.blogspot.co.uk/
The NHS and BBC as one? The BBC state (or imagine) are both joined at the hip (as they are both public services). But as we can see in many parts of the country the NHS is not always a healthy environment. This is where the BBC claim they support the NHS. And yet the BBC itself does not trust or use the NHS. The same BBC executives have private healthcare. They only support the NHS ‘unions’ not the process of saving lives. The left wants a different NHS based on death management of the working classes. Abortion. Voluntary Euthanasia, Gender transgender assignment and Sterilsation clinics are all left agendas that the BBC widely support as its part of UN Agenda 21 population control policy. The future of the NHS is not safe under Labour and even less with the BBC who are financially unaccountable and unelectable. Like the BBC itself, large parts of the NHS it should be privatised both to save money and improve front line services. The fact that the BBC imagines it has a public sector twin is totally wrong. The NHS is paid entirely by Income taxes, the BBC is a license to extort with menaces. The BBC could be easily privatised and the money saved could put into the NHS (which would be much more popular than the reverse). The BBC are not part of a healthy lifestyle, they promote the opposite that will eventually bankrupt the nation and the NHS will have to close for good.