Government handling the C-19 crisis "well" according to poll Archived Message Posted by scrabb on April 20, 2020, 1:23 pm A recent poll shows that over 60 per cent of people think the government is handling the C-19 crisis well. How can this be? "Our ambition should be in denationalising health provision in the UK." -- Jeremy Hunt Lesley Ridoch in The Scotsman: Jeremy Hunt certainly piled into into his successor Matt Hancock in the first ever video conference-based version of the Health Select Committee. But he told blood-scenting interviewers afterwards he wouldn’t apportion personal blame. Fair enough, but given his own role in proceedings, hardly surprising. Hunt was the longest serving Health Secretary in British political history and presided over the shredding of NHS budgets, the first-ever strike by junior doctors and the shameful vote against a pay rise for nurses. He implemented the controversial Health and Social Care Act 2012, which effectively dismantled and part-privatised the NHS in England despite opposition from every part of the medical profession. A King’s Fund review found NHS ‘reforms’ had caused greater marketisation, distracting and damaging top-down reorganisation and new, ‘complex and confusing’ systems of governance and accountability. Still the British Government ploughed on, until 100 English health trusts faced bankruptcy this winter. And that’s why £13.4 billion of the debt smothering NHS Trusts in England were written off three weeks ago. A good opportunity to dump a failed policy perhaps, except the Conservatives have no long-term plan to dismantle the system that’s crippled English hospitals. [my emphases] Message Thread: Government handling the C-19 crisis "well" according to poll - scrabb April 20, 2020, 1:23 pm Re: Government handling the C-19 crisis "well" according to poll - Mary April 20, 2020, 1:52 pm Re: Government handling the C-19 crisis "well" according to poll - Ken Waldron April 20, 2020, 5:41 pm   Searching