Originally Posted by
wisecaptain
NHS ....Thats a public service ...... not a private company . Big difference and the NHS is beloved to the UK , its saving peoples lives right now so has unending public support and is a Political hot potato at the forefront of Boris political promise list ......
And yet here we have another Branson hater who cannot see beyond his frothy mouthed rants against government assistance in the form of loan guarantees for Virgin Atlantic. As usual, he/she and their ilk will oversimplify everything and refer to the NHS as some saintly, sunbeam sparkled, cherub ridden haven. It's only a matter of time before these people will simplistically throw in a retort about how Branson sued the NHS without knowing any of the details of the case. Irrespective of the fact that the NHS trust involved was acting irregularly with contracts and so were asked to explain but had to be taken to court and eventually they paid out because they knew thy were in the wrong and then all that payout was reinvested into the NHS. But I digress... the halo bearing crowds that stand there clapping at the heavens every Thursday evening are one of the main reasons the NHS is burdened because at the slightest encouragement they will try and sue the NHS, no thanks to all those daytime TV adverts for no win, no fee lawyers who ask if you've ever had an injury etc. Read this to get a better idea of how saintly everyone in this is:
"In the last NHS accounts, 2018-19, the cost of harm bill — the estimated claims bill incurred in one year — was approximately £9 billion.
In 2017, it was calculated that a one per cent pay rise for NHS staff required £500 million in funding. The cost of harm therefore equates to an 18 per cent pay rise — an increase the British public would no doubt support for nurses, if everyone could just stop suing them. And this is the tip of a legal iceberg. The estimated bill for all outstanding compensation claims racked up over the years comes in at £83 billion. In comparison, NHS England’s total budget in 2018-19 was £129 billion. In the maternity ward alone, for every baby born in Britain, £1,100 is incurred by the NHS in indemnity costs against negligence claims."
And here are some "facts" that the bandwagon jumpers can use if they can be bothered actually reading them:
Clinical negligence numbers steady, but rising costs remain a concern