Twenty Years ago the Labour Party Destroyed Britain’s Health Service
Dr Vernon Coleman
Twenty years ago, in 2004, Britain’s Labour Party destroyed the NHS.
Here’s how they did it.
Before April 2004, GPs provided out of hours patient care, including weekends and bank holidays. But then the Labour Government offered GPs a new contract which entitled them to opt out of providing 24 hour a day 365 days a year cover for their patients.
This new contract also enabled GPs to dramatically increase their incomes well into six figures. The Government, under Gordon Brown's financial guidance, negotiated a deal which, by 2007, gave GPs an average income of £118,000 – an increase of 63% on what they were earning when they had to work nights and weekends.
The overall result of the change was that the cost of providing out of hours care doubled and the quality of care provided for patients slumped dramatically. All of the NHS’s problems stem from this disastrous change. With GPs no longer providing medical care at nights and weekends, the pressure on Accident and Emergency Departments has grown dramatically. And the demand for ambulances has reached breaking point. All this is the fault of the Labour Government – which deliberately destroyed the NHS. They must have known what the result would be.
Reverse this change – and make GPs do home visits at nights and weekends – and the NHS would recover in an hour. The pressure would be taken off hospitals and ambulances. And the change need not cost one penny.
NOTE
The above is taken from `Gordon is a Moron’ by Vernon Coleman (the story of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister). `Gordon is a Moron’ is available from the bookshop on www.vernoncoleman.com
Twenty Years ago the Labour Party Destroyed Britain’s Health Service
Dr Vernon Coleman
Twenty years ago, in 2004, Britain’s Labour Party destroyed the NHS.
Here’s how they did it.
Before April 2004, GPs provided out of hours patient care, including weekends and bank holidays. But then the Labour Government offered GPs a new contract which entitled them to opt out of providing 24 hour a day 365 days a year cover for their patients.
This new contract also enabled GPs to dramatically increase their incomes well into six figures. The Government, under Gordon Brown's financial guidance, negotiated a deal which, by 2007, gave GPs an average income of £118,000 – an increase of 63% on what they were earning when they had to work nights and weekends.
The overall result of the change was that the cost of providing out of hours care doubled and the quality of care provided for patients slumped dramatically. All of the NHS’s problems stem from this disastrous change. With GPs no longer providing medical care at nights and weekends, the pressure on Accident and Emergency Departments has grown dramatically. And the demand for ambulances has reached breaking point. All this is the fault of the Labour Government – which deliberately destroyed the NHS. They must have known what the result would be.
Reverse this change – and make GPs do home visits at nights and weekends – and the NHS would recover in an hour. The pressure would be taken off hospitals and ambulances. And the change need not cost one penny.
NOTE
The above is taken from `Gordon is a Moron’ by Vernon Coleman (the story of Gordon Brown as Prime Minister). `Gordon is a Moron’ is available from the bookshop on www.vernoncoleman.com
Copyright Vernon Coleman June 2024
brilliant & true. as an aside: when a child falls ill, it almost always happens on a friday night. funny dat.... :-((
Thanks Abigail, for the restack, I appreciate it.