Posted on 03/20/2010 11:22:51 AM PDT by 444Flyer
Vital scans for patients who may have cancer are being postponed by up to six weeks as the NHS grapples with a major funding crisis.
GPs have also been ordered not send elderly people for osteoporosis scans, to refer children with tonsillitis to specialists - or even allow men to have vasectomies.
In addition, wards are threatened with closure and thousands of key staff have been told to work shorter hours or take unpaid 'career breaks'.
Charities and patient groups said the delays could have disastrous consequences if early signs for potentially fatal conditions go undetected.
The drastic cutbacks illustrate a funding nightmare threatening to overwhelm the NHS within months, as trusts battle to save millions of pounds in the wake of the credit crunch.
Last night the Royal College of Physicians warned ministers and NHS managers against 'slash and burn' cuts.
In a strongly-worded pre-budget briefing to MPs, they said: 'Following a decade of growth, the NHS is being asked to deliver considerable efficiencies.
'There is a risk that without careful management, a supportive rather than confrontational culture and a high degree of medical engagement, any effort to reduce productivity could easily subside into a process where services and posts are indiscriminately slashed and burnt.
'Over-hasty decisions now to cut back on the medical workforce, biomedical research, and audit programmes could have implications for generations.'
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And the sad thing is about 70% of the US population would love to have the English health care also. And that includes the AMA who have just reiterated their complete support for Obama's fiasco.
http://www.acponline.org/pressroom/hc_leg.htm
Even the American College of Physicians would like it too!!!
Second only to the AMA, this Association represents 129,000 primary care physicians.
Disgusting!!!!!
Obamacare and Socialized Medicine bump...
Right! I know one fact. The very first sentence of this post would have condemned me to death BEFORE the appointment came up. This is what the Democrats are going to bring to my country and then say they deserve my vote and loyalty.
A scan for a kidney stone revealed the BRAND NEW emergence of a kidney “SPOT”. Not six weeks for an appointment to see if a scan would be allowed, but THREE weeks and the kidney was gone. No thanks to Obama and cohorts.
The pathology???. Surgeon looked me in the eye and said at the FIRST symptom, it is already too late for treatment.
This was what the people are asking for? Doubt it.
“...In addition, wards are threatened with closure and thousands of key staff have been told to work shorter hours or take unpaid ‘career breaks’.”
Yeah, that’ll go over real well with Andy Stern’s “workers”.
A glimpse of “Christmas future” as Ebenezer Obama blesses us with govt-run health care!!!
“The people,” in general, are hawg-stupid, thanks to years of government skoolin. They honestly believe they’ll get all the medical care they can consume, whenever they want it, completely free.
Congratulations on your survival! I’m getting a colonoscopy before my birthday in July, even if I have to charge it on my Visa. Bad genes and several colon-cancer deaths among people my age have me scared.
“Even the American College of Physicians would like it too!!! Second only to the AMA, this Association represents 129,000 primary care physicians.”
These organizations do not represent the voice of the majorit of physicians, I promise you. It’s but on reason their memberships have been falling for years. They’re composed of academic physicians in leadership positions, i.e. the people who need to take financing and funding the least into consideration.
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