NHS reforms

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Originally Posted by Malbec

I love the private sector too, they pay me about 7-8 times what I get paid by the NHS for the same work. Can't beat it!

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Beauty of the private sector is you are paid what you are worth unlike the public sector who expect annual pay rises regardless.

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Originally Posted by Bolton Midnight

Who do you want to choose how your ailments are sorted a bureaucrat or a medical bod?

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I would personally want YOU, Bolton Midnight to choose how my ailments are sorted.

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Originally Posted by rooster

I would personally want YOU, Bolton Midnight to choose how my ailments are sorted.

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Absolutely. No doubt we would be right as rain in no time thanks to his input.

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Originally Posted by rooster

I would personally want YOU, Bolton Midnight to choose how my ailments are sorted.

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Trust me you don't I'd send most to the vet as they are better than doctors as their patients can't tell them owt yet some get cured, some get shot granted but it is still pretty impressive.

My rule of thumb with my kids is unless the bone is poking out through their skin I'm not interested.

What do you know, hospitals going bust because they have been mismanaged by the public sector so badly.

BBC News - NHS hospital in Cambridge to be run by private firm

and there are many more

BBC News - Why is Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals Trust in debt?

and the oh so wonderful NHS doesn't seem to get such a glowing report from the Patients Association

Patients Association launches damning report into poor care in England

yep so as I said all along, things are certainly not tickety boo with the NHS

Oh missed this one off

BBC News - Trafford General Hospital 'could be privatised'

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Originally Posted by Bolton Midnight

Beauty of the private sector is you are paid what you are worth...

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...in 1978, the head of British Aerospace was paid £29,000. By 2010, the head of its successor company, BAe Systems, collected a package worth nearly £2.4m, a rise of 8,000%...

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Executive pay consultants behind escalating boardroom salaries | Business | The Guardian

And your point is what exactly?

I'm sure the CEO of Vodaphone gets a fair whack but he earns it and if the service was crap I could switch to Orange couldn't I? Public sector doesn't work like that, we can't shop around so as they have a monopoly the pay at the top should reflect that by being a lot less.

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Originally Posted by Bolton Midnight

And your point is what exactly?

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The value, or lack of, placed on different jobs and the increasing salary gap as illustrated here:

The haves and the have-nots: City workers pay soars 12% to £83,000 a year... but manual workers get just 2.4% rise | Mail Online

Army Pay Scales - Armed Forces - British Army Officers Pay Rates - Other Ranks Pay Rates

so a captain or major gets the same as tube driver and less than a diversity or 5 a day manager :confused: