Mixed picture for NHS targets

The trouble with targets in the NHS is there are no conseqences of failure. Who loses their job, the patient doesn't receive financial compensation if they do not meet the 31 day rule for cancer. Perhaps thery should be forces to put the patient through the private sector. How about charging a nominal fee at A&E for people who should never have gone there in the first place? Even charge for the ambulance if it was not needed. A large % of people are drunk and disorderly or their case is not an emergency and it is always at peak times hence the failure to cope. My daughter is an A&E nurse on the mainland so I hear some stories and reasons why they are struggling. The main point is that we as a nation need to decide how much we want to pay for the NHS and what we it to cover, as everything costs and we pay our taxes for it so how much tax do we want to pay?

The NHS should be there to make people better, not hit management targets set by pen pushing idiots who could work a ward if they tried. All this NHS propaganda is a way if ok-ing the privatisation of the service and why? Because its been abused by those not paying into it! Get rid of managers, get rid of the trusts, get rid of targets and get the REAL NHS workers back in control. I despair living in this country. I worry about what future there is for my children, as I'm sure most do.

Difficult to see how the figures for meeting NHS targets for treating emergency patients can be influenced at all on an Island. They have to see what comes to the doors which is largely beyond their control. They don't decide who comes to live here and who comes on holiday etc etc

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