What's the point of having a national health service if you can't even get a doctor's appointment without waiting weeks, I mean come on. I've been saying it for years, the system's a mess and it's only getting worse. My proposal is to go back to basics, get more doctors and nurses on the ground, and stop all this nonsense about management and bureaucracy.
We need to stop throwing money at fancy new buildings and admin staff and start putting it where it matters, on the frontline. I've got a mate who's a nurse and she's always telling me about how understaffed they are, it's a miracle they get anything done. We need to make it easier for people to train as doctors and nurses, not harder, and we need to pay them a decent wage so they don't all bugger off to Australia as soon as they qualify.
I'm not saying it's going to be easy, but we need to take a long hard look at our priorities.
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