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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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If you're going to become seriously ill in England, make sure you do it between Monday and Friday.
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People admitted to English hospitals in an emergency at the weekend have, on average, a 7% higher mortality rate than people admitted between Monday and Friday.
Dr Paul Aylin, the senior author of the study from the Dr Foster Unit at Imperial College London, said: "We estimate that there were over 3,000 more deaths than expected at weekends in 2005/06 compared to weekdays. Clearly this is a significant number of people and we need to get to the bottom of what this means. Staffing levels are often lower at weekends, with fewer senior medical staff around, and some specialist services are less available. We believe this may be contributing to the increase in mortality rates on Saturdays and Sundays but we would like to see more research".
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_11-6-2010-12-5-7?newsid=90562 |
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Sergio Stefanuto
Joined: 14 May 2009
Location: UK
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Introducing fees:
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The NHS has not been truly comprehensive and free at the point of use since 1951, when charges were introduced for prescriptions, dental care, and spectacles. For now, we should take that precedent and run with it, gradually introducing user charges throughout the NHS. Britain is virtually unique in the world for not charging people to visit their GP, for instance, and even a modest fee of �10 would save the NHS around �1.5bn a year.
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/health/health-spending-shouldn%27t-be-ring%11fenced/ |
The uninteded consequence of 'free' government services is that people use them needlessly, creating the absolutely fantastic combination of out of control cost and poor service.
One of the free services available on the NHS is an abortion.
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The Department of Health figures for 2009 also showed that, for the first time, more than a third (34 per cent) of terminations were now repeat abortions.
Across all ages, more than 1,000 women or girls were on at least their fifth abortion - including 214 on their sixth, 70 on their seventh and 48 who had were on their eighth abortion or even higher.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1286268/Dozens-teenage-girls-abortions.html |
The unintended consequence of free abortions is that some women use them as a form of contraception. But supporters of 'free' government services would much prefer it if we ignored their miserable consequences, because, since they are 'free' and available to all, it follows that they are beyond reproach. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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I mostly agreed with your post until I came to this.
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The unintended consequence of free abortions is that some women use them as a form of contraception. |
Do you think an abortion is just a quick check in to the hospital? Have you ever had a sister or friend who had one? No sane women would choose this as the easy option. In fact, only a rich woman could afford to have it done quickly. Someone relying on the NHS has to go through all sorts of procedures to get it.
Don't talk like a rightwing nutter. |
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