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**herbalviagra** · 03-17-2011, 12:57 PM

I do not know enough about the NHS changes proposed, so I need to read more, but from my experience the "philosophy" of care should be changing in UK and not the system itself.

UK comparing to central Europe is very reactive, ie they ignore you as long as they can and once you have a problem "big enough" they take you in but that takes an order of magnitude more effort to sort out than teh preventive care which is regularly ignored.

What is happening however is more "market oriented" or an attempt to create such a service with focus on rewarding rationing of the service + localization of it... rationing is a terrible idea, but as I said I do not know enough about this bit, to be able to comment... I just hope this is more of a media soundbite than the reality on the ground... while localization is I think a fact, and a bad idea, it will not make service better overall, but just be another segmentation in the society between rich and poor areas, leaving the majority with even worse service than they currently have.

In any case I need to learn more about it to be able to really comment...

03-17-2011, 12:57 PM	#11
herbalviagra Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 384 Senior Member	I do not know enough about the NHS changes proposed, so I need to read more, but from my experience the "philosophy" of care should be changing in UK and not the system itself. UK comparing to central Europe is very reactive, ie they ignore you as long as they can and once you have a problem "big enough" they take you in but that takes an order of magnitude more effort to sort out than teh preventive care which is regularly ignored. What is happening however is more "market oriented" or an attempt to create such a service with focus on rewarding rationing of the service + localization of it... rationing is a terrible idea, but as I said I do not know enough about this bit, to be able to comment... I just hope this is more of a media soundbite than the reality on the ground... while localization is I think a fact, and a bad idea, it will not make service better overall, but just be another segmentation in the society between rich and poor areas, leaving the majority with even worse service than they currently have. In any case I need to learn more about it to be able to really comment...
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