THE NHS
It has recently been revealed that Thomas Cook are now offering ‘sun and surgery’ package deals to India for those who need hospital treatment.
The holidays include flights, operations, a stay in a private hospital and time for recuperation on the beach afterwards. Standards in many Indian private hospitals is higher than in the UK’s ‘Third World NHS’. The package deals are expected to cost between £1,500 and £8,000 depending upon the treatment required.
The holidays are being test marketed in the UK first, as it is expected that the British will be more interested as many are fed up of being stuck on a waiting list, or waiting to be put on a waiting list.
Around 150,000 people visited India for hospital treatment last year, including 400 from the UK. The cost of such treatment is much cheaper in India. Open heart surgery costs roughly £6,000 in Bombay compared to £30,000 in the UK.
Patients can expect their own private room, which is cleaned twice a day. The rooms have cable television showing programmes in English and dieticians will prepare menu options.
Meanwhile, it has been also revealed that 40% of foreign nurses in the UK are considering moving abroad in order to get better pay and working conditions. Many have only come to the UK as a stepping stone to a better life elsewhere.
Last year 13,000, 50% of the all the new nurses, were recruited from abroad.
This shows the falsity of the claim that the recruitment of third world nurses is necessary to solve the lack of training of nurses in the UK. Other EU countries do not have any problem with training, recruitment or retention of their own nurses. It is only the UK, with its nationalised NHS, where there is a problem.
If the government were genuine about wanting to help the sick in the UK and the third world, then they would denationalise the NHS and be prepared to consider using the much cheaper foreign hospitals to treat our patients. This would stop the drain of much needed nurses from the third world, provide much needed revenue for the third world, and stop one source of mass immigration into the UK.
Labour, however, much prefers to grandstand about issues such as ‘fair trade’ and promote mass immigration as a part of their obsession with race war politics.
The holidays include flights, operations, a stay in a private hospital and time for recuperation on the beach afterwards. Standards in many Indian private hospitals is higher than in the UK’s ‘Third World NHS’. The package deals are expected to cost between £1,500 and £8,000 depending upon the treatment required.
The holidays are being test marketed in the UK first, as it is expected that the British will be more interested as many are fed up of being stuck on a waiting list, or waiting to be put on a waiting list.
Around 150,000 people visited India for hospital treatment last year, including 400 from the UK. The cost of such treatment is much cheaper in India. Open heart surgery costs roughly £6,000 in Bombay compared to £30,000 in the UK.
Patients can expect their own private room, which is cleaned twice a day. The rooms have cable television showing programmes in English and dieticians will prepare menu options.
Meanwhile, it has been also revealed that 40% of foreign nurses in the UK are considering moving abroad in order to get better pay and working conditions. Many have only come to the UK as a stepping stone to a better life elsewhere.
Last year 13,000, 50% of the all the new nurses, were recruited from abroad.
This shows the falsity of the claim that the recruitment of third world nurses is necessary to solve the lack of training of nurses in the UK. Other EU countries do not have any problem with training, recruitment or retention of their own nurses. It is only the UK, with its nationalised NHS, where there is a problem.
If the government were genuine about wanting to help the sick in the UK and the third world, then they would denationalise the NHS and be prepared to consider using the much cheaper foreign hospitals to treat our patients. This would stop the drain of much needed nurses from the third world, provide much needed revenue for the third world, and stop one source of mass immigration into the UK.
Labour, however, much prefers to grandstand about issues such as ‘fair trade’ and promote mass immigration as a part of their obsession with race war politics.
posted by erc @ 1:15 pm
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