What happened on 30th June 2023 - with your comments in the Web

On Friday, Rishi Sunak promised that foreign NHS staff will be cut from a quarter to just 10pc.

Just one in 10 of all NHS recruits will be from overseas by 2038 - down from a quarter now, the Government’s new workforce plan has pledged. Unveiling the plan, the Prime Minister said it was the right thing to do to spend far more on the NHS workforce - but warned this could mean cuts elsewhere.

Mr Sunak said: “Governments from all parties have ducked the challenges for decades.

“It just isn’t right that we don’t train enough people here at home to properly staff our National Health Service.

“Overcoming this won’t be quick or easy. It’s only possible because of the difficult decisions we are taking elsewhere to cut the debt.

“And by prioritising the NHS there will be other things that we can’t afford. But the NHS is so important, so we’re making the tough calls and doing things differently.”

 

Yet, Brits weren't happy about this news.

"Can't say this is good thing. In my GP practice they recruited a trainee GP from abroad. He was brilliant. Was more decisive than any of the partners in the practice and fixed my health issue so rapidly even private treatment could not equal. I guess he was too good for the practice so he moved on. How do you fix this?"

"I learnt this week the star GP of the surgery has moved on! No idea of how to fix this!"

"brutish workers don't want to work in the NHS and we are struggling to recruit."

"so the plan is, we will train more staff than we currently do in the UK, but get rid of the staff from overseas. Surely if we increase one number but reduce another we end up with the same as we started with? Great Idea Rishi. Don't forget the fact that you treat the NHS staff so poorly, they will be leaving quicker than you can recruit."

"Much of this is fantasy and more Tory promises that have been given for the last 13 years - remember 40 new hospitals, increasing nursing numbers by 50,000 (2019 manifesto)!  The Tory NHS Plan mentions. the recruitment of an extra 60,000 doctors, 170,000 more nurses and 71,000 more allied health professionals!  The money the Tories are promising to pay for this is tiny compared to what the plan is promoting (e.g. £600 million)"

 This day too, in the ballroom of the five star Savoy hotel on the Strand in central London, the super-rich and their advisers were this week advised that they may soon need to watch out for people with “pitchforks and torches” unless they do more to use their fortunes to help the millions struggling with the cost of living crisis.

At an investment conference organised by Spear’s wealth management magazine, members of the global elite and their financial teams were told by progressive advisers that there was a “real risk of actual insurrection” and “civil disruption” if the yawning inequality gap between rich and poor was allowed to widen as a result of energy and food price hikes hitting squeezed households.

Julia Davies, a founding member of Patriotic Millionaires UK, a group of super-rich people calling for the introduction of a wealth tax, warned that global poverty and the climate emergency were going to get “so much worse” unless the wealthy did more to help poorer citizens.

 The reaction of Britons was priceless.

"Oh, so we're expecting the extremely wealthy to address inequality?" - "didn't you hear, David only bought 2 new cars last year, while Jeremy bought 4. This cannot stand, we must allow David to prosper further to be on par with Jeremy's purchases"

"It's like asking for the oil companies to solve global warming..

They'll only be pushed to helping if something happens to affect them, but I can't state it or get a ban"

 "Well I hope they mean a letter coz I can't afford a pitchfork.....mind you with the cost of stamps.....

I can tut loudly for free though and I shall record it and put it on tiktok for extra effect" -

"I can't afford a pitchfork

I can do you a rake - all depends what your minimum standards to go into battle are, really.

I also have something that may be described as a "weeding hoe" but thinking about how you might wield that might require some training in the martial arts.

Oh, I've also got a shite squeegy mop that is suppose to clean 3 stories up. It doesn't, but soapy water sprayed in an arc may be a powerful deterrent."

Also on Friday, the public must get fitter to help the NHS, Wales' health minister said.

Eluned Morgan made the comments in a BBC interview to mark the institution's 75th anniversary. Ms Morgan said it was "fundamental" people understand how they can give themselves "better life chances".

She said ministers face "difficult decisions" as the health service sees increases in demand and financial constraints, and patients may need to travel further for specialist care.

The Welsh Conservatives challenged Welsh government claims that the UK government was not providing enough cash for the NHS in Wales.

The Wales NHS situation doesn't much differ from the all UK one. It raises a lot of critics and complaints among Brits each time it's been mentioned.

 

"Main issue with the nhs is that there’s lots more old people and social care can’t keep up with that so they clog hospitals."

 

"I spent a week in hospital last month following an emergency admission and subsequent surgery. There were at least three people on the ward who had been admitted to hospital from a care home who were unable to be discharged due to said care homes claiming they were too ill.

12 beds on the ward, and I would estimate 75% of the combined nurses' shift time was spent attending to those three patients. Dealing with the impact of their dementia. Trying to stop them screaming out for people. Constantly changing their soiled clothing. Replacing soiled bedding. Trying to keep them in bed. etc. etc.

All of which had a knock-on impact on the rest of us who were either pre-surgery or post-surgery. I personally witnessed nursing staff falsifying paperwork before shift change because they simply hadn't had time to do their "normal" job."

"This government still has no obesity strategy. a strategy promised under Johnson, 2 PMs later and still nothing other than more words"

"Firstly, people don’t want to, they’re stressed and lazy. Secondly, people have had free at the point of use healthcare for decades, there’s not the incentive to be healthy."