More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover. The Telegraph has the story.
The British Social Attitudes survey, which has tracked public opinion since 1983, found satisfaction with the health service has reached an all-time low, fuelled by concerns about long waits in A&E and access to GPs.
For the first time, the majority of the public are dissatisfied with the NHS, the poll found – with the lowest ratings for every aspect of healthcare examined.
Overall, 51% of those polled said they were dissatisfied with the NHS – more than twice the 25% recorded in 2020.
Researchers said the survey, involving 3,362 people from England, Wales and Scotland paints a “troubling” and “depressing” picture of the NHS.
Data from the poll, analysed by the Nuffield Trust and The King’s Fund think tanks show difficulties accessing appointments were the greatest concern.
Just 29% said they were satisfied with the NHS – the lowest level since the survey began, down from an all time high of 70% in 2010.
Some 69% of those polled said it takes too long to get a GP or hospital appointment, while 55% said that there are not enough NHS staff and 50% said the Government does not spend enough money on the NHS.
Regardless of party political affiliation, those polled were less satisfied with the NHS under the current Government, than with any other administration since the survey in 1983.
Dan Wellings, senior fellow at the Kings Fund, urged ministers to “sit up and take notice” adding: “This should ring loud, continuous alarm bells in the corridors of power. This is as bad as I’ve ever seen in an NHS survey.”
“There are 1.4 million staff telling everyone that will listen that it is difficult right now. Everyone is hearing the experiences of friends and family… when you have reached that tipping point it is very hard to recover.”
Worth reading in full.
The high level of demand on the health service that is at the root of the ongoing crisis is most likely a consequence of the fallout from lockdown, harms from the experimental vaccines and possibly post-Covid effects. Insofar as it is the first two, it is a direct result of the unprecedented responses to the relatively mild (mortality rate well below 0.5%) COVID-19 virus. Yet still our governments plan to do it all again in response to future viral threats – and the public backs it. Madness.
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Google – started by the CIA.
Farcebook – started by the CIA.
Oracle – its first and still biggest client – CIA.
etc ad nauseum.
CIA-DoD run the US and most of the world. The Rona tard scamdemic was a pilot project of theirs. The 2020 election fraud. Climate. The endless wars….
Snowden, Assange….truth tellers. Yet the sheeple hear not. 1 person in 10 might be clued in that the CIA-DoD is behind most of what is going on.
The US is the single biggest threat on the planet. You only have to watch the glee of US pilots bombing civilian lines during the Iraq ‘war’ (replace ‘war’ with US control of oil supplies) to understand the sickness that pervades that country. Watch them bang their hand to their chest when their national anthem is played and tell me they’re not the most brainwashed population on the planet. They’ve been sold a story. A story that’s been told since the beginning of their history – the US is the only really free country on earth. Tell your hostage’s the same story on repeat forever and they stop becoming hostage’s. They become willing accomplices in a cult.
Totally agree.
55 or more conflicts since 1945.
Rona scamdemic – the ultimate wet dream for fascists. CIA DoD project.
As was the stolen US election of 2020. No more than 130 million will vote in a US election (out of 160 mn). Drumpf won 80 mn (millions burnt etc). Pedo-criminal-half wit-money launderer CIA stooge Biden won max 50 million. I am guessing it is more likely 40 mn.
How do you get away from google and google chrome?Is there any way we can keep information away from these creatures? I believe the Google business original mantra was “Do no evil”, how very far they have strayed since then, they are a malignant parasite on humanity
I use duckduckgo as a search engine. It’s good for privacy and is generally censor-free (although it has engaged in censorship over the Ukraine/NATO/Russian war).
https://duckduckgo.com/
Using Brave is the best way I know of currently: https://brave.com/
Don’t use Google products. It’s fairly easy to find alternatives.
Why not?
DuckDuckGo, Brave, Safari, Firefox are alternatives to Chrome.
DuckDuckGo also has a search engine that can be used with any browser as an alternative to Google.
De-google-ify!
https://degooglisons-internet.org/en/
It’s/They are ven worse. Much worse. https://brownstone.org/articles/google-has-usurped-democracy/
Switch to protonmail, for a start.
I’ve got Gmail but more and more I’m using protomail.
There are alternatives…. DuckDuckGo for one.
Curious that Wikipedia is not mentioned. A wiki search on DS makes an interesting reading, and even better on TY, where even his achievements are shown as negatives. I wonder if G & W are related.
I put Wikipedia’s extreme left wing bias down to the fact that lefties have nothing better to do than jump all over Wikipedia smearing people they disagree with, whereas those not on the left prefer to get on with their lives, working, spending time with their families and leaving other people the hell alone. Perhaps it’s just a fantasy of mine though.
Yandex
It would be if there was a list of advertisers that use Uncommon Ad Space and a list of advertisers that boycott free speech platforms. I would use it to inform what companies I buy from.
This is the final nail in the Google coffin for me, I now use DuckDuckGo
Stop using google. Its simple. Brave/DuckDuckGo work perfectly fine. Google Intelligence governed. The alternates I mention, at least there’s a chance they are genuine and not controlled by the same evil.