I thought this was gonna be about American hospitals/doctors. It’s not. It’s about the #UK and it’s #NHS. I love the NHS. I raised my 3 sons in the UK for 10 years with NHS healthcare. Because the NHS is a government department, its funding and performance are affected by politics.

For 14 years the Tory government cut funding for everything. Doctors, nurses, and yes, technology. They dabbled in cutting edge surveillance capitalism with licensing NHS health data, but otherwise severely cut services. It’s pretty irresponsible to write an article about how bad the tech is without asking “who is responsible for providing the tech?” And asking “was it always this way?” And “how did it get this way?”

The other thing about writing on the NHS is that healthcare went from a human right to a political issue. You can’t talk about healthcare in the UK for long without getting into politics.

There’s a super simple solution: tax the crap out of UK billionaires, use the proceeds to fund the NHS. But the low-calorie, Tory-lite Labour government are keeping many Tory policies in place.

#ukpol #healthcare
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/16/doctors-complain-of-it-in-the-stone-age/