The new NHS Gulag - Bridlington.

Most people South of the Gap will never have heard of a small coastal resort called Bridlington but it is very popular for many patients in Northenshire when they take their holidays in trailer parks. This article in Pulse magazine is interesting as it shows once again how thick the Thickerazzi are at NHS England. 

So a whole town’s GPs close their lists to new patients for 18 months because they cannot cope with demand (for crap and trivia) and NHS England now says they have to re-open their lists by 1 May with NHS England having previously decided that GPs could close their lists. 

DoH?

Closing a practice list is not without financial penalty or a huge bureaucratic process to achieve it for GPs who choose to do so and so is highly unlikely to have been done on a whim by any one practice let alone a whole town’s practices for a population of c. 35,000 a large proportion of which is elderly. 

Unless of course via the so called domino effect applies whereby if one practice list becomes closed then new patients are diverted by NHS managers to nearby practices who then may not be able to cope and so close their lists and repeat until the last man is down. 

Now the elderly anywhere are the ungratefully demanding but not yet dead abusers of the NHS freebie that is general practice so large numbers of them create large demands on GPs. List closure is a measure of desperation and not GP work avoidance.

It is another Blair legacy of Za Nu Labour's “choice” where if a corner shop decides to stop serving customers it can by putting a closed sign in their window but in healthcare you are open all hours whatever under the nGMS contract and regardless of any individual practice’s own circumstances. 

Patient safety is always a concern other than to NHS comrade commissar managers. 

So NHS comrade commissar managers at Bridlington let us try to put it very very simply. If an aircraft can only take off and safely land with 10 patients (sorry comrades clients, punters, customers) on board would you insist NHS comrade commissar manager that the pilot take off with 20 on board?

Of course you would. Unless you self-centred retarded piece of something brown, smelly and very thick were one of the passengers. Would you then then insist that the plane take off with 20 passengers on board including you?

Of course not NHS comrade commissar manager you would get off the plane to lighten the load and insist that another 5 passengers get on board the plane to ensure that you have done your job of providing healthcare. Having then taken the supreme sacrifice of leaving the aircraft to save comrade patients you will have to take an alternative flight on your NHS expenses to get to your next urgent meeting but sod patient care.

Unfortunately NHS comrade commissar managers GPs do not have the same luxury as airline pilots called safety and as you do of refusing to take off (treat patients) when things are unsafe for you have now decided that GPs in Bridlington can now do so in true NHS Aeroflot style.

Instead of doing your job of providing (sorry NHS comrade commissar managers we should have used NHS Party Speak “commissioning”) safe and adequate healthcare for the population you are responsible for, you have just told those that you commission to do the complete opposite.

No doubt because your bosses have told you to do so or more likely you have actually had the misfortune to speak to a few disgruntled NHS punters who are not impressed with your institutionalized failings to provide (sorry NHS comrade commissar managers commission) adequate local healthcare (failing being something you have done exceptionally well since you were in primary school).

So you have failed as you have always done for if you had done your jobs properly this situation would never have arisen as Bridlington would be awash with GPs, wouldn’t it NHS comrade commissar managers in true NHS Soviet 5 year plan fashion?

Still like most of the UK’s population when you have failed you can always go and see and blame your GP with stress, terminal inadequacy, being crap at your job, panic attacks et al for a sick note . . .

Which is what you have just done? Just dump (it on local GPs) and run but when the local GPs run out who are you going to call? NHSEngland?

Praise be to the Party for NHS managers those in the bottom third of the UK’s socialized education system who whenever they fail always blame others and dump extra work on them to cover their institutionalized Soviet style incompetence.