Can we expect our Prime Minister, David Cameron, to once again deliver his more and more rampant signature move over cringeworthy NHS proposals? And maybe round it off with a spin this time. Not that I will be holding my breath for the spin considering his last choreographer was barked out of office.
Cameron's strategy seems to be to tie a half-thought through idea to his ministers' tail bones, drive them to the market square and watch the bedlam that ensues from afar. As can be expected in a society of free and educated thinkers, such ideas are vehemently torn down prompting the premier to step in and withdraw them. It was seen with the proposal to sell off Britain's forests, again with the intended scrappage of the School Sport Patnerships, plans to cut housing benefit for those unemployed for over 12 months, and looks to be in the making for the poisoned chalice Andrew Lansley dangles before us under the guise of "NHS reform".
Decried by most who know Lansley's great gamble will lead to large chunks of the NHS being privatised with negative results, it is reminiscent of what happened when John Major's government sold off hospital cleaning to the lowest bidder, and hygiene standards in some hospitals descended into medieval grime. Fast forward to the present and we are still licking open wounds inflicted on us by the coalition's severe cuts, now local councils will again be forced to bear the brunt if the changes are passed. Social care bills will surge as hospitals offload patients into care homes, also putting GPs in control of local health budgets is serious cause for concern, let a doctor be a doctor I say.
Shunned like a plague from all angles of reason, how long till Cameron again does his "moonwalk"? New NHS whitepaper in hand.
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