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I'm talking about the actual manufacturing of Tc99, not the medical procedure.
We were repeatedly assured, in no uncertain terms that Cameron would be forced into a debate with Salmond and that any other option was completely unthinkable
Just as we were assured that rUK would HAVE to share the pound, membership of the EU would be AUTOMATIC and rUK was GUARANTEED to build warships in Sindy......
You would assume Tc99 is brought in from a government controlled facility, then modified on site. I can't see every hospital having the equipment to create it from scratch.
Still following your logic, you could privatise the entire radio-ology departments?
I am pleasantly surprised by how well the NHS changes are working locally. I have not seen such co-operation between organisations for years.
This is not just my impression, the evidence is published here: http://www.bettercareleicester.nhs.uk/information-library/better-care-together-plan-2014/
There is something slightly Stalinist about the sound of a five year plan, but for Primary and Secondary health care to be working so well in an integrated manner with the councils does rather sound like the sort of policy that our Labour supporting PBers have been arguing for!
My suggestion is that the whole process of the core hospitals managing nuclear material, managing order flow, handling complex logistics for just-in-time delivery of a wasting material and then recharging is a waste of precious NHS resources.
The NHS should focus their time, effort and resources on patient care. (Fundamentally, I'm arguing that the margin an external provider would make would be more than offset by the additional capacity released by outsourcing and reduction in organisational complexity).
Radiology outsourcing is a different question - and I take @foxinsox's point below - but is more about optimising capacity utilisation (even if it's only the simple cases).
My view is simple: we live in a world of limited resources available for healthcare. The challenge is therefore how to maximise the health outcomes (from the patient perspective) that we can achieve from those resources.
"The challenge is therefore how to maximise the health outcomes (from the patient perspective) that we can achieve from those resources."
Yes, the best way of doing it is what we were debating.
Private enterprise works well for many things, but unlike many on here, I can see where it fails at others.
The so called unnecessary reforms of Lansley seem to have been accompanied by a remarkable increase in productivity (per the Kings fund) and an increase in front line medical staff numbers on what in real terms is no real money. This productivity increase has resulted in record numbers of patients being treated and a general perception that the NHS is doing a good job.
In a rational world those claiming that this is all some sort of spurious correlation would face a heavy burden of proof but since the allegations are being made by Labour and those pointing out what has been achieved are largely tories the public seem to have the opposite view.
I think this is just one of the odd political realities of our time. The tories need to make the best of it by providing the relevant information on every occasion and praying that we do not have a really bad winter.
BTW my good wife was asking why we had not had 5 goals yet until she spotted that the game included "those orange people who never score no matter how many shots they have".
The "milking" metaphor suggests it isn't that complicated, and as someone medical is going to have to handle the stuff when actually put to use I don't see the problem with their doing the milking.
I'd also point out that hospitals are full to the brim of seriously horrible stuff like the cancer chemo drugs, whereas the point of technetium is it's so relatively benign you can inject it into people. So handling it is surely not a big issue.
Be positive.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28166019
So who has the better prostate cancer healthcare? The one with the higher 5 year survival or the one that leaves people undiagnosed and not investigated with all associated anxiety and morbidity?
But then I have spent nearly 20 years in the healthcare industry, which has influenced my views somewhat.
As they have to handle the X ray machines, as you suggest, there will be quite a few qualified to handle the technetium, in the department already
Heh!
NHS or "private" Charles? (your time in health care)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/sheer-insanity-no-revenue-company-rises-over-1-billion-today-57k-shares-traded
"CYNK Technology Corp, the social media development company that had a market capitalization in excess of $1 billion, which according to official filings, had one employee, no website, no revenue, no product, and no assets. Fast forward 2 days - and some 57,000 shares traded (about 0.02% of its total shares outstanding) at around $10 and CYNK now has a market cap approaching $3 billion (and still no revenue, no product, and no assets)"
Free money.
The problem is more that with flat funding, a fair few Trusts are at risk of going under. Of course, the bungs will keep coming until after the election, but then someone is going to have to make serious choices.
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YouGov/Sun poll tonight - Labour lead drops three, now four points ahead: CON 32%, LAB 36%, LD 10%, UKIP 12%
The suggestion from Better Together that Salmond will finally have to answer some questions seem extremely optimistic.
[made up example]
"If you vote Labour you are 4 times as like to die of breast cancer!" [without explaining that this is a shift from 0.1% to 0.4%]
But back on point - I'm not sure that prostrate cancer is the best example, because there is an odd combination of relatively high incidence rates and low mortality rates. Screening should really be focused on diseases that matter.
(And occasionally financing the development of disruptive technology)
http://seekingalpha.com/article/2274553-cynk-technology-promoters-push-market-cap-to-655-million-despite-39-in-assets-and-no-revenue-100-percent-downside
"Paid promoters have helped push CYNK market cap to $655 million after a 3,650% increase in the share price on Tuesday.
CYNK had assets of just $39 (no zeros omitted) as of March 31, 2014 and a cumulative net loss of $1.5 million. The "company" has no revenue."
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/cynk/financials?query=balance-sheet&data=quarterly
So it is proven that you can be a billionaire over night, you just need to found a company even with no money and IPO it in New York and that's it.
Interestingly it also suggests we should celebrate Brutus's tyrranicide on 13 March, not 15th which is the Ides.
On balance I am with the Labour party on health as an issue. The British public have it right!
And if he is drip feeding the boiler rooms there will be a law that he is breaking.
Or find a bug in one of the high speed trading systems?
I will not make the same mistake for who wins the world cup.
CON 255
LAB 346
LIB 21
UKIP 0
Ed Miliband publicly thanks Farage, declares Take On Me to be the new national anthem
4.0
5.0
4.0
4.2
4.2
2.4 = Last week
4.7 = This week (3 polls only)
So in contrast to Populus and Ashcroft, YouGov not really showing anything out of the ordinary.
However last weeks' narrowing certainly now looks like random variation - or if it was a genuine Con boost it has now gone.
How many days are left to the general election?
It looks like a no goal thriller, but always going to be difficult to follow last nights match.
The match is so dull I am losing interest in who wins.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0140136290?pc_redir=1404740500&robot_redir=1
Do you remember those heady days of the three day crossover. The PB HODGEGASM was epic, but also fleeting. It's like a distant memory now. I can proudly say, I was there when PB Hodges were declaring a Tory majority was nailed on.
And he doesn't need to sell all his shares to cash in, he can use it as collateral.
There might be hope? the political "silly season" is almost upon us.
Give him a couple of hazel nuts, and a scratch behind the ears.
Fully endorsed by Lord Archer.
@tnewtondunn: More: Cameron and Clegg taking this v seriously - a joint press conference tmrw am, and the Cabinet meeting too; http://t.co/iLOpLFeoa7
Golly.
I do hope it doesn't stretch to suspension of elections. :-)
(just until the threat is over of course)
That is all.
“Monday 14th July — consideration of a Bill, followed by a motion to approve the first report from the Committee on Standards on the respect policy”
If you look on Parliament’s web site tonight, you will not see the name, nor the text of the Bill to be considered.
None of your elected backbench MPs have been told what Bill is to be debated on Monday. It’s Wednesday evening. Tomorrow, MPs are on a ‘one line whip’ ie they can return to their constituencies this evening.
Imagine how outrageous it would be, if tomorrow, the government were to announce emergency legislation to an empty chamber. Imagine if that emergency legislation was to be introduced on Monday or Tuesday, with the intention of it slipping through the Commons and the Lords in a single day. Imagine if that Bill was the deeply controversial Data Retention Bill.
It’s a Bill that will override the views of judges who have seen how the mass collection of your data breaches the human rights of you and your family.
Regardless of where you stand on the decision of the European Court of Justice, can you honestly say that you want a key decision about how your personal data is stored to be made by a stitch up behind closed doors and clouded in secrecy?
None of your MPs have even read this legislation, let alone been able to scrutinise it.
The very fact that the Government is even considering this form of action, strongly suggests that they have an expectation that the few people on the Liberal Democrat and Labour front benchers who have seen this legislation, are willing to be complicit.
No matter what you think about this issue, if you care about democracy, make sure your MP does not walk through the chamber and vote for legislation nobody has had the chance to debate and question.
Tom Watson
Of course it is not just your trust that is the the hole, is it? All those forty millions add up to some serious money. So what do you think? A shake of the magic money tree and all the problems will go away? Mind you when it comes to your trust being overspent that really has nothing to do with HMG and everything to do with the people in charge in your trust. Maybe sacking the buggers (who are all no doubt pulling down big, big bucks) and putting in a decent management team might be a neat move.
Investors and banks don't look very deep in the details of the quality of their investments these days anyway thanks to all this central bank liquidity.
Ed is crap is PM 9 Months 28 days to go
Takes a blank piece of paper and turns it into a conspiracy.
Odious man.
The problem of our overspend is complex, and substantially due to underinvestment over the years.
Sack a few managers? Well, every complex problem has a simple concise solution which can be implemented easily- and is completely wrong!
"Investors and banks don't look very deep in the details of the quality of their investments these days anyway thanks to all this central bank liquidity. "
Someone else was warning about that, someone quite high up in economic circles as well, now who was it?
Can you imagine what would happen to all the ad men, the Spads, the pollsters, the political editors ect ect, if there were no elections?
Elections are a business.
You have to find it a little ironic that the coalition reduced restrictions on terrorist suspects, but is increasing them for the public?
Perhaps Cameron sees the public as the real danger?
Will he back them in a speech, then vote against?
You also from your earlier posts seem to believe a Conservative government will spend money more wisely than a Labour one and that the reforms are actually producing a good result. However you prefer a Labour government who will piss the NHS money up the wall and undo the reforms that you think are working. I must be missing something.
But politics is above it, if everything seems to be ok, then voters will think its ok and if it can hold till the next election then who cares if it busts afterwards.
Nahh, the chemicals there would be difficult and costly to re-use, almost as difficult and expensive as taking over the major part of two countries?
This time its the neocons thanks to ISIS.
The leader of the opposition has to play his role in opposing, and play it well.
You did not read my post very thoroughly. I specified that the coalition was spending wisely, and that I was unconvinced by Conservative plans for health (and even less so for UKIP - Paul Nuttal has expressed support in the past to privatise it).
I think the health reforms are working well because the LibDems tempered the more silly parts of the Lansley reforms. Norman Lamb is an excellent minister; a year ago I saw him speak on the same platform as Andy Burnham. Burnham pledged to not make major changes, but to increase democratic accountability, which seems very reasonable to me.
Good night all.
Depends on how the public take to the idea? Farage might get a chance to stick his oar in, to his advantage.
State sponsored sabotage and murder?
You might be happy about it, it worries me.
They were environmentalists, not terrorists.
No more about College sticking his oar in.
Please.