{"id":1181,"date":"2021-09-08T20:02:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T20:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T14:41:01","slug":"can-more-money-save-the-nhs-i-dont-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/can-more-money-save-the-nhs-i-dont-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Can More Money Save the NHS? I Don\u2019t Think So"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4250\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4250\" src=\"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-1030x687.jpeg 1030w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-1500x1000.jpeg 1500w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven-705x470.jpeg 705w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Image_Seven.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More money will not reform healthcare<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The UK Parliament vote to raise National Insurance contribution to pay for social care is the right answer to the wrong question.<\/p>\n<p>Any reasonable person will accept the argument that the pandemic did contribute to the massive NHS backlog.<\/p>\n<p>But the reality is, all the pandemic did was exacerbate the problem.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, throwing money into the problem without solving the core problem is band aid.<\/p>\n<p>What is the core reason for NHS backlog?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is senior consultants refusal to work unsociable hours.<\/p>\n<p>Until the government look senior consultants in the eyes and tell them only bankers work Monday to Friday 9 to 5, no amount of money will reduce NHS backlog.<\/p>\n<p>Because that is the core issue responsible for the backlog.<\/p>\n<p>And here is the kicker.<\/p>\n<p>Those same consultants who refuse to work night shift and weekends in the NHS work those same hours in private practices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK Parliament vote to raise National Insurance contribution to pay for social care is the right answer to the wrong question.<\/p>\n<p>Any reasonable person will accept the argument that the pandemic did contribute to the massive NHS backlog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}