France is fantastic by Time Magazine | 43 comments (43 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: how about that ? (4.00 / 3)

Just today in the London press: despite the fact that the NHS is shortstaffed, graduating UK nurses cannot find work in the NHS because new recruitment has been frozen as a result of budget cuts.

Mismanagement all around.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 01:39:23 PM EST
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Re: how about that ? (4.00 / 2)

I saw that. Shook head, moved on. Couldn't quite process it.

by Colman (colman at eurotrib.com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 01:41:15 PM EST
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Re: French NHS (none / 0)

There was a much heralded quote of a GP's top salary last week in the British press. Have you seen it ?Interesting.
The British NHS would really be worth a diary. Indeed, France claims that more budgetary discipline, like in the UK, and the DRG system, like in the US, is key to the survival of the French Healthcare system.
I spent 5 months last year meeting public and private hospital directors, members of governmental think tanks and economists, who all were strong believers that the French NHS was doomed the way it was operating before the 2005 reform inception, and praising the efficiency of the new system that is currently being implemented. I was and remain quite puzzled...

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 04:41:30 PM EST
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Yes, I did see it: £250,000 a year.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 04:50:52 PM EST
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there is something rotten in Denmark. This is higher than a trader's base salary <snark> Fortunately, trades can win themselves bonuses out of currency flops, while GPs need to keep their patients alive. I know, dubious humour. I'm not very good at being sarcastic.

When through hell, just keep going. W. Churchill

by Agnes a Paris on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 04:55:26 PM EST
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Budgetary discipline is just another word for cutting down on essential costs. It means: Fire your local cleaning staff which ise working on regular contracts (and sending their kids to grammar school and university) and bring in a crew of minimum wage laborers from Latvia who do five times the amount of sq meters in half of the time without pauses, on minimum wages and with just one kind of disinfectant/detergent to do the job. That's the UK model.

Here is my proposal to combat this shit:

Set up regional liaison centres that keep track of the available spare capacities in French and German hospitals and offer medical services to the county co-ordination agencies of the decrepit NHS system in the UK. Form a handfull of FrancoAllemand Technical Assistance and Information Exchange Companies which implement the programme. Create consortia between them and regional hospitals, travel agencies in France and Germany. Conquer the UK health care market with better services in areas which cannot be covered because of their incapacity to deliver goods and services. Charge the UK NHS with the costs as stipulated by our insurance companies and clinics. Give UK citizens a chance to enjoy the benefits of our health care system. Abolish thus the shocking waiting lists system in the UK and internationalize the services of our clinics and hospitals in France and Germany.

Show that we care for our fellow European neighbours AND earn money.

Everybody is welcome!

German hospital Königstein:

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 06:34:03 PM EST
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Here are some video clips of a German Knappschafts Klinik, or to say it in English: a NHS hospital for workers organized in corporation based (but not only) insurances like coal miners, steel workers, dockers, auto workers etc.. It is specialized in cancer and pain treatment.

http://www.roemerberg-klinik.de/coremedia/generator/kbsportal/de/medizinisches__netz/2__reha-klinike n/badenweiler/ueber_uns/videoclip/videobadenweiler1,N=12136-9900-9678-20606-20270-20346,propert y=HighResolution.wmv

http://www.roemerberg-klinik.de/coremedia/generator/kbsportal/de/medizinisches__netz/2__reha-klinike n/badenweiler/ueberuns/videoclip/videobadenweiler_7,N=12136-9900-9678-20606-20270-20346,propert y=HighResolution.wmv

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Wed Apr 26th, 2006 at 07:38:18 PM EST
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France is fantastic by Time Magazine | 43 comments (43 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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