The National Health Service (NHS) is one the most debated aspect of the British society in the 21st century. Accommodating all walks of life; from rich to poor, black to white – getting the balance for the costs of its service has been baffling the minds of politicians since 1948 when it was formed.
But in recent times, the spending has gone out of control, with diluted jobs infecting the institution. As the spending increases, in the financial good times, bringing it back down to a economical level is a challenge.
But Andrew Lansley (Secretary of State for Health) has been set out to tackle the black hole in the British Government’s spending, with a wide-spread reform. Jobs cuts (24,500 jobs – almost 21,000 of them through redundancy) and reforms of power is his plan of action.
Predicting to save £5billion by 2014/15 and £1.7billion every year after, this option seems to be the correct way to reform the NHS. Of course it comes with job cuts but it is so much more than simple balancing the books. It allows the NHS to compete, delivering a cheaper price to the general public and a better quality of service. Competition in any situation is only going to benefit the consumer.
So these job cuts could offer job prosperity to those made redundant from the NHS reforms. Allowing people to have stable and economical jobs for the long term – not a job which is not needed, which adds to the piling high British public service spending wastage.
Mr Lansley needs too ‘stick to his guns’ with this reform. If he doesn’t it will not 100% fulfil the reform, making it less effective and not delivering its full potential to be a economy saver. It’s going to be either an election winner or a dramatic poor-decision by the Conservative Party. But it shows that they aren’t phased about the fact that they might not be able to stay in power after the next election, but rather that they want the economy to be relieved from the ‘NHS’ shackle’s killing the British government’s spending reform.
