Dan Hannon MEP gives an alternative view point

Dan Hannon's views on the NHS and the economy - Finally a politician speaking out. It's OK David, don't apologise, he is intelligent and outspoken!!




Dan Hannon MEP gives Mr Brown some facts


The NHS (probably) serves the bottom 10% of this country as well as any country serves this section of the population. The top 10% are rich enough to choose what they do. The middle 80% have low expectations and are grateful for anything they do not have to pay for directly.

This 80% are better served elsewhere, in Germany, Poland, Italy. In conversation with a Somali refugee worker, concerning health tourism. "Refugees do not come to Britain for their health care any more, they go to Germany and to Italy. They know the treatment is better there." When homeless refugees turn their noses up at the NHS we know we are in trouble.

In the US - UK Healthcare debate, big business is on opposing sides. In the US it is on the side of overpriced private health care. In the UK big business is best served by the NHS which they supply and control. In summary, Big Business is against change because when there is change, business suffers. Their business.

In the meantime, the NHS has gone from being Cheap and Inefficient to Expensive and Inefficient

with nothing in between

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Good Ideas go to Waste in a Money Driven World,

Almost every year a patient dies because a doctor injects the wrong drug into the spine. Yet almost from the first time I gave a spinal injection, I have wondered why are they making this so hard!

Make Spinal Needles a different size to venous needles Then it would be physically impossible to inject the wrong drug into the spine.

Over the years, I have approached a number of bodies, including people connected with the King's Fund about developing a spinal needle with a different sized barrel to that used for venous drugs. Always the answer is the same "Not commercially viable". Because by the time you have developed, tested, persuaded doctors to use them and Trusts to buy them, Safe Spinal Needles would be an expensive White Elephant. There is no central body, neither in the King's Fund nor elsewhere that is interested in such ideas, and expecting such a thing from the DoH might be like expecting pigs (or swine) to fly.


I am sure that staff in the NHS have hundreds of such ideas. It has taken twenty years to stop potassium chloride being stored next sodium chloride on the worktop in the drugs room. In the meantime, how many people have died?

Safety needs safe design as well as safe procedures. There are plenty of incentives for such work, feeling good, a sense of achievement, knowing that you have made a difference, knowing that never again will such a mistake be made. The drawback, is that when people work for the sake of it, you cannot own, patent or monetise their ideas and the satisfaction that we all gain from the sense of a "A Job Well Done"

Thus it is "In a Money Driven World Good Ideas go to waste".


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