I had an operation on my back almost a year ago (very

Comment on Conservative Policies : Conservative Health and NHS Policy by David.

I had an operation on my back almost a year ago (very long term chronic pain) I went to the closest NHS surgeon for two degraded discs to be fused/pinned.

I researched the surgeon online and read some good stuff (he was well published), so I was happy with him, but if I wasn’t and I had a choice there wouldn’t have been a lot I could do with it anyway since I couldn’t travel long distances (was hard enough travelling 1 hour to the hospital to see my surgeon).

Giving patients a choice sounds great, but isn’t the NHS under enough pressure without adding another layer of costly bureaucracy in managing something like this?

Wouldn’t the money be better spent removing bad doctors etc… that no one wants to be treated by? You hear about them on the news from time to time when a hospital has a poor record in some area due to specific doctors.

Similar question with 45,000 more single beds, is that really a good use of tax payers money?

It’s the NHS not private health care, by luck I was in a private room after my operation for about a day and a half until some idiot was playing up on the ward and they switched me, have to admit preferred being on the ward: 6 days in a room on my own, would not have been fun! It also appeared to be more effort for the nurses dealing with patients in single rooms.

Wouldn’t the money be better spent on removing mixed sex wards which IMO is a much bigger issue than single rooms!

All that being said is the 45,000 single rooms still a Conservative policy, I see the page I got the above Conservative Health policy from has changed?

I looked through the Conservative Draft Health Manifesto, but there’s only a mention of aiming for single beds:

“Single rooms are needed to control infection and provide safety and privacy. We will end the scandal of mixed-sex accommodation and increase the number of single rooms in hospitals, as resources allow.”

You’d think when I made this site and added the Conservative policies in September 2009 they’d have pretty much had their general election policies nailed down by then. Looks like I have to update them all!

David