will doctors be happy or sad the conservatives are in power?

http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/we-spoke-to-some-nhs-workers-about-how-theyre-feeling-this-morning-672

The med students above who voted Tory - do you bunk placement then? Winter beds crisis? Gutted social care leading to elderly patients "bed blocking" for way longer than they should do? Department closures and threatened closures? Not ringing any bells?

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http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/we-spoke-to-some-nhs-workers-about-how-theyre-feeling-this-morning-672

The med students above who voted Tory - do you bunk placement then? Winter beds crisis? Gutted social care leading to elderly patients "bed blocking" for way longer than they should do? Department closures and threatened closures? Not ringing any bells?

The state of the NHS and how able to it is to cope with pressure is directly linked to how well people are looked after in the community. Since the previous government and the one to come are committed to cutting services in the community to the bone, how exactly do you think that will impact on the NHS' ability to cope with these patients once they turn up in droves in A&E?

PS: you're even more naive than I thought if you think that £8bn is an actual committment to front line services.

You are desperately naive if you don't think wily politicians and our disgusting media cartel have ways and means of making things happen. 20 years ago if you told people that a university education would cost them £27000 minimum they'd think you were high. Lo and behold, it came to pass. Never underestimate the stupidity of the general public and the cynicism of politicians in manipulating them.

Withold money from the service, let it suffer, circulate lots of bad press about "scandals", watch the public become more disillusioned, then allow the private sector to step in. Always works.

I am soon to start my health care degree where I will end up 'working' for the nhs. I don't know whether the turn back and do something else or not

Med student here-- I voted Tory.

Ambivalent. I'm leaving this country upon completing the course and want to practice medicine elsewhere.

Labour are, going off their history, the worst party for the NHS. Lets not forget who privatised the most shall we. Doctors have brains, and they vote tory

I am surprised you said that. After all, the NHS was implemented by a Labour government. I don't know if you remember the early 90's but it was famous for waiting lists. If you needed an operation and got it done on the NHS, you would be lucky if you had it done within 18 months. To Tony Blair's credit, shortly after he came in, this time was reduced to around 18 weeks and then even less. Since the Tories came into power, the waiting list time has been slowly increasing again.

I am not saying Labour are perfect, but I am yet to see any policy from the Tories that is making things better. They seem to like wholesale reorganisation for the sake of it without actually making anything better. The irony of privatisation is that it will create short term budget savings, but the contract will cost the government more in the long term. Just look at the railways. It is a short sighted policy.

Called it.

Yeah wasnt the NHS created by Clement Attlee?

The NHS report was commissioned by the Tories and wrote by a Liberal. Attlee was just lucky enough to be the one to take the credit and implement it but all governments in the war coalition had agreed to it.

so the tories created the nhs? hmmm lol and not attlee. Why did David Cameron say in the commons that Clement Attlee gave us the NHS?

During the WW2 coalition government they'd clearly come to some kind of agreement that whoever won would create it. Hence the Conservatives commissioned the report with was wrote by Bevan and implemented by Attlee.

Happens all the time. Labour are on board with universal credits for example (or were pre-Corbyn).

what political party do you support btw?

Labour are, going off their history, the worst party for the NHS. Lets not forget who privatised the most shall we. Doctors have brains, and they vote tory