Labour targeting UK poor for worse healthcare and more non-doctor ‘doctors’

Percentage of so-called ‘associates’ highest for poorer people – and non-doctors now performing even brain surgery

The Labour government is depriving the UK of fully-qualified doctors – and is particularly targeting the poor, who already suffer disproportionately poorer health, for the biggest degradation of NHS care.

As Skwawkbox has previously revealed, the government of Keir Starmer and his ‘Health Secretary’ Wes Streeting – both of whom have accepted large donations from private medical interests – have committed to going even further than the anti-NHS Tories in degrading healthcare through even greater privatisation and the escalation of rationing and closures through the so-called ‘integrated care’ NHS scam that rewards ‘providers’ for not providing care by giving them a share of any budgeted money they don’t spend. Only then-Leicester East MP Claudia Webbe acted to resist it.

Streeting’s NHS slash-and-burn ’10-year plan’: close hospitals, privatise, coerce, ration, deny

And as part of this plan, the red Tories have fully committed to the blue team’s scam of replacing fully-trained doctors with cheaper ‘associates’ who receive only a fraction of the training – a facet of the move to make care cheaper so the profits of privateers can be enhanced.

Several patients have already died as a result of misdiagnosis by these ‘non-doctors’, often without ever realising they hadn’t seen a real doctor – and Labour’s own experts have told it that extending the use of ‘associates’ automatically means ‘serious’ danger to patients, but Starmer, Streeting and their lackeys are doing it anyway, with the collusion of the General Medical Council (GMC) and some of the ‘Royal Colleges’ supposed to represent specialist doctors.

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And now, analysis of NHS statistics has shown that people in poorer areas – who already have fewer doctors per thousand residents anyway – are the ones bearing the much greater brunt of the replacement of what ‘doctors’ they do have by non-doctor ‘associates’. James Steen, head of the British Medical Association (BMA) in London, has published charts showing the statistics for access to ‘clinical’ staff by wealth and the percentage of ‘associates’ – and finds that the poor have less access and among those they can access, the percentage of associates without medical training is far higher:

And the poor have far lower numbers of GPs (blue line below) per thousand patients:

Steen commented:

Whilst the deployment of under trained associate roles replacing highly trained and qualified professionals is a concern to me wherever it occurs; The fact it’s disproportionately being done to working class communities enrages me. Working class people deserve real doctors too.

And at the same time as the poor are having untrained non-doctors foisted on them to cut costs and increase private profits, the scope of medical treatment those non-doctors are doing is growing wider and wider, despite false assurances from the Starmeroids and the NHS bosses carrying out their plan – with heart and even brain surgery now being performed by non-medical ‘surgeons’, as horrified doctors Neena Jha and Partha S Kar have flagged:

A supposedly Labour government is escalating the Tories’ war on the NHS and on the tens of millions of us who rely on it, for the benefit and profit of privateers with horrific records of fraud and endangerment of patients, in the name of so-called ‘reform’ that they know puts huge numbers of lives at ‘serious’ risk and means misery for millions.

And the so-called ‘mainstream’ media and even some supposed ‘pro-NHS groups’ are either staying silent or actively colluding. Spread the word, because if we don’t do it, who else will?

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