NHS Trust Managers advise GPs: ‘it is usually better to wait to see if symptoms resolve themselves’.

Blind man’s bluff….Burnham mouths platitudes about an NHS in rude health, while patients are ‘monitored’ without treatment.

For much of last year, The Slogger regaled readers with tales of the new Primary Care (GP) mantra for anyone approaching it with a chronic condition: “Let’s monitor it and see what happens”. The saga of The Slogger’s own tingling and then painful feet (five visits during which my socks were never removed) ensured that in the end he gave up. Which was obviously the idea.

Now the Guardian has published a quantitative expose of this rudely healthy NHS which we mess with at our peril. Quote:

‘The funding gap has already had an impact on patients, with GPs in Hertfordshire being told to get “approval” for a list of procedures including hysterectomies, removal of “skin lumps and bumps” and tooth extraction…Bosses are proposing to replace Chase Farm hospital’s A&E department with a consultant-led “urgent care centre” that will not take blue light ambulances and is open only 12 hours a day.’

We have run similar stories about other institutional failures – the police, the Council planning procedures, and the complete silence that emanates from the Trading Standards Authority. We hammer the Health and Social Care disaster that is Stafford on a daily basis.

Why is it up to the Guardian and The Slog to be showing how sham produces shambles every time in the nether-world of gestures that is Cool Nulab Britain? Are there any researchers left in Tory HQ and among the Cleggies?