Improving Services

Recent improvements in the NHS are such that the number of people waiting more than four hours for accident and emergency treatment has been rising steadily for eight years. Most people are also not told how long they will have to wait before being seen, in accordance with the attitude of both wings of the British Neoliberal Party towards freedom of information. However, three-quarters of health industry customers using the NHS still feel that staff are listening to them, so Daveybloke and his cuddly chums still have a bit more work to do providing the anecdotal evidence of institutional callousness which constitutes the necessary emotional muzak for their faith-based slashing and selling. Still, the Department for Workfare and Privation will undoubtedly take comfort from the fact that people are surviving longer and longer without medical attention, and thereby proving themselves fitter and fitter for the work of which the Chancellor is depriving them.