If being disabled makes you feel like a second class citizen

[4madcats]

Then the Government want to discuss ways of turning this into a reality

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UK should discuss prioritising NHS treatment for workers
Created on Wednesday, 12 March 2014 08:42
Category: Latest news

Two of the government’s top health and work advisers believe the merits of prioritising NHS treatment for working people need to be seriously discussed.

The Department of Health (DoH) and Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) advisers acknowledged that one of the problems with returning people to work quickly was long NHS waiting lists causing delays in accessing treatment.

DoH expert adviser on health and work Professor Dame Carol Black suggested that a national debate needed to be held on the subject.

She agreed this would take the discussion around health and work into a "totally different space" but noted that working had many wide ranging benefits.

"I personally think we should perhaps be more honest and debate more fully if we would prioritise such patients if it was a question of getting them back to work," she said.

"We do prioritise certain conditions, absolutely we do, and of course we always said it was perfectly reasonable to prioritise cancer. But we have never had the really serious discussion of if this is about people's lives, their families, society and the economy, is there a case (you may say no) to say we should think in terms of prioritisation?”

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Disgusting! I thought we were past persecution as a country?

[sammy13]

Give them time, they will be mass culling pensioners soon.
IDS needs a reality check and he is just one of many.

[Steve (VapeStorm)]

Mar 15, 2014 17:43:46 GMT sammy13 said:

Give them time, they will be mass culling of pensioners soon.
IDS needs a reality check and he is just one of many.

Whats wrong with that?

[Blownupdolly]

There is a word that needs removing from the Oxford English Dictionary, due to lack of use in this country.

COMPASSION

They make me sick.

[chrisjw]

Mar 15, 2014 17:46:55 GMT Steve (VapeStorm) said:

Mar 15, 2014 17:43:46 GMT sammy13 said:

Give them time, they will be mass culling of pensioners soon.
IDS needs a reality check and he is just one of many.

Whats wrong with that?

Might I put forward a recommendation to start with the lot who seem to inhabit our local Waitrose?..............

[aliscampbell]

This must be against EU human rights but we will prob not be in EU by the time they bring this in.

Their logic is mind bogglng. People can be sacked so quickly due to ill health and now if they can't access treatment, how can they get back into work?

[Blownupdolly]

Mar 15, 2014 18:03:28 GMT aliscampbell said:

This must be against EU human rights but we will prob not be in EU by the time they bring this in.

Their logic is mind bogglng. People can be sacked so quickly due to ill health and now if they can't access treatment, how can they get back into work?

They also seem to forget that there's a fair percentage of sick and disabled people who DO go to work!! I did right up until it became untenable.
What excuse will they come up with to save pennies on treating these people? It will end up with the only people eligible for NHS treatment is those under 40 who in the main rarely use it. I wouldn't mind betting they will start picking on sick children next. God know what rationale they will come up with to deny them!!

[sammy13]

Mar 15, 2014 18:10:56 GMT Blownupdolly said:

Mar 15, 2014 18:03:28 GMT aliscampbell said:

This must be against EU human rights but we will prob not be in EU by the time they bring this in.

Their logic is mind bogglng. People can be sacked so quickly due to ill health and now if they can't access treatment, how can they get back into work?

They also seem to forget that there's a fair percentage of sick and disabled people who DO go to work!! I did right up until it became untenable.
What excuse will they come up with to save pennies on treating these people? It will end up with the only people eligible for NHS treatment is those under 40 who in the main rarely use it. I wouldn't mind betting they will start picking on sick children next. God know what rationale they will come up with to deny them!!

Once they have ruined the lives of every permanently unwell ( I use this term as there is no disabled register in this country) person between the ages of 20 and 60, they will then move onto pensioners and children.
The only reason they haven't hit pensioners already is to avoid the outcry and keep votes.