The problem in Swindon stems from the rapid expansion of the town but failure to build new surgeries. Just like the root of most of the other problems in the town.
I wouldn't mind so much if the doctor actually gave a fuck once you finally get to see them, but the one I often see is the most miserable bitch ever with zero personality and sent me packing with a handout she printed from the NHS website. You'd think they'd care a bit more considering the handsome salary they're paid.
Ah, the complete success of socialised medicine. Given that it has being going for 66 years in England (Bevan based the system upon the GWR Medical Fund which was a very different animal) you might have thought that it would have made a decent fist of it by now. But no, principally because socialists are absolutely brilliant at only one thing - spending other people's money - it has failed and will continue to do so.
You cannot blame the doctors for this. They get paid whether they do the job well or not. It's the public sector syndrome. A salary every month and it is not related to any performance or output.
At first the NHS worked brilliantly because it recruited all of its staff from the private sector who had that set of standards and motivation (private doctors used to donate their spare time to treating the sick poor people who had no cover). Then when the next generation of NHS staff came through they had lost that.
The same happened with NASA. Getting to moon was on the back of the cultures of McDonnell Douglas, Grumman, North American etc. that the embryonic NASA attracted their staff from. Give it a few more years and then we have the Space Shuttle disasters and now a NASA that is so top heavy it cannot afford to do anything interesting. Coming full circle we see the likes of the new private space launch companies (reusing retired US nuclear weapon rockets) and Virgin Galactic taking the lead.
I feel better now.
