Re: My trip to the NHS.
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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Cost HAS to be the determining factor in all matters. Meting all requirements of any customer base is impossible and there will always be a cost/ benefit curve. The cost/benefit curve in this case is a Pareto distribution which can be best explained as the closer to 100% a delivery gets so the cost of each step increases by a non linear function
In other words if by spending €n you achieve 80% of total satisfaction (s) for every €n spent the closer to 100% satisfaction will only be y% where y is maybe s/20.
Or even more simply the cost of treating everyones needs is substantially more than the cost of not doing so. Think of it as meeting an acceptable quality level.
Todger, you gave three methods of determining value per buck
non of which was coherant to me?
What they appear to say is, it does not matter about the
experience of the customer as long as as the service being
supplied is carried out at maximum profit and lowest cost
,What you seem to miss is the fact that the NHS is not a
profit making entity, and it is supposed to be funded by a
special levy, called national insurance which is supposed to
be dedicated to health care! So in theory the chancellor or
anybody else should have no say over that fund whatever
It was in fact a prepaid insurance( as its name implies) or
you could say a health insurance!
That this is no longer the case is due only to governments
having gradually interfering with the management of these
funds, and not to the NHS system itself!
By delegating sections of NHS to private profit orientated
companies only degrades the the whole purpose of NHS as
it was originally envisioned and will result in the whole thing
becoming a gigantic money making enterprise with no room in
it for the unfortunates of society!
Regards Donkeyman!