Lemos no The Lancet, no seu Volume 368, de 8 de Julho de 2006, um artigo cujo título é "Mismanagement as a prelude to privatisation of the UK NHS" e o autor, William Jeffcoate.
Achámos curioso, pois retiramos algumas semelhanças entre o NHS e o SNS de Portugal, tais como:
- "On June 30 The Guardian newspaper reported that the Commercial Directorate of the UK Department of Health had placed an advertisement in the Official Journal of the European Union inviting expressions of interest in managing the purchase of clinical services from healthcare providers in the UK".
- "The advertisement was subsequently withdrawn to correct “a drafting error”, but this apparent gaff e should make it blindingly obvious to all who were not previously aware that the National Health Service (NHS) is being rapidly, cynically, and deceitfully privatised."
- "The repeated assertions to the contrary by the latest ministers of the UK Government, Patricia Hewitt and Lord Warner, are no more than that—assertions that convince few who have anything to do with either the delivery, or receipt, of health care."
- "The whole structure of the once great NHS is now a worm-infested sham—a crumbling edifice which consumes increasingly vast sums from the national purse while delivering a service which is progressively shoddy."
- "Today’s NHS is a shadow of what it was, with the attention of general practice distracted away from the provision of clinical care by constant reorganisation, while those in failing hospitals are demoralised to the point of despair—abused, threatened, and hampered by armies of non-clinical staff whose increasingly obvious role is not to facilitate the care of the sick and needy, but to implement the directives of central government."
- "The purpose behind those directives is privatisation."
Não achamos bem, nem mal. Achamos cínico.
