This is Peter Prinley, Labour's candidate to be MP in Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket in Suffolk:
This is also Peter Prinley:
I wonder where he stands on NHS privatisation?
What I am sure of is that he and Wes Streeting get on really well.
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Some points worth making,
Firstly that Private Practice – to date is mostly confined to a limited range of specialities and mostly in the South West, so if you are a Consultant Geriatrician in Middlesborough forget it.
Secondly in most jobs there are restrictions on taking other work, in particular in the same field. I suggest that its time to bring Doctors in line with the rest of us.
Finally of course Doctors in Private Practice usually make their name in the NHS and get referrals that way so if they dont work in it they dont get any work.
Yep….. Life expectancy in Middlesbrough (2020-22) was 75.4 years for men and 79.5 for women and the lowest in the North East (whilst the highest LE was 77.9 in North Tyneside for men and 82.1 for women), so the Smoggies are not blessed.
To the best of my knowledge there are no UK private medical schools providing 5-7 year duration approved training. I do not know how foreign trained doctors are validated.
How that professional training investment by the state is valued and then moderated in presuming NHS contracts as the work priority, is another question.
I do know some consultants only do lists in private facilities outside their normal working week, just taking on longer working hours, and retain their NHS commitment.
Orthopaedics is a shortage speciality within the NHS in my area of Greater Glasgowbut you can still get your hip replacement within 2 weeks if you go private., and have about £10-12k to spare.
Ironically, our National Treatment Centre for orthopaedics is housed in an ex private hospital, originally built by the Saudis, and is super effcient.
Then there are the cheap flights to Lithuania for hippy holidays…
Life Expectancy in Middlesbrough isn’t measured correctly. Neither is it measured correctly anywhere else. The reason is that the way it’s measured doesn’t account for migration effects. It’s measured on place of residence at death.
It’s easily possible that being born raised and educated in Middlesbrough gives you the same life chances for a long life as being born raised and educated anywhere else. We just don’t know because the data isn’t available.
We do know that being disabled and poorly makes your income drop, so you are more likely to move to an area with low living costs, and less likely to move somewhere where those costs are high.
Jeremy Corbyn’s old constituency, Islington North, has a new Labour candidate: Praful Nargund who states that “he grew up “in an NHS family”. https://www.prafulnargund.co.uk/
His website also mentions that he “built a company with a mission to help more people start a family”, but he forgets to mention that in a presentation he gave that “Privatisation of healthcare is very, very important and it’s about what the private sector can do to prove its worth to the public sector”, or as he says “The baby business” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpFoLivpFGo
The only reason this is not a conflict of interest, is that this is Labour’s policy.
I am also sure that he and Wes Streeting get on really well.
I hope Corbyn highlights this, endlessly
I think that it is fairly obvious that Jeremy Corbyn can win his seat as an Independent, especially if he is up against a comedy novice who ‘helped run’ a fertility clinic. https://leftfootforward.org/2024/05/who-is-praful-nargund-the-labour-candidate-chosen-to-replace-jeremy-corbyn/
One should be horrified if Corbyn has created so many enemies in Islington that he is unable to win against such a non-entity.
I live in Islington North and agree that Corbyn is likely to win, because he is popular for being an excellent constituency MP. I saw this when a neighbour had problems with her roof and he fought her corner with the landlord until it was properly repaired. There is also some sympathy because he has been treated pretty shabbily by the Labour Party and, as you say, the official candidate is a joke. Personally I can’t vote for him for two reasons. Firstly I haven’t forgiven him for his behaviour during the run-up to the Brexit referendum. Of course, he was an old-fashioned Bennite, opposed right from the start to the “Common Market”, but too much of a coward to come out and say so because the majority of his close colleagues were very definitely Remainers. So he kind of stood on the sidelines, shuffling his feet. Now I’m shocked by his fatuous attitude to Russia and Ukraine. He exemplifies the conviction of some left-wingers that NATO and the US hegemony is responsible for everything wrong in this world, downplaying the absolute evil of the Putin regime, and believes that peace negotiations can be carried out with the man who has no compunction about making agreements only to break them (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum) So, if anybody is interested, I shall almost certainly vote Green.
Yes, it seems similar to the context with the Labour candidate up against Corbyn in Islington North.
As I live in Bury St Edmunds he is therefore my Labour candidate, and so this is a tactical vote for me. Do I like Labour’s path rightwards? Certainly not. But do I dislike the Tories more? Absolutely.
In the future a Green vote will be considred (especially as the area is fertile Green Party ground).
However unseating a Tory in Bury St Edmunds for the first time since the 1880s (during the time of Gladstone!) is too good to pass up, so my vote for Labour will be tactical (as Labour was second last time, and BSE is projected a Labour gain by Electoral Calculus).
(Funnily enough, as yet, the only election leaflets through our door have been from the Lib Dems.)
David Byrne says:
Maybe the Consultants NHS Contract should require them to work full-time (37.5h/week). But what do I know?
Next, end the VAT exemption on private medical insurance and care. Since the principle has now been proven with private education.
I’ll believe when I see it out of this labour government to be.
There are real difficulties here with dentistry, eye care, chiropody and other services.