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Prescription for disaster: The NHS on life support at 75
just needs more money it’d just continue getting lost in the black hole.
THE NHS and its model of taxpayerfunded provision is crumbling before our very eyes. Investing extra billions of pounds won’t trans form the system because of its intrinsic inefficiencies and epic wastefulness. Politicians must stop treating it as a sacred cow and undertake a radical shakeup of the way it’s structured and financed.
The problem is that the British public has been hoodwinked by politicians for decades into believing that
(a) ‘the NHS is the envy of the world’ it isn’t;
(b) it’s ‘free’ it isn’t; (c) its problems can be cured by reorganisations they only create more chaos; (d) it the EU.
The UK fails to learn from overseas health systems with far superior patient outcomes, all achievable without changing the basic tenets of the NHS. But politicians won’t entertain a notaboos review for a new era because only WE know best!
The NHS is like a giant tanker: you tell the captain something’s wrong with the ship and by the time the entire crew get behind it and change course it’s too late...
“Time and tide wait for none” as Chaucer more or less said.
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Monday July 3, the UK and Spain completed the signing of a UKSpain bilateral agreement on cooperation in matters of education and access to university and other higher education institutions. This follows the close collaboration between Spain’s Ministry of Education and Vocational Training and Ministry of Universities in Spain and the UK Department for Education and Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
The agreement was signed by the British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott, on behalf of the UK, and the Spanish Minister of Education and Vocational Training, Pilar Alegría, and the Spanish Minister of Universities, Joan Subirats, on behalf of Spain, and will enter into force on August 2, 2023.
This agreement enables students with UK qualifications (including Alevels and equivalents) to access universities in Spain without the need for the Spanish general university entrance exam. Additional entry requirements will only be necessary for certain competitive courses, as was the case prior to the UK’s withdrawal from
