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Healthcare
Massively increase the number of doctors and instigate a pay review. Some salaries are very high.
No artificial limit on the number of doctors trained. Doctors currently restrict the number of medical students to keep doctors scarce. This has an impact on pay, wasted costs in bringing in doctors from abroad and use of expensive agency staff.
Allow nurses and other paramedics easy access and academic credit if they want to train further to become doctors. This would be in line with other professions e.g. accountancy, law, engineering, architecture etc.
Allow same day access to consultants via self-referral, end GP filtering which often prevents early diagnosis.
Develop and use expert online computer diagnosis. This will have the wealth of knowledge of millions of doctors and current research. It will be linked to and immediately referred to a real doctor if a problem is detected.
Self-referral blood testing at GP or via take home kits - results can be a vital aid to early detection.
Access to see a doctor or expert paramedic within 5 minutes at A and E for initial consultation and immediate treatment if appropriate.
Increase taxation, if necessary, to pay for comprehensive healthcare.
Review of drug companies and ways to reduce high costs of drugs. More state funding of drug and medical research, so as to move it away from large pharmaceuticals.
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Massively increase the number of doctors and instigate a pay review. Some salaries are very high.
No artificial limit on the number of doctors trained. Doctors currently restrict the number of medical students to keep doctors scarce. This has an impact on pay, wasted costs in bringing in doctors from abroad and use of expensive agency staff.
Allow nurses and other paramedics easy access and academic credit if they want to train further to become doctors. This would be in line with other professions e.g. accountancy, law, engineering, architecture etc.
Allow same day access to consultants via self-referral, end GP filtering which often prevents early diagnosis.
Develop and use expert online computer diagnosis. This will have the wealth of knowledge of millions of doctors and current research. It will be linked to and immediately referred to a real doctor if a problem is detected.
Self-referral blood testing at GP or via take home kits - results can be a vital aid to early detection.
Access to see a doctor or expert paramedic within 5 minutes at A and E for initial consultation and immediate treatment if appropriate.
Increase taxation, if necessary, to pay for comprehensive healthcare.
Review of drug companies and ways to reduce high costs of drugs. More state funding of drug and medical research, so as to move it away from large pharmaceuticals.
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