A review into the NHS and emergency treatment has suggested a two-tier healthcare system; NHS or BUPA.
“This new system will be easy to understand” Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS director who led the review explained.
“Those who wish to be seen, diagnosed and treated in less than four hours, all in the comfort of a clean, well-funded hospital and complimentary dressing gown can go to a BUPA hospital.”
“Those who wish to be seen, diagnosed and treated in less than four hours, all in the comfort of a clean, well-funded hospital and complimentary dressing gown, but can’t afford that kind of luxury can go to an NHS hospital.”
Sir Bruce has said that A&E is ‘bursting at the seams’ with poor people getting ill, and with energy prices rising so dramatically, cases of pneumonia look set be at an all time high, clogging up the system.
“Our proposed two-tier system will ensure some patients will finally get the treatment they expect from the NHS, at a cost from BUPA.”
“Everyone else can continue to take their chances in an NHS establishment. We will do our best to treat people before they die but in our reformed NHS, the choice is in the patients pockets, erm, I mean hands.”
“Go home with a big bill, or MRSA, you decide.”
