Re: What can England’s NHS learn from Canterbury New Zealand?
The contribution of Buddicom ( Nov 2013) seems to have been ignored. Yet, to me, it is important. Buddicom states that a " charitable hospital" was needed to meet the needs. Previously, there was no such need.
England's NHS could plead with the well-endowed churches, both RC and CofE, the Aga Khan, the billionaire businessmen residing in London, to establish and operate charitable hospitals in the major conurbations. These hospitals could, if they so wished, operate a "passport system" to treat only patients of particular denominations.
This would alleviate some burden from the drooping shoulders of the NHS.
The donors could be rewarded with a peerage, perhaps? Why not? Politicians and party donors get peerages.
On the face of it, the suggestion might seem a joke. However, in Bombay, now Mumbai, the Tatas endowed wonderful hospitals. The Aga Khan has been munificent in Karachi and Kenya.
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Old man, needing NHS treatment
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Re: What can England’s NHS learn from Canterbury New Zealand?
The contribution of Buddicom ( Nov 2013) seems to have been ignored. Yet, to me, it is important. Buddicom states that a " charitable hospital" was needed to meet the needs. Previously, there was no such need.
England's NHS could plead with the well-endowed churches, both RC and CofE, the Aga Khan, the billionaire businessmen residing in London, to establish and operate charitable hospitals in the major conurbations. These hospitals could, if they so wished, operate a "passport system" to treat only patients of particular denominations.
This would alleviate some burden from the drooping shoulders of the NHS.
The donors could be rewarded with a peerage, perhaps? Why not? Politicians and party donors get peerages.
On the face of it, the suggestion might seem a joke. However, in Bombay, now Mumbai, the Tatas endowed wonderful hospitals. The Aga Khan has been munificent in Karachi and Kenya.
Competing interests: Old man, needing NHS treatment