{"id":117527,"date":"2019-11-04T14:36:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/04\/dont-politicise-the-nhs-health-executives-tell-us-why-on-earth-not-simon-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:36:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:36:17","slug":"dont-politicise-the-nhs-health-executives-tell-us-why-on-earth-not-simon-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=117527","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Don\u2019t politicise the NHS\u2019 health executives tell us. Why on earth not? | Simon Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK health service has been political since its inception \u2013 and now it is unwieldy, archaic, and in need of radical overhaulDon\u2019t politicise the NHS say the health professionals. Let us get on with the job. The health service providers\u2019 chief executive, Chris Hopson, pleads for the health service not to be \u201cweaponised\u201d or \u201cdemonised\u201d in the election. Just give it more money.The NHS has been political since the day it was born. Politics has served it well, making it ever vaster and ever more resistant to change. More than any country in Europe, it has maintained its archaic professional structures and its iconic free status \u201cat the point of delivery\u201d (except for drugs), because its leaders know well that \u201cpoint of delivery\u201d is code for votes. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/nov\/04\/nhs-health-service-uk-politicise\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Don\u2019t politicise the NHS\u2019 health executives tell us. Why on earth not? | Simon Jenkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK health service has been political since its inception \u2013 and now it is unwieldy, archaic, and in need of radical overhaulDon\u2019t politicise the NHS say the health professionals. Let us get on with the job. The health service providers\u2019 chief executive, Chris Hopson, pleads for the health service [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}