The NHS at 60

Thursday 3rd July 2008 6:39 pm

The NHS is now 60 years old

Is it as sick as many of that age

Who flick through mags in waiting rooms, the cold

Viruses transferred from fingers to page?

Will it reach 100? Then let’s engage

The questions of funding, and immigrants

Who do the jobs we won’t, yet still enrage

The locals and the tabloids. But who wants

Those jobs, and who’ll pay tax when we’re advanced

In age, if we don’t? Or should it be sold

Once lack of tax money and lack of wage

Condemns the NHS to remembrance?

Will pensions and healthcare then be controlled

For profit, and the poor disadvantaged?

A sexy poem about the NHS! Beats reading The Guardian!

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<Deleted User> (5984)

Fri 4th Jul 2008 13:35

Fantastic poem, love the rhyme and rhythm of the verses

<Deleted User> (5646)

Fri 4th Jul 2008 11:00

Well said Antonionioni, you can't emigrate.
We need you here!!

<Deleted User> (4281)

Fri 4th Jul 2008 08:03

Hello, Antonio

There is the same problem here as well. There is a shortage of people in a work force. That also applies to Health care workers as well. It is almost impossible to find a physician that would accept a new patient. Waiting for a bed in a hospital is forever. Waiting for a special test like MRI or other takes many months. The picture presented in your recent poem looks sad. Reality, that is sure. Excellent write!

Thank you,
Zuzanna

<Deleted User> (3509)

Thu 3rd Jul 2008 23:51

<Deleted User> (3509)

Thu 3rd Jul 2008 23:50

The Clever Codgers.

I can only reply with a poem based on another one by a very famous librarian poet Philip Larkin

Perhaps the elderly are not so foolish
as would appear to be the case in Larkin's verse.
Life for the young can often be hard and brutish.
So many have come to learn and to appreciate,
there's more to life than waiting for a hearse
which may not call for decades. Not all old people drool
and if they do it doesn't mean they let their minds stagnate
but often form the staves on which the young can lean
learn from experience that can't be taught in schools.
memories shared, passed on like a great wheel turning,bringing generations together as a team,
well, why aren't we cheering?

<Deleted User> (3509)

Thu 3rd Jul 2008 23:40

<Deleted User> (5646)

Thu 3rd Jul 2008 19:13

They say we're only ever as sick as we want to be. Without wishing to offend those who genuinely need medicines, there are also the people who seem to spend their days in hospital waiting rooms for a sniffle.
It's a tricky subject!
I just hope i'm still as sexy when i'm 60 as i am now.
Very topical write. Love Janet.
Thanks for your lovely compliment to my blog.xx

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