The NHS is dying. Stop spending our money keeping it alive, blasts Kelvin MacKenzie

A quick look at sickness in the NHS and the figures are equally shocking. The average is two weeks a year, more than double the private arena.

And you will be unsurprised to learn that mental health issues (your GP will hand over those tablets even if they think it’s a ruse) have risen 26 per cent as the reason many won’t be in today or for the next few weeks or until August. See you in ’26.

On pay, since the whole of the public sector is on final salary pension schemes - whereas NOBODY in a normal job is - they are so much better off, especially over 50.

So, although I liked some of Hunt’s budget, I had to laugh at his idea the Tories are going to make the NHS more efficient. It can’t happen. You have an idle, unionised workforce who don’t want it to happen.

The reality is that the NHS might have been a good idea seven decades back but like most ideas that old, its time is up. It is now among the worst providers of health care in the advanced world.

Take this stat; Consistently, for at least 25 years, those living in the UK have been more likely to die after a diagnosis of cancer than those living in Belgium, France of other advanced European nations.

Professor Sikora is quoted in The Telegraph as calculating that 10,000 people have died of cancer in a single year here who would not have died in an average European country.

You need a PhD to work out a system to guarantee a GP appointment and woe betide you going to A&E.

I had seen smaller crowds at Charlton than the last time I went to A&E with my quite unwell missus at the truly dreadful St Peter’s Hospital in Weybridge, Surrey. You should literally write off the day, surrounded by very sick and very anxious people. I do know it’s not like that in France. When was France held up a poster boy for anything?

Other countries have better systems with better outcomes. Singapore and Australia use social insurance. Ever the Netherlands went down that route. So must we. We need to have a competing system of private v public. Private will win and everybody will flock there. Pu the cost against taxes.

Doctors can earn what they make in elsewhere in the world. Everybody’s happy and junior docs can stop trying to kill your mum through their strikes.

The skint will eventually be subsidised to use private as they will discover that the NHS is hopeless. We will have a healthier nation and won’t have to listen to Chancellors of every party saying how marvellous it is to have the NHS.

I was told yesterday of a Brit who had a serious heart attack while travelling in the United States. His family were told to fly over at once because it was unlikely he was going to survive. Thanks to the skill of the hospital he made it.

His US doctor told his family; Anywhere else in the world he would have died. We have the best people and best outcomes.

We have among the worst.

So Hunt continues to use your money prop up the NHS and announced another £2.5billion going into this clapped out Socialist system and another £3.5billion on some absurd efficiency plan.

He knows it won’t work, but he won’t be around to witness it.

About 30 minutes after being elected the podgy Starmer will announce another £20billion will go into the NHS and unfortunately taxes will have to go up to pay for it.

And the middle classes will deserve the deception because they were stupid enough to believe that a country which spent £400billion on Covid can be better off under Labour.

Your stupid friends thought it would be better under Socialism. It will be worse. A lot worse. From Day One.

Well done headteacher David Scales for taking on an increasing problem in our schools

My hero today is David Scales, the headteacher of Astrea Academy Woodfields in Doncaster.

He and his staff were concerned at the rising number of parents who were calling in to say that poor Tommy or darling Tabetha wouldn’t be in for a week or 10 days because they got a nasty bug.

Frankly they didn’t believe them. Even when the phone came up with the words Doctors Surgery on it.

So they decided to drop the houses and see if anybody was at home. And in many cases they weren’t. The bins hadn’t been moved and there was sign of anybody, including Tommy and Tabetha at the house.

They had in fact gone on holiday. And through a piece of phone tech trickery the parents weren’t calling from the surgery at all. It was, as Mr Scales, pointed out in a communication on X/Twitter and video to all parents, a ‘’scam’’.

And an unauthorised holiday meant fines for the parents. Well done Mr Scales for taking on an increasing problem in schools.

Since the pandemic absences in class have reached record levels. More than 117,000 ‘’ghost’’ children have been missing from class in the past year, an increase of 23 per cent in the past year.

Of course the Lefties at the National Education Union don’t like the idea. Good. They say it risk ‘’alienation of students’’. That is tosh. The head is doing his best for the pupils. The parents are doing the worst.