More British NHS politics.

After posting about British NHS politics -- everything that's covered is an issue, since everyone pays! -- I came across 2 more bits about this in 2 different places:

1) In this one new-ish memoir of a (British) (gay) (trans) man, he has a line about how "the NHS still refuses to fund trans fertility treatment, such as storing gametes (the freezing of eggs and sperm) before starting hormone treatment."

(I can see how this would set off a certain type of [British] person who questions hormone treatment -- not only do you have to fund that unnecessary treatment for kids, but then you have to go and fund fertility treatments for them too?! Madness, they'd say.)

(The memoir was okay, apart from a few bits like how his gay lover appreciated the spontaneity of his having a vagina, since it self-lubricates and since you don't have to plan time ahead of time to douche the sh*t out first before you go and f*ck it.)

2) In a hard copy of the Daily Mail that my one (half British) (half Sudanese) friend (the sister of the brother-sister pair) had brought for me from the UK, there was a major NHS outrage story right on page 2, setting up a "what would you rather have, more doctors or more DEI administrators" angle.

The end of the article presented competing perspectives --

A source close to Mr Barclay said: 'NHS cash should be spent on frontline patient care and not wasted on woke backroom bureaucracy. 'The Heath Secretary has got rid of dedicated diversity staff from the department – now the NHS should do the same.'

Sir Julian Hartley, chief executive of NHS Providers, which represents NHS trusts, said: 'Equality, diversity, and inclusion can help create an NHS-wide culture where leaders feel equipped to deal with all forms of discrimination.'

Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents healthcare organisations, added: 'We clearly need to do more to assist Mr Barclay's understanding of the contribution that a focus on equality and diversity makes to our staff and patients.'

-- but you can tell where their sympathies lie, even apart from how right next to it they had an accompanying story about declining maternal healthcare.

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Somehow, no-one ever talks about this kind of thing as a consequence of setting up a national centrally-funded healthcare system.