If you have a life threatening illness, what’s your priority–your carbon footprint or receiving treatment?

If you decide to set up a free healthcare service, what do you think you need most–a host of ‘green’ bureaucrats or doctors and nurses? I doubt you’d consider your priority would be to have someone investigating your carbon footprint as you’re clinging to life or hoping for treatment, but that’s the way it’s going in the UK.

Consider this from the the NHS’s Kidney Care website:

NHS Kidney Care is funding a one-year “Green Nephrology Fellowship” for a Specialist Registrar (SpR) to work on sustainability in kidney care.

That sounds like a stupid idea–employ a qualified doctor not to treat patients, and he’s just the first of many. Don’t think for one moment that the NHS isn’t spending taxpayer money on a myriad of consultancy firms as well, and in my research I even discovered there’s an NHS forest programme. Once anything becomes taxpayer funded, then it’s open season to invent jobs for problems that don’t exist.

If you question my qualification to make such a comment, I’ll confirm that I had, or have, kidney cancer, and I can also add that every step of my treatment by the NHS, from diagnosis beyond, was a disaster.

Okay, maybe I’m bitter and twisted, but I’m not alone. Amazingly, one UK hospital (here, here and here) has been responsible for more fatal casualties than the Taliban have inflicted on our troops in Afghanistan, but for some reason that’s accepted

The NHS bureaucracy is legendary, and by appointing a myriad of ‘green’ commissars all over it is only going to divert resources from patient care.

What’s this have to do with global warming? Not a whole lot, but it’s the same insane crowd pushing it, healthcare is a hot topic now, and I’m down a kidney.