Socialized Medicine Shocker: Britain Cuts Back On Operations Due To Lack Of Sterile Equipment

Makes you just crave government-backed health care, doesn’t it?

Growing numbers of operations are being cancelled because of a lack of sterile surgical instruments, newly released figures show.
Some Health Service trusts have seen an eight-fold increase since 2003 in the amount of patients turned away at the last minute.
Nationally 41 per cent more operations are being lost because dirty surgical instruments, or the wrong ones, are being sent to theatres.
Tory MP Grant Shapps, who uncovered the figures by using freedom of information laws, said: ‘As the Government seeks ever more creative ways to dig itself out of the NHS funding crisis it has started to pressurise hospitals to cut costs by sharing instrument cleaning between hospitals.
‘This is a false economy. These figures reveal a huge jump in cancelled operations simply because surgeons at the last minute are discovering that the surgical instruments still have blood on them.

Funding crisis. Delayed operations. Waiting lists for procedures. Dirty surgical instruments.
Yeah, let’s go ahead and sign ourselves up for that.