Nhs

[headgroundsman]

My experience with NHS has up until 12 months ago been excellent, real could not have faulted it. We have 4 children and the births will all handled very well, the first was very difficult and my son was in intensive care for his first few days, with a life threatening condition that was handed with great skill.

 

I smashed my face up pretty bad a couple of years ago and again the service was outstanding. I expected to be pretty badly scarred, but the surgeon was outstanding and there is pretty much no sign I was ever injured. And the care was so swift I only lost half a day from work.

 

We had a cancer scare with one of my daughters, again outstanding treatment, swift surgery and thankfully it was benign.

 

Now the bad bit, a little over a year ago my mother fell down the stairs breaking her neck. She was taken to Preston Royal. The surgeon was good, but the after care was dreadful, they managed to give her a bedsore in under 2 weeks, which is pretty impressive.

 

She is now pretty much a tetraplegic and has been in various place and the care has been shoddy at best. And the things I've seen in some of the places she has been are pretty scary.

 

Care of the elderly is in need of real reform, something is very wrong in this country and needs fixing, IMHO.

 

I am sorry to hear about the poor treatment your mother had. I am paraplegic and work for a charity called Aspire helping people with spinal injury. If you or your mother would like any information please feel free to get in touch. There are 3 main charities for people with spinal cord injury. Aspire. SIA and the Back up Trust but unless you get into a specialist spinal injury centre you are unlikely to get the right care or to hear of the help available

[skyhuck]

I am sorry to hear about the poor treatment your mother had. I am paraplegic and work for a charity called Aspire helping people with spinal injury. If you or your mother would like any information please feel free to get in touch. There are 3 main charities for people with spinal cord injury. Aspire. SIA and the Back up Trust but unless you get into a specialist spinal injury centre you are unlikely to get the right care or to hear of the help available

 

Thank you

 

My mother was refused CHC (continuing health care) so we had to appeal, I joined the SIA and they produced and excellent appeal letter for us and she does now have CHC, but is not in control of her own budget, so we don't know how much she gets or how its spent. We have an excellent GP who is looking into it for us.

 

The SIA appear very over stretched.

[Mark Bolam]

I'm a massive fan of the NHS.

They were on the ball when it mattered when all my daughters were born, and without them all 3 would have died, and almost certainly my wife as well with our first.

Scary times, but they can still put an A-team together when it counts.

Some of it is awful though, as said the continuity doesn't exist.

How can we help?

My last time in A&E was truly depressing. Fat little Johnny had been sick because he'd eaten too many McDonalds. 5 year old Chantelle's ear was septic after mummy's cousin pierced it at a party as a treat.

Everyone sat there banging on about suing if they get MRSA.

How many used the hand wash stations on the way in? That's right, none.

My first job as NHS supremo would be to have some dude who looks like Mr. T or The Rock on every hospital door making people clean their hands when they enter.

 

 

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[Darrin Turnbull]

Maybe too many people bypassing their GP and going directly to hospital.

[Mark Bolam]

2 week waiting lists are putting them off Darrin.

 

 

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[skyhuck]

Too many fat sods with self induced diabetes, etc, etc.

[Darrin Turnbull]

My brother was referred to a heart specialist , six weeks was the appointment so he paid private and got the same doctor within two weeks.

[eggsarascal]

This operation was 8 weeks after seeing my GP....... Two weeks after seeing the GP I saw the surgeon, yesterday had the op.

 

Eight weeks to surgery for what I would call a non-urgent op isn't bad in my mind.

[Mark Bolam]

Was it that penis-reduction op you were on about in your PM's Eggs?

 

 

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[Mark Bolam]

Too many fat sods with self induced diabetes, etc, etc.

 

 

Word.

 

 

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