What is it about the NHS????

[L33 DA17ON]

A lad at work had his finger tips off with a stihl hedge trimmer couple months back. When he arrived at Carlisle a&e they said the tips could be saved anyway after waiting 27hours.... no word of a lie. Thet tips could not be saved so they cleaned them up and bandaged up and he was sent on his way with pain relief.. thing is with a&e is a more critical person comes in they go first and you go to end of waiting line cant help that. But we would be lost with out the nhs. My good friend a couple years ago us travelling in the us he didn't have insurance and was hit by a car he broke his shin bone and cost him $200.000 he has declared his self bankrupt. NHS is a good thing but it's a shame that it's the likes of drunks and local scumbags that abuse it. 

[MattyF]

Feel for you , my mother recently had to travel to wales to look after her mum who had a serious injury , no word of a lie they where I’m A&E for 36 hours covered in blood in a bad way To see a doctor .. , it’s a fucking disgrace Wales is... my old man nearly lost his leg after complications with a simple
brake in lister in Stevenage and ended up with gangrene!! After that every one at work agreed if there was an accident again at work and it was feasible to go Cambridge over lister in Stevenage in case of emergency... Cambridge was that much better , Stevenage was just appalling .. twice my sister took my nephew just before they went to visit relatives in Southern Ireland in to A&E at lister who they said had nothing wrong with him by the time they got to Ireland he had nearly died of sepsis, luckily private Irish health care saved his life...

[spuddog0507]

A guy i pick up with his daughter works in the NHS and is very high up, i was chatting with her at a function about 12 mths ago and she said they could not get staff to come in to NHS employment and if you remember about that time there was TV adds for nurses GPs and teachers on tv every day, there was all so that many finanical cut backs in the NHS as well which is probably why the service is so bad, but the burning question is ? if the money that is being spent on HS2 was shared out between all the local councils our NHS hospitals, doctors surgerys, schools and roads could all be sorted out and be back where they where 10 years ago, and that would be a better position than they are today, so if we was not to have HS2 which would suit me as it is something that we really need ? i would choose a better NHS and roads over a bit faster rail link to London,,

Edited December 15, 2019 by spuddog0507
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[Rough Hewn]

Look at the French system.
It's state funded and private.
State pays 70%, your private medical insurance covers the other 30%.
And it bloody works.
Both my parents are elderly and frail.
Specialist...
Can't do today, but 10am tomorrow?
Brilliant.


I had a tumour growing in my left index finger some years back.
Got dicked around by NHS for over 18 months.
Ended up performing the surgery myself.
I'd rather lose a finger than a hand.

[forestgough]

If only we could get the managers from the best hospitals to sort out the worst ones.

The biggest problem in the nhs is that the shit employees are so difficult to sack that they get promoted upwards and then recruit their useless mates to surround them.

Next time you are in a hospital and the service is rubbish,start turning the staffs I.D badges the right way round so you can see their names,they love being anonymous.

[difflock]

Somewhat indicative of some of the issues plaguing the NHS in respect of service delivery would be an NHS employee who saw fit to take last Friday and Monday off on the sick, on full pay of course,  while still being well enough to attend the staff Christmas "do" on the Friday Night, needless to say splashing photos of he "big night out" all over FaceAche, and was then truely insensed at being written up for(and I cannot quote the exact terminology) such misconduct.

She also has a history of such behavouir with her previous NHS employer  btw.

But the NHS HR department fucked-up the internal(to the NHS) transfer paperwork, so now she gets a fresh start.

The staggering and uneeded workload created by alcohol and drug abuse is another un-addressable issue.

Never mind the smoking/vaping, staggeringly poor diet, and lack of exercise causing needless and easily avoidable health problems for a significent proportion of the not insignificent numbers of the uncaring and mostly uncontributing population.

All conflated by sometimes impotent and sometimes incompetent management, in a vast and unmanagable organisation.

BUT

My emergency(and idiopathic) pancreatitis treatment was 1st class, except the routine non-emergency stuff suffers as a result of these emergency demands.

And A & E in the this same Hospital is absolute SHITE.

But the Radiological ( "x" rays and CAT scanners etc) within the Hospital is superbly well run, I can only surmise due to whoever is in charge of that particular Department.

Marcus

Edited December 15, 2019 by difflock

[Billhook]

A + E is a lottery  Do not have an injury on Saturday night in Boston as there will be a queue of fight victims and drunks before you.  The staff are overworked and often insulted and you do not have a warm reception 

Go 35 miles further North to Louth and there is one of the best hospitals around, very friendly receptionist,  usually no long queue and good cheerful doctors and nurses

i suppose the answer is Postcode and management .

Bit similar to working for different arb firms !

[difflock]

8 minutes ago, Billhook said:

A + E is a lottery  Do not have an injury on Saturday night in Boston as there will be a queue of fight victims and drunks before you.  The staff are overworked and often insulted and you do not have a warm reception 

Go 35 miles further North to Louth and there is one of the best hospitals around, very friendly receptionist,  usually no long queue and good cheerful doctors and nurses

i suppose the answer is Postcode and management .

Bit similar to working for different arb firms !

Hmmm,

that merely tells me a certain section of the population belonging to certain sectors of our socio-economic spectrum, cannot be managed!

Short of employing good numbers of ExParatroop/Royal Marine types, and not always in a strictly medical capacity.

Edited December 15, 2019 by difflock

[Mick Dempsey]

47 minutes ago, Rough Hewn said:

Look at the French system.
It's state funded and private.
State pays 70%, your private medical insurance covers the other 30%.
And it bloody works.
Both my parents are elderly and frail.
Specialist...
Can't do today, but 10am tomorrow?
Brilliant.


I had a tumour growing in my left index finger some years back.
Got dicked around by NHS for over 18 months.
Ended up performing the surgery myself.
I'd rather lose a finger than a hand.

Just to qualify about the 70%, it’s not the state’s money, it’s the taxpayers (ie yours)

 

Edit. Did you amputate your own finger?

Edited December 15, 2019 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

But your point about how the French system is a better experience is valid.