Very Brassed Off

mallyh | 09:03 Fri 01st Nov 2024 | Body & Soul

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waited quite a while for hospital appointment with a surgeon ,eventually got one for yesterday ,quite a drive then trying to find parking space ,sat in waiting room for 40 odd minutes when nurse came and said he was running late there would be a delay then after another 10 minutes 2 nurses came out and asked who had appointments with mr surgeon ,the clinic has been cancelled and they will send out another appointment , rant over x

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newmodarmy

As far as I can see there's nothing slagging off doctors and nurses. It's more the organisation, management and systems that's the issue

mallyh

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the nurses were very apologetic and i said it's not your fault ,it's just the not knowing will have to wait until next appointment x

nicebloke1

Well pay a visit to any hospital day or night and see the front line staff get it in the neck. The powers that be in hospitals are out of sight and mind. In one of these posts someone working on yhe front line got slagged for just dropping a pile of files. I wonder how helped him or her pick them up? None i guess just sat there and moaned, very like on here.

Vagus

I feel very very lucky where we live, which is a normal area. We have a great GPsurgery and can get an apppintment on the same day if we need it (all requests are triaged which works well), and hospital appointments are pretty quick. We've both had one in the last week,both were suddenly required. We were seen, things set in motion, prescription meds sent to hospital pharmacy.

I do feel really sorry for those who have real problems with GP and hospital.

jourdain2

It varies so much. We've been waiting for months for a cardio-echograph fro Mr. J2, GPs concerned. I had to rush him in today to GPs for various reasons...........

amazingly at 6.00p.m. we had an invitation for a cancellation echo-cardiogram next Thursday lunchtime.

ll very unsettling, but we'll grab this with both hands.

New Judge

“…what the cons couldn't manage in 14years, the labour government are expected to put right in 4 months.”

I don’t expect the Labour government to fix the NHS in 4 months – or four years for that matter. I don’t expect the Tories to do so either. For the same reason, I don’t blame politicians of any particular persuasion for the plight of the NHS. The NHS as an institution is completely unfit for purpose. It needs a radical overhaul of its funding model, its structure and its procedures. The trouble is the majority of the electorate won’t hear of it. Any party that puts any such proposal in its manifesto is howled down with accusations of “privatisation” and similar nonsense. It seems they would far sooner see it continually struggle and decline than see the measures necessary to see it survive and thrive implemented.

“…stop slagging ghe nursing staff off and the doctors,”

I am not slagging off nurses and doctors. They do their best despite the best efforts of their managers to make it difficult for them to do so. People who let rip at the staff do so because they are powerless to do anything else. They can’t lobby the managers and directors who are causing their frustrations. It’s not right that the staff bear the brunt of that, but it’s understandable. You make my point perfectly:

“Well pay a visit to any hospital day or night and see the front line staff get it in the neck. The powers that be in hospitals are out of sight and mind.”

“…they [the Tories] systematically undermine and underfund it.

But the NHS is not underfunded; it does not need more money. The Health Secretary has said as much following the £22bn bestowed on it in the budget. That sum is over 10% of its current annual budget. But, apparently, it won’t make any difference to patient outcomes. And I’m not surprised. It will simply get swallowed up in administration, more non-productive staff will be hired (much of them to help the service pursue its rabid obsession with gender identity politics) and it will be lost in the ever increasing noise.

“The Tories voted against the establishment of the NHS in 1948,…”

With the benefit of hindsight it’s a pity their votes were not enough to see the idea abandoned.