Anyone Else Sick Of The Embarrassing Gushing And Worshiping Of The Nhs On 75Th Birthday?

[dave50]

It's ridiculous. The prime minister giving a church reading, school children being made to sing a song about it. Think I'm going to vomit.

[retrocop]

Fings aint what they used to be.

[barry1010]

I haven't really heard anything about it. You shouldn't get wound up about things that really don't affect your life.

[bednobs]

i dont go to church or school, so have managed to avoid being nauseous

[calmck]

The NHS needs to return to its roots. Matrons running the hospitals, Sisters running the wards and nurses being taught by Sister Tutors in the classrooms and on the wards.

[Tilly2]

Never needed the NHS, Dave50?

[Old_Geezer]

If I can ignore the clapping period, I'm sure I can take no notice of a 75th anniversary.

[Chairman2001]

No, a fine institution built by the people for the people.

I have had numerous occasions to be thankful for it.

[bobbinwales]

I just heard an interesting program about NHS stories on Radio 4 and there was some poems written by one NHS hospital's 'poet in residence'.... I didnt know they had them , wonder if its a paid postion

[Deskdiary]

The NHS is not the envy of the world that people seem to think it is. It speaks volumes to me that no other civilised country has adopted the same model.

If they concentrated on what they’re meant to do, I’m sure it would be a fine institution, but when my tax is being spent on giving men vaginas, women penises, getting people pregnant and getting fat people thin, it loses its purpose.

In the last five years I’ve had my wisdom teeth out, my son has had a medically required circumcision and my wife has had two operations on her feet - all were required for pain and medical reasons and all were done privately because the NHS waiting times varied from 3 months for my son to 18 months for my wife, and that is wrong.

[Deskdiary]

Meant to add, all three of our operations were done within a week or so of our GP referral when done privately.

[choux]

At least it was appropriate that the Diamond Jubilee of the NHS nearly worked as an emetic for you ;)

[naomi24]

I agree with deskdiary. The NHS has lost sight of its original purpose. And with waiting times, even for minor procedures getting longer (I've just waited a month for a routine blood test) will someone please tell them that the Covid emergency is over. One could be forgiven for thinking they’ve joined the pen-pushing Civil Servants and are working from home.

[retrocop]

My wife accompanies to my appointments with consultants of which there are several each year for different medical and physical problems. She does so because she is fed up with the B.S. and ducking and diving she recognises after 40 years service with the NHS. She is almost as ashamed of the service as I am of my service in my career.
My wife retired about 6 years ago and worked for 10years in endoscopy.I was told by a consultant I was just suffering from Colonoscopy syndrome.
No such syndrome exists and two years I later an attempted and abborted colonoscopy revealed I had a severe stricture probably caused by ulceration in the colon and am still awaiting a surgical remedy. They couldn’t find a gas leak with a candle these days.

[jackthehat]

Cheer up, dave.
You don't have join in.

[david small]

Scrap the bloated terminally awful NHS. Start again with less managers, less administrators, pay a fair wage to the lower minions who actually do the real work.

[retrocop]

Scrap the ridiculous scheme to insist young women and men attend university courses and attain a degree as well.
My wife was a student nurse many years ago and had to deport herself with a proper uniform. She had to scrub floors and bedspaces and attend medical school. Learn how to change soiled bed linen and prevent bed sores regularly. She had no need for a degree though she had a few A levels and O's and that didn't deter her to do the menial jobs and work in the sluice room. There must be hundreds of young girls and boys who are are capable and willing to join without a degree. Common sense, compassion and discipline is all that is really needed to recruit more nurses in this country.

[bobbinwales]

I agree with retrocop.
As for davidsmalls claim about bloated maangement and administrators.... I think its a lazy claim, thats ofrten repeated but not supported with evidence or stats . There may be savings to make but its wrong to assume whole tiers of managers and administrrators arent needed, someones got to do all the things they do rather than expect medics to do it.

[ynnafymmi]

Without the NHS a lot of us wouldnt be here today.Aneurin Bevan and Clement Attlee,my heroes.

[dave50]

Why don't other european countries worship their health care systems especially when theirs seem to work better than ours?

[Old_Geezer]

If it's not the envy of the world, when it clearly should be, then the world is as mad as some suspect. A civilised nation ensures all it's citizens have access to a health service as needed. Granted the limits of what is treated, and ensuring value for money, are present issues that need solving, but the concept is the ideal, and that has been implemented here.