Nhs you fkn clowns
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Stevie/P
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If you think it’s bad now wait till you turn 70 waiting list are being manipulated so politicians can say things are getting better and more people are being treated.And everyone thinks the NHS is free !!.....why do we pay compulsory NHI ?
HonestJohn
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I feel your pain man. My friend lasted 24 months with specialist treatment in Germany and all sorts, but reality is, it’s incurable. Sadly. He was only 49. Left behind a wife and two young kids.
Heartbreaking.
My sister passed at 48 from pancreatic cancer (two months after my father), losing your best friends is hard. But, it gets easier! Losing friends and family has really made me realise how important it is to spend time with who
is left, kids, wife and just enjoy life!
I think having lost has made me a person I like seeing in the mirror due to appreciating life more.
That records thing is pretty surprising (and insane). You guys don't have the MyChart app in the UK? We use it here, and it allows sharing of medical records between providers, and the patient controls what is shared with who.
It's a standard thing here, and allows a patient's records to follow them, not which ever hospital did whatever treatment.
Sounds like NHS needs a DOGE department.
it needs MEGA DOGE
I know exactly where you are coming from. Ten weeks after losing my brother i lost my wife to a brain haemorrhage.
a great many consultants do both private and NHS just like dentists, mind you a lot of dentists are private only.
Yes, we do have the My Chart app.
CH
Firstly i have nothing but praise for the care the NHS gives when the brown stuff hits the fan. I spent too long as a traffic cop not to have that.
Where i think they can improve is in two areas. 1). You should be given a bill after treatment either from hospital or GP. Not to pay but to show how much your treatment would have cost. People may appreciate it more then.
2 idiots who go in to a&e for a cough or a cold or too ****ed to get home etc should be given a bill and HAVE. To pay it
Where i think they can improve is in two areas. 1). You should be given a bill after treatment either from hospital or GP. Not to pay but to show how much your treatment would have cost. People may appreciate it more then.
2 idiots who go in to a&e for a cough or a cold or too ****ed to get home etc should be given a bill and HAVE. To pay it
We'd arrived at the hospital by helicopter - one of the big yellow RAF Sea King search & rescue jobbies - with little more than the clothes we stood up in.Just how long after the birth were you trying to sleep in the maternity ward exactly
Baby was born in the middle of the night, then my wife and child were moved from the delivery suite to the post natal section. Fathers are not allowed in there except during daytime visiting hours (because it's an open ward), but I was stuck there with no transport and nowhere to go. So they put us in a side room and made up an extra bed for me, and told me to keep quiet and out of sight!
How many people go in for a cough or a cold and find there is something more sinister, We took our daughter to the hospital several times because she had a cough and it wouldn’t go away, eventually after several Dr’s and several weeks one of them said he wasn’t happy with her breathing and she was rushed to bigger hospital and operated on that night because of pneumonia which had been missed several times, she still suffers complications yet because it was missed for so long.
I was rushed by ambulance to hospital after collapsing and having a seizure whilst walking the dog, after a couple of hours of blood test and heart monitoring I was told I was fine and these things happen but try not to worry about it.
My GP wasn’t happy about this because I have a history of migraines and 6 month later under a different NHS trust I was sent for an MRI, It turned out to be a large brain tumour which was removed within weeks. The NHS is great when they get right but it’s a lottery as to which trust you get seen by and the trusts where i live don’t share your medical records.
On a positive note it has led me into early retirement which I am lucky enough to be able to afford but it has also left me with bad nerve pain which I will never recover from but will live with through the medication
I fully appreciate what you are saying and am glad that both of your issues are now dealt with. My father was told by an NHS consultant that despite being self employed with his own business, that he was malingering... dead 6 weeks later from the brain stem cancer that was causing the issues. He had a history of cancer having had about 5 other cancers that had been operated on.
I have possibly been lucky in that despite moving around the country, when it was NHS I have never had a problem getting a GP appointment, or not been able to get to a pharmacist, so have never had to go into A&E for myself (for anything, outside of work, except breaks, crashes, heart attacks & pleurisy.) I have seen however some who treat the a&e as a walk in GP service, are p***ed or on drugs and very abusive and that annoys.
Yep. I went in for a sinus infection. Left with the knowledge that I had a golf ball sized tumor sitting at the base of my skull, slowly collapsing my right jugular/carotid.
Ended up with one of the best neurosurgeons for this type of tumor in the US. Still sucked recovering, and incurred some significant and lasting deficits.
Getting old is not for the weak of heart.
I was lucky at both hospitals that I was admitted to.
The first got me stabilised after my gallstone went rogue taking out half my pancreas, gallbladder, half my liver and popping out through my duodenum.
The second brought me back after the liver succumbed.
I was fortunate to have the top liver specialist in Scotland looking after me. He was surgeon to the late Queen whenever she visited Scotland.
Two years in hospital, then other long stays over the next two years before I got back.
Two fairly unique ops, both through the same scar.
Nothing but praise for the teams that dealt with my illness.
Management…. Well that’s a different story, especially the bed managers!
The only bug bear is that I can be prone to VRE, a form of MRSA.
Every time I go in for my stent replacement I’m treated like I’m contagious.
I keep telling them that I can come into hospital at any time to visit friends, relatives or attend out patient appointments with out the falderal that is out on when I come in for the stent.
The first got me stabilised after my gallstone went rogue taking out half my pancreas, gallbladder, half my liver and popping out through my duodenum.
The second brought me back after the liver succumbed.
I was fortunate to have the top liver specialist in Scotland looking after me. He was surgeon to the late Queen whenever she visited Scotland.
Two years in hospital, then other long stays over the next two years before I got back.
Two fairly unique ops, both through the same scar.
Nothing but praise for the teams that dealt with my illness.
Management…. Well that’s a different story, especially the bed managers!
The only bug bear is that I can be prone to VRE, a form of MRSA.
Every time I go in for my stent replacement I’m treated like I’m contagious.
I keep telling them that I can come into hospital at any time to visit friends, relatives or attend out patient appointments with out the falderal that is out on when I come in for the stent.
It wasn't FOC. Someone paid for it. Might not have been you, or indeed an individual, but that £200k came from taxpayers.
pete evans
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Bit of a harsh critique based on a small sample. There are certainly areas of improvement required and there is inconsistency across services. I do have some experience of working in healthcare in countries with insurance based systems and it can certainly be quicker and you may have a better experience but not necessarily. I also see a fair amount of patients that are in Oxford as expats and generally they say they wish they had a nhs service style healthcare system in their country.
I also see people who have gone privately for treatment (my field is orthotics) and just because you pay top dollar and get something quickly doesn’t mean it’s always better, especially if it’s part of a multi disciplinary team approach.
I’m sorry your wife had a bad experience and outcome but just want to point out that this is a problem within the nhs rather than the nhs being the problem. It would be terrible if we lived in a country where people who were down on their luck or disadvantaged were thrown to the dogs.
I also see people who have gone privately for treatment (my field is orthotics) and just because you pay top dollar and get something quickly doesn’t mean it’s always better, especially if it’s part of a multi disciplinary team approach.
I’m sorry your wife had a bad experience and outcome but just want to point out that this is a problem within the nhs rather than the nhs being the problem. It would be terrible if we lived in a country where people who were down on their luck or disadvantaged were thrown to the dogs.
HonestJohn
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We all spread the cost of helping each other in nationalised healthcare.
My sister in law in DC saw a chap being rejected for his treatment by his insurance company at that hospital, they wanted him moved to one they covered costs for. The surgeon said the patient would not survive a move to another hospital. The insurance company said the surgeon would have to cover the costs if the procedure was to continue, so the patient as removed from intensive care and surgery and subsequently died before reaching the ‘approved’ hospital.
Sick
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