One of them was my mother who sadly died of stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Maggie Thatcher’s 1989 NHS reform policy working well.
I mean, I was at A&E from about 11 am till gone 10pm. I got seen a number of times during that time before being admitted due to a kidney stone.
Fun times.
Yeah I went 5 months ago because of a concussion, I could barely speak, so dizzy and sick and was sat there from 8pm until 5am. Was awful.. a lad sat next to me had cut his thumb off at work and was sat next to me holding his thumb in one hand with kitchen towels on the stump. He was sat for 8 hours… probably lost the thumb because of how long it took.
Yup nearly died due to burst appendix. Sent home on day one, 8 and a half hours wait the next day then 5 more in bed before surgery.
I would like to see the conditions seen over period time.
I think that would shock alot of people
How do they decide on the wait times? I got seen too pretty much instantly and taken to my own private room in like two hours
I once had to go in due to poisoning and by the time they managed to get to me, most of the effects had passed. I got lucky that I recovered that easily.
That’ll be from all the doctors strikes (eh Rishi 👌).
(Big capital S/)
I waited 15 hours once when I lost all feeling in my peri oral region and left side. A few years prior ambulance would’ve been up to 6 hours so I had to get a taxi to A&E when I was unable to take my chin off my chest in case my neck came out of place (I have EDS meaning I am prone to dislocations and serious neck issues). My most recent trip was when I was cut with a blade and had to sit for at least 2 hours bleeding heavily onto a towel.
I will never be ungrateful for the NHS, they are amazing and they’re the reason myself and a lot of us are still alive. I won’t pretend to know much about politics because I really don’t but the government needs to do much more.
My wife had a miscarriage and was referred to A&E.
We waited about 4 hours & it got to the stage where there was a pool of blood on her seat. Our A&E just seemed heavily lacking communications. Nurses & Doctors kept being surprised we were still in the waiting room because someone from the maternity ward was coming to collect us.
About an hour passed and one of the nurses in A&E just decided to walk us up to the ward instead. Got there, entire ward is empty aside from a woman. Wife gets seen, and there’s just a couple of nurses chatting away, talking about how they don’t wanna go down to A&E lol…
Wife ended up needing surgery and was in hospital for a couple of days, due to how bad the bleeding was.
However, during the 4 hours in A&E, I heard:
– 2 different types of schoolboys being ‘sent from school’ because they felt unwell. One boy kept telling his mum that he feels fine & in no pain, but the mum was adamant he had to be seen. The other boy had a headache and hadn’t took pain relief yet.
– A young couple sat next to us, the woman kept fake crying and acting in pain every time a nurse walked past. When the coast was clear, she would walk off to make phone calls or start laughing/chatting with her boyfriend.
– A guy obnoxiously moving the A&E chairs to sit in his own corner, which was behind the doors that kept opening. Dude was playing music openly in his phone and I genuinely wanted to just knock him out if I saw doctors & nurses open the door, knocking into his chair and him eye-rolling the staff.
– A woman stating she can feel something aching in her back.
There of course were also real emergencies where someone had been run over and was seen straight away.
I can understand the risks behind it, but I genuinely wish the NHS would tell people to fuck off at times. Like, how do you triage a schoolboy who has a headache and hasn’t even taken pain relief yet, with the result being “Sure, we’ll see you anyways”.
I’ve been A&E twice in the last year. First time was a 14 hour wait and second was 17 hours. The second time I was admitted for a week with sepsis, which should have been picked up on the first time especially with me telling them directly all my obs were not normal (that should be obvious yet didn’t seem to be to them).
Months of recovery and struggling to put back on the 25% of weight I lost, though they were good with the follow up scans other than my first CT which they set up at a hospital 2 hours away and I could barely walk at the time due to the pain
I’ve had to go twice in the past year with my fiance due to vertigo issues she has, we were referred to urgent care by 111 who then referred us to A&E both times as the local GP receptionist refused to give her an appointment but that is a whole other story.
Anyway the first time we were in 9 hours and the second we were in just over 3, we we’re only seen so quickly the second time as we said we had to go and we’ll try again tomorrow and got put straight through I think they were worried in case it was something serious. It is shocking why people go there one guy the first time went in admitting he had taken uppers and downers (no fucking idea) and then left only to wander back in later on saying his heart had stopped he was then rushed into a ward and then the second time there were two blokes very obviously drunk, one went in there looking for food and actually got a sandwich whilst the other was complaining that he can’t stay awake or something whilst going out for a drink and coming back more pissed. Oh also one foreign guy actually asked if he can “book” in and go to a restaurant until he’s ready to be seen as he didn’t want to wait for the 2 hour triage…
I hate phoning lab results to the ED at the best of times. No one ever answers the phone, despite us passing over urgent results. If you do get through, after a few hours of repeated tries, you hear a stressed nurse or doctor trying to direct other members of staff while dealing with too many emergencies for them to handle.
NHS patients in England do not even know the meaning of the word waiting. Come to Wales, you will welcome those twelve hour waits in England.
My gf called 999 as she had a radiating shoulder pain that was basically stopping her breathing. The pain was so bad she couldnt move or walk. We dont drive, and live in a flat so getting her downstairs without a wheelchair and help isnt really an option.
The operator asked questions that I had to answer because answering yes or not verbally was too painful. He came back to say shes been put on a list but if we can get a taxi in she will be seen a lot quicker. I said she cant move would need a wheelchair or something she cant stand up or breath. He said shes on the list, so it will be there when it can. This was 11pm.
She managed to get to sleep after her breathing got a bit better but it was a broken sleep all night.
7am, she wakes up feeling able to at least walk downstairs, we get a taxi to the hospital. While waiting in A&E at 1pm, I hear her name mentioned at the front desk. I go up to see if shes being called, but nope. It was an ambulance driver saying she was next on the list and seeing if she had already checked in.
I will never forgive this government for the untold damage they have done to our services. Just typing this out fills me with such white rage at the thought of what the tories have done this past decade.
So sad to think, but by the looks of things it’s being deliberately fucked over by the Tories who want private healthcare for all , well not the working class. They can die in pain 😔
And there are people in the UK who still think the NHS is “world leading” because the Tory government has given us Brexit and that £350m a week has definitely gone back into the NHS.
It’s hard to comprehend how it has come to this. I can see how a service which relatively few people use in any given year can deteriorate under the radar without getting enough people riled up to make a difference, but really we’re at the stage now where most people have a personal horror story of some loved one’s interaction with this disgrace of a service. It’s not as if the rich and powerful are isolated from it either, well not to the same extent as health care generally, they surely have pretty a similar exposure to the inadequacies of A&E and the ambulance service. Blaming it all on the Tories doesn’t cut it either, it’s just as bad if not worse where I am in Wales where Labour have funded and managed the NHS for 25 years. Many people are keen to point out that the staff they’ve dealt with have been great and they’ve just been overwhelmed, but frankly there are as many people with tales of staff being being incompetent, negligent and rude. I get the impression that more than anyone else the people getting let down by all this are those that don’t like to make a fuss. It cannot be be that things have suddenly got this much worse for funding reasons alone, there’s some deeper malaise, though I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Mate had a heart attack last month, 14 hour wait. By the time he got seen they were telling people in A and E that it will be at least 16 hour waits for everyone.
This was a monday night Tuesday morning aswell!
23hrs in the A&E waiting room with kidney stones, given morphine multiple times for the pain whilst waiting to be seen. Told that every 4hrs of waiting someone would do the rounds to offer tea/coffee and a sandwich, in the 23hrs there was one coffee round and another person waiting ordered literally 100 cheeseburgers from McDonald’s and handed them out to those waiting.
I know they’re stretched but it’s getting beyond a joke.
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One of them was my mother who sadly died of stage 4 pancreatic cancer.
Maggie Thatcher’s 1989 NHS reform policy working well.
I mean, I was at A&E from about 11 am till gone 10pm. I got seen a number of times during that time before being admitted due to a kidney stone.
Fun times.
Yeah I went 5 months ago because of a concussion, I could barely speak, so dizzy and sick and was sat there from 8pm until 5am. Was awful.. a lad sat next to me had cut his thumb off at work and was sat next to me holding his thumb in one hand with kitchen towels on the stump. He was sat for 8 hours… probably lost the thumb because of how long it took.
Yup nearly died due to burst appendix. Sent home on day one, 8 and a half hours wait the next day then 5 more in bed before surgery.
I would like to see the conditions seen over period time.
I think that would shock alot of people
How do they decide on the wait times? I got seen too pretty much instantly and taken to my own private room in like two hours
I once had to go in due to poisoning and by the time they managed to get to me, most of the effects had passed. I got lucky that I recovered that easily.
That’ll be from all the doctors strikes (eh Rishi 👌).
(Big capital S/)
I waited 15 hours once when I lost all feeling in my peri oral region and left side. A few years prior ambulance would’ve been up to 6 hours so I had to get a taxi to A&E when I was unable to take my chin off my chest in case my neck came out of place (I have EDS meaning I am prone to dislocations and serious neck issues). My most recent trip was when I was cut with a blade and had to sit for at least 2 hours bleeding heavily onto a towel.
I will never be ungrateful for the NHS, they are amazing and they’re the reason myself and a lot of us are still alive. I won’t pretend to know much about politics because I really don’t but the government needs to do much more.
My wife had a miscarriage and was referred to A&E.
We waited about 4 hours & it got to the stage where there was a pool of blood on her seat. Our A&E just seemed heavily lacking communications. Nurses & Doctors kept being surprised we were still in the waiting room because someone from the maternity ward was coming to collect us.
About an hour passed and one of the nurses in A&E just decided to walk us up to the ward instead. Got there, entire ward is empty aside from a woman. Wife gets seen, and there’s just a couple of nurses chatting away, talking about how they don’t wanna go down to A&E lol…
Wife ended up needing surgery and was in hospital for a couple of days, due to how bad the bleeding was.
However, during the 4 hours in A&E, I heard:
– 2 different types of schoolboys being ‘sent from school’ because they felt unwell. One boy kept telling his mum that he feels fine & in no pain, but the mum was adamant he had to be seen. The other boy had a headache and hadn’t took pain relief yet.
– A young couple sat next to us, the woman kept fake crying and acting in pain every time a nurse walked past. When the coast was clear, she would walk off to make phone calls or start laughing/chatting with her boyfriend.
– A guy obnoxiously moving the A&E chairs to sit in his own corner, which was behind the doors that kept opening. Dude was playing music openly in his phone and I genuinely wanted to just knock him out if I saw doctors & nurses open the door, knocking into his chair and him eye-rolling the staff.
– A woman stating she can feel something aching in her back.
There of course were also real emergencies where someone had been run over and was seen straight away.
I can understand the risks behind it, but I genuinely wish the NHS would tell people to fuck off at times. Like, how do you triage a schoolboy who has a headache and hasn’t even taken pain relief yet, with the result being “Sure, we’ll see you anyways”.
I’ve been A&E twice in the last year. First time was a 14 hour wait and second was 17 hours. The second time I was admitted for a week with sepsis, which should have been picked up on the first time especially with me telling them directly all my obs were not normal (that should be obvious yet didn’t seem to be to them).
Months of recovery and struggling to put back on the 25% of weight I lost, though they were good with the follow up scans other than my first CT which they set up at a hospital 2 hours away and I could barely walk at the time due to the pain
I’ve had to go twice in the past year with my fiance due to vertigo issues she has, we were referred to urgent care by 111 who then referred us to A&E both times as the local GP receptionist refused to give her an appointment but that is a whole other story.
Anyway the first time we were in 9 hours and the second we were in just over 3, we we’re only seen so quickly the second time as we said we had to go and we’ll try again tomorrow and got put straight through I think they were worried in case it was something serious. It is shocking why people go there one guy the first time went in admitting he had taken uppers and downers (no fucking idea) and then left only to wander back in later on saying his heart had stopped he was then rushed into a ward and then the second time there were two blokes very obviously drunk, one went in there looking for food and actually got a sandwich whilst the other was complaining that he can’t stay awake or something whilst going out for a drink and coming back more pissed. Oh also one foreign guy actually asked if he can “book” in and go to a restaurant until he’s ready to be seen as he didn’t want to wait for the 2 hour triage…
I hate phoning lab results to the ED at the best of times. No one ever answers the phone, despite us passing over urgent results. If you do get through, after a few hours of repeated tries, you hear a stressed nurse or doctor trying to direct other members of staff while dealing with too many emergencies for them to handle.
NHS patients in England do not even know the meaning of the word waiting. Come to Wales, you will welcome those twelve hour waits in England.
My gf called 999 as she had a radiating shoulder pain that was basically stopping her breathing. The pain was so bad she couldnt move or walk. We dont drive, and live in a flat so getting her downstairs without a wheelchair and help isnt really an option.
The operator asked questions that I had to answer because answering yes or not verbally was too painful. He came back to say shes been put on a list but if we can get a taxi in she will be seen a lot quicker. I said she cant move would need a wheelchair or something she cant stand up or breath. He said shes on the list, so it will be there when it can. This was 11pm.
She managed to get to sleep after her breathing got a bit better but it was a broken sleep all night.
7am, she wakes up feeling able to at least walk downstairs, we get a taxi to the hospital. While waiting in A&E at 1pm, I hear her name mentioned at the front desk. I go up to see if shes being called, but nope. It was an ambulance driver saying she was next on the list and seeing if she had already checked in.
I will never forgive this government for the untold damage they have done to our services. Just typing this out fills me with such white rage at the thought of what the tories have done this past decade.
So sad to think, but by the looks of things it’s being deliberately fucked over by the Tories who want private healthcare for all , well not the working class. They can die in pain 😔
And there are people in the UK who still think the NHS is “world leading” because the Tory government has given us Brexit and that £350m a week has definitely gone back into the NHS.
It’s hard to comprehend how it has come to this. I can see how a service which relatively few people use in any given year can deteriorate under the radar without getting enough people riled up to make a difference, but really we’re at the stage now where most people have a personal horror story of some loved one’s interaction with this disgrace of a service. It’s not as if the rich and powerful are isolated from it either, well not to the same extent as health care generally, they surely have pretty a similar exposure to the inadequacies of A&E and the ambulance service. Blaming it all on the Tories doesn’t cut it either, it’s just as bad if not worse where I am in Wales where Labour have funded and managed the NHS for 25 years. Many people are keen to point out that the staff they’ve dealt with have been great and they’ve just been overwhelmed, but frankly there are as many people with tales of staff being being incompetent, negligent and rude. I get the impression that more than anyone else the people getting let down by all this are those that don’t like to make a fuss. It cannot be be that things have suddenly got this much worse for funding reasons alone, there’s some deeper malaise, though I can’t quite put my finger on it.
Mate had a heart attack last month, 14 hour wait. By the time he got seen they were telling people in A and E that it will be at least 16 hour waits for everyone.
This was a monday night Tuesday morning aswell!
23hrs in the A&E waiting room with kidney stones, given morphine multiple times for the pain whilst waiting to be seen. Told that every 4hrs of waiting someone would do the rounds to offer tea/coffee and a sandwich, in the 23hrs there was one coffee round and another person waiting ordered literally 100 cheeseburgers from McDonald’s and handed them out to those waiting.
I know they’re stretched but it’s getting beyond a joke.