The race to the bottom of standards, then to say we can only save the NHS by fully privatising it. I can see this play from a mile off.
When something is the norm…. it is normalised yes……. not “becoming”. It has become.
Us plebs have known this is normal for years…. Are the rich only just now realising?
I was throwing up blood a few months back (quite a decent amount, dark, not simply a few drops of fresh blood), called 111, triaged over phone, they told me to call 999, called ambulance, it arrived within minutes as luckily it was literally in the next street over. Triaged by paramedics, got to the hospital quickly as I just happen to live very close to a hospital.
EDIT: Expanded on this story in case some people think I am “playing it up”.
Literally sat in A&E for long enough for the problem to heal itself so by the time I did get to see a doctor they essentially just explained what happened to me and did fuck all. I left the hospital with nothing.
I was there over 11 hours. I felt like I wasted everyones time, this is exactly what the tories want.
If the waiting time for throwing up blood is over 10 hours, I can only imagine what its like for less severe things.
Not just A and E wait times. I’m a police officer and it’s expected that we’ll take people who can be moved and aren’t literally dying there and then to hospital because they’ll wait at least 4 hours for an ambulance to arrive.
Not surprised last time I ended up in a&e it was full of crack heads trying to get prescription pain killers
Hah! I think you mean Winter, spring, summer and autumn.
Ha, I’m reading this while sat in A&E with a partially dislocated shoulder. I’ve not been given a wait time but they assessed me pretty quickly. Then again, it’s the middle of the day on a Thursday.
I’m old enough (as in under 35) to remember mid noughties scandal, SCANDALS, about individuals with long a&e waits. One person having a 10 hour wait could get headlines. The 2005 Tory billboards attacking Labour ineptness with ‘How hard is it to keep a hospital clean?’.
Now….just resignation.
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I think some of the issues stem from GPs as well and how difficult it is to get a doctors appointment. Some people won’t try for an appointment and inevitably get worse, whilst others perhaps panic and take themselves to A&E for something that could have been solved by a GP or even a pharmacist.
Instead of wasting money on illegal immigrants and asylum please spend money on our NHS instead. Our people die from waiting on the A&E rather than the actual injuries they suffer from. Useless Tory government….
Tory Britain.
British electorate voted for this… Enjoy!!
Currently in QMC with a 14 hour wait time according to the TV and that’s an improvement from 16 hours!
My 85 year old father presented at A&E last week with extreme dizziness and breathlessness. He was assessed after a few hours and told he needed a blood transfusion. He sat in the A&E waiting room for 26 hours before a bed was found in a cubicle. The next day he was moved into a corridor.
In November 2022 my late MIL had a series of falls at home (she lived here). Most the time I could get her up myself but the last but one she was in agony and screamed when I tried to lift her. West Midlands Ambulance Service area… she waited 21 hours for the ambulance and they took her to A&E at Telford (as that supposedly had a shorter wait time than the nearest few hospitals) where she waited another 10 hours in the back of the ambo, another hour on a trolley in A&E. In all that time nobody so much as offered her a sip of water. She was delirious and sliding in and out of consciousness. She had broken her back in two places and cracked numerous ribs. She was discharged after 2 days, but she never recovered and died a fortnight later.
It sounds like if you want to go to A&E these days, by the time you’re seen you’ll either be dead or better.
Remember Brexiteers, you didn’t just vote to get Brexit done, you voted for this too!
I had an accident and went to a&e, they told me to come back the next day as I needed stitches. I got seen 24h after the accident
I took someone to A&E recently, waited about 7 hours, discovered that many who were there had been unable to see a GP and felt they had no alternative
I recently dropped a heavy wooden chopping block edgewise onto my left foot. I knew I had a broken toe from it so rather than waste deity knows how many hours in A&E, I just strapped it to it’s neighbour and started taking paracetomol for the pain. Which is basically what they’d have done in A&E.
Remember at the beginning of Covid when they warned us it would overwhelm the NHS. But it had been overwhelmed for at least a decade prior. Jokes.
It all depends where you live…big cities are busy ….whereas where I live its quiet….the wait is an hour tops regardless of time or day
Mum and dad took their son to see the Crisis team as he was having suicidal thoughts and thoughts about killing people. Sat in A&E for 12 hours waiting to be seen before he ran off. The hospital was quick enough to phone the Police though saying a suicidal teen who lacked capacity and had thoughts of killing others had run away. About 5 Police Officers spent roughly 5 hours looking for him before he was found and sectioned by the Police, 2 officers were with him for around 12 hours whilst he was seen and a MH bed found for him. There’s a reason why officers aren’t going to burglaries and it’s not because they’re investigating mean tweets.
I was in the hospital a couple of weeks back. I went to A&E but was seen within about 2 hours. I went for treatment. I had an x-ray, a couple of CT scans, and some stitches. I was there for 13 hours.
When I was leaving, the woman sat opposite me in A&E was STILL sitting there.
Drunk people not taking responsibility for their drunkeness on weekends probably doesnt help
But let’s squeeze spending and give a re-election tax cut. I despise these Tories more each day
Scary stuff when you live with multiple chronic illnesses
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The race to the bottom of standards, then to say we can only save the NHS by fully privatising it. I can see this play from a mile off.
When something is the norm…. it is normalised yes……. not “becoming”. It has become.
Us plebs have known this is normal for years…. Are the rich only just now realising?
I was throwing up blood a few months back (quite a decent amount, dark, not simply a few drops of fresh blood), called 111, triaged over phone, they told me to call 999, called ambulance, it arrived within minutes as luckily it was literally in the next street over. Triaged by paramedics, got to the hospital quickly as I just happen to live very close to a hospital.
EDIT: Expanded on this story in case some people think I am “playing it up”.
Literally sat in A&E for long enough for the problem to heal itself so by the time I did get to see a doctor they essentially just explained what happened to me and did fuck all. I left the hospital with nothing.
I was there over 11 hours. I felt like I wasted everyones time, this is exactly what the tories want.
If the waiting time for throwing up blood is over 10 hours, I can only imagine what its like for less severe things.
Not just A and E wait times. I’m a police officer and it’s expected that we’ll take people who can be moved and aren’t literally dying there and then to hospital because they’ll wait at least 4 hours for an ambulance to arrive.
Not surprised last time I ended up in a&e it was full of crack heads trying to get prescription pain killers
Hah! I think you mean Winter, spring, summer and autumn.
Ha, I’m reading this while sat in A&E with a partially dislocated shoulder. I’ve not been given a wait time but they assessed me pretty quickly. Then again, it’s the middle of the day on a Thursday.
I’m old enough (as in under 35) to remember mid noughties scandal, SCANDALS, about individuals with long a&e waits. One person having a 10 hour wait could get headlines. The 2005 Tory billboards attacking Labour ineptness with ‘How hard is it to keep a hospital clean?’.
Now….just resignation.
[removed]
I think some of the issues stem from GPs as well and how difficult it is to get a doctors appointment. Some people won’t try for an appointment and inevitably get worse, whilst others perhaps panic and take themselves to A&E for something that could have been solved by a GP or even a pharmacist.
Instead of wasting money on illegal immigrants and asylum please spend money on our NHS instead. Our people die from waiting on the A&E rather than the actual injuries they suffer from. Useless Tory government….
Tory Britain.
British electorate voted for this… Enjoy!!
Currently in QMC with a 14 hour wait time according to the TV and that’s an improvement from 16 hours!
My 85 year old father presented at A&E last week with extreme dizziness and breathlessness. He was assessed after a few hours and told he needed a blood transfusion. He sat in the A&E waiting room for 26 hours before a bed was found in a cubicle. The next day he was moved into a corridor.
In November 2022 my late MIL had a series of falls at home (she lived here). Most the time I could get her up myself but the last but one she was in agony and screamed when I tried to lift her. West Midlands Ambulance Service area… she waited 21 hours for the ambulance and they took her to A&E at Telford (as that supposedly had a shorter wait time than the nearest few hospitals) where she waited another 10 hours in the back of the ambo, another hour on a trolley in A&E. In all that time nobody so much as offered her a sip of water. She was delirious and sliding in and out of consciousness. She had broken her back in two places and cracked numerous ribs. She was discharged after 2 days, but she never recovered and died a fortnight later.
It sounds like if you want to go to A&E these days, by the time you’re seen you’ll either be dead or better.
Remember Brexiteers, you didn’t just vote to get Brexit done, you voted for this too!
I had an accident and went to a&e, they told me to come back the next day as I needed stitches. I got seen 24h after the accident
I took someone to A&E recently, waited about 7 hours, discovered that many who were there had been unable to see a GP and felt they had no alternative
I recently dropped a heavy wooden chopping block edgewise onto my left foot. I knew I had a broken toe from it so rather than waste deity knows how many hours in A&E, I just strapped it to it’s neighbour and started taking paracetomol for the pain. Which is basically what they’d have done in A&E.
Remember at the beginning of Covid when they warned us it would overwhelm the NHS. But it had been overwhelmed for at least a decade prior. Jokes.
It all depends where you live…big cities are busy ….whereas where I live its quiet….the wait is an hour tops regardless of time or day
Mum and dad took their son to see the Crisis team as he was having suicidal thoughts and thoughts about killing people. Sat in A&E for 12 hours waiting to be seen before he ran off. The hospital was quick enough to phone the Police though saying a suicidal teen who lacked capacity and had thoughts of killing others had run away. About 5 Police Officers spent roughly 5 hours looking for him before he was found and sectioned by the Police, 2 officers were with him for around 12 hours whilst he was seen and a MH bed found for him. There’s a reason why officers aren’t going to burglaries and it’s not because they’re investigating mean tweets.
I was in the hospital a couple of weeks back. I went to A&E but was seen within about 2 hours. I went for treatment. I had an x-ray, a couple of CT scans, and some stitches. I was there for 13 hours.
When I was leaving, the woman sat opposite me in A&E was STILL sitting there.
Drunk people not taking responsibility for their drunkeness on weekends probably doesnt help
But let’s squeeze spending and give a re-election tax cut. I despise these Tories more each day
Scary stuff when you live with multiple chronic illnesses