NHS isn’t fit for purpose, it needs a massive overhaul to cut the bloat and wastage.
I’m a paediatric psychologist, and I am done. There are currently 266 young people on our waiting list waiting to be seen by me and one part-time colleague. We’re repeatedly told to only offer six weeks of therapy (regardless of presentation), all the time being expected to see ever more complexity. The system is broken, beyond repair.
I have had a life long passion for the NHS, but I am increasingly convinced I need to either jump across to private practice or abandon clinical work in favour of something more academic.
I wonder how many medical professionals vote Conservative.
Who in gods name is suggesting let alone claiming that the NHS ‘coped’ with Covid?
Sure hospitals didn’t burn down and people still turned up to work but ‘coped’? Just how bad would things have to have got in order not to cope?
Mu own experience? It took nearly 5 days from calling an ambulance after a heart attack to get onto a cardiac ward – Previously 10 years ago it took an afternoon. Most of that time was on a gurney “parked” in a disused office. That was at the start of November. As an emergency patent, I’m still waiting to get my stents refitted.
Sure the NHS kept going through desperate circumstances, but coped? Disaster management is was a long way from coping.
It really is grim. Moral is super low amongst staff, locally we have had beds cut from elective specialities and instead patients are sent off to the private sector for surgery. It just further limits investment within the actual NHS service.
We are still closing wards when a patient tests positive for covid, which makes things hard when the emergancy department is full of people on trollies but we cannot admit them as the ward is closed…
NHS has already collapsed. There will never be a headline that says “NHS has finally collapsed”. It’s on its knees and will ever be on its knees
Only thing about the NHS that coped is the staff who are coping with severe underpay, thunderous applause that amounted to no pay rise and a government who’s spent the last 10 years gutting them only for said government to start bragging about its efficacy.
I went on a crisis mental health retreat 4 years ago, i was in a mess, every other person bar 1 was something in the nhs or care industry, i have a feeling covid was just the last straw
i only recently joined the NHS mid-pandemic
sooooo many people have left, there’s never enough staff to do the work
people are doing their best to be up-beat but, really, morale is through the floor.
Cope – hahahahhahahaha. I’m a biomedical scientist. I’m young (ish). Even I was fucking done come last summer – full burnout (I’m never going back unless the pay doubles and sadly that was the same for dozens of collegues in my Trust that weren’t replaced). Nevermind the older (more experienced and knowledgable) members of the team, most of them were leaving due to stress before the pandemic hit – one of them even left to go work on a til at Aldi summer 2020. Why? Because they were more flexible with childcare and paid more than you get as Biomedical Scientist in the NHS. The public can’t even fathom the pressures for everyone in the NHS and the realities of the recruitment crisis nevermind the impacts of the pandemic on the running of the NHS going forward.
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‘coped’?! It’s still ongoing, regardless of whether Boris wants to acknowledge it or not. Our numbers have doubled (infections and hospitalisations) over the last few weeks and from the 1st April we’re not sure how we’re going to continue working without LFTs and no guidance still from govt.
I think it’s always been drowning. Most of the doctors and nurses have been pathetic rude arrogant non caring individuals . There were a small amount that were very kind. Most of them are jobs worths, especially the nurses and 101 lot. Don’t get me wrong I’m very very greatful for the free health care but when they’re absolutely rude to your faces and skip you needed scans etc advised by 101, they ask you why did you come here. Then they talk about you like you’re an animal. 101 was filthy also. Definitely because I’m not white. Saw the hate on her face. The other staff were disgusting also on other visits. Perhaps this is a tactic to reduce the number of people coming in, I don’t know. What I know is it’s filthy.
Now I avoid the doctors and gps as much as I can.
I feel so bad for the NHS. You guys got royally ruined and the only appreciation you lot received was some applause by everyone for a few minutes two years back.
It’s no surprise people are leaving en masse, either NHS and or the kingdom itself.
It’s the same as any other shitty set up – police, social services, care homes, and so on.
You do your best to maintain service levels under pressure from budget cuts / staffing issues / whatever and before you know it that’s the norm. Every fucking day is that overworked underfunded norm and eventually the goodness of people runs out and those people are hollow shells, treated like actual Human Resources, like biological batteries.
And then, because that lower level has become the norm, then there’s always further budget cuts to come.
The NHS survived, that is very different from coping though. The backlog is immense, staff are either leaving or off sick from stress, patients are turning up in record numbers and in poorer health. The reality is that the NHS will take years to heal from the pandemic, even longer when you consider the money the government is not going to provide it to deal with the backlog and recruitment crisis.
I’ve seen so many ex NHS nurses and auxiliaries switching to the care sector, and many of them are broken and are clearly experiencing forms of mental damage from the last two years. It’s depressing that that the people we turn to for healing are being left to see themselves torn to shreds by the incompetence of government.
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NHS isn’t fit for purpose, it needs a massive overhaul to cut the bloat and wastage.
I’m a paediatric psychologist, and I am done. There are currently 266 young people on our waiting list waiting to be seen by me and one part-time colleague. We’re repeatedly told to only offer six weeks of therapy (regardless of presentation), all the time being expected to see ever more complexity. The system is broken, beyond repair.
I have had a life long passion for the NHS, but I am increasingly convinced I need to either jump across to private practice or abandon clinical work in favour of something more academic.
I wonder how many medical professionals vote Conservative.
Who in gods name is suggesting let alone claiming that the NHS ‘coped’ with Covid?
Sure hospitals didn’t burn down and people still turned up to work but ‘coped’? Just how bad would things have to have got in order not to cope?
Mu own experience? It took nearly 5 days from calling an ambulance after a heart attack to get onto a cardiac ward – Previously 10 years ago it took an afternoon. Most of that time was on a gurney “parked” in a disused office. That was at the start of November. As an emergency patent, I’m still waiting to get my stents refitted.
Sure the NHS kept going through desperate circumstances, but coped? Disaster management is was a long way from coping.
It really is grim. Moral is super low amongst staff, locally we have had beds cut from elective specialities and instead patients are sent off to the private sector for surgery. It just further limits investment within the actual NHS service.
We are still closing wards when a patient tests positive for covid, which makes things hard when the emergancy department is full of people on trollies but we cannot admit them as the ward is closed…
NHS has already collapsed. There will never be a headline that says “NHS has finally collapsed”. It’s on its knees and will ever be on its knees
Only thing about the NHS that coped is the staff who are coping with severe underpay, thunderous applause that amounted to no pay rise and a government who’s spent the last 10 years gutting them only for said government to start bragging about its efficacy.
I went on a crisis mental health retreat 4 years ago, i was in a mess, every other person bar 1 was something in the nhs or care industry, i have a feeling covid was just the last straw
i only recently joined the NHS mid-pandemic
sooooo many people have left, there’s never enough staff to do the work
people are doing their best to be up-beat but, really, morale is through the floor.
Cope – hahahahhahahaha. I’m a biomedical scientist. I’m young (ish). Even I was fucking done come last summer – full burnout (I’m never going back unless the pay doubles and sadly that was the same for dozens of collegues in my Trust that weren’t replaced). Nevermind the older (more experienced and knowledgable) members of the team, most of them were leaving due to stress before the pandemic hit – one of them even left to go work on a til at Aldi summer 2020. Why? Because they were more flexible with childcare and paid more than you get as Biomedical Scientist in the NHS. The public can’t even fathom the pressures for everyone in the NHS and the realities of the recruitment crisis nevermind the impacts of the pandemic on the running of the NHS going forward.
Edit – words
‘coped’?! It’s still ongoing, regardless of whether Boris wants to acknowledge it or not. Our numbers have doubled (infections and hospitalisations) over the last few weeks and from the 1st April we’re not sure how we’re going to continue working without LFTs and no guidance still from govt.
I think it’s always been drowning. Most of the doctors and nurses have been pathetic rude arrogant non caring individuals . There were a small amount that were very kind. Most of them are jobs worths, especially the nurses and 101 lot. Don’t get me wrong I’m very very greatful for the free health care but when they’re absolutely rude to your faces and skip you needed scans etc advised by 101, they ask you why did you come here. Then they talk about you like you’re an animal. 101 was filthy also. Definitely because I’m not white. Saw the hate on her face. The other staff were disgusting also on other visits. Perhaps this is a tactic to reduce the number of people coming in, I don’t know. What I know is it’s filthy.
Now I avoid the doctors and gps as much as I can.
I feel so bad for the NHS. You guys got royally ruined and the only appreciation you lot received was some applause by everyone for a few minutes two years back.
It’s no surprise people are leaving en masse, either NHS and or the kingdom itself.
It’s the same as any other shitty set up – police, social services, care homes, and so on.
You do your best to maintain service levels under pressure from budget cuts / staffing issues / whatever and before you know it that’s the norm. Every fucking day is that overworked underfunded norm and eventually the goodness of people runs out and those people are hollow shells, treated like actual Human Resources, like biological batteries.
And then, because that lower level has become the norm, then there’s always further budget cuts to come.
The NHS survived, that is very different from coping though. The backlog is immense, staff are either leaving or off sick from stress, patients are turning up in record numbers and in poorer health. The reality is that the NHS will take years to heal from the pandemic, even longer when you consider the money the government is not going to provide it to deal with the backlog and recruitment crisis.
I’ve seen so many ex NHS nurses and auxiliaries switching to the care sector, and many of them are broken and are clearly experiencing forms of mental damage from the last two years. It’s depressing that that the people we turn to for healing are being left to see themselves torn to shreds by the incompetence of government.