Too many bloody managers and too much waste. It’s shocking how badly managed the NHS is, if they were a private industry, they’d be out of business at the end of the year. The waste is astronomical and yet more and more money is thrown into this burning pit. It needs root and branch reform
Just as is intended. The Tories have been slowly and deliberately crushing the NHS in order to boost support for privatisation. With approval low they can sell off more and more bits of the NHS and promote it as ‘improvement’ and ‘efficiency’ rather than admitting that it’s nothing more than an attempt to line the pockets of various British oligarchs. And the brain dead Tory supporters will lap it up…
NHS – gets the country through a pandemic that it was severely underfunded for
Public – yeah fuck them
Now that COVID is over, “we” (nurses, doctors etc) are just using COVID as an excuse to be lazy is what I have been told by some patients. I mean, didn’t we get all that support year before last and now that we’re getting big pay rises and money from Brexit.
OK, we’re admittedly wasting it all on treating forgeiners, especially Ukranians at the moment… (I’m being sarcastic here, but I get these comments at least once a day)
It is so frustrating that the whole NHS has been taken forgranted and people have allowed this to happen. We’ll still keep on fighting and putting a brave face on every time the clincial staff come under critism.
Meanwhile the government and the accountants will keep pushing for cutbacks and savings
Those very 41% who are dissatisfied will keep voting tory though.
I know of my dying aunt who is adamant that it’s because of all the immigrants working in the NHS (she’s in her 80’s).
She’s had zero post operation (double masectomy) care, her wound is now badly infected and has not been seen by a medical professional for a week since being discharged…. and she got discharged one day after the operation and was pretty much still bleeding because she had a Friday operation and there is nobody to look after her over the weekend so they had to send her home). My sister is a nurse and took a whole week off to look after her in her care home – that’s the extent of post-op care she’s receiving.
Her locum is severely underfunded, there are not enough medical professionals, let alone anybody in her local GP that would even pick up the phone. We had to call a paramedic just to get her seen (to the paramedics ire).
She’s now contracted COVID along with UTI and it’s not looking great for her.
This is orchestrated by the tories so they will have no other choice but to sell it off to their old Eton chums.
Everyone in the UK should now understand that all of our current problems are a result of successive Tory governments over the last 11 years. Time for change.
As someone who briefly worked for the NHS I found that a lot of people working there are incompetent and they know that nobody will ever sack them as long as they turn up to work. Also any criticism is strictly forbidden and if you try to point out any shortcomings in your colleague knowledge everybody will start pulling out their trump card. How can people get better at their job when nobody actually evaluates them. Also the general mentality is “fuck if the state is paying “ about pretty much everything, maybe that’s just me that likes to waste as little as possible because I studied in a country with no founding for hospitals so I probably got used to that.
Are we going to stand booing and beating pans on Thursdays?
^(Wait for a couple of weeks for the weather to warm up)
Should read 12 years of Conservative underfunding of the NHS has caused this. This is a win for the Tories, it’s madness!
Boy, I sure hope that some plucky private companies step up and fix the NHS!
Ah yes but satisfaction was much worse under
*checks notes*
Another Tory government
Well yes, that is what happens after 12 years of a Tory government. People know this and voted for it yes?
It’s not hard to understand when the public are constantly being prevented from seeing their doctors in person.
Put the blame where it belongs, with the Tory Government!
Ultimately, people (predominantly an elderly population) with often are getting stuck in A and E wards with hours and hours of a wait for beds on another ward. A relative of mine with cancer was sat in the ED for 36 hours.
The number of beds has to increase proportionally to the population of elderly. That needs money.
I don’t think management is entirely the issue. Patient Flow managers for example are essential to keep the hospital moving.
But in the same breath, Why did Shrewsbury hospital have such an obsession over ‘natural’ births? Who set those rather arbitrary targets?
I have had to use a private Psychiatrist for the last 7 years. NHS is,well…. Nearly 20 years engaged with services inc formal admission.
I say the NHS is good if you have a car crash and need picked up and attended to. However,comes to severe mental illness ie Bipolar/Shizophrenia. Until folk inc familes are engaged that day/night battling suiicde thoughts or thoughts of harming others which equals a cell usually in my expereince looms.
Added to the Polis line of don’t worry just get your head down you one of our known guets that the NHS should be provided BnB to. Not exactly great!
I think COVID has a lot to do with this too.
I know so many people who’ve had conditions worsened by the pandemic, but are unable to get the treatment they require because COVID has taken priority.
I’m sure some dissatisfaction comes from underfunding for years, but blaming it solely on that really doesn’t help to solve the issues facing the NHS.
As someone who has the luck to be in a family with private care as part of a work package there is 100% a two tier system being created here. Through private a got an appointment I could book online within 24 hours and sent for an MRI which is two weeks away for a knee complaint.
I could have battled through the NHS for this but I have suspected Menieres, I have fainted injuring myself in the process several times and I have just been dismissed by the consultant for that without even seeing me because the NHS is so overburdened and so I know it would be bloody hard work getting through the referrals and waits with my GP.
I feel like a proper shit because I am for doing this but this shouldn’t be the system, everyone should have good healthcare, good schooling and a decent life whatever they can or can’t pay.
Maybe the NHS is like Tinkerbell and now that we all stopped clapping every Thursday, it’s slowly fadding away.
Staff satisfaction is also a whole other level of low
Well they are overworked and underpaid. What a shock.
I was pregnant during the pandemic and then was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer just prior to my due date. The variety and scope of ways in which my care has been mismanaged has been shocking. And the worst part of it is how nobody even wants to acknowledge that any mistakes have been made. Surprise surprise the official complaints office is experiencing high demand due to covid. I’m suspecting that I might be dead before I get answers.
Wonder how much the vaccine rollout has to do with this as the NHS will be strongly linked with it and anti-vaxxers have been seen shouting “shame on you” at nurses IIRC. Whilst it was a few, that’s the vocal minority willing to say something out loud that many others might be thinking.
PUBLIC satisfaction or TORY satisfaction who are just waiting for the nhs to collapse so they can sell it off to private arseholes.
I’ve got so many friends who are entirely UNABLE to get urgent dental care because the NHS practices aren’t “taking on new customers” and are now refusing referrals?
Absolute success in the eyes of the Tory defund, privatise and destroy machine.
It’s really sad seeing the NHS get destroyed in real time and nothing is being done that will actually stop this from happening.
This is exactly what the Tories want! Defund the NHS, make it crap, pave the way for their fat cat cronies to take over as they argue that the private sector would provide a better service.
So everyone is blaming this on Brexit without a mention of Covid.
I just looked it up and in 2019, before covid, satisfaction in the NHS had gone up by 7% that year under the Tory government.
But of course, that doesnt suit the agenda so of course the NHS satisfaction being at its lowest now must be the Tories and Brexits fault and nothing to do with the worldwide pandemic that has put health services across the world under previously unknown stress. The fact is, covid is likely the biggest single factor in this, but the timing of it and all the plans for brexit being thrown into disarray due to the pandemic and coping with the changes certainly didnt help.
Woah, we were all clapping for them once a week last year and now we chuck them under a bus!
They can keep trying but it seems like everyone knows what is really going on back there. Just need someone to officially spell out the privatisated parts of the NHS that is really causing a lot of issues over quality and waiting time.
NHS staff satisfaction is also at it lowest levels.
My recent experience
97 year old nan had a fall and we had to wait 5 hours for an ambulance
My ADHD referral, despite being diagnosed privately, and having the supporting docs and the DR still practicing is a 2 year wait for someone to review just so I can get the meds.
4 months ago I had a clear chest infection. It wasn’t COVID and negative PCR and testing negative for lateral flows. Probably the most unwell I have ever been. I was coughing up green mucus which is an obvious sign. My GP practice wouldn’t prescribe antibiotics and said they could only see me in 12 days time.
Its just shit. I know its down to underfunding but its just frustrating to not be able to sort out the basics
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Point at the real culprits!
Too many bloody managers and too much waste. It’s shocking how badly managed the NHS is, if they were a private industry, they’d be out of business at the end of the year. The waste is astronomical and yet more and more money is thrown into this burning pit. It needs root and branch reform
Just as is intended. The Tories have been slowly and deliberately crushing the NHS in order to boost support for privatisation. With approval low they can sell off more and more bits of the NHS and promote it as ‘improvement’ and ‘efficiency’ rather than admitting that it’s nothing more than an attempt to line the pockets of various British oligarchs. And the brain dead Tory supporters will lap it up…
NHS – gets the country through a pandemic that it was severely underfunded for
Public – yeah fuck them
Now that COVID is over, “we” (nurses, doctors etc) are just using COVID as an excuse to be lazy is what I have been told by some patients. I mean, didn’t we get all that support year before last and now that we’re getting big pay rises and money from Brexit.
OK, we’re admittedly wasting it all on treating forgeiners, especially Ukranians at the moment… (I’m being sarcastic here, but I get these comments at least once a day)
It is so frustrating that the whole NHS has been taken forgranted and people have allowed this to happen. We’ll still keep on fighting and putting a brave face on every time the clincial staff come under critism.
Meanwhile the government and the accountants will keep pushing for cutbacks and savings
Those very 41% who are dissatisfied will keep voting tory though.
I know of my dying aunt who is adamant that it’s because of all the immigrants working in the NHS (she’s in her 80’s).
She’s had zero post operation (double masectomy) care, her wound is now badly infected and has not been seen by a medical professional for a week since being discharged…. and she got discharged one day after the operation and was pretty much still bleeding because she had a Friday operation and there is nobody to look after her over the weekend so they had to send her home). My sister is a nurse and took a whole week off to look after her in her care home – that’s the extent of post-op care she’s receiving.
Her locum is severely underfunded, there are not enough medical professionals, let alone anybody in her local GP that would even pick up the phone. We had to call a paramedic just to get her seen (to the paramedics ire).
She’s now contracted COVID along with UTI and it’s not looking great for her.
This is orchestrated by the tories so they will have no other choice but to sell it off to their old Eton chums.
Everyone in the UK should now understand that all of our current problems are a result of successive Tory governments over the last 11 years. Time for change.
As someone who briefly worked for the NHS I found that a lot of people working there are incompetent and they know that nobody will ever sack them as long as they turn up to work. Also any criticism is strictly forbidden and if you try to point out any shortcomings in your colleague knowledge everybody will start pulling out their trump card. How can people get better at their job when nobody actually evaluates them. Also the general mentality is “fuck if the state is paying “ about pretty much everything, maybe that’s just me that likes to waste as little as possible because I studied in a country with no founding for hospitals so I probably got used to that.
Are we going to stand booing and beating pans on Thursdays?
^(Wait for a couple of weeks for the weather to warm up)
Should read 12 years of Conservative underfunding of the NHS has caused this. This is a win for the Tories, it’s madness!
Boy, I sure hope that some plucky private companies step up and fix the NHS!
Ah yes but satisfaction was much worse under
*checks notes*
Another Tory government
Well yes, that is what happens after 12 years of a Tory government. People know this and voted for it yes?
It’s not hard to understand when the public are constantly being prevented from seeing their doctors in person.
Put the blame where it belongs, with the Tory Government!
Ultimately, people (predominantly an elderly population) with often are getting stuck in A and E wards with hours and hours of a wait for beds on another ward. A relative of mine with cancer was sat in the ED for 36 hours.
The number of beds has to increase proportionally to the population of elderly. That needs money.
I don’t think management is entirely the issue. Patient Flow managers for example are essential to keep the hospital moving.
But in the same breath, Why did Shrewsbury hospital have such an obsession over ‘natural’ births? Who set those rather arbitrary targets?
I have had to use a private Psychiatrist for the last 7 years. NHS is,well…. Nearly 20 years engaged with services inc formal admission.
I say the NHS is good if you have a car crash and need picked up and attended to. However,comes to severe mental illness ie Bipolar/Shizophrenia. Until folk inc familes are engaged that day/night battling suiicde thoughts or thoughts of harming others which equals a cell usually in my expereince looms.
Added to the Polis line of don’t worry just get your head down you one of our known guets that the NHS should be provided BnB to. Not exactly great!
I think COVID has a lot to do with this too.
I know so many people who’ve had conditions worsened by the pandemic, but are unable to get the treatment they require because COVID has taken priority.
I’m sure some dissatisfaction comes from underfunding for years, but blaming it solely on that really doesn’t help to solve the issues facing the NHS.
As someone who has the luck to be in a family with private care as part of a work package there is 100% a two tier system being created here. Through private a got an appointment I could book online within 24 hours and sent for an MRI which is two weeks away for a knee complaint.
I could have battled through the NHS for this but I have suspected Menieres, I have fainted injuring myself in the process several times and I have just been dismissed by the consultant for that without even seeing me because the NHS is so overburdened and so I know it would be bloody hard work getting through the referrals and waits with my GP.
I feel like a proper shit because I am for doing this but this shouldn’t be the system, everyone should have good healthcare, good schooling and a decent life whatever they can or can’t pay.
Maybe the NHS is like Tinkerbell and now that we all stopped clapping every Thursday, it’s slowly fadding away.
Staff satisfaction is also a whole other level of low
Well they are overworked and underpaid. What a shock.
I was pregnant during the pandemic and then was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer just prior to my due date. The variety and scope of ways in which my care has been mismanaged has been shocking. And the worst part of it is how nobody even wants to acknowledge that any mistakes have been made. Surprise surprise the official complaints office is experiencing high demand due to covid. I’m suspecting that I might be dead before I get answers.
Wonder how much the vaccine rollout has to do with this as the NHS will be strongly linked with it and anti-vaxxers have been seen shouting “shame on you” at nurses IIRC. Whilst it was a few, that’s the vocal minority willing to say something out loud that many others might be thinking.
PUBLIC satisfaction or TORY satisfaction who are just waiting for the nhs to collapse so they can sell it off to private arseholes.
I’ve got so many friends who are entirely UNABLE to get urgent dental care because the NHS practices aren’t “taking on new customers” and are now refusing referrals?
Absolute success in the eyes of the Tory defund, privatise and destroy machine.
It’s really sad seeing the NHS get destroyed in real time and nothing is being done that will actually stop this from happening.
This is exactly what the Tories want! Defund the NHS, make it crap, pave the way for their fat cat cronies to take over as they argue that the private sector would provide a better service.
So everyone is blaming this on Brexit without a mention of Covid.
I just looked it up and in 2019, before covid, satisfaction in the NHS had gone up by 7% that year under the Tory government.
But of course, that doesnt suit the agenda so of course the NHS satisfaction being at its lowest now must be the Tories and Brexits fault and nothing to do with the worldwide pandemic that has put health services across the world under previously unknown stress. The fact is, covid is likely the biggest single factor in this, but the timing of it and all the plans for brexit being thrown into disarray due to the pandemic and coping with the changes certainly didnt help.
Woah, we were all clapping for them once a week last year and now we chuck them under a bus!
They can keep trying but it seems like everyone knows what is really going on back there. Just need someone to officially spell out the privatisated parts of the NHS that is really causing a lot of issues over quality and waiting time.
NHS staff satisfaction is also at it lowest levels.
My recent experience
97 year old nan had a fall and we had to wait 5 hours for an ambulance
My ADHD referral, despite being diagnosed privately, and having the supporting docs and the DR still practicing is a 2 year wait for someone to review just so I can get the meds.
4 months ago I had a clear chest infection. It wasn’t COVID and negative PCR and testing negative for lateral flows. Probably the most unwell I have ever been. I was coughing up green mucus which is an obvious sign. My GP practice wouldn’t prescribe antibiotics and said they could only see me in 12 days time.
Its just shit. I know its down to underfunding but its just frustrating to not be able to sort out the basics