Working for the ambulance service, I can tell you, with no shadow of doubt that the NHS is held together by the good will of the staff.
Also stage 4 cancer patient. Last saturday I developed a fever, not good for someone doing chemo. Rang my specialist nurse assigned to me, she said to come in, got a taxi, went in to the specialist cancer centre, they sat me in a chair, took bloods, made me a cup of tea, duty oncologist turned up 20 minutes later, and put me on a penicillin drip. Hour or so later when it had all gone through they handed me a weeks supply of tablets, and the nurse wheeled me down to the taxi to take me home. Total time in hospital 2 hours.
Anecdotes aren’t data, neither mine nor the author’s.
A&E departments are currently rammed by both staff sickness and high demand (my nurse was giving up her day off the next day to ensure a collegue didn’t have to work alone) but these “the NHS has failed, you need private health care” stories aren’t appearing out of nowhere. There are highly paid PR people working this campaign and placing these stories, and they’re paid by hedge funds and US health care providers who are currently circling our health service like buzzards in a western.
It’s remarkable how empty my A+E ward was during the early covid days.
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Working for the ambulance service, I can tell you, with no shadow of doubt that the NHS is held together by the good will of the staff.
Also stage 4 cancer patient. Last saturday I developed a fever, not good for someone doing chemo. Rang my specialist nurse assigned to me, she said to come in, got a taxi, went in to the specialist cancer centre, they sat me in a chair, took bloods, made me a cup of tea, duty oncologist turned up 20 minutes later, and put me on a penicillin drip. Hour or so later when it had all gone through they handed me a weeks supply of tablets, and the nurse wheeled me down to the taxi to take me home. Total time in hospital 2 hours.
Anecdotes aren’t data, neither mine nor the author’s.
A&E departments are currently rammed by both staff sickness and high demand (my nurse was giving up her day off the next day to ensure a collegue didn’t have to work alone) but these “the NHS has failed, you need private health care” stories aren’t appearing out of nowhere. There are highly paid PR people working this campaign and placing these stories, and they’re paid by hedge funds and US health care providers who are currently circling our health service like buzzards in a western.
It’s remarkable how empty my A+E ward was during the early covid days.