This is an awful story but just reveals the NHS is broken. They simply are too overstretched to handle anything but the most critical cases… i hope people direct the blame to the govt rather than the NHS.
The NHS is still at absolute critical breaking point.
Maybe she was listening to 90s boyband Five too much?
Maybe start by asking and being polite rather than going full on “demanding”. A little bit of courtesy goes a long way.
>My wife, 88, spent 7.5 hours on the floor – now I’m demanding answers
Extremist Tory government for 12 years is the answer.
Dear Richard and Maureen please speak to your friends of similar age. 7 out of 10 of your friends voted for the party currently in charge. Your city have voted overwhelmingly for conservative government Julian Knight have won with 58% vote share. Your friends, family and probably you yourself have voted for this. You got exatly what you have voted for.
Fucking comments on the article
>Come one folks ! Let’s blame Boris & a lack of funding for this dreadful story ! Let’s ignore per usual the 2 elephants in the room – bone idol staff that rarely show up ! – and NHS staff that abandon us every week to work their private ‘side jobs’
Why do you think they abandon us every week? Because of underfunding. They are workers not fucking slaves. They go to work where money is better. Fund NHS better increase wages and they won’t “abandon” you.
When people vote for a party that promises that leopards will eat other people’s faces, you’re not voting for a party that will create good infrastructure and let you live your life normally while they are paid to do the boring work of organising. You’re voting for everything to be directed at making sure leopards are eating other people’s faces, and there isn’t time to make life nice for anyone but their donors provided expensive leopards.
Still, I’m sure some day soon we’ll have punished the wrong types enough to get on with the boring work of building communities rather than appealing to people’s worst instincts and letting them feel superior to others they’ve read about in the papers who aren’t as normal as them.
I’ll apologise in advance if I’m wrong, but given the couple’s age and location, and the well documented voting patterns of their entire demographic, it’s likely the case that they’ve both received exactly what they voted for.
Answers? The country voted tory and tories dont care about helping you or any of the other poors not in private healthcare. The tories have decimated nurse and doctors numbers and let their wages stagnate for years, so we dont have enough to even pick your wife up off the floor if there was a bed for her.
Something similar happened to my mother (90), when she had a fall.
She managed to ring my brother who lives nearby, but got triaged into a six hour wait for treatment.
I just read the article and my Mum’s case was not as severe. Waiting til 4 in the morning to get treatment was still stressful.
Not just Birmingham.
Same thing is happening in towns and cities right across the South.
It’s the entire UK.
The NHS is overwhelmed, and the stories are being swept under the rug to prevent the economy descending into chaos.
Would you engage in dangerous jobs if you thought it might take 8 hours for an ambulance to arrive?
Probably not.
IS throwing more money at the NHS the answer, quite possibly not.
Working where the current funding is going and why could be a lot more helpful in sorting out the NHS and making it work better. This was a point put forward in a book I read many many years ago called the The Health Scandal.
People blaming the Tories appear to overlook that the decline of the NHS has been going on for a long long time, it is not a new thing. Both political parties can be blamed.
If there was a genuine desire to sort out the NHS, then it would be done but there isn’t certainly not by anyone who has been in a position to do so over the last few decades.
Sorry Richard, but you can blame this on all your peers that repeatedly vote tory.
Boy lives in a Tory stronghold with a predominantly elderly population. I don’t think he’s going to get the kind of answers he’s after.
They want an answer that doesn’t begin with “did you vote Tory at any point in the last 10 years?”
I get it the tories are bad, Boris is bad all MPs are bad but so are labour it’s not just the tories that has fucked up the NHS in the last 6 years of labours leadership we lost about 26,000 beds from the NHS.
Edit. Touch a nerve if a few did I! You all seem to forget labour are just as bad as the tories. Doesn’t matter who’s in charge we will get screwed over.
The Ambulance service is on it’s knees and nothing seems to be being done about it.
First of all. Did you vote for Tories at the last election?. If you did, then you’ve only got yourself to blame. Don’t blame the NHS or the Ambulance service, blame yourself and the Tories. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that the way it is. If you didn’t vote for the Tories, still don’t blame the NHS or Ambulance services, just blame the Tories and the people that voted for them.
Unbelievable that an elderly person who was losing blood had to wait any time at all. Disgusting.
Vote Tory = Get Toried.
I used to work in care. This is a faster ambulance response time than some of them I’ve seen. Disgusting.
Too busy wasting resources on drunks I guess.
Honestly the lack of empathy from this thread is just making me sad for humanity at this point.
We can all agree two things:
1) no matter how we vote we are all human beings and deserve to be treated as such
2) you cannot make assumptions about a whole demographic based on what you “think” they have voted for – it’s baseless and stupid. Quite frankly it’s also offensive, I know plenty of “boomers” (hate that phrase but that’s another story) who vote and have always voted for Labour. Stop generalising people based on characteristics alone.
If your first thought here isn’t empathy then you need to have a word with yourself. In 50 years young people will be bashing millennials or gen z and complaining we ruined their lives, so is the circle of life. Get over yourselves and show some humanity.
Long rant but this sub really is infuriating at times!
My god there are some mindblowingly idiotic people in this comment section.
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Strong Tory voting area.
That’s your answer.
Perhaps she wanted a sit down?
This is an awful story but just reveals the NHS is broken. They simply are too overstretched to handle anything but the most critical cases… i hope people direct the blame to the govt rather than the NHS.
The NHS is still at absolute critical breaking point.
Maybe she was listening to 90s boyband Five too much?
https://youtu.be/qZUn-KtTNmA
Maybe start by asking and being polite rather than going full on “demanding”. A little bit of courtesy goes a long way.
>My wife, 88, spent 7.5 hours on the floor – now I’m demanding answers
Extremist Tory government for 12 years is the answer.
Dear Richard and Maureen please speak to your friends of similar age. 7 out of 10 of your friends voted for the party currently in charge. Your city have voted overwhelmingly for conservative government Julian Knight have won with 58% vote share. Your friends, family and probably you yourself have voted for this. You got exatly what you have voted for.
Fucking comments on the article
>Come one folks ! Let’s blame Boris & a lack of funding for this dreadful story ! Let’s ignore per usual the 2 elephants in the room – bone idol staff that rarely show up ! – and NHS staff that abandon us every week to work their private ‘side jobs’
Why do you think they abandon us every week? Because of underfunding. They are workers not fucking slaves. They go to work where money is better. Fund NHS better increase wages and they won’t “abandon” you.
When people vote for a party that promises that leopards will eat other people’s faces, you’re not voting for a party that will create good infrastructure and let you live your life normally while they are paid to do the boring work of organising. You’re voting for everything to be directed at making sure leopards are eating other people’s faces, and there isn’t time to make life nice for anyone but their donors provided expensive leopards.
Still, I’m sure some day soon we’ll have punished the wrong types enough to get on with the boring work of building communities rather than appealing to people’s worst instincts and letting them feel superior to others they’ve read about in the papers who aren’t as normal as them.
I’ll apologise in advance if I’m wrong, but given the couple’s age and location, and the well documented voting patterns of their entire demographic, it’s likely the case that they’ve both received exactly what they voted for.
Answers? The country voted tory and tories dont care about helping you or any of the other poors not in private healthcare. The tories have decimated nurse and doctors numbers and let their wages stagnate for years, so we dont have enough to even pick your wife up off the floor if there was a bed for her.
Something similar happened to my mother (90), when she had a fall.
She managed to ring my brother who lives nearby, but got triaged into a six hour wait for treatment.
I just read the article and my Mum’s case was not as severe. Waiting til 4 in the morning to get treatment was still stressful.
Not just Birmingham.
Same thing is happening in towns and cities right across the South.
It’s the entire UK.
The NHS is overwhelmed, and the stories are being swept under the rug to prevent the economy descending into chaos.
Would you engage in dangerous jobs if you thought it might take 8 hours for an ambulance to arrive?
Probably not.
IS throwing more money at the NHS the answer, quite possibly not.
Working where the current funding is going and why could be a lot more helpful in sorting out the NHS and making it work better. This was a point put forward in a book I read many many years ago called the The Health Scandal.
People blaming the Tories appear to overlook that the decline of the NHS has been going on for a long long time, it is not a new thing. Both political parties can be blamed.
If there was a genuine desire to sort out the NHS, then it would be done but there isn’t certainly not by anyone who has been in a position to do so over the last few decades.
Sorry Richard, but you can blame this on all your peers that repeatedly vote tory.
Boy lives in a Tory stronghold with a predominantly elderly population. I don’t think he’s going to get the kind of answers he’s after.
They want an answer that doesn’t begin with “did you vote Tory at any point in the last 10 years?”
I get it the tories are bad, Boris is bad all MPs are bad but so are labour it’s not just the tories that has fucked up the NHS in the last 6 years of labours leadership we lost about 26,000 beds from the NHS.
Edit. Touch a nerve if a few did I! You all seem to forget labour are just as bad as the tories. Doesn’t matter who’s in charge we will get screwed over.
The Ambulance service is on it’s knees and nothing seems to be being done about it.
First of all. Did you vote for Tories at the last election?. If you did, then you’ve only got yourself to blame. Don’t blame the NHS or the Ambulance service, blame yourself and the Tories. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but that the way it is. If you didn’t vote for the Tories, still don’t blame the NHS or Ambulance services, just blame the Tories and the people that voted for them.
Unbelievable that an elderly person who was losing blood had to wait any time at all. Disgusting.
Vote Tory = Get Toried.
I used to work in care. This is a faster ambulance response time than some of them I’ve seen. Disgusting.
Too busy wasting resources on drunks I guess.
Honestly the lack of empathy from this thread is just making me sad for humanity at this point.
We can all agree two things:
1) no matter how we vote we are all human beings and deserve to be treated as such
2) you cannot make assumptions about a whole demographic based on what you “think” they have voted for – it’s baseless and stupid. Quite frankly it’s also offensive, I know plenty of “boomers” (hate that phrase but that’s another story) who vote and have always voted for Labour. Stop generalising people based on characteristics alone.
If your first thought here isn’t empathy then you need to have a word with yourself. In 50 years young people will be bashing millennials or gen z and complaining we ruined their lives, so is the circle of life. Get over yourselves and show some humanity.
Long rant but this sub really is infuriating at times!
My god there are some mindblowingly idiotic people in this comment section.