What a travesty. Kids with breathing problems turned away.
Look at what this country has done to itself.
Blame the Tories and disgusting people who voted them in to power.
That is some atrocious journalism.
“One doctor said child patients were being transferred to his London hospital from Wales because there were no PICU (paediatric intensive care unit) beds available anywhere in England south of Stoke.”
Last time I checked, London was south of Stoke, and England is not Wales. Logically, that statement makes absolutely no sense, and must include at least one mistake or omission.
But it sounds like a disaster. PICU demand is reasonably predictable, it is not caused by bed blocking, and it is politically sensitive. So why do we not have enough PICU beds?
I’m currently sat in a hospital as I write this. I came for a consultation.
It’s like a ghost town. There’s nobody – not a single person – on reception. I arrived 10 minutes early but then got sent 3 times to the wrong part of the hospital by kindly staff who just spotted I was looking lost. The text message I received directed me to a certain department, but the staff I spoke to had no idea what it meant. It’s called something else in the hospital itself and I actually just ended up in general outpatients eventually. The consultant I saw was excellent and the nurse calling us in apologised to me for keeping me waiting 10 minutes. I explained to her they have nothing to apologise for.
I’ve had to direct 3 other members of the public myself who had turned up, couldn’t figure out where to go and were getting distressed. 4 now, as another arrived as I write this. Actually 5. Another just needed my help too (I keep editing this).
I’m currently sat next to 3 vending machines. 2 are broken, with out of order signs dated early October. The 1 that works is half empty.
Whenever I interact with the NHS, the staff are incredible. My son has had over a dozen operations in 8 years at Great Ormond St and every single person that works there has been fantastic.
But the system around them is crumbling. My consultation is over 1 year late due to delays. Nurses are about to stage the biggest strike in NHS history. My sister in law is a surgeon in the NHS and is at breaking point. My mother and father in law both retired from the NHS and were in complete despair at its future by the end.
Our government seems to have no concrete plan to address any of this and they need to be held accountable. We need a change and whoever comes in needs to be held accountable at a public level with regular reports, not this lurching from crisis to crisis approach we have now.
I genuinely want to take to the streets right now, we need more of a movement. I see this kind of tragedy constantly in my work and it needs to stop. Whose door can we bang on?
His name was Yusuf Nazir and the Tories killed him.
I’m a GP. NHS is screwed. This winter is going to be the tipping point, I think.
CONSERVATIVE POLICIES ARE KILLING OUR KIDS
FUND THE NHS
Feels like Tories look at where America fails and says “We’ll show them how to do it right”…and just proves a bad idea is a bad idea. NHS is starting to be American healthcare. Tories need to be removed by ALL means necessary.
So where was the error, is the question. Is tonsillitis something that the NHS usually hospitalizes children for? Does the responsibility lie with the doctor in A&E who sent them home?
A&E doctors are entirely capable of saying “This person needs to be hospitalized” and making that happen, if not there then at a different hospital. They didn’t so clearly they didn’t consider it to be that serious on inspection.
The article doesn’t say what period of time passed between being sent home with antibiotics and being sent by ambulance to a pediatric team. So was it a day, two weeks? Was it a case of parents not getting him a check up?
I’d be super careful about jumping the shark and trusting the headline on this one tbh.
Everyone kicking off about this death (and rightly so) but the majority of you are still walking around unmasked and spreading Covid and killing/disabling kids with that. Lol.
Covid = Long Covid = beds filled up to capacity = kids being sent away to die.
Don’t whine about this happening if you’re not wearing a mask.
Well that’s Tory britain for you. If you don’t want your child to die because there isn’t enough healthcare funding, and there aren’t enough doctors and nurses to provide it any more anyway, then you shouldn’t have chosen to be too poor to afford private.
Still, even if you’re poor (for some bizarre reason), it was all well worth it to own the libs and show Europe who’s who.
This must be extremely regional. I’ve been to the hospital twice in the last fortnight with a four year old presenting with similar symptoms (could be a serious, life threatening infection, could be nasty but standard winter 4yo illness, urgently needs someone who knows what they’re doing to assess which). On both occasions we were triaged immediately, assessed within an hour, and on a ward within 4. Admittedly I’d have raised hell if they’d wanted to send her home, but it doesn’t sound like this poor baby’s parents were passive about it either. But it mentions Sheffield Children’s hospital, and we’re near Chesterfield, so actually they’re probably at least relatively nearby.
Own this shit each and every tory voter, this is YOUR fault!
Not really enough information for all the outrage surely….
If he was sent home, they 100% didn’t think it was very serious.
hmmmmm i wonder why our hospitals are so full? i wonder who it is taking up all the space?
My local hospital is currently diverting children to another hospital 50 miles away because they’re overwhelmed.
this is what 12 years of tory bullshit has done to us
This is why NHS workers need to strike, its only going to get worse.
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“Family Says”?!, What really happened?
Fucking hell.
What a travesty. Kids with breathing problems turned away.
Look at what this country has done to itself.
Blame the Tories and disgusting people who voted them in to power.
That is some atrocious journalism.
“One doctor said child patients were being transferred to his London hospital from Wales because there were no PICU (paediatric intensive care unit) beds available anywhere in England south of Stoke.”
Last time I checked, London was south of Stoke, and England is not Wales. Logically, that statement makes absolutely no sense, and must include at least one mistake or omission.
But it sounds like a disaster. PICU demand is reasonably predictable, it is not caused by bed blocking, and it is politically sensitive. So why do we not have enough PICU beds?
I’m currently sat in a hospital as I write this. I came for a consultation.
It’s like a ghost town. There’s nobody – not a single person – on reception. I arrived 10 minutes early but then got sent 3 times to the wrong part of the hospital by kindly staff who just spotted I was looking lost. The text message I received directed me to a certain department, but the staff I spoke to had no idea what it meant. It’s called something else in the hospital itself and I actually just ended up in general outpatients eventually. The consultant I saw was excellent and the nurse calling us in apologised to me for keeping me waiting 10 minutes. I explained to her they have nothing to apologise for.
I’ve had to direct 3 other members of the public myself who had turned up, couldn’t figure out where to go and were getting distressed. 4 now, as another arrived as I write this. Actually 5. Another just needed my help too (I keep editing this).
I’m currently sat next to 3 vending machines. 2 are broken, with out of order signs dated early October. The 1 that works is half empty.
Whenever I interact with the NHS, the staff are incredible. My son has had over a dozen operations in 8 years at Great Ormond St and every single person that works there has been fantastic.
But the system around them is crumbling. My consultation is over 1 year late due to delays. Nurses are about to stage the biggest strike in NHS history. My sister in law is a surgeon in the NHS and is at breaking point. My mother and father in law both retired from the NHS and were in complete despair at its future by the end.
Our government seems to have no concrete plan to address any of this and they need to be held accountable. We need a change and whoever comes in needs to be held accountable at a public level with regular reports, not this lurching from crisis to crisis approach we have now.
I genuinely want to take to the streets right now, we need more of a movement. I see this kind of tragedy constantly in my work and it needs to stop. Whose door can we bang on?
His name was Yusuf Nazir and the Tories killed him.
I’m a GP. NHS is screwed. This winter is going to be the tipping point, I think.
CONSERVATIVE POLICIES ARE KILLING OUR KIDS
FUND THE NHS
Feels like Tories look at where America fails and says “We’ll show them how to do it right”…and just proves a bad idea is a bad idea. NHS is starting to be American healthcare. Tories need to be removed by ALL means necessary.
So where was the error, is the question. Is tonsillitis something that the NHS usually hospitalizes children for? Does the responsibility lie with the doctor in A&E who sent them home?
A&E doctors are entirely capable of saying “This person needs to be hospitalized” and making that happen, if not there then at a different hospital. They didn’t so clearly they didn’t consider it to be that serious on inspection.
The article doesn’t say what period of time passed between being sent home with antibiotics and being sent by ambulance to a pediatric team. So was it a day, two weeks? Was it a case of parents not getting him a check up?
I’d be super careful about jumping the shark and trusting the headline on this one tbh.
Everyone kicking off about this death (and rightly so) but the majority of you are still walking around unmasked and spreading Covid and killing/disabling kids with that. Lol.
Covid = Long Covid = beds filled up to capacity = kids being sent away to die.
Don’t whine about this happening if you’re not wearing a mask.
Well that’s Tory britain for you. If you don’t want your child to die because there isn’t enough healthcare funding, and there aren’t enough doctors and nurses to provide it any more anyway, then you shouldn’t have chosen to be too poor to afford private.
Still, even if you’re poor (for some bizarre reason), it was all well worth it to own the libs and show Europe who’s who.
This must be extremely regional. I’ve been to the hospital twice in the last fortnight with a four year old presenting with similar symptoms (could be a serious, life threatening infection, could be nasty but standard winter 4yo illness, urgently needs someone who knows what they’re doing to assess which). On both occasions we were triaged immediately, assessed within an hour, and on a ward within 4. Admittedly I’d have raised hell if they’d wanted to send her home, but it doesn’t sound like this poor baby’s parents were passive about it either. But it mentions Sheffield Children’s hospital, and we’re near Chesterfield, so actually they’re probably at least relatively nearby.
Own this shit each and every tory voter, this is YOUR fault!
Not really enough information for all the outrage surely….
If he was sent home, they 100% didn’t think it was very serious.
hmmmmm i wonder why our hospitals are so full? i wonder who it is taking up all the space?
My local hospital is currently diverting children to another hospital 50 miles away because they’re overwhelmed.
this is what 12 years of tory bullshit has done to us
This is why NHS workers need to strike, its only going to get worse.