Seems that it’s due to problems staffing and perhaps the need for national convalescent type homes to move patients into who might need more than care staff but less than hospital staff, or just more normal care homes or home care so that we can release beds. The pandemic just made those things more obvious?
As far as I am aware currently if you need certain types of operation you might have to wait a very long time or you can pay and have the same surgeon perhaps using an NHS theatre etc do it practically next week? I may be exaggerating but at least that seemed to be the case with my mums knee op. Something seems off about that.
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This ‘Pandemic of Tory Parasites’ (POTP) has been infesting the NHS & the country for far too long.
The only real cure is a UK General Election ASAP
Right that makes sense, because it was all ticking along just fine until 2020
We’re still IN the pandemic so why are there no HEPA filters in schools and workplaces? Why are most companies dragging their employees back to an office to work? Why aren’t masks mandatory in hospitals and doctors offices at the bare minimum? Where’s the awareness about Long Covid and treatments for that?
The party of personal responsibility……..blaming someone else…**Again**
You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh!
Roughly a third of patients in a hospital bed are fit for discharge but have nowhere to go
So it’s not because the government deliberately chooses not to spend money training any more doctors, instead relying on them from overseas? And then deciding to leave Europe thus cutting off our supply of cheap, ready qualified staff without a considered plan in place?
Steve ‘Brexit hard man’ Barclay, another absolute moron Tory MP that never thought through his xenophobia, plunged the country into this absolute shit show, and now will not admit anything is down to his complete stupidity. Now in charge of the country’s health service.
Lies lies lies it’s corporate greed and dodgy rich people again! If someone does a bad job they get fired, why are these people still employed when everything is in the shitter? They made money off this shitfuckery, they should pay for it. I bet none of their multiple houses will be cold this winter
Politics latest: Health Secretary gets a black eye.
It’s down to health tourism, stop being scared and tell the truth, we are inundated with cunts coming here and abusing our nhs
There’s no denying that COVID has placed a huge strain on the NHS, it’s workforce, and created massive back logs, but if it was funded properly to begin with, and health and social care were better joined up, we would be a in a much better position than we are now.
The elephant in the room is the Brexit has likely seen many NHS leave staff and also made it harder to recruit, but you’ll never get a Tory minister admit it.
Let’s have it right – the NHS is in a state because of 12 years of the Tories.
The Tory party are like Putin’s lot. They spin some narrative that blames everyone else when it is precisely the fault of the Tory government.
Unfortunately, like in Russia, there are the witless Tory voters who believe this shit without question.
Britain can’t afford to have these clowns in power for much longer. They’ll be laughing over cigars and cocktails in their offshore tax havens while Britain stews in the misery brought about by venal twats in government.
He’s a liar, it’s down to 13 years of Tory austerity and miss management!
So, which government decided to respond to the pandemic by locking down the economy? Who created a huge NHS backlog?
Front line NHS here. It is of course nothing to do with the pandemic from an acute perspective now. Waiting lists etc I’m sure are still affected and will be for years to come.
This winter is shaping up to be the worst on record. Massive queues in A&E, patients lining the corridors on trolleys (some of which are seen, treated and discharged all from the corridor) and staff walking around with dead eyes asking each other how we will get through it and discussing their front line exit plans. Meanwhile patients die on the daily in the community waiting for ambulances (who can’t come because they are stuck at A&E, unable to offload their patients).
We can’t keep going like this. When I think about it too much I could cry. I know everyone feels the same, it’s breaking us.
He would say that, but every one knows it’s down to the Tories, nothing more, nothing less. Tories want to destroy it, so that they can make it private, the last industry to take total control of the working people.
Nothing to do with plandemic , it’s to do with Tory scum underfunding the NHS to such a point of no return that it’ll end up being sold off through the back door to private US companies.
The national pandemic of underfunding vitally important services, if you starved budgets don’t expect perfect health!!
No. It is due to twelve years of systematic mismanagement, underfunding and a culture of pointless ‘reforms’ that serve to do nothing but leech money out of healthcare and into share dividends.
If the ongoing NHS problems were solely due to the pandemic they would be improving with time. The current pressures are getting worse with time. It’s not related to the pandemic, it’s related to piss poor management at a governmental level.
Obviously the Pandemic is something that cannot be ignored, especially at initial outbreak.
Neither can one ignore the continued cases.
However, NHS was still understaffed then. Its gotten worse.
Stands were higher too before the Brexit, as early morning shift workers from EU value amongst other Industries was undermined.
One has to look at waiting list before the Pandemic and now.
Obviously ‘ Mental illness’, too increased.
On a slight tangent, the government mishandled the pandemic.
It continues to mishandle the pandemic when what it should be doing is encouraging the population to accept COVID is now endemic and something to co-exist with just like Flu, or Cold, or Measles.
It is not incumbent on the NHS to adapt to one privileged virus. It is incumbent on the population to have higher standards of hygiene and respect for others.
One of the reasons the NHS is at creaking at the welds is because it has relieved the public of any self responsibility in the way of self care and preservation.
Oh boy Steve, it sure would be awkward for you if there were horrendous ambulance wait times pre pandemic
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Seems that it’s due to problems staffing and perhaps the need for national convalescent type homes to move patients into who might need more than care staff but less than hospital staff, or just more normal care homes or home care so that we can release beds. The pandemic just made those things more obvious?
As far as I am aware currently if you need certain types of operation you might have to wait a very long time or you can pay and have the same surgeon perhaps using an NHS theatre etc do it practically next week? I may be exaggerating but at least that seemed to be the case with my mums knee op. Something seems off about that.
[removed]
This ‘Pandemic of Tory Parasites’ (POTP) has been infesting the NHS & the country for far too long.
The only real cure is a UK General Election ASAP
Right that makes sense, because it was all ticking along just fine until 2020
We’re still IN the pandemic so why are there no HEPA filters in schools and workplaces? Why are most companies dragging their employees back to an office to work? Why aren’t masks mandatory in hospitals and doctors offices at the bare minimum? Where’s the awareness about Long Covid and treatments for that?
The party of personal responsibility……..blaming someone else…**Again**
You would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh!
Roughly a third of patients in a hospital bed are fit for discharge but have nowhere to go
So it’s not because the government deliberately chooses not to spend money training any more doctors, instead relying on them from overseas? And then deciding to leave Europe thus cutting off our supply of cheap, ready qualified staff without a considered plan in place?
Steve ‘Brexit hard man’ Barclay, another absolute moron Tory MP that never thought through his xenophobia, plunged the country into this absolute shit show, and now will not admit anything is down to his complete stupidity. Now in charge of the country’s health service.
Lies lies lies it’s corporate greed and dodgy rich people again! If someone does a bad job they get fired, why are these people still employed when everything is in the shitter? They made money off this shitfuckery, they should pay for it. I bet none of their multiple houses will be cold this winter
Politics latest: Health Secretary gets a black eye.
It’s down to health tourism, stop being scared and tell the truth, we are inundated with cunts coming here and abusing our nhs
There’s no denying that COVID has placed a huge strain on the NHS, it’s workforce, and created massive back logs, but if it was funded properly to begin with, and health and social care were better joined up, we would be a in a much better position than we are now.
The elephant in the room is the Brexit has likely seen many NHS leave staff and also made it harder to recruit, but you’ll never get a Tory minister admit it.
Let’s have it right – the NHS is in a state because of 12 years of the Tories.
The Tory party are like Putin’s lot. They spin some narrative that blames everyone else when it is precisely the fault of the Tory government.
Unfortunately, like in Russia, there are the witless Tory voters who believe this shit without question.
Britain can’t afford to have these clowns in power for much longer. They’ll be laughing over cigars and cocktails in their offshore tax havens while Britain stews in the misery brought about by venal twats in government.
He’s a liar, it’s down to 13 years of Tory austerity and miss management!
So, which government decided to respond to the pandemic by locking down the economy? Who created a huge NHS backlog?
Front line NHS here. It is of course nothing to do with the pandemic from an acute perspective now. Waiting lists etc I’m sure are still affected and will be for years to come.
This winter is shaping up to be the worst on record. Massive queues in A&E, patients lining the corridors on trolleys (some of which are seen, treated and discharged all from the corridor) and staff walking around with dead eyes asking each other how we will get through it and discussing their front line exit plans. Meanwhile patients die on the daily in the community waiting for ambulances (who can’t come because they are stuck at A&E, unable to offload their patients).
We can’t keep going like this. When I think about it too much I could cry. I know everyone feels the same, it’s breaking us.
He would say that, but every one knows it’s down to the Tories, nothing more, nothing less. Tories want to destroy it, so that they can make it private, the last industry to take total control of the working people.
Nothing to do with plandemic , it’s to do with Tory scum underfunding the NHS to such a point of no return that it’ll end up being sold off through the back door to private US companies.
The national pandemic of underfunding vitally important services, if you starved budgets don’t expect perfect health!!
No. It is due to twelve years of systematic mismanagement, underfunding and a culture of pointless ‘reforms’ that serve to do nothing but leech money out of healthcare and into share dividends.
If the ongoing NHS problems were solely due to the pandemic they would be improving with time. The current pressures are getting worse with time. It’s not related to the pandemic, it’s related to piss poor management at a governmental level.
Obviously the Pandemic is something that cannot be ignored, especially at initial outbreak.
Neither can one ignore the continued cases.
However, NHS was still understaffed then. Its gotten worse.
Stands were higher too before the Brexit, as early morning shift workers from EU value amongst other Industries was undermined.
One has to look at waiting list before the Pandemic and now.
Obviously ‘ Mental illness’, too increased.
On a slight tangent, the government mishandled the pandemic.
It continues to mishandle the pandemic when what it should be doing is encouraging the population to accept COVID is now endemic and something to co-exist with just like Flu, or Cold, or Measles.
It is not incumbent on the NHS to adapt to one privileged virus. It is incumbent on the population to have higher standards of hygiene and respect for others.
One of the reasons the NHS is at creaking at the welds is because it has relieved the public of any self responsibility in the way of self care and preservation.
Oh boy Steve, it sure would be awkward for you if there were horrendous ambulance wait times pre pandemic