This is a shameful situation, and any MP who has been a member of the government, or supported from the backbenches, since Cameron took office is responsible.
This is the fault of the government and don’t let any headline tell you different.
We are witnessing the slow death of the NHS, killed by the Tory party who have melevolently despised it since its inception.
Wonder what a solution would be, so hard to figure out.
The nation needs nightingale care homes ASAP. Heard on radio this morning, 13,000 people able to be discharged to social care but they can’t because there is no capacity to take them. Adding ambulances and additional staff is pouring fuel on the fire, until we address bed blocking the problem will get worse and worse until ambulances are a luxury and people die driving to hospital killing innocent people in the process.
How many months has this ambulance crisis been going on for now? And what exactly has any of the last 3 governments tried to do about it?
“Experts believe these problems are a contributing factor to the high levels of deaths being recorded – in recent months 700 more deaths a week are being seen than would be expected.”
There was a woman on the radio who’s husband started getting seizures. They couldn’t get an ambulance so they got a bus to A&E where after 10 hours he was sent home. Then it turned into a stroke and he didn’t get treatment. Now he’s in a wheelchair for life and can’t go home because they can’t get him in the flat.
Why are we even paying any taxes anymore.
Every healthcare worker should be striking.
We deserve better.
40 hours? These are supposed to be *emergency* services. How’s the fuck is this acceptable?
What is the actual amount of money the NHS needs to be effective? I mean what is the actual number? All I ever hear is “more” but how much will be enough or is it just an infinite money pit?
I value the NHS immensely – I have a child with T1 diabetes – but at some point we are going to have to reckon with the demographic problem we have of far too many pensioners per worker and the implications of that for the funding and delivery model for the NHS, and pensions for that matter.
Didn’t we all get a national insurance increase last year for healthcare? . . . What are these bastards (government) actually doing with the money?
Last week my mum went to hospital – when I got there she was still in the ambulance. I started talking to the Ambulance crew, one of the crew told me that because of the shortage of beds, sometimes they spend the entire shift with the patient and then have to hand over the patient to the next crew. The ambulances are treated as temporary beds.
Fortunately after 2 hrs a bed came available and my mum was taken in and had a bed, brain scan and after an overnight stay was released. The doctors and nurses were absolutely fantastic.
The care home she is in told me recently they called 999 and the Ambulance took 36hrs to arrive.
NHS is in a lot of trouble , lack of funding, ageing population social care broken.
Non native British use the ambulance as their personal taxi. All non native British should be expelled from the island.
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This is a shameful situation, and any MP who has been a member of the government, or supported from the backbenches, since Cameron took office is responsible.
This is the fault of the government and don’t let any headline tell you different.
We are witnessing the slow death of the NHS, killed by the Tory party who have melevolently despised it since its inception.
Wonder what a solution would be, so hard to figure out.
The nation needs nightingale care homes ASAP. Heard on radio this morning, 13,000 people able to be discharged to social care but they can’t because there is no capacity to take them. Adding ambulances and additional staff is pouring fuel on the fire, until we address bed blocking the problem will get worse and worse until ambulances are a luxury and people die driving to hospital killing innocent people in the process.
How many months has this ambulance crisis been going on for now? And what exactly has any of the last 3 governments tried to do about it?
“Experts believe these problems are a contributing factor to the high levels of deaths being recorded – in recent months 700 more deaths a week are being seen than would be expected.”
There was a woman on the radio who’s husband started getting seizures. They couldn’t get an ambulance so they got a bus to A&E where after 10 hours he was sent home. Then it turned into a stroke and he didn’t get treatment. Now he’s in a wheelchair for life and can’t go home because they can’t get him in the flat.
Why are we even paying any taxes anymore.
Every healthcare worker should be striking.
We deserve better.
40 hours? These are supposed to be *emergency* services. How’s the fuck is this acceptable?
What is the actual amount of money the NHS needs to be effective? I mean what is the actual number? All I ever hear is “more” but how much will be enough or is it just an infinite money pit?
I value the NHS immensely – I have a child with T1 diabetes – but at some point we are going to have to reckon with the demographic problem we have of far too many pensioners per worker and the implications of that for the funding and delivery model for the NHS, and pensions for that matter.
Didn’t we all get a national insurance increase last year for healthcare? . . . What are these bastards (government) actually doing with the money?
Last week my mum went to hospital – when I got there she was still in the ambulance. I started talking to the Ambulance crew, one of the crew told me that because of the shortage of beds, sometimes they spend the entire shift with the patient and then have to hand over the patient to the next crew. The ambulances are treated as temporary beds.
Fortunately after 2 hrs a bed came available and my mum was taken in and had a bed, brain scan and after an overnight stay was released. The doctors and nurses were absolutely fantastic.
The care home she is in told me recently they called 999 and the Ambulance took 36hrs to arrive.
NHS is in a lot of trouble , lack of funding, ageing population social care broken.
Non native British use the ambulance as their personal taxi. All non native British should be expelled from the island.