It’s all going to plan. The NHS can now be declared “not fit for purpose” and sold off piecemeal for private gain. It’s similar to when historic buildings are deliberately left to get into such a state of disrepair they can be demolished and the land can be used to extract more profit.
Can’t be worse than Labour’s record low waiting lists during their last stint in power. Oh wait no, that’s the opposite. Sorry.
At the start of April I had an urgent referral from my GP to the the nearest hospital urology department. I was told that I would be contacted no later than **June 21st**.
I should probably phone to see if there’s an update. Hopefully it goes better than it did in **October** when I was shouted at and told
>”DO NOT PHONE. WE WILL CONTACT YOU. DON’T YOU REALISE THERE IS A BACKLOG?”
The condition has gotten worse. No doubt “lessons will be learnt”.
Crazy to me how not even a single citizen of the entire UK from any political party wants NHS to be privatised but clearly that’s the final goal
Gotta keep asking, where does the money go.
Something like 20% of our income goes to the NHS… But staff aren’t paid enough, we have less doctors per capita, infrastructure isn’t exactly being developed.
Something clearly doesn’t add up.
I’m one of the 7.2m. I need two new knees. It also took me three years to get on the list as covid slowed the process and when I got to see the consultant, he spent two years telling me I’m too young (early 60s).
I now have a six month wait. I gave up work last year. I probably would struggle to even do an office job and certainly nothing that includes going up and down stairs. Currently living off savings.
And the torys try and blame it on covid. When it was at 4m before covid hit. It was zero when they took over from labour.
Yup, two years I’ve got to wait to see a specialist to get my ADHD officially diagnosed. I’m lucky that my situation isn’t desperate but I really feel for those in pain having to wait. How I fucking loathe the Tories.
I’ve been on a waitlist since November 2021 because my GP suspected I have PCOS and she wanted me to have an ultrasound. Let that sink in. I’ve been on a waitlist for over a year for AN ULTRASOUND, something that takes literally 10 minutes. Yes, I’ve chased it up and I’ve just been told to wait.
In the end, I had to have the ultrasound done privately in Turkey when I was on holiday there in July. Thankfully, nothing was wrong (and the issue I was having that led me to go to the GP in the first place is healed), but imagine if I actually had PCOS or something even worse in my uterus. Over a year to wait for an ultrasound to get a diagnosis is just unacceptable. I feel awful for everyone with more serious issues that’s having to wait for years.
That’s over 1 in 10 people waiting for NHS services.
What happened to our legal right to be seen within 18 weeks?
And thats before we even look at the mental health waiting list.
a worryingly high percentage of the population is on the waiting list.
My local hospital has just built an entire new building & hired a whole team of new staff to try & tackle the waiting lists for day case surgeries.
My local hospital has just built an entire new building & hired a whole team of new staff to try & tackle the waiting lists for day case surgeries.
Could it have something to do with the 95%+ who are non-clinical? Managers, ‘Diversity Tsars’ and all the rest of the higher-ups who contribute nothing? Maybe if they got rid of them they could afford the hundreds of Physios, OTs and a nurse or two who make up the clinical side and deal with patients. Go by any hospital outside what they deem office hours and they are empty. My sister has worked in the NHS for years as a physiotherapist. The number of managers and layers of management has only increased. Yes the NHS might be poorly funded, but it is also wrongly funded.
The Trusts are as much at fault, ”need to get waiting lists down, what do we do? Get medical staff – who leave for America or Australia at first opportunity – to help patients or install another manager and associated admin team, at greater cost, to oversee the waiting lists”…
“Saint” Starmer hasn’t made his proclamation for his pulpit – well beyond ‘strikes are bad’. No suggestion of what he might do differently, but then he never does. When the media finally get him into Number 10 he can do the complete Blair/Brown and blame all the ills of office on the previous administration from day one until he gets voted out.
Go on England, use this as a clarion call to give us yet another Tory government. They are the only fiscally responsible ones to fix the issues caused by the last 12 years of Tory government.
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It’s all going to plan. The NHS can now be declared “not fit for purpose” and sold off piecemeal for private gain. It’s similar to when historic buildings are deliberately left to get into such a state of disrepair they can be demolished and the land can be used to extract more profit.
Can’t be worse than Labour’s record low waiting lists during their last stint in power. Oh wait no, that’s the opposite. Sorry.
At the start of April I had an urgent referral from my GP to the the nearest hospital urology department. I was told that I would be contacted no later than **June 21st**.
I should probably phone to see if there’s an update. Hopefully it goes better than it did in **October** when I was shouted at and told
>”DO NOT PHONE. WE WILL CONTACT YOU. DON’T YOU REALISE THERE IS A BACKLOG?”
The condition has gotten worse. No doubt “lessons will be learnt”.
Crazy to me how not even a single citizen of the entire UK from any political party wants NHS to be privatised but clearly that’s the final goal
Gotta keep asking, where does the money go.
Something like 20% of our income goes to the NHS… But staff aren’t paid enough, we have less doctors per capita, infrastructure isn’t exactly being developed.
Something clearly doesn’t add up.
I’m one of the 7.2m. I need two new knees. It also took me three years to get on the list as covid slowed the process and when I got to see the consultant, he spent two years telling me I’m too young (early 60s).
I now have a six month wait. I gave up work last year. I probably would struggle to even do an office job and certainly nothing that includes going up and down stairs. Currently living off savings.
And the torys try and blame it on covid. When it was at 4m before covid hit. It was zero when they took over from labour.
Yup, two years I’ve got to wait to see a specialist to get my ADHD officially diagnosed. I’m lucky that my situation isn’t desperate but I really feel for those in pain having to wait. How I fucking loathe the Tories.
I’ve been on a waitlist since November 2021 because my GP suspected I have PCOS and she wanted me to have an ultrasound. Let that sink in. I’ve been on a waitlist for over a year for AN ULTRASOUND, something that takes literally 10 minutes. Yes, I’ve chased it up and I’ve just been told to wait.
In the end, I had to have the ultrasound done privately in Turkey when I was on holiday there in July. Thankfully, nothing was wrong (and the issue I was having that led me to go to the GP in the first place is healed), but imagine if I actually had PCOS or something even worse in my uterus. Over a year to wait for an ultrasound to get a diagnosis is just unacceptable. I feel awful for everyone with more serious issues that’s having to wait for years.
That’s over 1 in 10 people waiting for NHS services.
What happened to our legal right to be seen within 18 weeks?
And thats before we even look at the mental health waiting list.
a worryingly high percentage of the population is on the waiting list.
My local hospital has just built an entire new building & hired a whole team of new staff to try & tackle the waiting lists for day case surgeries.
My local hospital has just built an entire new building & hired a whole team of new staff to try & tackle the waiting lists for day case surgeries.
Could it have something to do with the 95%+ who are non-clinical? Managers, ‘Diversity Tsars’ and all the rest of the higher-ups who contribute nothing? Maybe if they got rid of them they could afford the hundreds of Physios, OTs and a nurse or two who make up the clinical side and deal with patients. Go by any hospital outside what they deem office hours and they are empty. My sister has worked in the NHS for years as a physiotherapist. The number of managers and layers of management has only increased. Yes the NHS might be poorly funded, but it is also wrongly funded.
The Trusts are as much at fault, ”need to get waiting lists down, what do we do? Get medical staff – who leave for America or Australia at first opportunity – to help patients or install another manager and associated admin team, at greater cost, to oversee the waiting lists”…
“Saint” Starmer hasn’t made his proclamation for his pulpit – well beyond ‘strikes are bad’. No suggestion of what he might do differently, but then he never does. When the media finally get him into Number 10 he can do the complete Blair/Brown and blame all the ills of office on the previous administration from day one until he gets voted out.
Go on England, use this as a clarion call to give us yet another Tory government. They are the only fiscally responsible ones to fix the issues caused by the last 12 years of Tory government.