Its not just about the funding either – the Trust’s are now filled with admin relatives from Tory donors/cllrs/mps that struggle to get dressed in the morning, let alone run a NHS trust.
I wonder if all of these problems will be presented as a case for a privatized healthcare system…hope not
It’s best to not get ill in the UK at the moment unless you have private healthcare.
You should access the post on here by the band 5 nurse for a detailed overview of the problems faced because of lack of investment
Colour me not surprised. The NHS can’t operate on lies and claps.
I’ve had to go A&E twice in the past 3 years. Both time they had been announcing over the tannoy 8 hour wait times to see a doctor.
We need a general election now, not in 2024.
Enough of this bullshit. The Conservative Party have run the country into the ground.
I was in A&E 3 months ago.
I didn’t dare face weekend A&E. (With hindsight I **really** should have, turned out to be very serious)
Doctors appointment by phone Monday morning.
They wanted me to come in.
Saw a Nurse.
Escalated to Doctor.
Sent to A&E.
Was waiting in A&E by circa 1pm Monday.
I was told they wanted to keep me in but had no beds.
I was parked on a trolley by about 9pm. Ish.
Spent the night on a trolley adjacent to A&E in a side room, (they had moved everyone out of offices, put the desks in the middle of the corridor and were using the offices as patient parking).
This was a living hell. Someone screaming just outside the door all night was an especially nice touch.
I made it to a ward the following afternoon – at that point it was actually like it “used to be” – at least from a patient perspective.
Until I was eventually released – whereupon it turned out the referrals for followup care that should have been made, hadn’t been.
Just finally managed to sort that one out last week.
It’s been about 10 years since I’ve really interacted with the NHS as a patient. Jesus Christ it’s changed.
The NHS did not fail, it was robbery. One example, a few years ago the land registry was made private. Shortly after the fact, the land was sold out from under the hospitals to an investment arm. The land was then leased back creating an additional financial burden, that did not exist previously. The NHS has been used to funnel taxpayers revenue into the hands of private equity, for decades…. Now they want you to pay more.
As someone who works in an elderly rehab hospital – no amount of money will change anything in the NHS unless we fix social care. The lack of community care hours is the number 1 reason why we can’t discharge someone. And if we can’t discharge anyone, we can’t admitt anyone. And if we can’t admitt anyone, the acute hospitals can’t discharge anyone. And so you have everyone stacking up in A and E and in ambulances.
You could double the staff numbers and wages. Might make a few of the poor souls stuck on trolleys for hours on end more comfortable. But if you can’t physically put them in an actual bed then it’s hopeless. Got to fix social care in the community (which also would help prevent people ending up in a and e in the first place)
Imagine if all that Captain Tom money went to the NHS instead of bing funnelled to her daughters bank account.
How do the conservatives explain the NHS falling apart under their watch?
Own this shit each and every tory voter, this is your fault!!
A relative was in a bed next to someone with a burst appendix who had been repeatedly sent home with antibiotics to manage the infection….
So it’s not as bad as this time last year when I spent a day and half on a gurney in a disused office after a heart attack and a 4 hour wait in an ambulance to get into A&E?
I spent 7hrs40mins,in A&E with irregular heartbeat,for them to tell me, nothing wrong with you, because they waited till my heart was heating normal, before seeing me🙄
I made the mistake of telling them
my heart will start beating properly at
2am,like it’s on a timer, so they called me in at 2:30am, laughing at me, saying it’s all in my mind,2 nurses checked my pulse
and said omg,they said this is an emergency,they walked off to tell someone and didn’t come back.
The ED has been allowed to fall into this condition through a lack of adequate funding and working conditions that have caused a nationwide staff exodus. This whole fiasco has been engineered and is not a result of failings within the NHS itself (not entirely at least, although NHS management are far from perfect). The government and media will try to spin this as a reason to speed up privatisation, people need to instead support the nurses’ strike and remember that nurses have been pushed too far by over a decade of Tory cuts. Those cuts have impacted nurses and their ability to provide a proper service, leading to unsafe staffing levels and conditions in ED like this.
Spent a shitty 23hrs in A&E seats, after recieving a phone call from a consultant to do so “the sooner the better,” was given a load of details (including the consultants details, and his mobile as he would be in call to explain) to tell the staff. Was fobbed off by triage and the rest untI I actually saw a doctor 7 hours later. Rest of the time was waiting for a bed, because as it turned out, I’d need it for quite a while.
Jesus chriat this sub is just a combination of echo chambers and ground hog day.
We get it – you all hate tories and the NHS is falling apart.
The NHS mistakenly thought my mum was just suffering from mental health issues after strange behaviour and despite being a two-time cancer patient, didn’t proceed with cautionary CT scans.
One month later she died from a frontal lobe tumour the size of a baseball. Safe to say I have little faith in the NHS in it’s current state.
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I’m unsurprised. This is Tory policy working as intended and the longer this bunch of corrupt ghouls are in power, the worse this is going to get.
General election. Now.
This chart summarises the 12-years of Tory Ghouls perfectly: [https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10B65/production/_127835486_optimised-trolley_waits_england10nov-nc-002.png.webp](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/10B65/production/_127835486_optimised-trolley_waits_england10nov-nc-002.png.webp)
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Its not just about the funding either – the Trust’s are now filled with admin relatives from Tory donors/cllrs/mps that struggle to get dressed in the morning, let alone run a NHS trust.
I wonder if all of these problems will be presented as a case for a privatized healthcare system…hope not
It’s best to not get ill in the UK at the moment unless you have private healthcare.
You should access the post on here by the band 5 nurse for a detailed overview of the problems faced because of lack of investment
Colour me not surprised. The NHS can’t operate on lies and claps.
I’ve had to go A&E twice in the past 3 years. Both time they had been announcing over the tannoy 8 hour wait times to see a doctor.
We need a general election now, not in 2024.
Enough of this bullshit. The Conservative Party have run the country into the ground.
I was in A&E 3 months ago.
I didn’t dare face weekend A&E. (With hindsight I **really** should have, turned out to be very serious)
Doctors appointment by phone Monday morning.
They wanted me to come in.
Saw a Nurse.
Escalated to Doctor.
Sent to A&E.
Was waiting in A&E by circa 1pm Monday.
I was told they wanted to keep me in but had no beds.
I was parked on a trolley by about 9pm. Ish.
Spent the night on a trolley adjacent to A&E in a side room, (they had moved everyone out of offices, put the desks in the middle of the corridor and were using the offices as patient parking).
This was a living hell. Someone screaming just outside the door all night was an especially nice touch.
I made it to a ward the following afternoon – at that point it was actually like it “used to be” – at least from a patient perspective.
Until I was eventually released – whereupon it turned out the referrals for followup care that should have been made, hadn’t been.
Just finally managed to sort that one out last week.
It’s been about 10 years since I’ve really interacted with the NHS as a patient. Jesus Christ it’s changed.
The NHS did not fail, it was robbery. One example, a few years ago the land registry was made private. Shortly after the fact, the land was sold out from under the hospitals to an investment arm. The land was then leased back creating an additional financial burden, that did not exist previously. The NHS has been used to funnel taxpayers revenue into the hands of private equity, for decades…. Now they want you to pay more.
As someone who works in an elderly rehab hospital – no amount of money will change anything in the NHS unless we fix social care. The lack of community care hours is the number 1 reason why we can’t discharge someone. And if we can’t discharge anyone, we can’t admitt anyone. And if we can’t admitt anyone, the acute hospitals can’t discharge anyone. And so you have everyone stacking up in A and E and in ambulances.
You could double the staff numbers and wages. Might make a few of the poor souls stuck on trolleys for hours on end more comfortable. But if you can’t physically put them in an actual bed then it’s hopeless. Got to fix social care in the community (which also would help prevent people ending up in a and e in the first place)
Imagine if all that Captain Tom money went to the NHS instead of bing funnelled to her daughters bank account.
How do the conservatives explain the NHS falling apart under their watch?
Own this shit each and every tory voter, this is your fault!!
A relative was in a bed next to someone with a burst appendix who had been repeatedly sent home with antibiotics to manage the infection….
So it’s not as bad as this time last year when I spent a day and half on a gurney in a disused office after a heart attack and a 4 hour wait in an ambulance to get into A&E?
I spent 7hrs40mins,in A&E with irregular heartbeat,for them to tell me, nothing wrong with you, because they waited till my heart was heating normal, before seeing me🙄
I made the mistake of telling them
my heart will start beating properly at
2am,like it’s on a timer, so they called me in at 2:30am, laughing at me, saying it’s all in my mind,2 nurses checked my pulse
and said omg,they said this is an emergency,they walked off to tell someone and didn’t come back.
The ED has been allowed to fall into this condition through a lack of adequate funding and working conditions that have caused a nationwide staff exodus. This whole fiasco has been engineered and is not a result of failings within the NHS itself (not entirely at least, although NHS management are far from perfect). The government and media will try to spin this as a reason to speed up privatisation, people need to instead support the nurses’ strike and remember that nurses have been pushed too far by over a decade of Tory cuts. Those cuts have impacted nurses and their ability to provide a proper service, leading to unsafe staffing levels and conditions in ED like this.
Spent a shitty 23hrs in A&E seats, after recieving a phone call from a consultant to do so “the sooner the better,” was given a load of details (including the consultants details, and his mobile as he would be in call to explain) to tell the staff. Was fobbed off by triage and the rest untI I actually saw a doctor 7 hours later. Rest of the time was waiting for a bed, because as it turned out, I’d need it for quite a while.
Jesus chriat this sub is just a combination of echo chambers and ground hog day.
We get it – you all hate tories and the NHS is falling apart.
The NHS mistakenly thought my mum was just suffering from mental health issues after strange behaviour and despite being a two-time cancer patient, didn’t proceed with cautionary CT scans.
One month later she died from a frontal lobe tumour the size of a baseball. Safe to say I have little faith in the NHS in it’s current state.