Eventually they’ll be adults too and jump forward I guess.
Over the last 3 years our children have become second best, if that. In fact they are an after thought
I don’t think this article does a great job of explaining why adult cases are being prioritised over child cases. Can any NHS workers help us out by providing more information about this?
>Despite the fact that children were not very impacted by Covid, these services were disproportionately impacted.
Why were services for children disproportionately impacted by Covid? What does Covid’s relatively lower impact on children have to do with it?
>Another NHS trust leader said that the way surgical cases are prioritised means that a lot of children’s cases do not count as urgent compared with serious adult cases.
Why not?
>A trust executive in the North said: “If paediatric [surgeries] are held to the same standard as adults, then relatively they get deprioritised.
Why?
>There is no national target on paediatric cases.”
Are children being deprioritised just because NHS trusts are laser-focused on meeting targets, which treating children doesn’t help with? And why aren’t there targets for treating children like there are for treating adults?
Somehow this subreddit will find a way to blame this and every other problem on Brexit, instead of on a decade of underinvestment by the Tories and inefficient public-private partnerships. And then they’ll campaign for us to rejoin the EU and wonder why nothing is solved.
It’s insane. My 8 month old was meant to have surgery in late January. He needs this surgery before he learns to walk otherwise he could be permanently disabled. He has chest problems so he would need a longer stay in hospital. We’re meeting his specialist next week to see what’s going on but I’m really nervous. My daughter learnt to walk at 10 months so if he’s the same or even similar we have a very small window.
Ah yes the Tories main philosophy, fuck the kids in-favour of trying to win votes with adults.
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Eventually they’ll be adults too and jump forward I guess.
Over the last 3 years our children have become second best, if that. In fact they are an after thought
I don’t think this article does a great job of explaining why adult cases are being prioritised over child cases. Can any NHS workers help us out by providing more information about this?
>Despite the fact that children were not very impacted by Covid, these services were disproportionately impacted.
Why were services for children disproportionately impacted by Covid? What does Covid’s relatively lower impact on children have to do with it?
>Another NHS trust leader said that the way surgical cases are prioritised means that a lot of children’s cases do not count as urgent compared with serious adult cases.
Why not?
>A trust executive in the North said: “If paediatric [surgeries] are held to the same standard as adults, then relatively they get deprioritised.
Why?
>There is no national target on paediatric cases.”
Are children being deprioritised just because NHS trusts are laser-focused on meeting targets, which treating children doesn’t help with? And why aren’t there targets for treating children like there are for treating adults?
Somehow this subreddit will find a way to blame this and every other problem on Brexit, instead of on a decade of underinvestment by the Tories and inefficient public-private partnerships. And then they’ll campaign for us to rejoin the EU and wonder why nothing is solved.
It’s insane. My 8 month old was meant to have surgery in late January. He needs this surgery before he learns to walk otherwise he could be permanently disabled. He has chest problems so he would need a longer stay in hospital. We’re meeting his specialist next week to see what’s going on but I’m really nervous. My daughter learnt to walk at 10 months so if he’s the same or even similar we have a very small window.
Ah yes the Tories main philosophy, fuck the kids in-favour of trying to win votes with adults.