Maybe if the NHS wasn’t so poorly managed and wasted money this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t have much sympathy for the NHS at all. They blame the government but infact this is largely a problem of their own making.
In 2010 the budget was £104billion. The population was an estimated 62million. So there was £1677 per person.
In 2022 the budget was £150billion and the population approx 68million. So £2419 per person.
They have more money than they have ever had. What are they doing with it?!
I appreciate this is an over simplification of its financials but it’s clearly indicative.
This is the legacy of a disastrous lockdown strategy that didn’t focus on the most vulnerable people, and punished the whole of society for a virus that only affected the old and infirm.
My dad has terminal lung cancer. Found out yesterday our hospice no longer has in patients and is only staffed by a few volunteers and kept open by donations as gov stopped funding. Next closest one is about 20 miles away and is full.
This country is a fucking joke, and I fear it’s far worse behind the curtain. We need RADICAL action in the gov. We can’t go on like this.
“Designed to give millions of people “freedom from fear”, the NHS today is under threat of being sold off and converted to a free market model inspired by America’s disastrous health insurance system, which results in the death every year of an estimated 45,000 people. President Trump said the NHS is “on the table” in any future trade deal with America. Filmed in Britain and the UnitedStates, this timely, compelling documentary touches us all and reveals what may be the last battle to preserve the most fundamental human right.”
IMO our current government, as painfully illustrated through the COVID pandemic, put profit and power for themselves and mates above all else. Since this documentary came out there has been more and more privatisation of NHS services.
Yeah no shit, they stopped all non-emergency referrals for anything for a really long time for…some reason. And it wasn’t going on a waiting list either, just refusing referrals. Now there are long backlogs. Obviously. How did that even help contain covid?
Oh that’s me! On the waitlist for my second diagnostic test. It was fairly quick in 2021 from cervical smear results to having my biopsy (1 month) and I’m due for another biopsy because my results are still showing abnormal cell growth but haven’t heard a word about when my biopsy is set for. The new standard is if you continue to get abnormal results, you get a biopsy every 2 years. I’ve been in this loop for 4 years now
When my dad got diagnosed with a deadly cancer we could only speak to the doctor on Fridays because the other 4 days of the week he worked in his private practice. That oncologist gave my dad 3-6 months, he didn’t make it 6 weeks from diagnosis and it took 4 weeks to have a round a chemo.
Obviously it was the cancer that killed my dad but damn it felt like the NHS didn’t help.
My partner was diagnosed terminal cancer. 8 weeks waiting time just to see ‚someone’ who will decide what next. 2 weeks to book a hospital in europe.
The fact that stuff is not interchangeable between every single room/department/vehicle is clear sign of something not right. I had 6 sets of ECG tabs over the course of 12hours.
Not of the machines were the same.
All had different electrode tab connectors.
WHAT?
This is why artificial intelligence in medicine (aim) is having more of an impact for the nhs
There are loads of applications going through with ai from detecting brain tumours, bowel cancer during video colonoscopy, pneumonia in children, eye examinations that can detect diabetis, to skin cancer detection
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Maybe if the NHS wasn’t so poorly managed and wasted money this wouldn’t be an issue. I don’t have much sympathy for the NHS at all. They blame the government but infact this is largely a problem of their own making.
In 2010 the budget was £104billion. The population was an estimated 62million. So there was £1677 per person.
In 2022 the budget was £150billion and the population approx 68million. So £2419 per person.
They have more money than they have ever had. What are they doing with it?!
I appreciate this is an over simplification of its financials but it’s clearly indicative.
This is the legacy of a disastrous lockdown strategy that didn’t focus on the most vulnerable people, and punished the whole of society for a virus that only affected the old and infirm.
My dad has terminal lung cancer. Found out yesterday our hospice no longer has in patients and is only staffed by a few volunteers and kept open by donations as gov stopped funding. Next closest one is about 20 miles away and is full.
This country is a fucking joke, and I fear it’s far worse behind the curtain. We need RADICAL action in the gov. We can’t go on like this.
This was filmed a few years ago now but it’s just as relevant today. John Pilger – The Dirty War on the NHS https://youtu.be/fK3lsWHrQJY?si=VE7DUnq_U2w3oKkd
“Designed to give millions of people “freedom from fear”, the NHS today is under threat of being sold off and converted to a free market model inspired by America’s disastrous health insurance system, which results in the death every year of an estimated 45,000 people. President Trump said the NHS is “on the table” in any future trade deal with America. Filmed in Britain and the UnitedStates, this timely, compelling documentary touches us all and reveals what may be the last battle to preserve the most fundamental human right.”
IMO our current government, as painfully illustrated through the COVID pandemic, put profit and power for themselves and mates above all else. Since this documentary came out there has been more and more privatisation of NHS services.
Yeah no shit, they stopped all non-emergency referrals for anything for a really long time for…some reason. And it wasn’t going on a waiting list either, just refusing referrals. Now there are long backlogs. Obviously. How did that even help contain covid?
Oh that’s me! On the waitlist for my second diagnostic test. It was fairly quick in 2021 from cervical smear results to having my biopsy (1 month) and I’m due for another biopsy because my results are still showing abnormal cell growth but haven’t heard a word about when my biopsy is set for. The new standard is if you continue to get abnormal results, you get a biopsy every 2 years. I’ve been in this loop for 4 years now
When my dad got diagnosed with a deadly cancer we could only speak to the doctor on Fridays because the other 4 days of the week he worked in his private practice. That oncologist gave my dad 3-6 months, he didn’t make it 6 weeks from diagnosis and it took 4 weeks to have a round a chemo.
Obviously it was the cancer that killed my dad but damn it felt like the NHS didn’t help.
My partner was diagnosed terminal cancer. 8 weeks waiting time just to see ‚someone’ who will decide what next. 2 weeks to book a hospital in europe.
The fact that stuff is not interchangeable between every single room/department/vehicle is clear sign of something not right. I had 6 sets of ECG tabs over the course of 12hours.
Not of the machines were the same.
All had different electrode tab connectors.
WHAT?
This is why artificial intelligence in medicine (aim) is having more of an impact for the nhs
There are loads of applications going through with ai from detecting brain tumours, bowel cancer during video colonoscopy, pneumonia in children, eye examinations that can detect diabetis, to skin cancer detection
More recently the stethoscope has gone smart
https://youtu.be/G5i2b-Z2uUM?si=NKp6xjbQJ8D8waXV