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NHS - Useless bunch some of them
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Had a large cyst on neck and got taken in for a local operation and kept in for 4 nights on a antibiotic drip.
NHS ward was good and even the food was ok ...shock horror ...
Got private health insurance , so got paid £200 a night for going NHS.
Appointment to see consultant 6 weeks later ...NHS all went well.
Told to call back in July and make a follow up appointment.
Did and told they would write with date and time.
Got letter saying make an appointment ...so called and they said ...Yes you have an appointment ignore letter....get another letter ...so call them and they say ...oh sorry you have no appointment ...only date available now is August ...eeerrr ..I'm away in August on business ...does he do private ...yes ...
call his secretary ...and asked when would you like to come ...This Wednesday please ...yep ok no problem ...
Seems he so busy doing private , the NHS patients have to wait ....
Two tier system this NHS ...
NHS ward was good and even the food was ok ...shock horror ...
Got private health insurance , so got paid £200 a night for going NHS.
Appointment to see consultant 6 weeks later ...NHS all went well.
Told to call back in July and make a follow up appointment.
Did and told they would write with date and time.
Got letter saying make an appointment ...so called and they said ...Yes you have an appointment ignore letter....get another letter ...so call them and they say ...oh sorry you have no appointment ...only date available now is August ...eeerrr ..I'm away in August on business ...does he do private ...yes ...
call his secretary ...and asked when would you like to come ...This Wednesday please ...yep ok no problem ...
Seems he so busy doing private , the NHS patients have to wait ....
Two tier system this NHS ...
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Yep and business that continue to communicate badly with customers go bust...
The NHS limps along ....feel sorry for people late in age and without the sense and whereabouts any more in later life and get caught out ...waiting for appointments they have lost in the admin system.
While I was in , they tried to give me wrong tablets one morning ...large red pill instead of two small white pain killers ....god knows what they tried to give me and what it was for ...looked across ward at 85 year old chap and thought ...he would have never known if he was given that red pill ...he would have just taken it ...
So scared of getting old and ending up in a ward and being put to a slow death via starvation and lack of care on a NHS ward ...
also watched trays of food arrive ...person took sick to eat and sleeps ...tray taken away full of food by some kitchen assistant 2 hours later ...another meal missed by some poor sod ...
At least at the moment I can afford to go private ...but when I'm in my 80's ...will be another story ...
The NHS limps along ....feel sorry for people late in age and without the sense and whereabouts any more in later life and get caught out ...waiting for appointments they have lost in the admin system.
While I was in , they tried to give me wrong tablets one morning ...large red pill instead of two small white pain killers ....god knows what they tried to give me and what it was for ...looked across ward at 85 year old chap and thought ...he would have never known if he was given that red pill ...he would have just taken it ...
So scared of getting old and ending up in a ward and being put to a slow death via starvation and lack of care on a NHS ward ...
also watched trays of food arrive ...person took sick to eat and sleeps ...tray taken away full of food by some kitchen assistant 2 hours later ...another meal missed by some poor sod ...
At least at the moment I can afford to go private ...but when I'm in my 80's ...will be another story ...
Honestly it isn't always like that,,,, but some consultants do prioritise their private work...at the same time we have others who refuse to work privately as it goes against everything they became doctors for... Yes you do get what you pay for. but my worst inpatient experience was as a private patient... never again .....the nursing care was appalling,
If you have problems with the NHS then complain please!!! Staff aren't taken notice of but if someone tough and articulate complains it gets dealt with. Like anyone else, consultants are free to work where they please. If they choose to do eg 3 days private and 2 days NHS that is their choice. The NHS only pay them for the work they do. They have certainly put the hours in as housemen and juniors!!
(gosh never thought I'd hear myself stand up for a doctor, I had enough run ins with them before I retired lol)
(gosh never thought I'd hear myself stand up for a doctor, I had enough run ins with them before I retired lol)
Amazing isn't it how not being state owned anymore and opening them to competition has done absolutely nothing to improve them - in the case of the Railways probably made them substantially worse.
Thing is wheen people get bad service from a public service like the council or the NHS they blame it on them being state run
When they get bad service from a private company they don't blame it on it being a private company
It's very easy to be selective and ignore things that don't fit the required conclusion
Thing is wheen people get bad service from a public service like the council or the NHS they blame it on them being state run
When they get bad service from a private company they don't blame it on it being a private company
It's very easy to be selective and ignore things that don't fit the required conclusion
Most of the nurses 95% of them were amazing ....
Some of the nurses were just there to do a job ...one or two were lazy ...but 95% of them were amazing ...and a few were just born to do the job ...they were caring and enjoyed the job...
I could never ...ever ...whatever money they offered me ...be a nurse ...
One of the nurses , who was amazing ...she cared ...even for those too sick to even know she was there ....was in tears on day ...out of eye sight ..I passed and asked what was up ...and she would not say ...but it turned out the managers and admin people were making her life hard at work ....she just wanted to get on with being a nurse ...
Some of the nurses were just there to do a job ...one or two were lazy ...but 95% of them were amazing ...and a few were just born to do the job ...they were caring and enjoyed the job...
I could never ...ever ...whatever money they offered me ...be a nurse ...
One of the nurses , who was amazing ...she cared ...even for those too sick to even know she was there ....was in tears on day ...out of eye sight ..I passed and asked what was up ...and she would not say ...but it turned out the managers and admin people were making her life hard at work ....she just wanted to get on with being a nurse ...
My local doctor is fantastic ...live in a village ....she knows everyone ...
She waited about last week ...after 6pm ...to give me a tetanus injection , after I called to ask for one . I stood on a nail in the street while at work in London ..Grrrr ...it was a packing case nail with a white plastic collar that made it stand vertical ...great ...went into bottom of show and into bottom of my foot ....
She waited about last week ...after 6pm ...to give me a tetanus injection , after I called to ask for one . I stood on a nail in the street while at work in London ..Grrrr ...it was a packing case nail with a white plastic collar that made it stand vertical ...great ...went into bottom of show and into bottom of my foot ....
My experience of Private and NHS is that the only advantages Private offers is speed i.e. beat the Q and more of a hotel experience in accommodation and food.
Generalising I have found the best standards of surgical consultant and nursing to be in the NHS.
Private surgeons are very keen to get on with it and spout success rates that later prove to be bogus whereas in the NHS, surgeons are more reticent and cautious.
Some of the nursing care in Private hospitals (often from ill trained and inexperienced agency nurses) is criminally bad.
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Generalising I have found the best standards of surgical consultant and nursing to be in the NHS.
Private surgeons are very keen to get on with it and spout success rates that later prove to be bogus whereas in the NHS, surgeons are more reticent and cautious.
Some of the nursing care in Private hospitals (often from ill trained and inexperienced agency nurses) is criminally bad.
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