Hospital Waiting Lists Down

[nicebloke1]

Good news it appears. No link I'm afraid, I heard this on BBC news this morning, the lowest its ever been. Could this be due to labour settling the strikes, either way very good news.

[New Judge]

"Let me help you NJ. if they have drunks walking through the doors day and night, and they do. Other people will have to wait."

Indeed they do, and you're quite correct - that obviously increases waiting times.

But I only mentioned the drunk in passing. My main concern arising from my experience was the hospital management instructing its staff to falsify records tracking waiting times in A&E - something you described as "defamatory".

As it stands, the NHS has to deal with the health of its patients as they are - not as it would like them to be. This means treating drunks, drug addicts, fat people, smokers et al. That won't be helped by staff falsifying A&E waiting time records so as to give the impression the unit is adequately staffed.

This is very relevant because buried among the recent good news that waiting lists have fallen by a very small amount was the not-so-good news that the numbers waiting more than 12 hours in A&E has increased significanly.

[fripfrip]

How many on the waiting list have died waiting for operations while the greedy little money spiders went on strike.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, there are more than a dozen mods on AB.  Until now I've not been around tonight so I've not removed any posts.  I will remove yours though.  

[Smowball]

Don't know about A & E but I went back to my doctor because I'd never had a follow up appointment to see the pain management clinic re my spine. (I'd had the 1st of a course of spinal injections then never ever got an app for the 2nd, and rest, despite me chasing and chasing it up).Doctor decided to write a brand new from scratch referral for me to be seen urgently. I get a letter last week, saying their waiting lists are incredibly long, and the 1st fate they have to just even see me , not do anything, is in 187 days. Yes they did write 187 days.