Stay At Home And Protect The Nhs

[nicebloke1]

Many did so, but it all seems to have been a bit of a joke now. No doubt when the 4 day strike is done and dusted we will be hearing that no one died due to the strike, that wouldn't have died anyway.
What we won't know or be able to prove is how many will die in the coming weeks and months ahead, due to no treatment this week. The latter will be covered up by NHS and government.
Just thought I would get that off my chest. :0(

[DTCwordfan]

If you want this one - how about the DVLA employing 400 doctors @ £100k each to work on 12 - 15 case reviews and involving 4-6 phone interviews a week, the topic past alcoholics........money for old rope as it has been described, particularly with it being a 20 hour or less week.

Put 200 to 300 of them back into the NHS as numbers like these are scandalous.

[237SJ]

One word. Public Sector. Nothing else to say.

[DTCwordfan]

Peter Pedant will point out that it's two words - but yes.....and divorced from the real world.

[choux]

nicebloke, I see our hymn books are open on the same page.
I made the point here:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1833612-6.html
There will be those who still say the severity and seriousness of Covid was/is overstated. In reality, some of us can recognise the danger in delaying delivery of our health service to patients in need. Or should it now be renamed as the National Wealth Service?

[jourdain2]

I am still traumatised from my recent experience of being told by our GP to take OH to A&E at Scarborough. I don't think I'd be rational if I once started. There were loads of doctors and nurses though - but they all seemed to be duplicating each other. Suffice it to say that on the coldest night of this year last month we arrived at 4.30 p.m. armed with doctor's report, a letter requesting URGENT CT scan,giving BP, pulse, blood oxygen etc. and armed with ampoules of just-taken blood samples. It was all ignored.

[jourdain2]

^^^ It was all ignored. We sat on hard chairs in a freezing-cold waiting room (outside door opened and shut automatically) with brief periods of assessment -- the bloods had congealed by the time we saw a relevant professional. The nurses did their best to keep OH warm. Every single person was doing his/her best, but working wrongly.
I finally bailed out at 3.30 a.m., leaving my poor, ill, 89 yr. old Mr. J2 still in that chair. I had to get home to sort out the dog, get a few hours shut-eye & make arrangements for people to walk said dog etc. in an uncertain situation. My windscreen was frozen, the roads were icy. I had no scraper and was using my fingernails & anything I could find to clear the screen.
I then had to drive 15 miles over country roads where the frost/snow? was so thick as to leave tyre marks. I'm in my 70s.
I think our treatment was inhumane.
OH did National Service marching up and down the Iron Curtain in the 1950s. We've neither of us ever claimed social security. We've paid into the system all our lives (including when we were in France). They did give him a good MOT & he's fine now.
I will have to be carried in there before I go to A&E again.

Look after yourselves.

[nicebloke1]

Looks like we are on the same page choux :>) Didn't see your post before posting this thread.

[jourdain2]

Thanks, nicebloke1.