The NHS is FANTASTIC!

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I can't fault them, although my little rant about consultants will be more down to budgets.

The consultants don't have budgets though do they ??

 

[rich p]

The consultants don't have budgets though do they ??

Not personally but the trusts they work for will have.

 

[Downward]

Not personally but the trusts they work for will have.

And the consultants have no say or idea about their budgets for a reason !

 

[alecstilleyedye]

my experiences of the nhs have been all positive iirc. it isn't perfect, but it's a complex beast. i'd sooner see my tax money going in to that than propping up banks and prosecuting war in a place the russians couldn't make any headway in…

 

[fossyant]

The consultants don't have budgets though do they ??

Nope, but they ain't going to fix a healthy RTA victim, unless it goes private.... if you catch my drift..... you pay, we'll fix it..... !

Which is fine... but..

You can see the same consultant private, and they will say "x part of you", needs operating on........

I don't want the NHS to pay for my RTA at all, so far the third party's insurers have had a laugh....x-rays, MRI, nerve tests etc......all paid via the NHS...... why the hell should the NHS have to pay........ the third party has admitted liability..so they should pay the lot..........

It's a very wrong system.....the NHS take the brunt of this......

 

[alecstilleyedye]

me falling off my bike after a touch of wheels went down as an rta. as it was on a training ride, i reckon sports injury would have been more accurate…

 

[dellzeqq]

Absolutely - there's only one country in the world where I would want to be if I had a serious long-term illness and that's Britain. As with so many other aspects of British life, we may be a bit ropey and tattered around the edges but we still have the best specialists in the world.

absolutely. And very many of them have come from overseas to learn how to be the best.

 

[alecstilleyedye]

interestingly, we took our youngest (aged 3) to see the specialist for a suspected hernia. the consultant says it is actually a hydroseam problem (it's something that should heal naturally by age 3). his advice was that it might yet heal on its own, and we could wait and have the op done at 2 weeks notice any time we wanted. in other words, he won't get an un-necessary operation but will have it if need be.

i can't help wondering what the advice would have been when there would have been a fee for a procedure which could have been justified medically.

the fact that the consultant stood to gain/lose nothing by allowing us to avoid the risks of an operation is an example of why the way the nhs works is good.

 

[Jonathan M]

I'll come clean first - I do work for the NHS (nurse).

Putting that aside the care that I & my6 fami9ly have received has been second to none.

Son: 22 week antenatal scan detected a cystic left kidney, further detailed foetal anomaly scans didn't show any other problems, healthy birth with regular follow up from a paediatric urologist, and eventually what remained of the kidney was removed laparoscopically at the age of 4.
He also broke his femur at the age of 2 (nearly3) and had 5 weeks of Thomas splint traction to fix it. Again, no long term problems.

Wifey, ongoing support from NHS services due to various problems. Keeps her sane, shall we say!

Me - minor inury attendances until this summer when I fitted at home, taken to local A&E, scanned, re-scanned in MRI, diagnosed with a brain tumour, transferred to local neurosurgery department, re-MR scanned again, operated on a week later. Short of a Holby City miracle of going to theatre on the same day I truly don't think it would have been dealt with more promptly.

 

[02GF74]

looks like it is a case of hair today, hear tomorrow.

good luck.

 

[Apeman]

The NHS is or could be better if it wasnt for the system being top heavy with idiots who claim to be managers but who couldnt run a bath. Bring back the matrons who could kick ass and get our hospitals clean and running properly.

 

[CopperBrompton]

The NHS, like any large organisation, can be fantastic or terrible, and I've experienced both sides - both times after having pulmonary embolisms.

The first time was in Whipps Cross, where a consultant categorically assured me I didn't have a DVT (without even ordering an ultrasound); somewhere between the registrar visiting me at 4pm and the pharmacist at 6pm, they lost a prescription for painkillers; a nurse nearly injected a 6-foot-long tubeful of air into my vein (and would have done had I not spotted it); the ward was absolutely filthy; elderly patients calling for help and no-one coming. A formal complaint got an apology but no evidence of anything being done about any of it. Fortunately I had a BUPA membership through work so was able to get the hell out of there after 48 hours.

The best of it was the Royal London. Absolutely superb medical care, excellent nurses, spotlessly clean. I again could have been transferred to a BUPA hospital but decided there was no point.

 

[Wheeledweenie]

Well if we're sharing, I love the NHS. My dad had a major stroke in January and his nursing care was wonderful. We only had one problem the three months he was in hospital and when I mentioned this particular nurse she was reallocated and we got a spectacular young man who even noticed that my dad, who couldn't speak at the time and could only use one hand, was attempting to make himself presentable around the time my mum would come to see him. From then on he would clean my dad up, comb his hair and brought in a mirror for dad to check it all over before mum came in.

This was in intensive care but he understood that it was a major part of dad's recovery and happiness. Even now I mist up a bit at the thought because it went so above and beyond.

Again, I firmly believe the managers let down some of the fantastic staff.

 

[Downward]

Nope, but they ain't going to fix a healthy RTA victim, unless it goes private.... if you catch my drift..... you pay, we'll fix it..... !

Which is fine... but..

You can see the same consultant private, and they will say "x part of you", needs operating on........

I don't want the NHS to pay for my RTA at all, so far the third party's insurers have had a laugh....x-rays, MRI, nerve tests etc......all paid via the NHS...... why the hell should the NHS have to pay........ the third party has admitted liability..so they should pay the lot..........

It's a very wrong system.....the NHS take the brunt of this......

Don't see this side of the NHS but surely there are mechnisms and charges in place to be recharging Insurance companies for RTA's ??

 

[Downward]

Well if we're sharing, I love the NHS. My dad had a major stroke in January and his nursing care was wonderful. We only had one problem the three months he was in hospital and when I mentioned this particular nurse she was reallocated and we got a spectacular young man who even noticed that my dad, who couldn't speak at the time and could only use one hand, was attempting to make himself presentable around the time my mum would come to see him. From then on he would clean my dad up, comb his hair and brought in a mirror for dad to check it all over before mum came in.

This was in intensive care but he understood that it was a major part of dad's recovery and happiness. Even now I mist up a bit at the thought because it went so above and beyond.

Again, I firmly believe the managers let down some of the fantastic staff.

Sadly there is so much blame culture and policies and procedures to follow no-one in the NHS can physically understand them all.