Where is the NHS when you need it?

[Lonestar]

Great post Grumpy Greg,The NHS has done a lot for me for which im eternally grateful

 

[screenman]

Nah. It doesn't balance out like that.

For every bad experience thousands of people have good ones. But they don't go on the interwebs and talk about it.

May have had are the words I wrote, not have had. In general I am happy with the NHS, although a 5 week wait for a doctors appointment is a tad long. As I said earlier though, I feel some staff could try harder.

 

[winjim]

Demand management is a well understood business discipline. Take the simple examples of GP's who prescribe antibiotics when the patient has a virus. My GP clearly, firmly, and if needs be, not particularly politely, tells said patients to go away. Why can't others?

Not least because antibiotic resistance is likely going to kill our kids, and our grandchildren, by the thousands.

Thus increasing the demands on the NHS.

 

[midlife]

[QUOTE 3959657, member: 9609"]i would take my chances - can't say that myself or any of my family are here or any better off because of them. Yes, I do know that sometimes they do perform miracles and do save lives, and I am sure someone will be along shortly to say how their wee daughter is only here because of them, and then I will feel bad for the rest of the day for coming over as so uncaring (i'm not really I was a volunteer in a mountain rescue team for 20+ years) But I do think the NHS staff are too full of their own self importance and worth, always coming across as very greedy and money grabbing, seriously I would call their bluff and let them go.[/QUOTE]

I'd like to be let go too . Sell me to the private sector for half the work rate and twice the salary. Are you in Dumfries and Galloway? I cover your area from England because Scotland is so underfunded.

Shaun

 

[ufkacbln]

Nah. It doesn't balance out like that.

For every bad experience thousands of people have good ones. But they don't go on the interwebs and talk about it.

Also plaudits for the record are rare

A verbal thanks, or saying that someone was very good soes not count, it has to be a written comment or phone call after the event, in other words the patient must go out of their way before you can count it.

However a verbal complaint is recorded

 

[slowmotion]

I'm afraid that there are always going to be queue-jumpers. I was one three years ago. I went in as an out-patient for a routine angiogram on Friday and they wouldn't let me go home, booking me in for a surprise CABG immediately. I waited on an eight man ward for three days with other CABG types until a post-op bed became available. One of the people I waited with was sent home, despite being booked in months earlier. I think I probably stole his slot on the operating table. He was most gracious when I apologised. I'm a huge fan of the NHS, for obvious reasons.

 

[gavroche]

Update on my grandson. He was called in for 8.30 this morning and was operated on at 11. The operation lasted 3hours and he is now back home, his hand in plaster for the next 6 weeks.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm afraid that there are always going to be queue-jumpers. I was one three years ago. I went in as an out-patient for a routine angiogram on Friday and they wouldn't let me go home, booking me in for a surprise CABG immediately. I waited on an eight man ward for three days with other CABG types until a post-op bed became available. One of the people I waited with was sent home, despite being booked in months earlier. I think I probably stole his slot on the operating table. He was most gracious when I apologised. I'm a huge fan of the NHS, for obvious reasons.

That isn't queue jumping. It is prioritising for sound clinical reasons.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Update on my grandson. He was called in for 8.30 this morning and was operated on at 11. The operation lasted 3hours and he is now back home, his hand in plaster for the next 6 weeks.

Hope he recovers well and fully.

 

[vickster]

3 hours of surgery on a Sunday morning for a non emergency. I'd say that's a pretty good service. Can't see that happening in France or indeed many other countries

GWS to him. Going forwards he should be careful jumping fences while inebriated or sober

And tell him to be extremely diligent in his physiotherapy once it starts to avoid any lasting deficits in function

 

[gavroche]

Hospitals are open 7 days a week and so they should be, in any country.

 

[vickster]

They are in the UK too

 

[Hip Priest]

[QUOTE 3959657, member: 9609"]i would take my chances - can't say that myself or any of my family are here or any better off because of them. Yes, I do know that sometimes they do perform miracles and do save lives, and I am sure someone will be along shortly to say how their wee daughter is only here because of them, and then I will feel bad for the rest of the day for coming over as so uncaring (i'm not really I was a volunteer in a mountain rescue team for 20+ years) But I do think the NHS staff are too full of their own self importance and worth, always coming across as very greedy and money grabbing, seriously I would call their bluff and let them go.[/QUOTE]

Nobody in my family has ever been helped by a member of mountain rescue team, ergo they are useless and we should get rid.

 

[screenman]

We used to have a mountain rescue team in Southrey, which happens to be in the Lincolnshire Fend, they used to meet every Tuesday in the local.

I am sure other teams are more useful and certainly required.

 

[ufkacbln]

Hospitals are open 7 days a week and so they should be, in any country.

We have higher DNA rates at weekends and evenings though