What's happened to the NHS???

[oumahexi]

Until very recently I've had little to do with Doctors and only ever heard horror stories about their blundering incompetence. So you may imagine my reluctance to seek out medical advise for anything minor.

I now find myself under strict medical supervision and constantly being "gob smacked" at not only the efficiency of the GPs in our practice but the NHS in general!

My GP phones me regularly to keep in touch and check on my health and to keep me updated with any test results they have recently run. After three hospital procedures I can safely say that the levels of hygiene in hospitals appears to be great and that the bedside manner of most staff is faultless.

So what's happened? Was there a shake up or am I just very, very lucky to have been surrounded by people who really, truly, appear to give a damn?? I am extremely impressed. Well done to all of them.

 

[KenHigg]

Maybe they knew of your special abilities ahead of time

 

[Brianwarnock]

My wife has been a regular and frequent attendee of the NHS for the last 16 years and except for the occasional bad egg has nothing but praise for the medical staff.

There is no doubt that there have been problems in the NHS and the medical staff are generally overworked, but as my daughter, a manager in one of the largest trusts, points out you cannot always trust the statistics. Her hospital is down the league re MRSA, why?, well it admits patients suffering with it, some don't, and that is just one example as to why the stats are not very meaningful.

Brian

 

[KenHigg]

My wife has been a regular and frequent attendee of the NHS for the last 16 years and except for the occasional bad egg has nothing but praise for the medical staff.

Brian

Are they required to inspect the poultry products in their spare time?

 

[oumahexi]

There is no doubt that there have been problems in the NHS and the medical staff are generally overworked, but as my daughter, a manager in one of the largest trusts, points out you cannot always trust the statistics. Her hospital is down the league re MRSA, why?, well it admits patients suffering with it, some don't, and that is just one example as to why the stats are not very meaningful.

Brian

Seems to me they'd be damned either way. If they don't admit people with MRSA they just don't care enough about them. If they do, they just don't care enough about their other patients. Can they win?

I'm glad I'm not the only one experiencing such great treatment. I wonder if the "moaning minnie's" are the same people that run to the doctor every time they sneeze...

 

[GaryPanic]

I also have had only excellent treatment - Guys hospital London
polite , speedy treatment -

 

[RCheesley]

Ahh well, I started working for them oumahexi .... that makes all the difference Teehee x

 

[Alc]

I also have had only excellent treatment - Guys hospital London
polite , speedy treatment -

My mother's currently going through treatment for cancer (Velindre and Heath hospitals, in Cardiff) and we have nothing but praise for the way she's been helped. The hospital staff - from the surgeon to the nurses - have been great, her GP phones regularly to see how she's doing, and the district nurse has been fantastic.

I've been in and out of hospital over the years, for a variety of reasons, and also can't fault the treatment I've received.

I think you hear more about the bad care people receive purely because it makes better headlines for the gutter press.

 

[statsman]

My mother's currently going through treatment for cancer (Velindre and Heath hospitals, in Cardiff) and we have nothing but praise for the way she's been helped. The hospital staff - from the surgeon to the nurses - have been great, her GP phones regularly to see how she's doing, and the district nurse has been fantastic.

I've been in and out of hospital over the years, for a variety of reasons, and also can't fault the treatment I've received.

I think you hear more about the bad care people receive purely because it makes better headlines for the gutter press.

Pity you had to come to Canada where health care is still a political football.

 

[Alc]

Pity you had to come to Canada where health care is still a political football.

I have thought the same thing. Not that Canadian healthcare is bad, but I do notice a difference with back home.

Many Canadians, however, have expressed the view that I must be glad to finally be in a country where the health service runs efficiently, so opinions seem to vary drastically.

At least it's all socialised

 

[KenHigg]

At least it's all socialised

And the hard working tax payers get to pay for the health care of bums that don't want to work.

 

[Alc]

And the hard working tax payers get to pay for the health care of bums that don't want to work.

Would 'the bums' in question be myself, my mother, oumahexi, Gary or Brian's wife?

 

[KenHigg]

I'm guessing you'd be the hard working tax payers - ?

 

[Alc]

I'm guessing you'd be the hard working tax payers - ?

...who both paid the taxes AND reaped the benefits without needing to rely on private health insurance.

 

[ColinEssex]

I'm guessing you'd be the hard working tax payers - ?

Oops - backpedalling a bit now Ken?

Col

 

[KenHigg]

Do you know how much of your personal tax money went into the NHS? Like on our paystub they put down x dollars to medicare, etc.

 

[KenHigg]

Oops - backpedalling a bit now Ken?

Col

Care to explain how you can to that conclusion?

 

[ColinEssex]

Care to explain how you can to that conclusion?

"How you can to that conclusion"? Sorry, your broken English has got me confused.

Col

 

[Alc]

Do you know how much of your personal tax money went into the NHS? Like on our paystub they put down x dollars to medicare, etc.

Nope. I'm fairly sure it was less than I've received in treatment, though (and I know it was less than my Mother's received).

I'm happy enough to help fund the less-fortunate while I'm fully healthy, as long as the treatment's there when I need it.

 

[KenHigg]

Nope. I'm fairly sure it was less than I've received in treatment, though (and I know it was less than my Mother's received).

I'm happy enough to help fund the less-fortunate while I'm fully healthy, as long as the treatment's there when I need it.

That's all reasonable I guess... I suppose I was just trying to stir up trouble again. Sorry -