| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E 09:08 - Mar 28 with 4425 views | DanTheMan |
My wife yesterday was suffering from some terrible stomach pains to the point of nearly fainting. Had to take her to A&E last night because the ambulance wait time was 8 hours as she was not a priority. Fair enough, I could drive her and got her there about half 7.
Because they were busy I was not allowed to wait with her. We both knew it might be a bit of a wait because everything is so stretched. I didn't quite appreciate just how stretched it was.
Just after she arrived she was told it was a 6 hour wait time. Within a couple of hours, that had increased to a 10 hour wait time.
I went to bed thinking that she'd probably need picking up around 2am as they managed to work out the issue with her fairly quickly but wanted to run a blood test. At the point of running the blood test, she'd been in the hospital for nearly 12 hours. As of now, she's still waiting for someone to review the blood test and they don't know how long that will be. Thankfully she's fine, just itching to get home.
Absolutely mental it's been allowed to get to this state. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:13 - Mar 28 with 3253 views | Herbivore |
Sorry to hear that and hope that she continues to feel better. It's a disgrace the way the Tories have run public services into the ground over the last 13 years. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:23 - Mar 28 with 3194 views | clive_baker |
I hope she makes a speedy recovery and gets home soon.
It's so depressing how sub standard the NHS has become, thanks in part to years of under funding. My wife is an NHS nurse, spent a few years at St George's and is now based at Addenbrookes, she says staff retention is as bad now as she can remember. The level of service takes its toll on patients and staff alike. Pay is a factor, but I think it runs deeper than that and its a challenging time to be working in the NHS. Not to mention impact of Brexit on recruitment and access to foreign workers. It's so utterly depressing, we're really being left behind by a number of other countries in terms of healthcare. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:27 - Mar 28 with 3129 views | BiGDonnie |
Speedy recovery to DanTheWoman. Absolutely fook that, patients probably develop new problems waiting for so long. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:30 - Mar 28 with 3123 views | giant_stow |
That sounds horrible - feel for you both. I can't help feeling that if those in power were using such services, they'd be in a better state. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:32 - Mar 28 with 3112 views | hype313 |
It's pretty harrowing really, my mother had Pneumonia last month and was in a bad way, the Ambulance came and then had to sit outside Ipswich Hospital for 4 hours until a bed became available.
The poor souls working there looked absolutely drained, such a travesty the way it has been decimated.
The biggest issue according to the Nurses and Paramedics I spoke to was the drastic cuts in care in the community, so many people that could be treated at home are taking up space in Hospital which has a huge knock on affect for people trying to get access to beds. People waiting to go home and can go home, can't because they have no one to take them home or to look after them at home.
All any opposition party has to do is take a picture of A&E, put it on their election manifesto, a picture tells a thousand words.
Thanks Tories, you absolute sham of a government, nevermind losing power, they should be charged with negligence. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:36 - Mar 28 with 3083 views | DanTheMan |
Thanks folks, she's fine now, just frustrated at having had no sleep as they had no beds.
I dread to think how stretched thin the staff are. | |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:37 - Mar 28 with 3078 views | brazil1982 |
Sorry to hear that, I hope they find the cause and then cure.
We had a similar experience with my F in L recently, waiting 20 hours for an ambulance, M in L cancelled and took him to A&E where they waited another 12 hours, he ended up on a bed in a window-less room (cupboard?)
He's still there (on a ward now), suspected pressure on brain.
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:39 - Mar 28 with 3068 views | DanTheMan |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 09:32 - Mar 28 by hype313 |
It's pretty harrowing really, my mother had Pneumonia last month and was in a bad way, the Ambulance came and then had to sit outside Ipswich Hospital for 4 hours until a bed became available.
The poor souls working there looked absolutely drained, such a travesty the way it has been decimated.
The biggest issue according to the Nurses and Paramedics I spoke to was the drastic cuts in care in the community, so many people that could be treated at home are taking up space in Hospital which has a huge knock on affect for people trying to get access to beds. People waiting to go home and can go home, can't because they have no one to take them home or to look after them at home.
All any opposition party has to do is take a picture of A&E, put it on their election manifesto, a picture tells a thousand words.
Thanks Tories, you absolute sham of a government, nevermind losing power, they should be charged with negligence. |
Hope your mother is doing better now Hype.
I imagine you're right about the care thing. We've cut all the services downstream of the NHS and shifted loads onto local councils that can't afford anything because their own budgets have been cut. They can't raise council tax beyond the max because they know nobody would let them do it.
Massive lack of any long-term thinking about how the whole system works as a whole. | |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 10:07 - Mar 28 with 2862 views | Churchman |
I’m sorry to hear you’ve had to go through this along with similar stories from other posters. I hope those who are unwell get better soon.
For those that work in this environment, their job is so hard and my experience of them is that the individuals are brilliant. Surely as a country, society and within that organisationally we can do better. |  | | |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 10:33 - Mar 28 with 2787 views | homer_123 |
All the best to your other half DTM. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 11:22 - Mar 28 with 2619 views | TalkingBlues |
Hope she feels better, that's just ridiculous!
The NHS is finished, simple as that, the Tories have successfully killed it off. Not only have they chronically underfunded the NHS for decades, but at the same time they stripped Councils of 40% to 50% of their budgets over the same time period, which inevitably led to almost the complete removal of adult social care in most regions and subsequently heaped massive further pressure on the NHS and pushed the burden of paying for care onto the individual, in many instances forcing people to sell their homes to pay for their medical needs, which is fookin scandalous! Some Councils actually went bankrupt ffs, I mean, in what world does a Council going bankrupt not instil panic and instigate massive and sweeping reform? In a Tory led clusterfuc*, that's where, all going to plan perfectly in their world, this is what they wanted, they washed their hands of the great unwashed.
Then there was Brexit and we all know how that ended up, that wonderfully planned exit that would lead to prosperity for all of us (in reality, it's led to a 4% drop in GDP, acute labour shortages, dramatically so in the NHS and the worst cost of living crisis since the 1950's) oh well, at least we can all get a blue Passport now, oh wait, in fact, no we can't, because like every other organisation, or body in the Country, they're about to go on strike, for 5 weeks, just ahead of Summer holiday season.
Just to recap , they cut direct funding, they cut funding indirectly (via the Councils) to heap more pressure on the NHS, then they encouraged thousands of staff to leave the NHS (and many, many other sectors) by declaring to the World that we were all racist bigots, like them, which at the same time made it nigh on impossible to recruit staff to fill the massive amount of vacancies, because we are all now racist bigots and by the way, continue to offer pi55 poor salaries and are well known for thanking existing staff for their exceptional efforts, by refusing to give them a pay rise, I mean, who wouldn't want to join? Still, the selfish bastards did get a clap once a week, dunno what they're up in arms about, if only we could pay mortgages and energy bills by clapping.
I am not even a politically persuaded individual, but what they've done to this Country isn't negligent, it's criminal, the whole fookin party should be in the Hague on trial.
I know where the money is going too btw, I had an interesting chat with one of the dads at football training who I haven't spoken too all that much in the past. This was mainly inspired by him rocking up to training in a brand new McLaren (which is extremely loud). He proceeded to tell me that he runs a recruitment agency, he provides staff into the NHS no less and by all counts they are "smashin it". He was particularly delighted to tell me that last week he had persuaded another 2 staff at the local NHS trust to resign from their permanent roles, only to be re-employed back into the exact same roles by April, but earning 3 times their usual salary and of course him, a hefty %. He is also in the process of moving house from an averagely located and appointed 3 bed semi, to a £1.5 million, 5 bedroom detached in a posh neighbourhood. He is a long way from a rare example he tells me, the NHS is a goldmine for agencies since Brexit and Covid, because they have no choice but to employ the agency staff as they are understaffed, can't attract new recruits and by law (apparently!) cannot be understaffed to a level that is deemed "dangerous" to patients, so are quite literally forced to use agencies. In many instances he tells me, they are employing the exact same staff that removed themselves from permanent roles to become agency staff.
Rant over, the Tories have won, they've completely fu**ed the Country, we are on our knees, with very little hope of recovering any time soon, thanks a lot. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 11:41 - Mar 28 with 2538 views | The_Flashing_Smile |
Sorry to hear that Dan and hope she's feeling better now. I hate queuing for anything, but to be that amount of time - while also in pain - I just can't imagine! |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 14:59 - Mar 28 with 2320 views | Basuco |
My daughter is an Occupational Therapist in the community and yes care in the community is in a shocking state, she has to go out on crisis calls at times and there are growing numbers of people slipping through the net and not coping at all and ending up in a very very bad way. |  | | |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 15:25 - Mar 28 with 2260 views | BlueBadger |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 11:22 - Mar 28 by TalkingBlues |
Hope she feels better, that's just ridiculous!
The NHS is finished, simple as that, the Tories have successfully killed it off. Not only have they chronically underfunded the NHS for decades, but at the same time they stripped Councils of 40% to 50% of their budgets over the same time period, which inevitably led to almost the complete removal of adult social care in most regions and subsequently heaped massive further pressure on the NHS and pushed the burden of paying for care onto the individual, in many instances forcing people to sell their homes to pay for their medical needs, which is fookin scandalous! Some Councils actually went bankrupt ffs, I mean, in what world does a Council going bankrupt not instil panic and instigate massive and sweeping reform? In a Tory led clusterfuc*, that's where, all going to plan perfectly in their world, this is what they wanted, they washed their hands of the great unwashed.
Then there was Brexit and we all know how that ended up, that wonderfully planned exit that would lead to prosperity for all of us (in reality, it's led to a 4% drop in GDP, acute labour shortages, dramatically so in the NHS and the worst cost of living crisis since the 1950's) oh well, at least we can all get a blue Passport now, oh wait, in fact, no we can't, because like every other organisation, or body in the Country, they're about to go on strike, for 5 weeks, just ahead of Summer holiday season.
Just to recap , they cut direct funding, they cut funding indirectly (via the Councils) to heap more pressure on the NHS, then they encouraged thousands of staff to leave the NHS (and many, many other sectors) by declaring to the World that we were all racist bigots, like them, which at the same time made it nigh on impossible to recruit staff to fill the massive amount of vacancies, because we are all now racist bigots and by the way, continue to offer pi55 poor salaries and are well known for thanking existing staff for their exceptional efforts, by refusing to give them a pay rise, I mean, who wouldn't want to join? Still, the selfish bastards did get a clap once a week, dunno what they're up in arms about, if only we could pay mortgages and energy bills by clapping.
I am not even a politically persuaded individual, but what they've done to this Country isn't negligent, it's criminal, the whole fookin party should be in the Hague on trial.
I know where the money is going too btw, I had an interesting chat with one of the dads at football training who I haven't spoken too all that much in the past. This was mainly inspired by him rocking up to training in a brand new McLaren (which is extremely loud). He proceeded to tell me that he runs a recruitment agency, he provides staff into the NHS no less and by all counts they are "smashin it". He was particularly delighted to tell me that last week he had persuaded another 2 staff at the local NHS trust to resign from their permanent roles, only to be re-employed back into the exact same roles by April, but earning 3 times their usual salary and of course him, a hefty %. He is also in the process of moving house from an averagely located and appointed 3 bed semi, to a £1.5 million, 5 bedroom detached in a posh neighbourhood. He is a long way from a rare example he tells me, the NHS is a goldmine for agencies since Brexit and Covid, because they have no choice but to employ the agency staff as they are understaffed, can't attract new recruits and by law (apparently!) cannot be understaffed to a level that is deemed "dangerous" to patients, so are quite literally forced to use agencies. In many instances he tells me, they are employing the exact same staff that removed themselves from permanent roles to become agency staff.
Rant over, the Tories have won, they've completely fu**ed the Country, we are on our knees, with very little hope of recovering any time soon, thanks a lot. |
Spoiler alert: there is no legislation in England regarding safe nursing staffing levels.
A NICE study into safe staffing recommendations was quietly scrapped by Jeremy Rhyming-Slang.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/jun/04/nhs-patient-safety-fears-nice-sc |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:05 - Mar 28 with 2196 views | TalkingBlues |
Predictable, it sounded dubious when he said it, hence the brackets, I dare say he uses some sort of NICE suggestion etc to convince people it’s a sure thing, sales rollox. | |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:20 - Mar 28 with 2153 views | Radlett_blue |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 11:22 - Mar 28 by TalkingBlues |
Hope she feels better, that's just ridiculous!
The NHS is finished, simple as that, the Tories have successfully killed it off. Not only have they chronically underfunded the NHS for decades, but at the same time they stripped Councils of 40% to 50% of their budgets over the same time period, which inevitably led to almost the complete removal of adult social care in most regions and subsequently heaped massive further pressure on the NHS and pushed the burden of paying for care onto the individual, in many instances forcing people to sell their homes to pay for their medical needs, which is fookin scandalous! Some Councils actually went bankrupt ffs, I mean, in what world does a Council going bankrupt not instil panic and instigate massive and sweeping reform? In a Tory led clusterfuc*, that's where, all going to plan perfectly in their world, this is what they wanted, they washed their hands of the great unwashed.
Then there was Brexit and we all know how that ended up, that wonderfully planned exit that would lead to prosperity for all of us (in reality, it's led to a 4% drop in GDP, acute labour shortages, dramatically so in the NHS and the worst cost of living crisis since the 1950's) oh well, at least we can all get a blue Passport now, oh wait, in fact, no we can't, because like every other organisation, or body in the Country, they're about to go on strike, for 5 weeks, just ahead of Summer holiday season.
Just to recap , they cut direct funding, they cut funding indirectly (via the Councils) to heap more pressure on the NHS, then they encouraged thousands of staff to leave the NHS (and many, many other sectors) by declaring to the World that we were all racist bigots, like them, which at the same time made it nigh on impossible to recruit staff to fill the massive amount of vacancies, because we are all now racist bigots and by the way, continue to offer pi55 poor salaries and are well known for thanking existing staff for their exceptional efforts, by refusing to give them a pay rise, I mean, who wouldn't want to join? Still, the selfish bastards did get a clap once a week, dunno what they're up in arms about, if only we could pay mortgages and energy bills by clapping.
I am not even a politically persuaded individual, but what they've done to this Country isn't negligent, it's criminal, the whole fookin party should be in the Hague on trial.
I know where the money is going too btw, I had an interesting chat with one of the dads at football training who I haven't spoken too all that much in the past. This was mainly inspired by him rocking up to training in a brand new McLaren (which is extremely loud). He proceeded to tell me that he runs a recruitment agency, he provides staff into the NHS no less and by all counts they are "smashin it". He was particularly delighted to tell me that last week he had persuaded another 2 staff at the local NHS trust to resign from their permanent roles, only to be re-employed back into the exact same roles by April, but earning 3 times their usual salary and of course him, a hefty %. He is also in the process of moving house from an averagely located and appointed 3 bed semi, to a £1.5 million, 5 bedroom detached in a posh neighbourhood. He is a long way from a rare example he tells me, the NHS is a goldmine for agencies since Brexit and Covid, because they have no choice but to employ the agency staff as they are understaffed, can't attract new recruits and by law (apparently!) cannot be understaffed to a level that is deemed "dangerous" to patients, so are quite literally forced to use agencies. In many instances he tells me, they are employing the exact same staff that removed themselves from permanent roles to become agency staff.
Rant over, the Tories have won, they've completely fu**ed the Country, we are on our knees, with very little hope of recovering any time soon, thanks a lot. |
Please check a few facts. The % of gdp that the UK spends on public healthcare has remained pretty steady for the 10 years prior to the pandemic.
Social care is a different kettle of fish. The sums required to fund it are so huge & the demographics are only going to make this worse that governments shy away from making the tough decisions. If you want to fund it, you need to cut something else or increase taxes & voters have generally shown a reluctance to vote for the latter. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:29 - Mar 28 with 2121 views | Herbivore |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:20 - Mar 28 by Radlett_blue |
Please check a few facts. The % of gdp that the UK spends on public healthcare has remained pretty steady for the 10 years prior to the pandemic.
Social care is a different kettle of fish. The sums required to fund it are so huge & the demographics are only going to make this worse that governments shy away from making the tough decisions. If you want to fund it, you need to cut something else or increase taxes & voters have generally shown a reluctance to vote for the latter. |
Isn't the % of GDP figure a bit misleading, given we've basically has a decade of stagnant economic growth under the Tories. | |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:29 - Mar 28 with 2117 views | Swansea_Blue |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:20 - Mar 28 by Radlett_blue |
Please check a few facts. The % of gdp that the UK spends on public healthcare has remained pretty steady for the 10 years prior to the pandemic.
Social care is a different kettle of fish. The sums required to fund it are so huge & the demographics are only going to make this worse that governments shy away from making the tough decisions. If you want to fund it, you need to cut something else or increase taxes & voters have generally shown a reluctance to vote for the latter. |
TalkingBlues is right - the NHS has been underfunded over the last 10 years compared to the historical trend and the need. GDP comparisons are only one metric and don't tell the real story. In terms of impacts on the ground, the £59BN funding gap created under the Coalition and successive Conservative governments is much more telling.
https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/funding/hea |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:32 - Mar 28 with 2094 views | TalkingBlues |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 16:20 - Mar 28 by Radlett_blue |
Please check a few facts. The % of gdp that the UK spends on public healthcare has remained pretty steady for the 10 years prior to the pandemic.
Social care is a different kettle of fish. The sums required to fund it are so huge & the demographics are only going to make this worse that governments shy away from making the tough decisions. If you want to fund it, you need to cut something else or increase taxes & voters have generally shown a reluctance to vote for the latter. |
I deliberately didn't say anything about how much was spent, to avoid exactly the sort of response you just levelled. I simply stated that the NHS had been "chronically underfunded" which it has, according to just about everybody who has even the tiniest bit of knowledge of the NHS.
What tough Social Care decisions? It was working, albeit imperfectly, but then the Government cut the budgets almost in half and destroyed it virtually overnight, a bit like they did with legal aid via LASPO, any questions are well and truly of their own making, similarly, they now moan about a backlog of Court cases, due to the fact that there are so many LIP's, you couldn't make it up, they've literally fooked every aspect of a functioning society, in 13 years, it's incredible work.
Whether voters like it, or not, taxes have gone up repeatedly and subsequently HMRC recently raked in about an extra £65 Billion over the previous year, Corporation Tax is flying up again soon etc etc. The problem is what this bunch of cretins do with the money that is coming in. | |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:04 - Mar 28 with 2016 views | Meadowlark |
My brother had need of medical assistance last week. He was staying with us.
The local pharmacy advised him to call 111. He spoke for 40 minutes and was advised he would get a call back. This call came in at 2.30 am.
The doctor told him that she could see him immediately at the local hospital, so I drove him there and waited in the car park for 90 minutes. He then called me to say he had to have further tests, so I went home.
He was discharged with a prescription and after having received some treatment at 7.30 am.
All the people who dealt with him were professional and competent, and I was surprised that the NHS works for out-patients on a 24 hour basis, but if he had been able to get to see a GP none of this would have been necessary.
I will not criticise the NHS, but I have utter contempt for the Tories who have neglected it and are looking to make profits out of the misfortune of our citizens.. |  | | |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:15 - Mar 28 with 1981 views | BtreeBlueBlood |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 11:22 - Mar 28 by TalkingBlues |
Hope she feels better, that's just ridiculous!
The NHS is finished, simple as that, the Tories have successfully killed it off. Not only have they chronically underfunded the NHS for decades, but at the same time they stripped Councils of 40% to 50% of their budgets over the same time period, which inevitably led to almost the complete removal of adult social care in most regions and subsequently heaped massive further pressure on the NHS and pushed the burden of paying for care onto the individual, in many instances forcing people to sell their homes to pay for their medical needs, which is fookin scandalous! Some Councils actually went bankrupt ffs, I mean, in what world does a Council going bankrupt not instil panic and instigate massive and sweeping reform? In a Tory led clusterfuc*, that's where, all going to plan perfectly in their world, this is what they wanted, they washed their hands of the great unwashed.
Then there was Brexit and we all know how that ended up, that wonderfully planned exit that would lead to prosperity for all of us (in reality, it's led to a 4% drop in GDP, acute labour shortages, dramatically so in the NHS and the worst cost of living crisis since the 1950's) oh well, at least we can all get a blue Passport now, oh wait, in fact, no we can't, because like every other organisation, or body in the Country, they're about to go on strike, for 5 weeks, just ahead of Summer holiday season.
Just to recap , they cut direct funding, they cut funding indirectly (via the Councils) to heap more pressure on the NHS, then they encouraged thousands of staff to leave the NHS (and many, many other sectors) by declaring to the World that we were all racist bigots, like them, which at the same time made it nigh on impossible to recruit staff to fill the massive amount of vacancies, because we are all now racist bigots and by the way, continue to offer pi55 poor salaries and are well known for thanking existing staff for their exceptional efforts, by refusing to give them a pay rise, I mean, who wouldn't want to join? Still, the selfish bastards did get a clap once a week, dunno what they're up in arms about, if only we could pay mortgages and energy bills by clapping.
I am not even a politically persuaded individual, but what they've done to this Country isn't negligent, it's criminal, the whole fookin party should be in the Hague on trial.
I know where the money is going too btw, I had an interesting chat with one of the dads at football training who I haven't spoken too all that much in the past. This was mainly inspired by him rocking up to training in a brand new McLaren (which is extremely loud). He proceeded to tell me that he runs a recruitment agency, he provides staff into the NHS no less and by all counts they are "smashin it". He was particularly delighted to tell me that last week he had persuaded another 2 staff at the local NHS trust to resign from their permanent roles, only to be re-employed back into the exact same roles by April, but earning 3 times their usual salary and of course him, a hefty %. He is also in the process of moving house from an averagely located and appointed 3 bed semi, to a £1.5 million, 5 bedroom detached in a posh neighbourhood. He is a long way from a rare example he tells me, the NHS is a goldmine for agencies since Brexit and Covid, because they have no choice but to employ the agency staff as they are understaffed, can't attract new recruits and by law (apparently!) cannot be understaffed to a level that is deemed "dangerous" to patients, so are quite literally forced to use agencies. In many instances he tells me, they are employing the exact same staff that removed themselves from permanent roles to become agency staff.
Rant over, the Tories have won, they've completely fu**ed the Country, we are on our knees, with very little hope of recovering any time soon, thanks a lot. |
That% age use to be 100% on hourly rates [Post edited 28 Mar 2023 17:17]
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:21 - Mar 28 with 1954 views | TalkingBlues |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:15 - Mar 28 by BtreeBlueBlood |
That% age use to be 100% on hourly rates [Post edited 28 Mar 2023 17:17]
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Well, that explains the new house and car, even if the rate currently is below that figure, he’s taking mental money and the NHS is paying ludicrous sums for staff. | |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:29 - Mar 28 with 1939 views | bluelagos |
Is fcked.
Bit I don't get, been quite a few times to a ward and spoke 11 times to a doctor, only 1 has been the same doctor.
Not sure if that's normal, especially as my old man is on the same ward. One was a specialist but all the others seemed to be junior doctors on the ward that day.
Each time they dont seem to know his medical history, at best reading the latest bit but not knowing for example my old man had had 3 minor strokes.
Is that normal? Ok? Or just reality at a stretched hospital where doctors are covering too many patients to have time to read up.
Problem is what can you do? Have decided not to complain (as I think they get defensive and waste time on that) but to give the feedback for the management to read and take actions as they see fit. Will do it as/when old man gets out. |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:44 - Mar 28 with 1892 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 11:22 - Mar 28 by TalkingBlues |
Hope she feels better, that's just ridiculous!
The NHS is finished, simple as that, the Tories have successfully killed it off. Not only have they chronically underfunded the NHS for decades, but at the same time they stripped Councils of 40% to 50% of their budgets over the same time period, which inevitably led to almost the complete removal of adult social care in most regions and subsequently heaped massive further pressure on the NHS and pushed the burden of paying for care onto the individual, in many instances forcing people to sell their homes to pay for their medical needs, which is fookin scandalous! Some Councils actually went bankrupt ffs, I mean, in what world does a Council going bankrupt not instil panic and instigate massive and sweeping reform? In a Tory led clusterfuc*, that's where, all going to plan perfectly in their world, this is what they wanted, they washed their hands of the great unwashed.
Then there was Brexit and we all know how that ended up, that wonderfully planned exit that would lead to prosperity for all of us (in reality, it's led to a 4% drop in GDP, acute labour shortages, dramatically so in the NHS and the worst cost of living crisis since the 1950's) oh well, at least we can all get a blue Passport now, oh wait, in fact, no we can't, because like every other organisation, or body in the Country, they're about to go on strike, for 5 weeks, just ahead of Summer holiday season.
Just to recap , they cut direct funding, they cut funding indirectly (via the Councils) to heap more pressure on the NHS, then they encouraged thousands of staff to leave the NHS (and many, many other sectors) by declaring to the World that we were all racist bigots, like them, which at the same time made it nigh on impossible to recruit staff to fill the massive amount of vacancies, because we are all now racist bigots and by the way, continue to offer pi55 poor salaries and are well known for thanking existing staff for their exceptional efforts, by refusing to give them a pay rise, I mean, who wouldn't want to join? Still, the selfish bastards did get a clap once a week, dunno what they're up in arms about, if only we could pay mortgages and energy bills by clapping.
I am not even a politically persuaded individual, but what they've done to this Country isn't negligent, it's criminal, the whole fookin party should be in the Hague on trial.
I know where the money is going too btw, I had an interesting chat with one of the dads at football training who I haven't spoken too all that much in the past. This was mainly inspired by him rocking up to training in a brand new McLaren (which is extremely loud). He proceeded to tell me that he runs a recruitment agency, he provides staff into the NHS no less and by all counts they are "smashin it". He was particularly delighted to tell me that last week he had persuaded another 2 staff at the local NHS trust to resign from their permanent roles, only to be re-employed back into the exact same roles by April, but earning 3 times their usual salary and of course him, a hefty %. He is also in the process of moving house from an averagely located and appointed 3 bed semi, to a £1.5 million, 5 bedroom detached in a posh neighbourhood. He is a long way from a rare example he tells me, the NHS is a goldmine for agencies since Brexit and Covid, because they have no choice but to employ the agency staff as they are understaffed, can't attract new recruits and by law (apparently!) cannot be understaffed to a level that is deemed "dangerous" to patients, so are quite literally forced to use agencies. In many instances he tells me, they are employing the exact same staff that removed themselves from permanent roles to become agency staff.
Rant over, the Tories have won, they've completely fu**ed the Country, we are on our knees, with very little hope of recovering any time soon, thanks a lot. |
Why didn't you kick him in the balls? |  |
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| NHS crisis really hits home when you've got to use A&E on 17:49 - Mar 28 with 1883 views | Deano69 |
I could reel off a number of similar stories over the past 12 months, just unacceptable
Just looking (very briefly) at numbers, £180Bn expected spend this year in NHS England for a population of 57-58 Mill - thats about £3100 a person. And yet we are still looking at 20 hour ambulance waits.... WTF?? |  |
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