Moderator: Peak Moderation
That applies to almost all of our local and global systems.Now there's no slack left anywhere in the system, and instead of just creaking and straining, the NHS is in full-blown collapse
What the tories are doing to the NHS, and by extension to everybody in the UK who does not have a private medical insurance policy, is absolutely immoral and unforgivable. It is actually worse than the US, because at least in the US everybody knows where they stand. In the UK, we are supposed to have a health service which is free at the point of delivery for everybody, especially for serious but treatable health problems like heart attacks. Because of this, a large number of people who could afford private healthcare at a stretch but would only do it if it is really necessary, do not have it. What I am saying is that if your policy is to run down the NHS to the point where it is completely broken, and you have no intention of even trying to fix it because you think it costs too much money, then there is a profound moral obligation on you to actually tell people that you are doing this, so those who can make other arrangements actually do so, and the system reconfigures itself around what is in reality a new health regime in the UK. As things stand, unless the tories rapidly change their tune and provide a significant increase of funding for the NHS, then we are going to have a crisis in healthcare on a scale that might just break the camel's back and finish the tories as a political force in the UK.Ambulance bosses have apologised to the family of a man who died after he had a heart attack but no ambulance came.
Martin Clark, 68, started suffering with chest pains at his home in East Sussex on 18 November - before any strike action started in the NHS.
His family rang three times for an ambulance and after waiting 45 minutes drove him in their car to hospital.
When they arrived, the father of five went into cardiac arrest and, despite receiving medical attention, died.
I collapsed, went blind, paralysed and then passed out some years ago.I'd be very temped to drive to A&E instead of wait what would almost certainly be over an hour.
An ambulance job indeed! I did say "and the patient isn't actually incapacitated/unconscious, seriously bleeding etc".Vortex2 wrote: ↑12 Jan 2023, 15:39I collapsed, went blind, paralysed and then passed out some years ago.I'd be very temped to drive to A&E instead of wait what would almost certainly be over an hour.
I'm not sure if my wife could have got me into the car and then reached the right hospital.
Also, when the ambulance came they changed destinations en route as I started getting REALLY bad during the journey, so they needed a better equipped hospital.
Well, that's even worse, if that is possible.
His experience of the NHS since first contact just a few months ago has been excellent.In case anyone was wondering, I had a seriously major operation, Extended pleurectomy decortication or EPD for short (no, best not Google it) on Tuesday [17th Jan] to treat my mesothelioma, survived and been have reunited with my phone.
Still in intensive care and attached, I kid you not, to 23 tubes a wires. Operation went well and I feel good.
Back to normal service in due course.
In others matters, nurses should be paid at least twice as much as politicians, because they're worth it.
