Blogging will be somewhat limited today, and maybe tomorrow.
My job today is to provide support to a relative in hospital, and that is taking priority over other concerns.
But it does at the same time make me appreciate, yet again, the amazing service the NHS provides. And it also makes me appreciate, as a consultant said to me this morning, the considerable hurt that NHS reforms are doing to so many strong, capable and deeply caring people who work in the NHS and who are, rightly, profoundly upset by the organised onslaught on their professionalism, competence, efficiency and integrity that this government has unleashed.
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“Get well soon” to your relative.
Well said – and all the best!
Yes. I hope your relative gets well very soon.
Two years ago I was suffering with unbearable toothache which needed emergency work. I phoned up NHS 24 after midnight. Received some very reassuring words that they would sort everything out for me. At 1.30am I received a call to come for ‘surgery’ at 10.30am and by 11 my tooth was out, the abscess was drained, and I was free from excruciating pain. I was completely amazed at the efficiency and good humour of everyone I met. I know there are some horror stories but I couldn’t praise my treatment highly enough. We shall see what happens but luckily I live in a part of the UK that isn’t being marketised. The lies the Tories told about what they intended for the NHS are infamous and the LibDems can remind Labour of their record all they want but they are equally responsible for the present and coming looting of public money.
Best wishes to your relative Richard. Also, it springs to mind that anything worthwhile for the social good of the general population has never come from Torie idealogy. The NHS is a gem to be cherished, not to be driven by market forces.
About 3 months ago, my elder lad was rushed in for Pleurisy. There was a long delay (about 3 hours) but once he got in I couldn’t praise enough the Doctor who saw him & insisted he stay in overnight. He was a fella that knew his stuff.
We stayed in & came out with a big bag of medicines.
If it had been the USA they would’ve been saying “where is your insurance”, without it you can go die, if you’re poor.