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Over the past 2 weeks I have been in the fast track system of the NHS due to a lump in my neck . All through the system staff have been wonderful but yesterday in the ENT department I can honestly say from the receptionist ,care worker ,nurses to the highest Consultant they were apsolutly amazing . As you can imagine I was a nervous wreck ,they did everything to put me at ease .Its about time governments woke up and realised that these staff need to be treated more fairly and appreciated and our NHS needs to be funded better . If this means we have to pay more in tax then so be it but I believe there is so much waste across all government services which needs addressing and quickly .

I want to say a massive thank you to all the staff that have been involved in my investigations! Words really don't seem enough all I can do is to continue supporting and fighting for this wonderful NHS of ours .

Oh ! and my outcome was good ?

Happy Saturday everyone !!

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These are good people trying to do the best they can. Just imagine our politicians working in the hospital and the NHS staff running the country.

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Over the past 2 weeks I have been in the fast track system of the NHS due to a lump in my neck . All through the system staff have been wonderful but yesterday in the ENT department I can honestly say from the receptionist ,care worker ,nurses to the highest Consultant they were apsolutly amazing . As you can imagine I was a nervous wreck ,they did everything to put me at ease .Its about time governments woke up and realised that these staff need to be treated more fairly and appreciated and our NHS needs to be funded better . If this means we have to pay more in tax then so be it but I believe there is so much waste across all government services which needs addressing and quickly .

I want to say a massive thank you to all the staff that have been involved in my investigations! Words really don't seem enough all I can do is to continue supporting and fighting for this wonderful NHS of ours .

Oh ! and my outcome was good

Happy Saturday everyone !!

 

Fantastic post! So pleased you had a good outcome after what has probably been a horrible and frightening few weeks! Our NHS needs celebrating and protecting! Nice one :clap::clap::clap::clap:

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totally agree.

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Yes - don't care what people say - our NHS is the envy of the world for a reason. So pleased for your good result - have a nice weekend!

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It's really nice to hear you've had a good experience and a good outcome! There are people who continually run the NHS down because they want it privatised and want a piece of the action - we need to resist them.

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i agree that hospitals treat you really well, cant say the same about some gp's though they are the weak link imho.

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[quote:Yes - don't care what people say - our NHS is the envy of the world for a reason.

 

If it's the envy of the world, why hasn't any other country copied it?

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Because they aren't of a socialist leaning.

 

Although Cuba is and produces more world class doctros than any other country and health care is provided free. It also has excellent schools because they are free and statistically higher numbers go on to qualify at degree level. It's socialist and prioritises fulfilling the potential of all and not a priviledged few. No such thing as grammar schools; another part of the Tory ideology. Abandoning the majority in preference to supporting an elite minority.

 

Remember, it was old fashioned Labour that introduced it: a level playing field, access for all. It was about providing for the needy, which as ever, remains the poorest in society. The middle classes could afford a doctor's vist. The poor went without.

 

The Tories don't see things that way, the same as the Republicans in American that want to stop Obama care and have people pay into a system to access health care. It's a business where their friends, the rich powerful businesses can make massive profits. Sounds familiar? London is full of fat cats. And fat cats have a diet of cream. Water is good enough for us.

 

The Northern Power House [which exists where exactly?] in reality is the Northern POOR House. It exists everywhere. Even our city centre is gasping for breath but still has a pulse.

 

Also, it's why the Tories have this constant battle over the NHS. Those making the decisions have private health care and their kids go to private schools. What's good enough for them isn't available for the majority. You can't afford it. It isn't Mother Teresa May's own mother who is parked on a corridor waiting to be seen.

 

Neither is it the Tory cabinet's grand kids who are denied places in their local school. Names have been down for years for Eton, Harrow, Winchester and other private schools.

 

The real problem is that all governments won't fund the NHS adequately. No one is brave enough to increase taxes to pay for it or make the tax avoiding businesses pay up. Add to that the Tories love of privatisation. It explains why our railways are hopeless.

 

Also, the OP post recognises how great the NHS is when they need it. Whereas I've argued for years the NHS should be better funded and staff pay increased 70%. But people don't think that way other than when their own wheels come off and they enter the NG after weeks, if not months, of delay.

 

It's why TV is now flooded with programs showing the desperate state of any city hospital and the impossible juggling act to get patients treated. This is not fiction. This is not Holby City. This is the reality of NG and the Hallamshire day in day out.

 

Nurses are massively undervalued, under paid and taken for granted.

 

Will it change?

 

Will it improve?

 

Will it be adequately funded?

 

Oh, there goes a flying pig .....................

Edited by Owethemnowt

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well written owethemnowt.. makes a nice change from reading your usual dribble about drinking.

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Unfortunate use of Cuba as an example. I suspect much of the hype about the health service there was actually propaganda from the Castro regime. A week or two ago, one of my family developed appendicitis while on holiday there. He could not have been more impressed by the skill and dedication of the doctors and nurses but was appalled by the facilities, right from the "ambulance" which was nothing more than a truck with a long bench in it, to the conditions in the hospital itself, which he said were like something you see on news reports from Aleppo. He sympathised with the excellent staff who were worn out and scathing about the lack of funding while government officials and the military lived in luxury. All the doctors in the hospital had to have second jobs to supplement their poor pay.

I am far from being a Tory, having voted Labour all my life, but it worries me that somewhere like Cuba is the best we can come up with as an example of good socialism.

By the way, over the last couple of years, myself and my family have had many (too many!) occasions to avail ourselves of the services of the NHS and have, without exception, had brilliant care.

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Owethemnowt . Actually I have been fully behind the NHS for years and years not just now when I need them .

I see first hand how stressed and over worked the staff are as my son is an Ocology nurse . The times I've prepared a meal for him and he's been too tired to eat it . It's the fact that their working days are always like this but are still,polite caring and give 110% every shift . How many other professions would put up with the unpaid hours ,the no breaks etc on such low pay .

As I said in my Op I will continue to support and fight for the NHS in anyway I can ,we can't let the powers that be destroy it!

 

Re GPS if my Gp hadn't been on the ball and referred me as quickly as he did there could have been a very different outcome .

If you are not happy with your GP then change ,your health is as much your responsibility as theirs .?

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