The NHS is not perfect

A very Intelligent gripe essay,I could not agree more.The people who work for the nhs do get a good deal of unfair abuse and critisism.Speaking from my own experience of the Nhs the overwhelming majority are a great bunch of people.

Very true. Blasting around on blue lights in old knackered motors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leeds NHS trust are now employing the services of private ambulances, these are manned by unqualified staff, my only guess is that it is to save money but it will cost patients lives.

do as I have just done.the public are being invited to join the local trusts as members where we can have our say and hopefully get listened too.

The NHS is overburdened by people abusing the system. Calling out ambulances for minor injuries / illnesses. The ambulance service is a huge cost to the taxpayer and must be used responsibly. Some people actually call it out as a convenience so that they attempt to jump the queue at hospital, by attempting to bypass the triage nurse.

I dare not call one out unless it is serious, but others simple call them out for check ups????

Are we serious about using resources appropriately??

Having looked through the gripes on this site,there are more people commenting on reasons why they should smoke or why women should get a round in or how useless this person or that shop is than comments about the NHS.Perhaps those people who have had good treatment in hospital such as myself could be a bit more complimentry to people who have a particularly stressfull job at low pay and with very unsociable hours.I doubt that I would be able to do it and I certainly wouldn't complain about those who do.

The NHS costs every taxpayer £2,000 per year.

My private medical insurance costs a third of that for infinitely superior cover and a significantly reduced chance of MRSA - oh, and a private room and 3 good meals a day.

The NHS relies on volunteers in hospitals. The Air Ambulances are charities. The hospices are charities. Many pieces of equipment in hospitals are bought or funded by charities - Cancer Research, for example.

The NHS is the third biggest employer in the world - 1.3 MILLION staff. The German health sector caters for 50% more people for less money and 50% of the staff.

So tell me again what great value for money this NHS is?

The whole shambles should be torn down.

Incidentally Monkeys Nose,how will you feel when they look through your wallet/purse to check your medical insurance to see which hospital to take you to,Private or paupers hospital?
Try examining the systems in place in other countries where they have no National Health to see how well off you are in this country.

As someone who is benefitting from a bit of N.H.S. care at the moment,I cannot speak highly enough about the staff and hospitals in our area.They have been caring well mannered and helpfull over and above their job description.Also the surgeon whose patient I am has pulled all the stops out to get my treatment arranged.Most of the time the staff are doing a hard job in difficult circumstances.I heard the other day about someone who turned up at A&E clutching a cloth to her eye.When asked what injury she had sustained she replied that she was having a shower and some shampoo had run into her eye.Just the sort of way that the system gets clogged up with people who could quite well go to their G.P. or chemist.

Incidentally a big thank you to The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital at Margate.Exellent treatment and a happy, helpfull and courteous atmosphere.

Obviously this is a delightful little earner for the Government but has anyone else worked out the logic of slapping punitive fines on NHS trusts that are millions of pounds in debt already. Why make them go even further into the red?

Funny, that, when you go into a hospital, what you actually see are lots of nurses standing around chatting and doing the minimum actual nursing, whilst the patients are often given only the most basic nursing care. Perhaps these nurses need.....Managers?

In the news - Inadequate leadership and ineffective management are the causes of the worst deficits in the NHS, a watchdog says. Is this what we are talking about?

The NHS finished last year over £500m in deficit with nearly one-in-three NHS organisations failing to balance its books.


"We must take care to look at the whole picture and not make NHS managers the scapegoat for financial problems facing a small minority of trusts"
Gill Morgan, of the NHS Confederation

ROTFL