The NHS is not perfect
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We all know the NHS isn’t perfect, but these days what is? I'm sick of people who don't actually work in the NHS trying to tell us what we should be doing or how we should be doing it. They may be occasional beneficiaries of the services the NHS provide, but they aren’t involved in the day to day running of it so how can they think they are qualified to pass judgement. Whilst I’m banging on about our NHS problems; here’s another big chunk of it. The less than useless middle managers we have to work with! I'm sick of these idiot managers that tell us we are over-spending THEIR money on OUR patients. What do they know about patient care? These people (so called managers) frequently tell us that we can't do certain procedures or operations and I'm sick of the Department of Health denouncing their responsibilities. It’s high time that professionals were properly funded and allowed to get on and do their job. |
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If they (the Department of Health) actually gave each Primary Care Trust in the country the amount of money that each Trust needed for their demographic, there would be enough money to go round and patients would get the care that they need.
As an example, Gloucestershire has a very high proportion of elderly, who obviously use more NHS resources. Does Gloucestershire get the amount of money it needs? No it definitely doesn’t. You can’t treat every area the same, just as you wouldn’t treat each patient the same. |
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Just had a bill from a London private hospital. I was in their care as an out patient for exactly 1 hour. They gave me a cup of tea and biscuits. Bill was £920 for the accommodation. Not the surgeon, not the medical advice. Just the hospital charges. Not even a proper room, it was a curtained area off a corridor.
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The hospital management who receive a handsome salary always moan of lack of funding but still have sufficient funds to fight negligence cases. They hire expensive lawyers and barristers, recruit private detectives and other means to win their cases, but they just never have enough funds to recruit another underpaid nurse or feed their patients. What manipulative, cold and self-interested liars they are.
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hospital management sucks - 21-Nov-10 23:34
Some, and I mean some frontline staff should have never been recruited. They have poor communication skills, are extremely lazy, arrogant and with attitude problems. I watched a relative in Intensive care post heart bypass being treated badly by Intensive care nurses! I was absolutely mortified by their resentment at working and wondered why they had applied for such a sensitive and specialist job. Sick patients are in intensive care because they're nearing death (and I am stating the obvious here) but being treated with contempt by some nasty and lazy frontline nurses. Having complained about their bad behaviour, my relative was ignored and disrespected by other nurses in other departments. Clearly they'd been spreading nasty comments. It took confrontation with a Consultant, indirect threats and raised voices to humble them quickly.... I am outraged and saddened by the state of our NHS and think of those who have no-one to defend them at such vulnerable times.
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NHS exploded - 18-Nov-10 12:02
I blame the NHS management who are not doing their job properly. They are not monitoring or taking patients health as the utmost importance. Excuses are made for poor services.
It is so easy to blame the front line staff. The management are their to supervise and monitor continuously but only sit in their offices looking at figures and defending key staff when complaints are made.
The hospital departments are good for some cases but mainly an overstretched poor service with poor management. They need to get rid of old managers, train up new managers who can check on the staff who are not up to a good standard of service.
It is so easy to blame the front line staff. The management are their to supervise and monitor continuously but only sit in their offices looking at figures and defending key staff when complaints are made.
The hospital departments are good for some cases but mainly an overstretched poor service with poor management. They need to get rid of old managers, train up new managers who can check on the staff who are not up to a good standard of service.
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My experience of NHS staff is worrying indeed. These reckless, incompetent, uninterested idiots should not be employed to murder, yes murder through sheer negligence, and then allowed to getaway with it. Do you know that once you complain about ill-treatment they play paranoia games to confuse you. They keep you waiting deliberately for appointments, tell you the oxygen monitor is not working at crucial moments, ring you in the middle of the night with wrong information to worry you incessantly, leave you in blood-soaked bedding for hours, seek negative personal rumours, lies to discredit you and drop hints Basically these sick individuals will resort to nasty tactics to cover up their criminal negligence. Why are these idiots being paid????!
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NHS is a murderer - 18-Nov-10 00:01
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.
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Very true. Blasting around on blue lights in old knackered motors!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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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.
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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.
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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??
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??
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
Incidentally a big thank you to The Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital at Margate.Exellent treatment and a happy, helpfull and courteous atmosphere.
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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?
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Temporally Loopy - 29-Sep-06 02:58
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?
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Celia Molestrangler - 1-Sep-06 14:42
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
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
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Get rid of all the hangers on, and managers ,who manage to C*ck it ALL up.
They get paid silly amounts of money for sitting on their A*ses,and know sod all about what going on in the REAL world.
Their just in it to Line THEIR pockets, with YOUR MONEY
They get paid silly amounts of money for sitting on their A*ses,and know sod all about what going on in the REAL world.
Their just in it to Line THEIR pockets, with YOUR MONEY
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the nhs is outa date. phase in private medical insurance over 25 years and save the economy a lot of bovver.
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Monkey's Nose - 6-Jul-06 00:57
"That's what happens when a Socilaist concept is run as a Capitalist concern"
Of course, that should be SOCIALIST concept - sorry!
Of course, that should be SOCIALIST concept - sorry!
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