Pensioner waits 10 hours

[soulman101]

On the pavement, after breaking his hip and back.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-pavement.html

[baggieal]

On the pavement, after breaking his hip and back.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-pavement.html

The NHS is getting worse and leading to a paid service. GP surgeries are shocking!!! Just had my annual MRI to hopefully ensure there’s no spread and told to make a doctors appointment and someone will discuss the results with me in 10 days. A druggie waiting for meths has the same priority!

So when I hear celebs going on about illness or depression - for God sake - at least they have the funds for quick professional help! No sympathy for them but do have every sympathy for the elderly and those who can’t afford things.

[WBA1955]

The NHS is getting worse and leading to a paid service. GP surgeries are shocking!!! Just had my annual MRI to hopefully ensure there’s no spread and told to make a doctors appointment and someone will discuss the results with me in 10 days. A druggie waiting for meths has the same priority!

So when I hear celebs going on about illness or depression - for God sake - at least they have the funds for quick professional help! No sympathy for them but do have every sympathy for the elderly and those who can’t afford things.

Well said Al, and I hope you have good news with your scan.

[boingy]

I have a friend in Canada, its a worldwide thing now. She has Cancer and has got to go to New York to get treatment, huge waiting lists. wont see anyone for at least 6 months.

[baggieal]

I have a friend in Canada, its a worldwide thing now. She has Cancer and has got to go to New York to get treatment, huge waiting lists. wont see anyone for at least 6 months.

That was my point! Despite wealth - cancer is cancer and depression is depression. That said if you have money you can buy the best treatment with almost no wait! This is why I have more sympathy for somebody who has nothing as opposed to a celebrity bleating on they have cancer or depression or the Queen with Covid.

[Calgarybaggy]

Canada's health care system is far from perfect and can have very long waiting lists for non-life threatening conditions like orthopedic surgery but if you have cancer it gets looked after a lot quicker than six months. If cancer takes six months to start treatment it would be because its a very benign or slow moving form of cancer line some colon and prostate cancers, or else your friend is not telling you the full story. If you show up with lung cancer or pancreatic cancer or something else aggressive, you go to the front of the line and get treated right away.

[Dubbag]

Worth remembering (in this age of short memories) that most western economies have been privatizing the health service.
So health and well being is becoming more for those who can afford it.....
Hospitals across Europe (including UK) have been in major decline for quite some time.....throwing money is not a solution that many think it should be.......but I have watched more then a few colleagues leaving this sector due to complete burn out, not just from Covid, but from a general lack of a good working environment in the work place......

Perfct storm is gathering pace now...change is coming and starting to appear on the horizon.....

[westcountryvillain]

The NHS to me looks like a money pit with no cogent plan to fix it, throwing more money at it does not fix the workforce issues it has, it just creates headlines for politicians. It should to my mind be run like the private sector and compete for funds through quality, efficiency and bureaucracy kept to a minimum.

[baggieal]

The NHS to me looks like a money pit with no cogent plan to fix it, throwing more money at it does not fix the workforce issues it has, it just creates headlines for politicians. It should to my mind be run like the private sector and compete for funds through quality, efficiency and bureaucracy kept to a minimum.

Had my annual MRI last Saturday obviously worried - no more priority with a GP calling me with the results than a druggie needing meths. Promised a call yesterday by surgery and they thought they were doing me a favor - no call so still don’t know the results!

The surgery and GP’S can go f uck themselves as no excuse.

[mickd1961]

Had my annual MRI last Saturday obviously worried - no more priority with a GP calling me with the results than a druggie needing meths. Promised a call yesterday by surgery and they thought they were doing me a favor - no call so still don’t know the results!

The surgery and GP’S can go f uck themselves as no excuse.

Surely you get priority don’t you?

Based on your age! 🤣

The good news is........you only usually can be guaranteed to get the call if it’s bad news they have to dish out.