OT 25309 the NHS

[ramAnag]

So as the NHS is constantly loved/hated, lauded/decried and a permanent source of debate for underfunding or watefuless, I thought I'd start o thread about it.

Why 25309? Simple - that's the number of days into my life before I spent a night on a hospital ward: last night in fact. Won't go into details but admitted for observation and antibiotics intravenously

So "my diary" - but please everyone add their own experiences - good or bad. But no filibustering and if I see any politics or "to he Tories did this, labour did that" I'll ask Andy to delete the thread.

I'll kick off with day 1 - A&E admission. Organized chaos ranging from people with obvious emergency issues to the silly girl I heard in the queue later. Explaining why she was there she said she had fallen over and landed on her arm. When asked did she think she had broken anything she answered "my watch" and asked if they could sign something for her insurance claim. So overstretched staff (a feature I'll continuously come back too I expect) a shortage of doctors over 30 (well none) and, of the staff, barely a white face in sight (you hat is no a criticism, merely an observation.

Took an eternity to get through process (which did seem over bureaucratic) and the most uncomfortable chairs and excessive heat: perhaps to deter time wasters or promote the growth of MRSA.

But we got there - I'd just expected to be given antibiotics but the solution was more all embracing and so day 25309 became a reality.

Let's see if this piques interest...

First reaction, GP…and without intruding, sorry to hear you’re unwell and hope you’re soon back to full health and able to return home armed with glowing reports of your treatment.

I do have experiences to recount, which I’ll save for later, but I can honestly add that when the going has got properly ‘tough’…in my experience they’ve regularly come up trumps despite the apparent chaos all too often caused by the unreasonable behaviour of certain ‘clients’.

Good luck, hopefully you can be our ‘roving reporter’ but not for too long before you’re back home.

[Trickytreesreds]

First reaction, GP…and without intruding, sorry to hear you’re unwell and hope you’re soon back to full health and able to return home armed with glowing reports of your treatment.

I do have experiences to recount, which I’ll save for later, but I can honestly add that when the going has got properly ‘tough’…in my experience they’ve regularly come up trumps despite the apparent chaos all too often caused by the unreasonable behaviour of certain ‘clients’.

Good luck, hopefully you can be our ‘roving reporter’ but not for too long before you’re back home.

I can back that part. When the **** really hits the fan, they can be amazing.
Its from the GP's up, I find the whole thing laughable.
Waiting times, failure to diagnose, lack of staff, lack of attention to detail, lack of capacity.

My last visit over a year ago, i was eventually told kidney stones were my problem. I arrived to an A&E with no more seats available, Luckliy I had been in touch with 111 and they had entered me on the system and instructed me to go there. I got to skip that warzone part. But I still spent 3 hours on a trolley, hooked up to morphine before getting scanned and seeing a doctor. After 7 hours, I was transferred to the City, where I then spent another 5 hours waiting, before being given more pain relief and sent home. The passing part, I'll skip on.

It needs serious re work for me. Too many chiefs, not enough indians and not enough treatment before hospitals should be involved.
Too many people fighting for bed spaces. It is the same as the prisons.
Either more are needed, or the customers need reducing.