King Charles has cancer

[RiversideBlue]

Since he wont be using them, I wonder if I can have his Cup Final tickets

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

100% agree and is just common sense to be proactive rather than reactive.

While I wouldn't wish cancer on Charlie, or anybody come to that, what irks me is that he'll receive the best care possible and I don't see why somebody like that should be treated any different to anybody else.

There will be no waiting to see a specialist, no waiting to be booked in for treatment and no unexpected cancellations like so many people have to put up with on a daily basis.

All this talk about Will taking time off 'work' to look after his wife and kids. Easy to make decisions like that when you don't have to pay a mortgage, car repayments and no worries about the increase in the cost of electricity and heating, or how much the grocery bill is.

Commendable, but give me a break!!

Do you work in a hospital?

 

[blue44]

Cancer has fucked me over for ten years
through personal loss and currently my mam on her second fight.
I'm a republican to the core, I despise cancer and everything to do with it,I wish
charles my best,we're all human with fears and hopes.

 

[KS55]

I’m guessing he is a private patient and pays.

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

It’s not the time and Farron has tweeted that before the news broke about Charles.

It’s obviously abhorrent to charge cancer patients extra because they live in certain postcodes, but it’s not linked to Charles’ situation.

This is broadly my take. I’m no royalist and I understand people’s frustrations with the healthcare system, I’m facing them myself.

But Charles did not personally cause that inequality, and he is certainly not the only one who benefits from it. It just strikes me as crass to use an announcement like this and somebody’s bad fortune as a launchpad for having that discussion. There’s a time and a place for it. I said exactly the same thing when the Queen died and all the people came out to talk about colonialism.

We all agree these are bad things, but tying personal tragedy into it in an attempt to strengthen the point has the exact opposite effect. It’s pointless to engage in this way, all it achieves is angering people (as demonstrated by the comments immediately above me).

 

[Lavinda Past]

Hopefully early stages and treatable.

I wouldn't wish any type of cancer on anyone. It's a bastard of a disease.

Long may he reign!

 

[Man_City_Loyal]

Hope HRH beats it.

Wouldn't wish cancer on my worst enemy.

 

[kaz7]

I would rather anyone who can go private do so , every rich person does it , frees up the nhs places , what is not to like about that ?

 

[supercity88]

I would rather anyone who can go private do so , every rich person does it , frees up the nhs places , what is not to like about that ?

Sadly it doesn't work like that Kaz. The consultants work both sectors, as is their right, but it's not a separate line of healthcare which frees up space for others. My wife has been using her private healthcare through work for an auto immune disease and the consultant and surgeons work for the NHS some days and do private procedures on others. She's had an op cancelled once because of an NHS priority, but she'll have jumped right up the queue still.

 

[SWP's back]

Sadly it doesn't work like that Kaz. The consultants work both sectors, as is their right, but it's not a separate line of healthcare which frees up space for others. My wife has been using her private healthcare through work for an auto immune disease and the consultant and surgeons work for the NHS some days and do private procedures on others. She's had an op cancelled once because of an NHS priority, but she'll have jumped right up the queue still.

You’ve just described exactly the same as Kaz. Hes not taking up an NHS space and Karen was a nurse so knows the situation as well as anyone here.