King Charles has cancer

Got the same stunning news for my dad early last year. Thankfully his was caught early, the NHS (credit where credit is due) were fantastic with him and he's still soldiering on like nothing ever happened. Must be an older generation attitude.
 
kaz7 said:
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 ?
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I'm lucky and have private coverage through work. Only wish I was able to put my mum on the cover or similar when she was undergoing treatment.

Correct it frees up NHS spaces, although they do tend to end up at hte private hospitals during treatment.

One of my godmothers is current undergoing treatment at Christies, don't think they've had to use Stepping Hill yet which is speeding things up for them.
 
I'm not a royalist by any stretch of the imagination. If anything I'm anti-royal. But if there's one of them I can just about stand, it's Charlie. He was laughed at for years for his apparently cooky beliefs and principles pertaining to wildlife and the environment but he's turned out to be completely right on all that. He was adamant about the woman he really, truly loved before he was forced to marry someone else, and he turned out to be completely right on that as well.

Years and years ago, in about 2005, he came to Reddish as part of a royal tour while my dad worked for Stockport Council, who were based at Houldsworth Mill, and he was there for a lot longer than he was meant to be. If nothing else, he had a presence and knew how to carry himself - my dad said you could feel him coming down the corridor before they even knew he was there. He's part of a broken system that I despise, but I think, if he gets the time through treatment, he'll actually try to use the role for something good.

Can't say I'm particularly moved by the news either way because I don't know him from Adam but cancer is a nasty bastard and, at the very least, news of this diagnosis will encourage more men to get themselves checked by a doctor. Hopefully he can have his own "Jade Goody effect" but with a happier ending to the tale. I remember the year all the girls at my school got the HPV vaccine and the lives that were saved that winter are down to Jade's campaigning. Hopefully there's some dads and granddads out there who get to live longer because of this news about Charles.
 
Blue and true said:
I too have witnessed cancer ravage those close to me; it claimed two of my grandparents and it was fucking horrible. He's a grandfather, father, and husband, so for those reasons I hope he recovers. But I'm not going to disingenuously pour my heart out when there are many less fortunate in the country who need the kind of world-class care he'll be receiving, but are subsequently left by the wayside.

My missus and her family pay for private healthcare; but they use money they've saved for and earned throughout their working lives. Those equating the Royal Family using private healthcare with an ordinary citizen are completely missing the point.
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You too are missing the point of my post.
We both seem to agree on the pain cancer causes as it probably touches every family in the UK, if not the world. We are lucky to have the NHS and the many good folk who work in it, me especially, though not cancer related, and nowhere near as serious as cancer. My point is, so called "important people" politicians, leaders, millionaires or indeed royalty would be nowhere near a queue for treatment and if you think they would be, it is just a fantasy you beleive because I certainly dont. As an aside a friend of mine was recently diagnosed with bowel cancer, within a week they were starting their treatment at Christies and a few weeks later were told their treatment was successful. They were also told their private healthcare would really not change the timescale or the treatment they received.
 
SWP's back said:
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.
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No I haven't. He's taking up a space because the specialists he is seeing will also work NHS roles a few days a week. We've got numerous specialists working in a dual capacity. So whilst he's not jumping the NHS queue, he's still slotting into their schedule which includes NHS patients and the problem is exacerbated.

If the two were run completely independently with a set of staff in private and a separate set in the NHS then it would be fine. But that's not the case.

I know when my Mum was getting cancer treatment through the NHS that her oncologist was doing the same. Some days he'd be in one NHS hospital, others he'd be at another NHS hospital in the same trust and then a couple of days he'd be at his private hospital. Tracking where he was and finding out where to call and when was incredibly difficult as a result. Her surgeons were doing the same thing and so it was rare both would be together in order to discuss scans/surgery/treatment. It was a car crash.

The private sector isn't helping free up NHS space as well as it could and probably should.
 
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