Private vs NHS

[BobKowalski]

What is the answer though? It seems for many the only answer when it come to the NHS is a blank cheque but even that will never be enough.

NHS spending is well above average globally and is on par with the rest of Europe who have far superior systems, we should be doing better with what we have.

For me the NHS represents the same as most infrastructure in the UK, it suffers under it's own weight because it is old and decrepid, some things are still based upon practices that haven't changed since WW2. It needs a total rethink, root and stem.

The better funded the NHS the better the service. ‘Reforming the NHS’ is usually just code for ‘can we get a better service by spending less money’ and the answer is no. Any reforms that improve the service will cost more money.

The answer is always more money. The NHS is also under managed, but people get outraged at the idea of paying money to administer the NHS properly. People on the whole are very stupid and there is no cure for that.

 

[remember arthur mann]

Collegue at work needs surgery on his back. In constant agony and it's affecting his job.

The NHS stated that they would only perform the surgery if he reached the target weight of 10 stones (he's about 14st) and must stay at that weight for about a year, during which they'd perform a number of various tests to ensure he could have the treatment, all in all he was told he would need to wait about 18 months before they did the surgery.

He's chosen to go private as he gets paid sick time off, but it's going to cost him £6500. He's scheduled for surgery at the end of this month. What a wonderful system we have.

When it goes tits up, he'll be rushed across to a NHS hospital.

 

[yeseye]

Same with the dentists.
Mrsery struggling to get a local NHS Dentist now so will have to pay private £££.
They’re dragging the Benefit Bashers in off the street though!
Why is everything geared up for scroungers?

 

[Nethermoor]

Fuck me you were in for an MRI that fast! I need a yearly MRI and the amount of fucking about the NHS put me through is crazy. And the flipping machine is about 30 years old. I always think the amount of dirty money swishing about in this city and they can't afford another 1 mil for a flipping MRI machine! The private system relies on the NHS machine so private patients get bumped up the que at the expense of the plebs

This was a scanner in a wagon trailer in a car park. But it was all brand new and spotless. Incredible service.

Less than 6 hours from referral to me being slid in the machine.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Same with the dentists.
Mrsery struggling to get a local NHS Dentist now so will have to pay private £££.
They’re dragging the Benefit Bashers in off the street though!
Why is everything geared up for scroungers?

Dentistry was never fully part of the NHS. The price per dental unit on the NHS is set too low at the moment, so most dentists are going private.

 

[Scottyboi]

Same with the dentists.
Mrsery struggling to get a local NHS Dentist now so will have to pay private £££.
They’re dragging the Benefit Bashers in off the street though!
Why is everything geared up for scroungers?

Are they? my Mrs is on disability and we have to pay private as no NHS dentists available anywhere, luckily pay for insurance through work so get to claim some bits back. How is it geared up for scroungers?

 

[SkyBlueFlux]

The problem with private health services is that they’re geared up well to be efficient for your average Jack. Don’t try to be a little bit complicated though or you’re absolutely fucked.

I’ve had private care through work for over 5 years and to say they won’t touch me with a barge pole is an understatement. I went to a private doctor that I paid out of pocket because private health wouldn’t cover me and my GP was fucking useless. They ended up helping refer me BACK into the NHS.

I’m now under Stanmore Orthopaedic Hospital who are the tertiary specialist hospital in this field and have to say they are superb. I’d seen three different specialists within a month. Within 6 weeks I’d been fully scanned, diagnosed and started a treatment path to recovery.

Fuck private care. They are out to make money. Therefore they will never serve the people who really need health care the most in this country. Those who are born with rare and serious conditions that they can’t make a buck from.

 

[yeseye]

Are they? my Mrs is on disability and we have to pay private as no NHS dentists available anywhere, luckily pay for insurance through work so get to claim some bits back. How is it geared up for scroungers?

I sympathise where disability is concerned .
Have you tried the .GOV Website?
Pop in your postcode and there seem to be many that advertise as taking on NHS.
Probably a different story when you phone them though!

Everything is geared up for scroungers with all the freebies they blag!

I know generations of families who have never done a days work in their life with a big shiny new car outside every 3years, PIP or some nonsense.
Fuck all wrong with them only bone idle!

 

[Mr Kobayashi]

I sympathise where disability is concerned .
Have you tried the .GOV Website?
Pop in your postcode and there seem to be many that advertise as taking on NHS.
Probably a different story when you phone them though!

Everything is geared up for scroungers with all the freebies they blag!

I know generations of families who have never done a days work in their life with a big shiny new car outside every 3years, PIP or some nonsense.
Fuck all wrong with them only bone idle!

Is there not a chance they may have rare medical conditions from generational inbreeding?

 

[M16 citeh]

This was a scanner in a wagon trailer in a car park. But it was all brand new and spotless. Incredible service.

Less than 6 hours from referral to me being slid in the machine.

Crazy I waited 18 months for a referral then a year for MRI bastards had to fork out for a private MRI then came to the NHS demanding a diagnosis with the results. Twats. Exactly what happens when the system is deliberately de funded