The NHS

[journolud]

Your system is about the only one which is worse, because as you say, the price tag is just bonkers.

I get that people like the NHS being "free". That, I understand. What I don't understand is why they like it to be shite? And the people who work in it who are also shite, to be regarded as marvellous?

Do you really think people like it to be shite, or is that they are perhaps tolerant of the pressure it is under and accept it as less than perfect?

 

[kaz7]

Oh do one

 

[BobKowalski]

Your system is about the only one which is worse, because as you say, the price tag is just bonkers.

I get that people like the NHS being "free". That, I understand. What I don't understand is why they like it to be shite? And the people who work in it who are also shite, to be regarded as marvellous?

Because it isn’t ‘shite’ nor are the people working for it ‘shite’. This is just childish nonsense.

 

[Metal Biker]

I'm prompted to ask this after my daring to question junior doctors in another thread, and the general outrage such comments cause. It wasn't particularly bad this time, but generally, if anyone makes any negative comments about the NHS, they are treated like they've fucked the pope.

What is it that causes such reaction? Is it because the NHS employs SO many people that nearly everyone has a family member or friend or neighbour who works for them?

Any suggestion that the NHS could be improved by some change or other, is pounced upon. And god help anyone who suggests - shock horror - maybe the private sector could do some of the work!?! You'd be rounded up and shot if some had their way.

If the service the NHS gave was amazing, it would be easier to understand. But the waiting times are terrible, the availability of leading edge treatments and facilities "patchy" to downright poor. And the clinical outcomes for things like cancer, woeful. In short, it's pretty poor to be honest.

People who work there are all "angels" or "heros" or whatever. Despite the fact they *chose* to go into the profession and they get paid for doing so. They weren't press-ganged into it. But dare to suggest that some nurses are lazy sods for whom picking up crap off the floor or doing some other actually important task, is beneath them.

You go up to the average nursing station on the average ward and 3 or 4 of them will blank you for 10 minutes. If any shop treated you like that, you'd walk out. But when the NHS does it, they are marvellous.

Why no such love-in for the chemical engineering industry? How about passionately sticking up for airport security staff who do such an amazing job preventing those nasty terrorists?

Nope, the NHS is rank average at best, and the sooner people can stop romanticising and face up to the fact, the sooner we can start thinking about how we can get a better health service for all of us.

As someone who has been reliant on healthcare for the past few months for a recurring condition, I can only say this.

The NHS is a wonderful thing, but the people who work there are in my epxerience, generally negligent, disinterested and generally provide poor service.

 

[journolud]

As someone who has been reliant on healthcare for the past few months for a recurring condition, I can only say this.

The NHS is a wonderful thing, but the people who work there are in my epxerience, generally negligent, disinterested and generally provide poor service.

So who has been delivering your healthcare?

 

[Metal Biker]

So who has been delivering your healthcare?

The NHS. A combination of many departments. All of them inept. Had to go private in the end, suggest I have a claim to sue for negligence (not going to).

 

[BobKowalski]

As someone who has been reliant on healthcare for the past few months for a recurring condition, I can only say this.

The NHS is a wonderful thing, but the people who work there are in my epxerience, generally negligent, disinterested and generally provide poor service.

Fucking miracle you survived then.

 

[Metal Biker]

Fucking miracle you survived then.

Someone admits to having an illness and the first thing you do is mock them?

You seem to care more about the NHS than the actual patients being treated.

 

[journolud]

The NHS. A combination of many departments. All of them inept. Had to go private in the end, suggest I have a claim to sue for negligence (not going to).

So is the NHS a wonderful thing or not?

 

[Metal Biker]

So is the NHS a wonderful thing or not?

I already stated, it is, those staffing it are not.