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Post by sandypine on Jul 7, 2024 15:00:54 GMT
I can only give my own opinion and family experience. My wife has had cancer for near on fifteen years with spells of return. Her treatment in Ayrshire and Arran has been excellent, the staff have been wonderful, the response to the occasional emergency has been brilliant. The treatment has been timely and considered and the follow up very good. My stepson who lives in Hampshire and had extensive experience in Hampshire NHS trust due to motorcycle injuries believes that if she still lived in Hampshire she may have died a few years back and this time would certainly not have received the same treatment So Scotland NHS seems pretty good even for English patients and in the main the patients are treated with kindness, respect and care. It seems overcrowded areas struggle and there is little doubt Hampshire is overcrowded certainly Southern Hants. MY experience is that the staff are indeed the wonder of legend the various sagas sung by the bards make them out to be The problem is money grubbing admin too interested in ripping off those needing to park their cars to notice consultant surgeons have fucked off leaving waiting lists to mushroom unpruned, and corrupt scum in government publicly admit their incompetence and inability to hold the post of health minister but are not sacked, But that is Wales where NHS incompetence and malpractice continues apace as it has since 1999 under an uninterrupted LABOUR administration I feel your pain. Although we do live in a rural location we can usually get a doctor's appointment the next day and quite often the same day and within an hour or so.The dentist is much the same. In reality we had looked to move either abroad or back to England or Wales, the weather does not keep us here but the Health Service certainly does. |
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Post by ratcliff on Jul 7, 2024 15:30:21 GMT
I agree that it needs to work differently The NHS is already run for the benefit of the staff , patients are an inconvenience to staff That mindset needs to be changed and the ''customer'' put front and centre I can only give my own opinion and family experience. My wife has had cancer for near on fifteen years with spells of return. Her treatment in Ayrshire and Arran has been excellent, the staff have been wonderful, the response to the occasional emergency has been brilliant. The treatment has been timely and considered and the follow up very good. My stepson who lives in Hampshire and had extensive experience in Hampshire NHS trust due to motorcycle injuries believes that if she still lived in Hampshire she may have died a few years back and this time would certainly not have received the same treatment So Scotland NHS seems pretty good even for English patients and in the main the patients are treated with kindness, respect and care. It seems overcrowded areas struggle and there is little doubt Hampshire is overcrowded certainly Southern Hants. Your wife is lucky , imo there is a massive issue with staff attitude treating patients (who may be feeling ill/scared/worried/hopeful/sad etc) as an inconvenience who might be attended only after they have completed their convo about last night's tv or latest boy/girlfriend , you only have to notice all the posters on walls ''ordering'' patients to do/not do xyz . Questions to receptionists are ignored or at best finger pointed (they call it signposting) towards a particular wal poster/sign |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 7, 2024 16:20:10 GMT
Funding has increased significantly , how it's allocated is a matter for the NHS and the highly paid (invisible much of the time) NHS boss Amanda Pritchard , not a government minister NHS England reports into the Dept of Health and Social Care so, assuming the new government continues this arrangement, the government (probably through DHSC) could set up a review of NHS England.
Any review should also look at closer linking of Welfare and Public Health into any NHS review, because keeping people healthy and out of hospital, and ensuring care is available when patients leave hospital, would relieve pressure on hospitals...
Probably not . New and more expensive to treat conditions would just fill the gap. There needs to be a discussion about what the NHS aims should be and what the costs are to achieve those aims . |
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Post by patman post on Jul 7, 2024 16:46:18 GMT
NHS England reports into the Dept of Health and Social Care so, assuming the new government continues this arrangement, the government (probably through DHSC) could set up a review of NHS England.
Any review should also look at closer linking of Welfare and Public Health into any NHS review, because keeping people healthy and out of hospital, and ensuring care is available when patients leave hospital, would relieve pressure on hospitals...
Probably not . New and more expensive to treat conditions would just fill the gap. There needs to be a discussion about what the NHS aims should be and what the costs are to achieve those aims . I don't disagree — in fact I was anticipating that the mission(s) of the NHS and Public Health and Welfare would be part of any review... |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 7, 2024 16:47:55 GMT
Probably not . New and more expensive to treat conditions would just fill the gap. There needs to be a discussion about what the NHS aims should be and what the costs are to achieve those aims . I don't disagree — in fact I was anticipating that the mission(s) of the NHS and Public Health and Welfare would be part of any review... I doubt in any meaningful way . |
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Post by patman post on Jul 7, 2024 16:56:44 GMT
I don't disagree — in fact I was anticipating that the mission(s) of the NHS and Public Health and Welfare would be part of any review... I doubt in any meaningful way . While everything is so new, I'm hoping for the best and thinking constructively. I'll express doubts and be critical when mistakes happen... |
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Post by Bentley on Jul 7, 2024 17:01:50 GMT
I doubt in any meaningful way . While everything is so new, I'm hoping for the best and thinking constructively. I'll express doubts and be critical when mistakes happen... Nothing here is new . Just new faces . The shackles and restraints are still here. |
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Post by Pacifico on Jul 7, 2024 17:32:43 GMT
The NHS has had its funding increased faster than inflation. Mainly swallowed up by debt created by the last Labour government. Which they are in complete denial about. Which apparently they are going to start up again. Also the NHS (along with the rest of the Public Sector) has a problem with productivity - as the budgets and staff numbers rise productivity falls so it takes more money to deliver the same level of service. |
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Post by sandypine on Jul 7, 2024 17:51:31 GMT
I can only give my own opinion and family experience. My wife has had cancer for near on fifteen years with spells of return. Her treatment in Ayrshire and Arran has been excellent, the staff have been wonderful, the response to the occasional emergency has been brilliant. The treatment has been timely and considered and the follow up very good. My stepson who lives in Hampshire and had extensive experience in Hampshire NHS trust due to motorcycle injuries believes that if she still lived in Hampshire she may have died a few years back and this time would certainly not have received the same treatment So Scotland NHS seems pretty good even for English patients and in the main the patients are treated with kindness, respect and care. It seems overcrowded areas struggle and there is little doubt Hampshire is overcrowded certainly Southern Hants. Your wife is lucky , imo there is a massive issue with staff attitude treating patients (who may be feeling ill/scared/worried/hopeful/sad etc) as an inconvenience who might be attended only after they have completed their convo about last night's tv or latest boy/girlfriend , you only have to notice all the posters on walls ''ordering'' patients to do/not do xyz . Questions to receptionists are ignored or at best finger pointed (they call it signposting) towards a particular wal poster/sign As I said I can only go by our own experience and that was Ayr University, Crosshouse, Queen Elizabeth 2, Irvine, Cumnock and the Beetson. It was by no means perfect but in general terms it was excellent at all of them. The reception staff, the nurses, the doctors, the Consultants were all kind and considerate or at least made an effort to be. One or two, minor problems but then ill people are not always the easiest people to deal with. To a certain extent much depends on the patient. |
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