Finest NHS in the World???

[Lozzles]

Oh Kaz, that must have been awful

[Kaz]

Pretty horrid xx

[miasmum]

Sorry to hear that Kaz, Personally I can't fault it

[KateLMead]

How Distressing Kaz, traumatic...we are all delighted when we are looked after and survive illness, and thousands of us do. Including myself.."however" it does not take magnifying glasses to observe the deterioration of this once great service.. NHS has destroyed my fifty four year old daughters life. Eight years of medical neglect and finally botched surgery in Addenbrooks following my taking her to London in desperation where the appropriate tests were carried out. She has been left with serious breathing problems and deteriorating critical health problems that could have been avoided.
"And there is no come back". thousands of unhappy patients like those being kept waiting and even dying before getting attention in A and E.. Including children and adults being sent home misdiagnosed. "Pathway" or whatever you wish to call it, euthanasia alive and well and secretively used and indeed approved. Foreign doctors and nurses being brought in whose command of the English language is abysmal. Reading today of the doctors mass exodus from UK who have cost us £610K to train, with those who qualify 3,000 a year of them leaving to work overseas. NHS No Problems? £5,000 being paid to foreign doctors flown in from overseas to work week ends. Yes. The NHS is alive and well. Deteriorating..."never"

[Kaz]

Shell, I have had exemplary treatment at different times, it seems to be a real lottery. That night I'd been admitted having a miscarriage with hypovolemic shock. I'd haemorrhaged at home, and the ambulance people took 20 minute to stabilise me before they could take me in, as they couldn't get a bp at one point, it was through the floor, and I was very near a goner! They rushed me in and I was in A&E for several hours on a drip, then they needed to admit me but the only bed they had was on this mixed ward.

I was behind drawn curtains but a couple of times needed a commode behind those curtains, and nearly all the other patients were male Later that day I had the op I needed and was home that night, but I would have felt a lot more secure (and much less embarrassed!) in a female ward I don't approve of mixed wards, there is no dignity With hindsight I should have complained, or my ex should have! I certainly would now I am older and braver, and I certainly would if it was B being treated that way It was St P****'s in Chertsey in 1998. When I had another tricky miss in Swindon in the GWH six years later they were amazing!

[KateLMead]

We are grateful if our treatment is caring and good. We have every right however to be up in arms when it is not.
It has been said the NHS is in free fall. Prediction or fact . Terrible experience Kaz xxxxx