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No, I haven't got any, I just hoped someone else might have had a recent positive experience to divert me from my rapdly drawing conclusion that, frankly, it is bust.
For the past 4 years every contact I have had across two PCT's (with the exception of when I paid privately), has been shocking. Disorganised, pretending to care, little respect for the patient, duplicitous, inefficient and run mainly for the convenience of staff and budgets.
I have seen chocolate eating nurses reading mags and doing their homework while old dears lie in s
tty beds calling for help, patients being kept hanging about for 9 hours for medication for discharge (which in itself is amazing as the phramacy shut 2 hours earlier), before being given the wrong medication, nothing being passed on between staff or to community care, incompetent community nurses (I think they should be able to take a blood sample and change a cathiter bag without cocking it up ever time?) who basically turn up when they want to without the courtesy of a call to say they will be late (in one case 2 days late). Unwell patients being very strongly encouraged to leave hospital on a Friday with lies that they needed the beds when the beds were then unoccipied all weekend (but probably saved some overtime or agency bills?) and a general couldn't give a stuff, patienmts dignity and time means nothing attitudes across the board.
If they did anything other than what they do, their business would have gone bust years ago.
So, someone give me a positve story and make me believe in fairies again. My daughter works in the NHS and I want to believe, but what on earth has gone wrong?
For the past 4 years every contact I have had across two PCT's (with the exception of when I paid privately), has been shocking. Disorganised, pretending to care, little respect for the patient, duplicitous, inefficient and run mainly for the convenience of staff and budgets.
I have seen chocolate eating nurses reading mags and doing their homework while old dears lie in s
tty beds calling for help, patients being kept hanging about for 9 hours for medication for discharge (which in itself is amazing as the phramacy shut 2 hours earlier), before being given the wrong medication, nothing being passed on between staff or to community care, incompetent community nurses (I think they should be able to take a blood sample and change a cathiter bag without cocking it up ever time?) who basically turn up when they want to without the courtesy of a call to say they will be late (in one case 2 days late). Unwell patients being very strongly encouraged to leave hospital on a Friday with lies that they needed the beds when the beds were then unoccipied all weekend (but probably saved some overtime or agency bills?) and a general couldn't give a stuff, patienmts dignity and time means nothing attitudes across the board. If they did anything other than what they do, their business would have gone bust years ago.
So, someone give me a positve story and make me believe in fairies again. My daughter works in the NHS and I want to believe, but what on earth has gone wrong?
I've heard a huge amount of horror stories but the only recent family experience was when my mum was diagnised with breast cancer after a routine check up.
As quick as you like, everything was organised, had the op, caught it early (and it was a particularly nasty strain), got the drugs and had a touch of radiotherapy - all good.
From what I can gather is that ER is pretty good, anything that has an immediate life threat such as cancer is good as well. Anything that isn't life threatening such as your granny's hip op, is absolutely attrocious!
As quick as you like, everything was organised, had the op, caught it early (and it was a particularly nasty strain), got the drugs and had a touch of radiotherapy - all good.
From what I can gather is that ER is pretty good, anything that has an immediate life threat such as cancer is good as well. Anything that isn't life threatening such as your granny's hip op, is absolutely attrocious!
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