A salute to the NHS

[Linley]

This morning our neighbour asked if my hubby would take him to A&E as he didn't feel well, dizziness, tingling hands, slow heart rate. He was triaged and seen within 3 hours and will be taken to the Royal Brompton Hospital tomorrow to have a pacemaker fitted.That's what I call service. Thank you NHS👍

[wilsond]

Brilliant

[BenHall1]

Excellent ............ and you are yet another who exposes the NHS problems. At Hospital level care is generally amzingly brilliant and endorse the " Service " bit of NH .. S. At the opposite end of the spectrum ............. at GP/ Surgery level, in this Post CoVid world, it is just not fit for purpose, if all these lazy GP's were put in a cage in a zoo you wouldn't bother feeding them.

[Linley in reply to BenHall1]

Tend to agree with you re GP, it's not because he's lazy but there are too many people moving into the area and signing up at the surgery. So it's best to bypass him and go straight to A&E in an emergency situation, as my neighbour did.

[Buffafly in reply to BenHall1]

Mine isn’t, she is conscientious and caring, got a phone call to say I am to attend a FtF with her next Thursday.

[BenHall1 in reply to Buffafly]

Well good luck with that Buff ....... make sure you treasure her like a massive lottery win ! I've only seen mine twice in 2 years ... every time I try and make an appointment to see her I am subjected to an interrogation by a receptionist ( who seems to read from a "prompt board" of questions from which I earn a numerical score ). The score itself then becomes the qualifier as to whether I get a face to face meeting with my remote control GP. Inevitably I get passed down the food chain to a lesser mortal (usually a Physio or some other minion ) who can do nothing for me anyway, ( who can't prescribe, or do an INR test) but then, even so, I still have to join a queue for a face to face meeting with her. My cat gets better treatment from her vet than my NHS surgery provides to humans.

Now, down here at the pointy end of Cornwall we locals are about to be deluged with our annual flood of tourists (who have left their brains at home caring for their duvets) which will once again clog up what hospitals ( only 1 with a fully equipped A & E Unit ) we do have and our Surgeries with people who have the usual run of the mill holiday healthcare issues. Usually born out of incredible mindless stupidity. Like sunburn or being injured getting caught in a "rip" tide.

The GP's industrial organisation seem to have stitched up the whole damn NHS and politicians always seem to put on kid gloves and bow and scrape as a matter of routine when dealing with them. Loathsome organisations. Perhaps they should employ the Management Consultants, McKinsey to carry out an industrial engineering study on the GP's world of work.

[Buffafly in reply to BenHall1]

Oh, I do, including a bit of shameless FtF flattery ☺️

[BenHall1 in reply to Buffafly]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Buffafly in reply to BenHall1]

I do have to point out though that it costs £19 to have my cats claws trimmed by a nurse…..

[KelliEAnniE]

I second your praise of the NHS when I visited my doctor in Feb thinking I'd gone about asthma he checked my heart rate and blood pressure and said I was in AF he rang for an ambulance which came within 6 minutes and took me to Fairfield hospital in bury there I was well looked after and sent home with meds received exellant care and just before Easter isn't to A E as my asthma had got worse they put a nebuliser on me but unfortunately it sent my heart rate to a dangerous 210 was rushed to resus and had drugs intravenously for 24 hours was kept in for 4 days had on my record now to avoid nebuliser as this had caused my heart rate to spyral first time I'd had one used on me changed my bisoperol to verapamil as bisoperol can make asthma worse I have nothing but praise for how I was looked after again treatment was excellent I have nothing but good to say about them I am going in same hospital in June for a coloscopy but going off my previous experiences I have trust in them

[Buffafly in reply to KelliEAnniE]

During my last visit to A&E the doctor wondered why I wasn’t on bisoprolol, notes said I ‘didn’t tolerate it’ which could mean anything but when I said I was asthmatic he laughed and said ‘say no more!’

[KelliEAnniE in reply to Buffafly]

did he that says it all I'm fine on the verapamil and no problems with my asthma just use fostair inhaler twice a day no issues feel fine

[Linley in reply to KelliEAnniE]

Good luck with the Colonoscopy

[KelliEAnniE in reply to Linley]

thanks very much

[BrotherThomas]

Makes a change.

[Alicant]

Yes A and E seems to get the job done…GP surgeries are frightening…often low level of skill because your not seeing a doctor… they should be able to offer more tests ..as in most European Countries.. unfortunately even getting appointment is a big lottery?

[jeanjeannie50]

At times our care from the NHS is absolutely brilliant. I discovered that when I thought I may have had a mini stroke. The service I received couldn't have been better and among the many other tests I actually had were two scans of my head, a CT one and an MRI. Apparently as we age our brains tend to shrink, the consultant said mine hadn't shrunk at all and he'd be delighted if his was like mine when he got to my age.

It's just a shame I can't notice any benefits of my brain size myself. 🤥

Jean