Today I met a friend who is undergoing chemotherapy at the moment, next week she has three separate appointments on three separate days at different hospitals. Luckily she has friends and family who can take her but she is not always so lucky and has to rely on public transport or hope the hospital arranges transport, which they forgot the other day. She can not use Buckland because they do not provide even the simple treatments she might need, like putting in a new picc line.
To often we hear that the NHS do not provide an adequate service or should I say sensible service for their patients. These people are ill they should not have to travel for several hours with what seems like endless bus changes for a ten to twenty minute appointment.
The whole of the health service hierarchy should remember that they are there to serve the public not the other way round.
Rant over
