howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#1
the piece waffles on about saving the n.h.s but doesn't actually give any details of how they would do it.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/mar/02/david-owen-backs-labour-reforms-nhsGuest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#2
The N.H.S. is doing OK it does not want any outside help from MPS and partys because it was them in the first place that messed it up.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
the n.h.s is not doing ok at the moment, due to cuts waiting lists have soared and urgent surgery has now been centralised at one hospital in east kent. i am awaiting dates for 3 minor operations and have been told by the consultant on one that it could be any time in the next year.
i should have had it a long while back but incompetence ruled, nothing to do with the cuts in that case though.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
As I said it is the MPS that are making a mess of it all keep changing it all about, the N.H.S. does not know from one day to next what is coming next.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#5
i agree with that, the same situation with schools - just a political football.
the nhs is not perfect of course, much like any organisation they have deadwood.
back in september 2012 i visited my gp due to my left hand developing a life of it's own, part working and part not. my doctor checked it over and said that it was quite common and minor surgery would correct it, he tried to book an appointment for me to see a neurologist while i was there to no avail. i finally got see one in winter 2013. i was told that i needed to have tests and he would arrange them.
i had an appointment for a ct scan in may 2013 which i attended and waited patiently for an appointment with the neurologist to discuss the result. after a month or so i contacted him and he told me that my name had been struck off his lists as i hadn't bothered to attend the ct scan or emg test. i argued that i knew nothing of an emg test.
anyway 6 months after the ct scan i get a letter to tell me that they had found the results and gave me an appointment for the emg.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#6
after the emg had taken place the neurologist wrote to an orthopaedic surgeon (copying me in) asking him to see me despite my condition being very advanced.
he stated that there had been "logistical" problems.
another 2 months pass and i get to see the orthopaedic surgeon who points out that any surgery would be well into the distance and would be unlikely to show much if any improvement.
17/18 months ago surgery would have corrected the problem but a combination of inefficiency and long waiting times caused by cuts leaves me with a claw rather than a hand.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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#7
The N H S could work more smarter,
they could arrange voluntary common operations in other countries to relieve the NHS hospitals.
You can get very good treatment at a fraction of the cost, in lots of country's
We pay medical professional way over the top ,its money that restricts treatment.
Doctors in Germany get half the wages than uk doctors.