That is the most disturbing and horrifying report I think I have ever read. Offering my sympathy is insufficient as a reply but words fail me. I hate the NHS, I hate the government and I hate all those people in our country who lack compassion and common decency. This isn't the country I was born into 73 years ago. Unfortunately, it's the country I shall die in.
As I've said and from comments I've heard on the Radio, the NHS no longer treats patients. It moves through a process by which it is measured. The outcome for the patient is immaterial. At no point is there assessment of the success of the current treatment in place and a process by which it can change. Nurses do not report issues with treatment, it's up to the doctor only, to assess a patient and recommend changes in treatment in the 5 minutes a day they see them. If the patient deteriorates during the other 23 hours and 55 minutes of the day, the nursing staff (if they recognise the deterioration) have to call a doctor (who may be hours away from attending), who can then recommend action. By then the patient may very well have perished. The unwritten rule is that over a certain age, there is a reduced urgency (to put it politely) to apply treatment. The conspiracy being that this age is closely linked to retirement age.
A hospital is a place where you go to die. I'm getting old now and only hope that I don't get dementia and that I die in my own bed. I was born in a hospital and I that's the last time I want to be in one. (Brian in Devon)
I'm waiting for the first death certificate to show place of death as "A corridor in xxxxxxxxxx hospital". SoT, during the scamdemic, 'Nightingale wards' were put in use, even though they were never used. Why can't they be brought back to alleviate the overflowing corridors? Penseivat
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That is the most disturbing and horrifying report I think I have ever read.
ReplyDeleteOffering my sympathy is insufficient as a reply but words fail me.
I hate the NHS, I hate the government and I hate all those people in our country who lack compassion and common decency. This isn't the country I was born into 73 years ago. Unfortunately, it's the country I shall die in.
As I've said and from comments I've heard on the Radio, the NHS no longer treats patients. It moves through a process by which it is measured. The outcome for the patient is immaterial. At no point is there assessment of the success of the current treatment in place and a process by which it can change. Nurses do not report issues with treatment, it's up to the doctor only, to assess a patient and recommend changes in treatment in the 5 minutes a day they see them. If the patient deteriorates during the other 23 hours and 55 minutes of the day, the nursing staff (if they recognise the deterioration) have to call a doctor (who may be hours away from attending), who can then recommend action. By then the patient may very well have perished.
ReplyDeleteThe unwritten rule is that over a certain age, there is a reduced urgency (to put it politely) to apply treatment. The conspiracy being that this age is closely linked to retirement age.
A hospital is a place where you go to die. I'm getting old now and only hope that I don't get dementia and that I die in my own bed. I was born in a hospital and I that's the last time I want to be in one. (Brian in Devon)
ReplyDeleteI'm waiting for the first death certificate to show place of death as "A corridor in xxxxxxxxxx hospital".
ReplyDeleteSoT, during the scamdemic, 'Nightingale wards' were put in use, even though they were never used. Why can't they be brought back to alleviate the overflowing corridors?
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