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Why the NHS needs to change...

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CogitoErgoSometimes · 13/10/2011 10:08

Basic care denied to elderly patients

Yet another story about the NHS failing to provide basic care to patients. The NHS, like the curates egg, is only 'good in parts' and given that it costs so much and given that we are meant to be a modern society that is an appalling state of affairs. What good is free healthcare if it means you are condemned to suffer malnutrition, lie in your own filth or need a doctor to prescribe water to you so that you're sure of getting a bloody drink?

There is a lot of knee-jerk 'hands off' opposition to the NHS reforms but how can anyone honestly defend a system that allows such laziness, complacency and neglect?

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Prolesworth · 13/10/2011 10:21

This report on failures of care for elderly people is horrific, of course and something must be done about this immediately. But it is totally wrong to use this to condemn the entire system, and it's even more wrong to think that privatisation will improve matters. It won't.

Lifeissweet · 13/10/2011 10:16

I have had a lot of treatment from the NHS over the last 5 years and my DS is regularly in their care. I have to say that I am so proud that we have this Service in our country and have always received professional, thorough and efficient care. All that despite the political messing and stupid bureaucracy that makes patient care so much harder than it needs to be.

I don't like people bad mouthing the NHS. I don't recognise the 'laziness, complacency and neglect' you speak of.

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