No wonder the NHS is struggling - can't quite believe this!

[outpatient]

Today I went to the hospital. On the from door entrance there was a member of staff whose job it was to say "do you have an appointment, so you have any covid symptoms"

That's it. She's was being paid to do that. She was there all morning, just to say that. This is in addition to the receptionist that checks you in when you actually arrive,

Is this not bonkers? NHS is screwed if someone thinks this is entirely reasonable to pay someone to do this.

It is beyond saving, and likely not running out of money just making really shit decisions WITH the money

The government is trying to reduce diabetes. That is one of the reasons children are weighed at school. And you can see here how unhappy mothers are to be told their child is fat
Exactly, the good old standard, 'its always someone's else fault'.

Its funny how posters always go on about wanting numbers and evidence, but these point the fingers to them, it is promptly ignored. It's so much more entertaining to undermine volunteering workers than to wonder what we could do as individuals to reduce costs to the NHS.

YANBU

So the OP left her ranty post, had it explained to her that the person she's ranting about is a volunteer, and then decided not to return to the thread?

What a fanny.

Why do you think she's not being unreasonable?

Are you suggesting that Swiss nationals on low incomes or that are unemployed receive no healthcare in Switzerland? That they're somehow denied healthcare due to not being able to afford it? I can assure you that that is not the case and the care they receive is way better than the shite we get from the god-awful NHS.

If not Switzerland - then Germany, Spain, Netherlands, France.. Take your pick. Any of them would be better than wasting more money on the irrational, dysfunctional NHS, which currently has some of the worst patient outcomes in the Western world.

In Switzerland everyone by law has to take out basic medical insurance. But there are excesses/copays for everything. Are you really suggesting that some people opt not to have medical treatment because they can't afford the copay? Pregnancy is the only issue that you do not have to pay a copay for.

Anything above this basic health insurance is ordinary private medical insurance. If you do not have this you would not get treatment.

However, Switzerland is a richer country than the UK. So you do not get the horror stories from Switzerland that you do from the US about people crowdfunding to pay for basic cancer treatment.

In Switzerland, the basic insurance is the same price whatever your medical conditions. The extra insurance does take into account any issues and age. My family have a genetic condition. We would not be able to afford cover.

I am very sorry, especially if it's anything like Huntingdon's chorea.

As far as I know, there's no treatment still, and not even any prospect of a breakthrough. That must feel truly awful. Don't reply, but you have my deepest sympathy and I can only hold out my hand..

Know what you mean. But you'll get slaughtered on here for daring to express any criticism of the NHS, however mild.

I can't even e reply to someone who used a word like fanny to describe someone 🤦‍♀️

Anyway, didn't even cross my mind they'd be a volunteer so if she was fair enough.

I still find it bizarre to be honest perhaps they could have given the volunteer something much more useful to do

Don't be ridiculous - obvious that one thing isn't going to save it but it raises a bigger question of how many more stupid decisions are being made that we DONT know about - because they alll accumulate and waste money.

Honestly some people on this thread are batshit, really weird - the NHS on its knees but still can't agree it's failing

The mentality on this thread lol

If I have come to a hospital with covid do you really think I'd answer yes to the question? Anyone trying to attend with cocos symptoms knows what they're doing

It absolutely does matter.

Absolutely / that someone has paid someone to stand on a door to ask if you have an appointment (well if I didn't I wouldn't be fucking here) and then if I have covid symptoms

The issue I have is you THEN see a receptionist so why not just get the receptionist to ask.

I honestly can't believe you feel this is fair use of resources for someone to do that all day.

Why not just put a poster up?

Nope, I'm here 👋😁

Some of you people on this thread are real weirdos 😂

I haven't been put back in any box! How pathetic

Completely agree - it's an absolute joke that someone with lifestyle inflicted diabetes can use a system for free and someone living healthily is affected by it

🙄 no I actually have a real job, very demanding doesn't afford me the time to be glued to Mumsnet all day

You don't think keeping Covid out of hospitals is a worthwhile thing for a volunteer to do? Have you been asleep for the last two years?

I volunteered in a similar position asking covid screening questions. People did show up and answered 'yes' when we asked them about positive test results and symptoms.

Anyway, you've made a bit of a fool of yourself with this thread OP, I'd get back to that demanding job if I were you.

the NHS on its knees but still can't agree it's failing

It's you people aren't agreeing with. Because your attitude stinks.

At my local hospital, our "greeter" is a band 6 nurse (I know because we are friends)! She greets people outside A&E but doesn't do anything else that shift unless they are super busy, but her door "work" is the main thing

If it's A&E, isn't that as much of a pre-triage as anything else? I hear of long waits just to be triaged, but presumably there's some way of determining that a person with their head hanging off needs to be triaged sooner rather than later. And I remember several years ago being turned away at the door of A&E and directed towards the on-site GP. You'd want a nurse in that role.