CormorantStrikesBack
Have you ever spent any time in hospital, either yourself or a family member who you spend an extended period of time visiting for 4/5/6 or even 9 months and have you ever discussed with the other patients in the ward what led them to be there
I have and I can you ask Are note of how hospitals and Gp Practices are run the only conclusion is that it wouldn’t matter how much money the NHS get they would squander it.
I spent 7 years (this was under the labour government) in absolute agony.
I couldn’t sleep because the pain was so bad.
I spent 7 years of fortnightly physio, 7 years of appointments with a consultant who never looked in my direction let alone examine me.
Wasn't interested in what had happened. If he had listened he would have known to look at my back instead of where the pain was in my hip. Screamed at me because I didn’t know the terminology for the thigh bone.
I was refused an MRI as that would cost the NHS too much (£300)
Going private someone listened to me, examined me, saw immediately the problem and sent me for an mri
I had been shuffling around with a slipped disc and in constant pain for 7 years because no one in the nhs listened
The same for my dh who asked his dr if he had bowel cancer because he was showing the signs.
If that GP had listened then at that stage it would have been an over night stay in hospital and some Chemo
Instead 6 months later the cancer had spread and even the day before I carried dh into A&E the GP was still dishing out suppositories and laxatives to dh and telling him to comeback in a fortnight.
It is both little and big things that could be avoided if someone actually lokked and listened
Little things like in the ward when a patient is leaving hospital that day the nurses come round, get the patient up and out of the bed. They then strip the bed, wipe it down and make the bed up with clean sheets
Then the patient, family members fit on the bed waiting for the doctor to discharge them
Then the nurses come round and strip the bed clean it and make up the bed with another set of clean bedding after patient has left.
I asked Why do they need to do it twice
I was told. Because that is the way we have always done it.
I could go on and on with example after example.
The NHS needs to look at how it thinks it is saving money and just stop doing those things
With me the NHS saved £300 on a mri
But then spent close to £300,000 on 7 years of wasted consultant appointments and physio sessions + being disabled I claimed disability benefits because the NHS consultant didn’t listen to me.
For dh instead of one night in hospital and a simple operation he spent 9 months in hospital and even after that we ended up having to fund his cancer care and operation to remove the cancer costing well into the 6 figures.
Asking around the wards every now and then Every single person there knew what was wrong and were only in hospital as doctors would not listen to them
Remember listening costs £0