To be irritated by Carrie Johnson gushing away about the wonderful NHS from her shiny private hospital room?

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You can bet if you or I were admitted for pneumonia we'd be allocated a ward with three others hacking away all night for a week.

If families of politicians (yes including ex PMs) had to use ordinary services, ordinary services would be a lot better.

Yes, Samantha Cameron as well.

It's all very Marie Antoinette. "If I tweet my love of the NHS the proles will love me! (Even as they sleep in wheelchairs waiting for a bed in a&e)"

Her room looks very like the private room my relative was in for 3 weeks at our bog standard local NHS hospital. It was en suite and very clean too, and she's never been married to a famous politician.

There's a local politician at the Trust I worked at who threw his weight around to get his sister a private room after the birth of her child.
Only thing was it was the expense of a woman experiencing a loss.
I now have nothing but complete hatred for the man. He obviously didn't know, but did he really think no one was more deserving than his adult sister of having privacy.

What is she in for? Not another baby Bojo?!

I did find it infuriating as a week before Christmas my father had a 5 hour wait for an ambulance was then in an outside atrium for another 2 hours and then died from a blood clot to the stomach. He didn’t have a chance.

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She was admitted to hospital with pneumonia and flu.

Wait and the hospital allowed it?????

Ugh so sorry :(

She won't be in a private hospital with flu and pneumonia, private hospitals only do elective surgery.

I didn't have private births, I gave birth in an NHS delivery suite but I still had a private room on an NHS ward for the week I stayed in hospital afterwards, it was £130 a night in 2008 so I'm sure the NHS will be getting some contribution if she's in a side room.

I had a private room in the respiratory department of our local hospital. Most of the rooms are private in the department with only one small traditional multi bed ward. It's to prevent cross infection so that someone with blood clots doesn't catch pneumonia etc. It was a nicer room than some of the premier inns I've stayed in! (I was too ill to be gushing on social media!)

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The Trust is the party at fault for giving in to him. The local press should’ve been involved and kicked off about it. These cases of corruption need daylight. What a prick though, for using the power of his position to demand it.

I've also been put into a private room during a hospital stay - I was actually swapped with the woman who was originally taken there who said she didn;t want to be stuck in a room with no-one to talk to and could she be in a ward instead!

You can’t even get a cubicle with curtains in our local hospital at the moment, it’s trolleys in corridors - if you’re lucky!

It's not private, but you can pay for a private room.

Good for her. Had she lived near me the local University Hospital is in special measures, ambulance waits are
more than 24 hours plus an average of 16 hours in a&e and no beds to be admitted to she wouldn’t be so positive.

It's sickening. My dad spent 17 hours in the back of an ambulance last year, outside a&e with pneumonia that nearly killed him, because of people like her husband. I hate them all.

Flu is infectious is it not? So people with flu should be a priority for a private room and ime (previously working as a midwife in the nhs) they would be in a private room. Obviously with the current surge in flu cases I’d guess not everyone can be accommodated in a single room who should be in one. But i don’t think anyone can say she definitely got that room because of who she is.

I was really pissed off when I found out CJ had her kids in my local NHS hospital. It's like, you don't even agree with the NHS. Go private and stop blocking a bed from a fucking normal person who actually pays their taxes.

I’m no fan of hers, but I think your thread is misleading OP

I was in hospital in 2019 with flu and pneumonia and had a private room because of infection. Anyone coming in had to be gowned and masked. It didn't have an en-suite but was a bog standard NHS hospital.

How do you know it’s a private hospital? she mentions the John Radcliffe in her post. I thought that was an NHS hospital?

FWIW the main NHS hospital in Glasgow, The Queen Elizabeth is all single occupancy rooms (bar the maternity and geriatric wards).

Realistically they couldn’t have had her on a ward with people, due to the publicity she likely would have attracted.

The nhs is very much a postcode lottery, and I for one have had nothing but excellent treatment.

I’ve had to go to hospital by ambulance twice in the past year, both times ambulance arrived within half an hour, and although I spent time in a&E that was due to waiting for test results.

My MIL has had a referral to a specialist, non cancer related, which came through in three weeks.

My mum has had numerous referrals which have come through in months.

And yet in other parts of the country people are waiting hours for ambulances and almost days in a&e.

It’s not a one size fits all at this stage.