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.

To be fair, perhaps they're protecting the other patients from the sight and sound of her husband if he ever visits her. It would certainly give me a relapse.

I'm really sorry to hear that x

That would be an occasion where death would be a preference.

I don’t like the Camerons. I also don’t agree with them politically.

However, my understanding is they routinely accessed standard NHS services due to their disabled son - who is now deceased.

They have spent nights panicking in A&E. They have experienced a vast range of NHS treatment with us “normal” folk. So, much as it pains me, on this one occasion I find myself defending the Camerons 😳

This is an issue that has always perplexed me with the right. Yes, you can buy elective medical services - routine operations, planned procedures. But if you’re in a car crash and need airlifting to a hospital you’ll be treated as an emergency by the NHS.

Whether rich or poor if your baby stops breathing at 3am you want an ambulance to show up instantly!

Running the NHS into the ground affects them too.

I also currently have pneumonia but I'm on my 2nd round of meds at home as the nearest hospital is full and in emergency protocols. Earlier this week I thought I was looking at a plastic seat in triage for a few days so very grateful for this pragmatic approach.

So yes I do find it somewhat irritating given everything that her husband and pals have done to absolutely rinse this country dry.

My local hospital only has private rooms, it’s a newish hospital with no wards. Also, if you’re a ‘celebrity’ of course you’ll need your own room, who would want to have people randomly take pictures of you in your nighty looking rough? You can’t pretend they don’t have issues to face that the general person doesn’t.

Having said that, I wish she’d have used her money to pay for private hospital, releasing her bed and the costs she’s had, for others who can’t afford private.

All politicians should have to use the NHS.

She couldn’t do that. Private healthcare doesn’t cater for anything except elective surgery.

Some people just don’t have to deal with the same crap NHS the rest of us have to. It’s always been the same 🤷‍♀️

The John Radcliffe hospital is NHS. The hospital I work in has 2 isolation wards with individual rooms en-suite, originally set up due to Covid. Now used for Covid and Flu. Please don’t make assumptions regarding NHS care. We prefer not to have people hacking away spreading infectious viruses in wards however until all hospitals increase standards-very unlikely due to funding- unfortunately that is a reality.
The new hospital currently being built has single rooms as a majority, with some doubles.

People keep saying that, but it's not true. I don't know where the Johnsons live now, or what hospital she's in, but in London there are numerous private options - The London Clinic, Princess Grace, The Lister, Cromwell Hospital, The Wellington and The Cleveland Clinic, to name a few. Some of them have walk-in A&E departments, and for others, a private GP can get you admitted for illness.

She’s in Oxford at the John Radcliffe. Hard as it is for some people to believe the majority of us don’t live in London.

Much as I’d love to hear of Boris visiting his wife in a germ ridden dirty ward most hospitals are doing their best to meet standards….https://thepsc.co.uk/index.php/news-insights/entry/a-closer-look-at-the-nhss-new-hospitals-programme

I'm not disputing that, and specified that I didn't know where they live or what hospital she was in. I was just correcting the blanket assertion made several times on this thread that private hospitals only admit for elective surgery.

Same here. I was in hospital in December for a week with pneumonia and sepsis. Leeds teaching hospital, acute oncology ward, private ensuite room with a big sign on the door saying reverse isolation.
The room was actually nicer than the one at a private hospital where I had an operation earlier in the year.

How utterly stupid to think that the wife of an ex Prime Minister should be on a public ward.
Chances are she also has someone posted outside the door as well, so she should with some of the nutters in this country. Not some nutters, most it seems.

My mum was in that room at the Radcliffe, or one very like it. My dad’s employer’s health insurance paid for it, and for the surgeon. She would have died without the operation. As far as I could tell, no other patients on the wing spoke English as their first language. They , and my mum, were a profit centre.

Having said that, I wish Carrie would just STFU

Wow - do you really think sahm shouldn't be allowed to use the NHS?

I had a private NHS room after the birth of DD at UCL. The teams were absolutely amazing, the place was spotless and someone came round with a menu of food and drinks to choose from. No bar or White Company sheets though 😂

My understanding is that these are Urgent care centres, not full Emergency Departments. For life or limb threatening issues, people still need to go to an ED at an NHS hospital.

If you were shot, stabbed, having a heart attack or transported by ambulance, no, they're not where I would go. But for a non-life-threatening accident, suspected appendicitis, sepsis, cellulitis, possible pneumonia (which I understand is what she has), etc., they're very good.

Last two times I was admitted to hospital as a NHS patient I got a private room.
It was deemed clinically necessary.
YABU

This is so awful - I am so sorry. Unimaginable. What has happened to our NHS?

Grow up, OP. She's clearly in an NHS hospital. She may be in a room on her own but there are lots of single rooms in NHS hospitals and have been for years,
No private hospital would take her for pneumonia.
You may not like her, but don't make up stories to fulfil a political narrative, and have a bit of compassion for someone who has apparently been rather unwell.

She trying to distract attention away from her husbands book sales, or rather the lack of.