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

[Everythingisnumbersnow]

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 I've been admitted to hospital with pneumonia - albeit over 10 years ago. I was in a private room throughout my stay. I didn't pay for it or request it. It was a single room with en suite area.

I was also given a private room with en-suite when I was in hospital having Dd - induction and then c section.

And again when in and I had covid, with complications, that was a very swift move from ward to private room when the results came back!

When I did go in to a private hospital for surgery (though done via NHS) I was on a ward with 4 beds.

The lack of compassion on this thread for a woman who’s been unwell with pneumonia and the flu is staggering.

She’s in a private room because she has flu. When I was admitted to hospital with flu, I was in a private room. It’s to stop the spread of the virus.

Same old haters and disinformation flying around as usual.

She's in the JR isn't she? Not a private hospital. And she's been really unwell with flu for weeks

What a totally shit thread full of bollocks

I can see I'm not the only one highly irritated by the injustice in our society.

My 90 year old father spent 3 days on a trolley in A&E for the same illness, then packed off home before he was better as there was no chance of beds being available and told to phone the ambulance if he couldn't breathe again... and she gets her own room and proper assistance. Awful. Where's the compassion for the common folk with no connections who also have been suffering with flu and pneumonia... and our old enough to be more susceptible to fatal complications.

I had a private room at an NHS hospital for a week. Same experience. It was super clean and had an en-suite (which was also super clean)

Instead of moaning about a mother of three small children getting appropriate care you’d be better off railing about the fact that everyone doesn’t get it.

Yes precisely, that's what I mean, but clearly I am too incensed to articulate properly. Thank you.

I understand. My 94 year old mum was sent home after a stroke with an A&E doctor swearing black was white she hadn’t had one. I don’t imagine I was at my most articulate just after that.

Infuriates me, my 83yr old mother spent 28hrs waiting ER, with what turned out to be pneumonia, no permanent bed for her. Sent home with a vertual nurse 🙄. Yes I can say for a woman of her age and how poorly she was a virtual nurse was rediculous

I'd probably leap from my death bed to give her useless lump of a husband a piece of my mind.

I feel sorry to hear Carrie has been so ill as to be in hospital that long. It’s very worrying that fit, young people are becoming so poorly. I hope she is recovering.

Honestly it’s sickening the way you are so hateful. You must have an awful life to summon up such spite for someone you don’t even know and have never met.

I think we all know what Johnson is and there would be a very big crowd elbowing @Sinkintotheswamp out the way to get there first.

I do think it depends on the hospital. I was admitted last night and got a nice private room with toilet. Completely standard NHS hospital and I was only in for a head injury (so not infectious or anything that would mean o should be kept away from others).

I have another chronic health condition so have been admitted a few times over the years. Only once have i ended up on a ward. Always a private room.

Her "useless lump of a husband" has turned out to be the best friend to President Zelensky and Ukraine who he still visits regularly, long after the rest have fallen away. Good enough for me.
Poor Prime Minister though.

just a quick note, you’ve mentioned life threatening illness there such as sepsis which needs a ‘golden hour’ to initiate treatment for best outcomes

I thought MN was generally anti paying private for things that should be free and equal for all.

It seems not in this thread.

Private schools - bad (according to Mn)
But suddenly private hospitals - good

Yes, this.

I dint know the woman well enough to know if I'd like her or not.
I'm not going to judge her in her choice of husband.

However having been really poorly with pneumonia - it's awful. I felt so poorly, could barely walk far enough to reach the bathroom unaided. When I ended up in hospital with it I had a single room. I didn't pay or request it. It helps reduce the spread of flu amongst already vulnerable patients.

Yes, I was meaning more life-threatening accidents - i.e. one where you need an ambulance.

However, my experiences with using private hospitals in emergency situations - appendicitis (me), sepsis (one of my DCs) and rapidly spreading celluitis (a visitor) - were that they were extremely efficient and effective and diagnosis and treatment.

Sorry to distract from the point of the thread!

It's an NHS hospital she's in with flu and pneumonia.

• moaning that everyone doesn't get it.

Well her husband wanted to build lots of new hospitals then the covid train hit 🤷

All the people I know who don't want to pay taxes have the pointiest elbows when it comes down to accessing services and complain the most.
'

I'm all for people paying privately as long as they still pay towards public services and don't run them down in order to allow their replacement with the egregious US system.