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.

Papworth is the definition of civilisation and even has (lovely) family accommodation, but, it is a specialised heart and lung hospital with its own charity that gives it grants, and is next to world-renowned research facilities. Not your average hospital.

I hear you. I have every compassion for anyone suffering from pneumonia, however rich or famous, but my own dad died because he wasn’t looked after properly by the on-its-knees NHS with the same illness so injustice is the right word.

Name & shame!

Our local NHS hospital only has single rooms - it was built that way and unlikely to be the only one in the country.

I can understand her being given a private room, as she is a well-known figure and you can just imagine the other patients' visitors on a shared ward all snapping photos of her ill in bed otherwise. I do wish people who had these privileges would recognise it and shut up though.

It's NHS but has private wards.

I know. It’s still an NHS hospital which is where it receives its basic funding.

IMO, Carrie would be less than impressed with the NHS, if she needed mental health services from them - especially an in patient bed!

So where’s the proof that it was a private ward?

Same... Had one crash and then one planned C-section and both times had a private room with ensuite. DH could stay and had a camp bed.

It was an NHS hospital and they were all private ensuite rooms.

We actually moved when I was six months pregnant with DC2, but I still kept my care at this hospital due to this, despite there being others closer.

@Fishystripe well you'll hate me because at the moment I don't pay any taxes. I'm a complete burden on the state. I'm still morally superior to Carrie Johnson. 🤣

Think you've missed my point. It was about people weaseling out of paying taxes or campaigning to pay less while fighting everyone else to receive the early NHS appointment, etc that bug me. If that's not you then you're fine, if it is then up yours.

Why, what does it matter. She's either in isolation in an NHS room, which the JR has, or she's paying for a private room in the JR hospital, which has a private wing, which subsidies the hospital.

My mum was in hospital for 3 weeks with pneumonia in icu then private room/side room as that’s all there is in the hospital she said it was quite a lonely time but also nice to have her own space/bathroom and a view of the helipad the room was nice, and spotless.

This is the fault of the Trust for not saying no.

She may be a whiny more money than sense madam with ghastly taste in men AND wallpaper but she's also the mum of young kids who were probably terrified to see her so ill.
So I'm glad she's better.
An isolation room would be needed for flu and also her privacy which she has a right to. She does say she should have had a flu jab. I wonder if she's up duffed again as otherwise a flu jab wouldn't necessarily be recommended for somebody in her age group in apparently good health. No doubt time will tell.

My daughter was in hospital this year with flu and me last year with flu
both had our own rooms and were not allowed to leave the room both NHS

78 year old DM fell over yesterday and has broken a bone in her pelvis and her back. She would've had to wait 5-6 hours for an ambulance, (London), so my nephew took her to A&E, where she waited 7 hours to get onto a ward. They actually wanted to send her home, even though she can't even walk and is in a lot of pain.

After triage, she waited in A&E for 4 hours before anything was actually done for her.

Not bashing the NHS, but it's not an equal response nor treatment throughout the country.

I have no proof, I don't know if she is in a private room or not.

I think she would be put in a side room or private room anyway, when I worked at the JR they would put staff in side rooms if available purely because staff tended to have more visitors.

Doctors wives giving birth had private rooms too.

This is going back 30 years ago though.

Sorry, I just saw this again. I get you now! Gawd I was being defensive, lol. Yeah, I agree. I'm just on benefits because I'm too sick to work but did used to for ages.