The NHS. We need to fight to keep it.

[Differentforgirls]

My Mil is 87. Last year (around September) she was bleeding from her vagina and went to her GP.

The GP referred her to hospital for tests, which she got quickly.

It was cancerous polyps in her womb so she got further tests to ensure they hadn’t spread and was referred for surgery.

Tonight she has been discharged from hospital after numerous tests over the intervening months and a surgery yesterday (keyhole).

She’ll get follow up treatment too.

All NHS, where she has been treated with dignity, respect and kindness.

It might not be what it was due to cuts but it’s still something we should be proud of.

She’ll celebrate her 88th birthday next month, as an OAP in social housing with nothing but her pension, because of the NHS.

AIBU for thinking the NHS is something to be proud of and fight to keep?

If I lived in England I would vote Green. Agree with the rest of your post too.

You seem to be more upset about it than I was. The nurse was right.

thats awful.

Your poor niece, what happened to the drunk?

Last time I was in a&e there were this guy shouting about he has regular psychotic episodes. He was with a small slight female paramedic. I quietly packed up my stuff and moved to the waiting area around the corner. It really doesn’t feel safe sometimes.

Thats appalling your MIL died.

why are we as a nation accepting this?

My absolute nightmare would be a health service run by the Greens - no right to single sex services, wards etc. No - saying male perverts exist is anti queer/ anti trans / makes you a Nazi. I would definitely emigrate !!

There is a systemic attitude problem with some healthcare workers. If patients aren’t centred and consent treated as the absolute core thing it is, precious NHS resources are wasted in litigation and mental health care.

why are we as a nation accepting this?
I think because both the adoration of the NHS and the notion of it being "gifted" mean there is a tendency of politeness to feel grateful for what we have received.

This year the nhs is making cuts of approx 4%.

friends of mine have lost their jobs as their services are cut.

it may or may not need investment but it certainly isn’t getting it.

https://lowdownnhs.info/comment/what-will-nhs-staffing-cuts-mean-for-services/

Well I didn’t sue and didn’t need mental health care.

I hope your MIL recovers well after her procedure. I understand the sentiment but the NHS is unfortunately fractured, under resourced/funded and poorly managed. As such the change that is coming is part or full privatisation.

Having a culture around consent and informing patients and not just guilting/shaming/foisting something upon them is important, though, just because one person is fine with it being sprung on them and then being told, well, you should be used to situations like this, doesn't mean that what was said was acceptable.

YANBU OP. I truly believe we need an NHS, but it does need improvement. We also need vast improvement into NHS mental health too.

Wish I’d never shared it now.

We have laughed about it for years.

Better tell my friends and family that it’s actually not funny, even though I think it is, because the gloom and doom merchants and pearl clutching brigade on MN have told me I’m not supposed to find things funny in MY OWN SITUATION in case I offend some randomer.

In fact I should have sued and got mental health care from the NHS ironically.

Well thank God my MIL got her care before that because she wouldn’t have had the money to pay privately and I would be going to her funeral instead of inviting her to my book group.

Agree.

I didn’t say you don’t need to find your own situation funny, but surely you can understand why it’s inappropriate and why having a proper way of telling patients is important? It’s not pearl clutching to say people in vulnerable situations in hospital deserve better than that, just because some find it funny doesn’t mean it’s appropriate

Jeezo. You have exacerbated a single person’s experience to the whole of the NHS.

The hyperbole in this thread is hilarious 😂

I mean that’s the basis of the thread? You’re using one persons experience as to why we should keep it.

I think the whole NHS should be thoughtful about consent and informing patients what a wild hyperbole hilarious take

We definitely need to keep it!

Late last summer, I had the most amazing treatment for a potentially life changing condition.

I got a GP appointment on the day I asked for one. I was prescribed appropriate medication and referred for an urgent hospital appointment, which I had the next day. The day after that, I saw the rheumatology consultant at the hospital in the nearby city and had a different sort of scan and an x-ray, and had a biopsy the following day, which confirmed the GP's diagnosis.

The consultant also correctly diagnosed an unrelated, non-urgent, condition and referred me to the appropriate team, and I had an appointment with that consultant within 3 months.

Fuck knows how much this lot would have cost privately, far more than I could afford, for sure. At 70, and with a few pre-existing conditions, health insurance premiums would be massively expensive. I very much doubt if I could afford them.

Aye ok…

No party wants to cut its budget.

I would vote for whoever can get it to spend its budget best.

That's unlikely to be one that is likely to be awarding double the pay rise the rest of the NHS are getting to the greedy bastards that already had nearly 30% last year. All that's going to lead to is more strikes. Nurses next, they'd have good cause?

Sorry what? What language is that?

You ok now LL?

If you’re about to die, the NHS is amazing.
If you’re not, it’s pretty much a disaster and needs totally dismantling and putting back together differently.

Very mature 😂