I'm fucking done

[Twizbe]

I'm done. We've been isolating ready to see my parents and now we can't.

This is the third time now we've had to cancel plans last min and I'm sick of it! Totally sick of it!

Classy

But hardly any worse than the countless other personal attacks on here - which I thought were disallowed?

I know we're all hideously frustrated, and obviously there'll be varying views about the best way to handle this, but are all the insults really necessary?

Another aspect
Your dearest child breaks a leg. However because everyone has gone back to normal, the NHS has buckled, no beds, even worse staff shortages because more will be ill simultaneously
The child can't get hospital treatment, it goes septic and they die

Or another aspect

Your Dp starts to show signs of bowel cancer. He goes to the doctor every couple of weeks for 6 months, (every 3 days in the last month). All the time being told not to look at Dr Google and stop frightening himself. Slowly getting worse and worse.
Finally having to be helped into A&E because at this point he can’t stand unaided.

There he is diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. They clear some of it and he has a course of chemo . Then they tell him he would be an ideal candidate for a particular surgery. Only given to those who’s cancer has spread. But they can’t do the surgery as his cancer has spread. If he wants to live then he has to pay.

I can’t see the difference. My experience of the NHS has always been if you want to live your life with illness and pills then they are great. If you want to be cured then it is the luck of the draw.

No health service is perfect
Those funded better tend to be better. For the uk, better simply means more funding.
I have always been happy to pay more taxes for that

For the uk, better simply means more funding

In principle perhaps, but as with most public services that can depend on whether the funding's spent wisely or simply wasted

The narrative of the NHS being "desperately short of money" has been going on for decades and throughout all types of government, which is why simply handing over more money doesn't seem to be the answer

Having looked on at how wasteful the NHS is I think a bit of common sense would save them millions.

When we have asked someone why something which seems completely irrelevant is done the answer is always It is what we have always done.

There doesn’t seem to be any joined up thinking

On a worldwide scale, the NHS delivers quite highly on the value for money scale, although I believe that it has dropped in recent years, so either they just need more cash or all the supposed efficiency improvements don't work it in fact harm efficiency

Not sayings it's perfect, just saying that there are a lot of much worse systems out there, with greater costs and less good outcomes at the same time