An NHS celebration thread.

[Papyrophile]

I know the NHS is under pressure, but in the last few weeks I have also recognised it can also be brilliant. Briefly, DH was bluelighted to hospital at 105mph over our local city's busiest roads on 22 December. It took a very few minutes to transfer him into the ED's intensive care (less than five) and two hours later he was transferred into the not quite intensive care cardiac ward. Between Christmas and New Year's Eve, he had an angiogram, an MRI scan and a pacemaker upgrade and he was discharged on NY'd day. Since he's been home, feeling much better, he has been contacted by the GP surgery, the cardiac rehab team and several hospital departments. In a crisis, the NHS really is capable of pulling rabbits out of hats and making the system link up perfectly. A huge thank you to the teams at Derriford.

Awesome.

My dad has had so much care, proper caring care, from the NHS. Love them.

So lovely that you have taken the time to post this.
The NHS does lots of great things - I myself have experienced them, and always write to thank the medical staff concerned.
I'm not saying that there are not bad experiences, -the NHS is desperately stretched - but wouldn't it be nice if more of the good experiences were reported instead of just the negative things.

I’ve yet to see anything good or experience it. I’ve witnessed the most uncaring impersonal care for my 99 year old DM. It was appalling. I’d rather be dead than experience that. Younger people might well get better kind treatment - don’t get old. It’s more like a living hell.

A lovely idea for a thread Op

My son stopped breathing at 18 months old, rang 999, in 2 minutes a paramedic in a car had arrived, 2 minutes after that a Dr on a bike and 2 minutes after that an ambulance. He was blue lighted to hospital, huge team waiting for him, they each sprung into action. It was professional, well drilled and even though I was obviously beside myself, I did feel he was in the best hands.

It turned out to be a type of febrile convulsion he has thankfully grown out of. I was also impressed with the NHS when I had an emergency c section under general, it all went wrong quite quickly and again lots of people arrived, well drilled, good sense of humour to keep me calm, and made sure my baby and I were ok. I even felt fine being put to sleep without much warning! I felt in good hands.

It's wonderful when it works well...
Meanwhile, for many people (like me) our local hospital trusts work in such a way that the waiting list times are falsely presented as being shorter than they are:
I waited a long time to be seen by the spinal surgery team for chronic back pain. I was put on a waiting list for painkilling injections into my lumbar spine to see if it would be worth burning them to stop the sensation of pain.
I waited over a year and eventually had the injections in August of 2023.
The review appointment didn't happen until February 2024 - this means my waiting time was falsely reduced by six months.
I'm still waiting for the operation to burn out the nerves now.