Can't believe this is not being reported more widely

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westbridgfordwire.com/mum-of-two-collapsed-and-died-after-haemorrhage-waiting-at-qmc-ae/

39 year women waiting at A and E, she had been waiting for around 7 hours, became unconscious, they assumed she had left until finding her later, unconscious in her seat. She had a brain haemorrhage and died a couple of days later.

It's just so sad and scary.

That poor woman but entirely unsurprising in a barely functioning system. This government's refusal to negotiate with doctors is fucking ridiculous. They are being forced to strike for patient safety and pay they can barely live on.

The Tories have run the NHS into the ground and COVID just speeded its demise for them. High waiting lists will mean they can push people into taking private insurance.

The government is deliberately, quite deliberately, starving the nhs of resources. They know what they're doing.

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They could and their working practices are certainly in need of reform. It would not solve the issues with Drs' pay and long-term recruitment and retention. They could also look at the horrible amount of senior management that they have been forced to put in place snd get rid of it.

Would you charge everyone for missed GP appointments?
Children? Those on benefits? The elderly? (the most likely able to afford to pay). Most of my non attenders are over 65.
Or just the same poor sods in the middle.

@Sunnnybunny72 like I said I wouldn't be the one making the decisions and what I said were just examples not even saying I agree with it. Something has to give. Maybe we all have to pay more tax 🤷we will be working to 71 anyway. Someone has to be squeezed and it tends to be us in the middle.
All I know if that harm is happening every day in the NHS and there is no public outrage because often it isn't revealed. This particular story is the tip of the iceberg.

Junior doctors are the "bastards"? Really?

I would charge all adults and parents yeah.
means tested for people on benefits but something absolutely.

its so frustrating the amount of DNAs

ive just left the nhs after 15 years in mental health.

I struggled with the decision for ages but now think i should have done it ages ago.
its not the same job anymore.

The NHS is on its knees and getting worse.

The whole model is an absolute failure and requires major change.

I do not think the issues are purely finance related at all! Except to say the NHS pays top whack for every single service it commissions.

Drs striking will not force a change in the way hospitals are run.

You can’t even be certain you’ll get an ambulance now if you have a life or death situation.

The whole thing is appalling.

Accident and emergency

there should not be any wait at all

because it’s a bloody emergency or accident!

we’ve been indoctrinated into accepting waiting times.

these places need a shit load more staff and a shit load more hospitals are needed. But we will deny this and more people will die.

There is money. Look at the Liz Truss fiasco. Those billions were found from somewhere. Same with wars. The Tories spend on their own political priorities, and tell you what we can afford based on those.

There is nowhere in the world with no waiting time in A&E. It's just not possible. You would need dozens of doctors and nurses hanging around, doing nothing most of the time, so that - if an unexpected surge hits - they are free to deal with it.

The problem is actually completely the opposite of what you are suggesting. There is too much focus on A&E waits, and this skews spending decisions, so that not enough money is invested in services that can keep people out of A&E (social care/primary care/public health) or in services that free up ward beds, so that patients can be moved through A&E quickly, freeing up space (social care/care homes/community hospitals).

If you really want to save lives and reduce A&E waits, you need to invest in hospital wards, social care, care homes, primary care and public health, not in A&E itself. And I say that as an A&E doctor.