21-02-2017, 16:53
I'm actually amazed at the response to the NHS crisis in England with respect to incoming patients having to wait in corridors for a bed. After god-knows-how-long the powers that be have come up with a solution that will automatically lead to a cut in beds!!! 
On a more personal (Scottish) level, I am waiting on a minor operation and I have received two letters from the same department with conflicting information about the end of the three month time limit. One of my distant relatives suffers from MS with additional complications and she is lucky enough to be receiving drugs costing £100k per annum. If she had lived 20 miles further east, she would not have been given the drugs. And I thought it was a National Health Service.
In my experience, the main problem with the NHS is that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. And that is an admin problem. I honestly feel that if a lot of the money spent on admin was to be spent on the medical side, things would be much better. As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan of targets and statistics. Hospitals should be run according to patients' needs, not an admin department's needs.
On a more personal (Scottish) level, I am waiting on a minor operation and I have received two letters from the same department with conflicting information about the end of the three month time limit. One of my distant relatives suffers from MS with additional complications and she is lucky enough to be receiving drugs costing £100k per annum. If she had lived 20 miles further east, she would not have been given the drugs. And I thought it was a National Health Service.
In my experience, the main problem with the NHS is that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. And that is an admin problem. I honestly feel that if a lot of the money spent on admin was to be spent on the medical side, things would be much better. As you can probably tell, I'm not a fan of targets and statistics. Hospitals should be run according to patients' needs, not an admin department's needs.
Cabbage is still good for you