But many, many do use them for minor injuries and a free taxi service. Which is significantly impacting on those than genuinely need them.
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But many, many do use them for minor injuries and a free taxi service. Which is significantly impacting on those than genuinely need them.
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Right, so you participate in a bitch about the NHS thread by bitching about the NHS, but you won't go into specifics when challenged.
I'm gonna go out on a whim here and say, purely by the fact you're still able to post here, that you didn't "need" an ambulance. You would've liked one. Did you attend hospital yourself for the same reason you "needed" an ambulance? If you did, you did have a way to get there yourself after all and didn't "need" an ambulance. If you didn't, you didn't "need" an ambulance.
There are enough ambulances and
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@FBi7 I'd give up pal. No reasoning to be had here. The reality is the nhs is underfunded and understaffed.
Sure people will be over the moon if private health insurance kicked in
Just look at America where an average ambulance ride costs $1200
Sure people will be over the moon if private health insurance kicked in
Just look at America where an average ambulance ride costs $1200Ive posted in the covid thread about my lung issues from yesterday. When I called 111 they insisted on an ambulance and I had to say no like 5 time’s. My breathing wasn’t great but I could drive or get someone else to take me, which I did and I’m back home.
When I was being seen they had an emergency, ambulance came in and 16 staff members performing CPR on someone who actually needed the ambulance.
In short people need to stop taking the **** and thinking an ambulance is a fun ride to the hospital. If someone can take you let them.
I should add in 4 1/2 hours I had a pcr test,full blood tests, ct scan, lunch, two canulas fitted and seen by 2 nurses, an A and E doc and a specialist in covid, got drugs then home. That’s incredible service.
Soldato
I feel like you guys dont realise im upset at the NHS being understaffed and underfunded either, it goes right over your head.
I'm not trying to debate you, I came here to express how I felt about it. I don't know how you guys have the idea that I or anyone here want private healthcare over the NHS. Lots of jumping to conclusions.
I'm not trying to debate you, I came here to express how I felt about it. I don't know how you guys have the idea that I or anyone here want private healthcare over the NHS. Lots of jumping to conclusions.
Soldato
Its an easy conclusion to jump to. You stated yourself your ambulance didnt come and you had no other way of getting there, howver the fact you are still here to post about it is pretty clear evidence that you didnt in fact need an ambulance for a life threatening situation. Has it not clicked yet that people like you demanding an ambulance when they dont need one is exactly the reason there arent enough of them? 
I've unfortunately spent far too much time in A&E departments over the past couple of years, and the kind of **** people come in with thinking they need emergency care for is mind-boggling. On one occasion i was stood behind some woman who had "poked herself in the eye and it was a bit red"... Needless to say she decided it wasnt quite so urgent when she was told it was an 8 hour wait
I've unfortunately spent far too much time in A&E departments over the past couple of years, and the kind of **** people come in with thinking they need emergency care for is mind-boggling. On one occasion i was stood behind some woman who had "poked herself in the eye and it was a bit red"... Needless to say she decided it wasnt quite so urgent when she was told it was an 8 hour wait
Soldato
Its an easy conclusion to jump to. You stated yourself your ambulance didnt come and you had no other way of getting there, howver the fact you are still here to post about it is pretty clear evidence that you didnt in fact need an ambulance for a life threatening situation. Has it not clicked yet that people like you demanding an ambulance when they dont need one is exactly the reason there arent enough of them?
I've unfortunately spent far too much time in A&E departments over the past couple of years, and the kind of **** people come in with thinking they need emergency care for is mind-boggling. On one occasion i was stood behind some woman who had "poked herself in the eye and it was a bit red"... Needless to say she decided it wasnt quite so urgent when she was told it was an 8 hour wait
Nice for you to assume, I did indeed end up going to the hospital. I didnt demand an ambulance it was decided by the people I was speaking to to send one. It became an ongoing issue that ended up with them having to help organise for me to get there after going through multiple people.
I was not asking for an ambulance.
You guys are really eager to jump on people here expressing their sadness at the state of the NHS. I don't get it.
On the one hand you guys all agree its understaffed and over worked for a litany of reasons, then on the other the moment someone points out their distress your quick to start digging into them.
Pathetic.
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Has anyone registered with a new GP recently? My current one is saying I now live too far away (5 miles) and need to register with a new one otherwise in 30 days I will no longer have a doctor. The NHS website provides a handful of choices 1 mile away but every single one I call to enquire with tell me I live too far away! I'd rather just stick with my existing one as none are particularly conveniently located and I suspect would require an induction appointment.
Caporegime
Bombshells dropping today over Shrewsbury. What an absolute and utter disgrace. Some of those people should be stood, blindfolded, against a wall
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This is pretty funny, as we have multiple medical issues in the family which have taken multiple years of going to the GP being fobbed off before being diagnosed correctly, one of which was only diagnosed because we went to Vietnam, were asked to pay £10 for a test (instead of the thousands of pounds we've paid towards the NHS) and got a diagnosis the same day.
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GP's and NHS trusts are taking themselves inexorably along the path to ever earlier privatisation, the Chinese virus has shown a majority of GP's as to exactly where they stand in a crisis, (as far away as possible, still taking their excessive wage for doing a minimum amount of work), and trusts, well who'd trust them to run a tap? However, we can rest assured as we plead to be looked at by someone with legit credentials and a true wish to save lives in the first medical emergency in donkey's years, that lessons will be learnt.
Man of Honour
I'm so glad I don't work in the Legal Department at that hospital, I was working on a Mum & baby yesterday/today and that was enough let alone 200+ cases that have got to be dealt with.
Caporegime
Seems like the legal department have, at least historically, been complicit!
Wow you really are the comedian. Like reading the daily mail ? You really fit the stereotype! Well done.
You really have no idea about primary care; but its ok, you keep getting your information from toilet paper.
To be fair, I'd really love to know why no-one can see their GP, yet everyone else is back to work. I've been back since the 2nd lockdown (In a School) so super high risk of infection spreading. Students not the cleanest of individuals as you can imagine. GP can phone it in though for 2 years now. Absolute joke.
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I bet that barely scratches the surface. Our NHS is a joke in its current form.
Good luck seeing a GP, but it’s fine for the rest of us to be on the frontline.
It’s taken 4 phone calls just to get hold of the pill and you end up going round in circles with them. The inefficiency blows my mind. Don’t get me started on the receptionists who think they are gods.
So the closest GP (0.7 miles) is outside of my catchment area! My last 'choice' was to call the one where my neighbour works at as a receptionist and they said they will consider my application but can't guarantee success. Other then revealing the lack of choice available, this has been a huge waste of time...
Caporegime
I have the exact same issue. I have to register with one 7 miles away!
If they refuse your application you are able to request a reason why in writing. I think you can also contact a dept in the NHS to explain you have no GP and have been rejected from the one in your catchment area.
then let people opt out of the NHS and get private services going so people can get their ambulance, most of them are just private taxis that look like ambulances these days anyway