NHS=Negligent Health Service

It’s dreadful that asthmatics have to pay for their prescriptions. I have a prepaid prescription which costs me £111.60 a year.

Asthma kills 3 people per day on average.
 
cheesefest said:
It’s dreadful that asthmatics have to pay for their prescriptions. I have a prepaid prescription which costs me £111.60 a year.

Asthma kills 3 people per day on average.
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and yet if you're diabetic you get everything for free, I'm not complaining obviously but it doesn't seem right.
 
I got a letter this morning "we are writing to you as you are currently waiting for a routine followup appointment with a member of the xxxx team. Unfortunately due to pressures on the service you have been waiting a long time for this appointment. If you still require a follow-up for the same condition then please call our booking line xxxx to arrange your next appointment. Please be aware that there could still be some time before our next available appointment"

They're not wrong its literally been years - its been so long infact I thought I'd dropped through the cracks in the system and long forgotten about and have been paying for private treatment for a long time now. I might apply anyway because even a minor operation is a not insubstantial amount of money. By the time I do actually get to see anyone though if indeed it does actually happen sometime in the remote future and doesn't get cancelled umpteen times I'lll have probably have paid anyway because the amount of trouble it gives is intolerable.
 
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Blackjack Davy said:
I got a letter this morning "we are writing to you as you are currently waiting for a routine followup appointment with a member of the xxxx team. Unfortunately due to pressures on the service you have been waiting a long time for this appointment. If you still require a follow-up for the same condition then please call our booking line xxxx to arrange your next appointment. Please be aware that there could still be some time before our next available appointment"

They're not wrong its literally been years - its been so long infact I thought I'd dropped through the cracks in the system and long forgotten about and have been paying for private treatment for a long time now. I might apply anyway because even a minor operation is a not insubstantial amount of money. By the time I do actually get to see anyone though if indeed it does actually happen sometime in the remote future and doesn't get cancelled umpteen times I'lll have probably have paid anyway because the amount of trouble it gives is intolerable.
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I had that with a text message with my gynae appointment - send a link to confirm dob and then select yes or no for do I wish to continue to wait.
 
cheesefest said:
Most Type 2 diabetics have it due to lifestyle choices - eating **** and sod all exercise.
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Unfortunately that logic can be applied to a huge amount of the medications and treatments people need.

Diabetes, obesity, heart issues, joint issues. I mean, just watching the average person going about their daily business and a huge number of people can't even walk properly once they get anywhere near their 50s.

Its what will ultimately kill the NHS. People are taking less and less care of themselves and relying on expensive medication and treatment to keep them alive and "healthy" without the realisation that healthcare is fantastically expensive. Apparently a single course of cancer treatment costs ~£30,000. The American system is ****** but the NHS will have to change when eventually it truly does become unsustainable and we have to make a choice about what it should look like.
 
I have an umbilical hernia thats popped out quite a lot. Ive been having bleeds where blood is literally spurting out because there is a blood vessel that is very close to the surface. One night it was bad enough to where I was bleeding through several wads of paper towels where I had to get paramedics out. Thankfully by the time they had come it had clotted but I still wanted to go to the hospital to see if they could do anything about it.

I spent 12 hours waiting around in the hospital through blood tests and x-rays where they finally decided to call the specialist down who never turned up and sent an assistant down or something to take a look at it who said they couldn't operate on it as there is a long waiting list and they were happy to just send me home and told me to just use more paper towels if it started bleeding again and to come back in 6-8 weeks to see the specialist.

Just woke up now to blood pouring out of it again and I am **** scared of falling asleep just in case next time I don't wake up and end up bleeding out in my sleep and there is nothing I can do about it.
 
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fez said:
Unfortunately that logic can be applied to a huge amount of the medications and treatments people need.

Diabetes, obesity, heart issues, joint issues. I mean, just watching the average person going about their daily business and a huge number of people can't even walk properly once they get anywhere near their 50s.

Its what will ultimately kill the NHS. People are taking less and less care of themselves and relying on expensive medication and treatment to keep them alive and "healthy" without the realisation that healthcare is fantastically expensive. Apparently a single course of cancer treatment costs ~£30,000. The American system is ****** but the NHS will have to change when eventually it truly does become unsustainable and we have to make a choice about what it should look like.
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I was watching a guy who makes plastic models on YouTube. He is having cancer treatment, he's got private medical insurance but has had to do a gofund me to make up the costs that are not going to be covered by the insurance.
 
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I was watching a guy who makes plastic models on YouTube. He is having cancer treatment, he's got private medical insurance but has had to do a gofund me to make up the costs that are not going to be covered by the insurance.
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Yeah, there are levels of health insurance and the quickest way to ruin a lifetime of work in the US is to get sick. You can blow through millions in a few years. There is a reason doctors over there get paid hundreds of thousands a year.
 
Yesterday morning I walk past a friend of the ex wife.

She said shes going to my ex wifes to phone her an ambulance and take her to hospital.
about an hour later I hear sirens and see 2 ambulances and a medical car rush in to the street.
about 40 minutes later I get a text from my son saying to come round.

Greeted at the door by a crying 19year old.

find out her friend was just finishing packing her bag for the hospital, went to get a book from the bedroom, came back and found my ex wife having a seizure on the couch. (medical staff mentioned that can happen from too less oxygen getting to the brain)

The friend and my son did CPR but nothing.

I'm told she went to A&E 5 days prior and got told it was a chest infection and given antibiotics, the NHS were refusing to take her in to their care at that point.

wonder what the autopsy report will say was the cause.

Can't see similar happening in a country with first world medical care like Switzerland etc.

looking at google it['s possible the day she was at A&E was a junior doctor strike day.

and I'm guessing on those days they want use up as least beds as possible
 
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