Sorry to hear about your wife's problems but glad that they have been seen to
NHS=Negligent Health Service
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Soldato
Thanks. Appreciated.
So as soon as you get a chronic condition, it no longer covers you for that condition.
Soldato
You can get Chronic cover and Chronic cover plus as optional extras. I didn’t need that.
They don’t cover pre-existing conditions.
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The trouble is you never know what you will need in the future. How much extra would the other options add on? Would the extra cost become too much if you ever became too ill that you had to have the extras to get the treatment?
Soldato
All considerations to be taken into account at the time. It doesn't change the fact that private health insurance get me faster access to treatment if I need it today and costs me less than the NHS - although I acknowledge that not everyone is paying as much tax as I am and I am therefore somewhat of an outlier in this regard.
Soldato
Girl was seen 30 times by medics over three years before brain tumour diagnosis
Imogen Darby first noticed her daughter Tia's symptoms during the COVID lockdown in March 2020 when she started being sick.
30 times missed opportunities plus changing glasses prescription 4 times.
Now that is some of the worst doctoring, was she even examined or was it put down as an over protective mum?Girl was seen 30 times by medics over three years before brain tumour diagnosis
Imogen Darby first noticed her daughter Tia's symptoms during the COVID lockdown in March 2020 when she started being sick.news.sky.com
30 times missed opportunities plus changing glasses prescription 4 times.
Something very odd there. If a single doctor had seen multiple times and not escalated, that's terrible practice. If seen and escalated to different teams (GP, A&E, pads, physio etc) then sounds like a very atypical presentation and unexpected by many clinicians. Poor girl.
True, but we had similar with our son when he was younger. He would throw up his feed and cough until he was sick when out walking. Monthly visits to the GP, in the end saw another GP who said childhood asthma.
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With a crumbling NHS I think I'm going to get some private health insurance. At least then I can use whichever provides the quicker route and it also gives access to treatment not available on the NHS. Hope to never need it, but I'm not getting any younger.
I mean they missed my dad's tumour despite having been to the GP many times, having even had an MRI. As a result he had a stroke and I remember them brining in the old scan photos and realising there was an 'anomaly' where the bleed had occurred. No ****, I could see it myself. So that doesn't surprise me in the least.
Girl was seen 30 times by medics over three years before brain tumour diagnosis
Imogen Darby first noticed her daughter Tia's symptoms during the COVID lockdown in March 2020 when she started being sick.
30 times missed opportunities plus changing glasses prescription 4 times.
I mean they missed my dad's tumour despite having been to the GP many times, having even had an MRI. As a result he had a stroke and I remember them brining in the old scan photos and realising there was an 'anomaly' where the bleed had occurred. No ****, I could see it myself. So that doesn't surprise me in the least.
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In any organisation that involves humans there will be errors. Even computer systems depend on humans at some point.
I have just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and the time it has taken on each step of scans etc has been a credit to the NHS. A couple of weeks ago I was immediately handed drugs to take in preparation and this morning I got the full timetable for the 4 weeks of radiotherapy and various pre-radiotherapy appointments. I could not have been treated quicker. I cannot fault the NHS here in Lothian, Scotland.
Patients always wrong.
In my experience GPs don't listen, you get rushed in and out.
They rule out things due to your age, can't have COPD before 50, can't have cancer before 45 etc
every appointment is supposed to be 10 minutes? mine always rushes me out in like 3-5minutes.
I know of people who wanted a quick check of a mole during an appointment and the GP wouldn't do it even though they never took up the full 10 mins slot.
get rid of the NHS, mandatory health insurance please... then the GPs and doctors might realise you are the boss, rather than a nuisance wasting their 3 day working week
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Soldato
In my experience my GP saved my life.
Wishing you a speedy recovery.
My uncle who's 80 had a fall on Sunday morning 09:00 got found by a district nurse at 15:00 as they gives him a daily injection at the same time of day . He'd left his mobile in the living room "again" anyway I called around and waited for an ambulance as his stats were very low as checked by the nurse but no obvious injuries . He was admitted to A&E at 17:00 30/06/2024 and he finally admitted to ward from A&E on 03-07-2024 Wednesday. Numerous calls from me the district nurses and the care company could never get through to the hospital . Because I was still showing a faint line on the "T" of a COVID test after catching it the week before I did not want to visit .
Eventually my sister-in-law who is a nurse at the same hospital got to see him that Wednesday morning she'd been on holiday till the Tuesday .
Not once as his emergency contact on his NHS details had I been contacted if not for my relative we would have gotten no information without physically going .
It was a kidney infection he only has 1 and he was due home Tuesday but apparently social services need to evaluate his condition due to him been in hospital over 7 days this could take over a week they have stated , so now he's bed blocking
Eventually my sister-in-law who is a nurse at the same hospital got to see him that Wednesday morning she'd been on holiday till the Tuesday .
Not once as his emergency contact on his NHS details had I been contacted if not for my relative we would have gotten no information without physically going .
It was a kidney infection he only has 1 and he was due home Tuesday but apparently social services need to evaluate his condition due to him been in hospital over 7 days this could take over a week they have stated , so now he's bed blocking
Man of Honour
I've dealt with many cases but one that stands out is a drunken woman who fell backwards down the stairs.
She came to A&E, X-Rayed and sent home.
The following day her partner took her back to A&E and she was standing outside A&E X-Ray when a Clinician came running out, basically told her not to move and they packaged her while standing up and then treated her with kid gloves.
The claim landed on my desk and the first thing I did was look at the original X-Ray they took, turned round to my colleague and asked her if anything looked abnormal to us unprofessionals and she said "What's that sticking out of her neck?".
I said it was a vertebrae, how she was still walking was a miracle.
I've seen lots of bad X-Rays and all I can say is the Clinician never looked at it and discharged her because according to her notes, she was drunk and acting up.
what tres said. 30 times is a bit much for these symptoms to be ignored though especially if parents keep bringing their kid in.
it makes a good news hitpiece though, and allows the general public to throw their arms up in horror at incompetent NHS medics. the devil is in the detail though as brain tumours are incredibly rare
sauce: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7596247/
i'm sure every clinician will be more than happy to book an MRI for every patient that comes in a headache (and perform a lumbar puncture for shizzles and giggles)
and with the general public bitching about cost...who's going to pay for these MRIs at £400 a pop?
Man of Honour
On Stoke on Trent Live 2 days ago the Sentinel ran a story about a Mother being neglected on a Ward and she died.
The story went into details of the negligence and loads of people replied slagging off our hospital.
Somebody must have told the adult children who came on and begged Stoke on Trent Live to remove the story because none of it was true.
You then had posters basically calling the children liars because they preferred the Sentinel's version
Stoke on Trent Live refused to remove it and the children have had to go to a Solicitor to get it removed.
@SexyGreyFox for the clicks innit :/