NHS=Negligent Health Service

Dis86 said:
I fully understand mistakes happen but it just seems even the basics of caring for that woman weren't met. Let alone the seemingly atrocious attitude of the doctor involved. Just plain wrong.
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Doesn't seem to he enough information to really judge the situation from the article. Did the senior doctor refuse because he's an ******** or did he have a full resusc of patients trying to die and no staff - this isn't rare at all these days.
 
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Minstadave said:
a full resusc of patients trying to die and no staff - this isn't rare at all these days.
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Which was yesterday at my place. All bays full, no movement out of the ED due to AMU being full to overflowing and 23 ambulances plus four helicopters all wanting to unload. Obviously helos take priority and we get the patients off those the moment the rotors stop, but the land ambos just keep on backing up.

As soon as one resus bay emptied it was filled again.
 
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Dis86 said:
That would surely be unable to attend, not refusing to?
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That would require reporting to be accurate or to have managed to get accurate information, I suspect the hospital won't say much due to legal reasons in many instances.

Remember a lot of the time people won't differentiate between "unable" and "unwilling" when someone doesn't do something.
 
Dis86 said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Preston: A&E doctor 'refused' to see woman before she died

Marina Young's sister says hospital staff "failed her fundamentally, on every level".
www.bbc.co.uk

Yet another one :(
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The inquest in Preston heard a senior doctor had refused to see her even though her life was at risk, coroner Dr James Adeley said.

This Coroner is the main man in a series called Cause of Death on TV which is well worth a watch.
I have had to send him reports when the patient has been in both his areas and our Stoke on Trent area.
 
Werewolf said:
That would require reporting to be accurate or to have managed to get accurate information, I suspect the hospital won't say much due to legal reasons in many instances.

Remember a lot of the time people won't differentiate between "unable" and "unwilling" when someone doesn't do something.
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It was seemingly a quote from the investigating coroner. I'd expect the beeb to at least get that accurate.
Maybe.
 
Would I be mad to ditch my new NHS dentist for private? My normal NHS dentist has gone private only and I had the first check up with their new NHS one. It was in a back room of the same place and looked like it hadn't been updated since the 80s which didn't help my natural apprehension with any healthcare related matters! Very basic service and no polish performed, so I left thinking what I actually got out of the visit. I had been seeing the old dentist for over 20 years and he ran a very modern practice so was a shock seeing the 'new' room.
 
Just a rant really, The idea of a carpark drop off point is to drop off people there and move on, instead it was full of people just parked there with drivers waiting, so everyone wanting to drop someone off and go had to park along side these *****, causing congestion as it was all one way.
 
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beachBOYken said:
Just a rant really, The idea of a carpark drop off point is to drop off people there and move on, instead it was full of people just parked there with drivers waiting, so everyone wanting to drop someone off and go had to park along side these *****, causing congestion as it was all one way.
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Same in our local train station drop off too. Doesn’t help you can wait up to 20 minutes without a ticket!
 
Two cases to show what crap I have to deal with.
I have altered bits but the story remains the same.

1) Woman in RTA, flown in with loads of injuries but the main being a brain injury and an arm broke in 3 places.
She's on the table and the Surgeon notices a band around her wrist - "This needs to come off" so staff try to get it off to no avail, it looks like it was put on in situ so he orders them to cut it and put it with her belongings.
Woman eventually comes out of a coma, notices the wristband gone and claims she would never have agreed to life saving operation if she knew the band was being cut off so puts a claim in.

2) Young lad falls 20 foot from a wall and fractures his back, he self discharges with a broken back and comes back 6 months later saying we haven't treated him correctly. We have the self discharge note and evidence that a Clinician rang him to come back. he still goes to a Solicitor.

I do love my job.
 
koolpc said:
I been waiting over 7 months now for an Endoscopy! I have enquired but they say they are very busy!! NHS is dire....
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Massive underinvestment for years plus COVID. Takes over a year for a child to have a routine appointment with us currently and no real effort being made to tackle that.

Half the new patients have no idea what their appointment is for or just don't attend.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Two cases to show what crap I have to deal with.
I have altered bits but the story remains the same.

1) Woman in RTA, flown in with loads of injuries but the main being a brain injury and an arm broke in 3 places.
She's on the table and the Surgeon notices a band around her wrist - "This needs to come off" so staff try to get it off to no avail, it looks like it was put on in situ so he orders them to cut it and put it with her belongings.
Woman eventually comes out of a coma, notices the wristband gone and claims she would never have agreed to life saving operation if she knew the band was being cut off so puts a claim in.

2) Young lad falls 20 foot from a wall and fractures his back, he self discharges with a broken back and comes back 6 months later saying we haven't treated him correctly. We have the self discharge note and evidence that a Clinician rang him to come back. he still goes to a Solicitor.

I do love my job.
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Some people..... Just self centered *** holes! Hopefully number 2 gets nothing, 5hough they'll probably go for one of those dodgy no win no fee types, who bang in a claim at a figure they know wouldn't be argued. And as for person 1, here's hoping one day she gets her head out of her *** and realises what an utter **** she is being (unlikely though!).

I hear a few horror stories about patients from my Wife, and I'm always dumbfounded just how ungrateful some people have become.
 
Trifid said:
Would I be mad to ditch my new NHS dentist for private? My normal NHS dentist has gone private only and I had the first check up with their new NHS one. It was in a back room of the same place and looked like it hadn't been updated since the 80s which didn't help my natural apprehension with any healthcare related matters! Very basic service and no polish performed, so I left thinking what I actually got out of the visit. I had been seeing the old dentist for over 20 years and he ran a very modern practice so was a shock seeing the 'new' room.
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If you can afford it go for it I guess many can't
 
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