Lynne

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...8/02/nhs02.xml

tony126

Losing money by being too efficient is a whole new slant. No wonder the NHS is getting such a bad name.

Angry White Pyjamas

Accountants....almost on a par with Lawyers for screwing people over.

Titchski

What The F--k? That is absolutely asinine.

Nice to see the current Government is keeping "the Red Tape Flying Here"

TruBrit

omg bean counters at it again

AdobePinon

And just how is it cheaper to make patients wait 100+ days?

ironporer

Hopefully a certain percentage will die before the time, others will get better, others will get discouraged and go elsewhere....

AdobePinon

Yeah, and others will inconsiderately get sicker and cost more to treat.

ironporer

Imagine their nerve! Where are their manners?? I always thought the English were such polite folks. :scared:

Richardowen

Sod off !

Lynne

This article was in the paper the same day. Got to give the guy a gold star for having the balls to do it. Whatever next?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...2/nheart02.xml

TRPardoe

Last Friday afternoon I had a pain in my right foot. By 2130 it was excrutiating.

Saturday morning I went into a county run "Convenient Care" walk-in (Limp-in?) clinic where I was X-rayed 3 times. The Doc said I had no fractures and he had no idea what the problem was.

Tuesday morning I went to a private "Foot and Ankle" clinic (on my insurance)and was X-rayed again. This time it showed a fracture which even I could see.

Now I have a soft boot, minimal pain, and a re-appointment in 3 weeks for another set of X-rays.

What the F*** would have happened in the UK ?

gruffbrown

I waited 15 months for an Inguinal Hernia operation on the NHS, normal spiel from the doctor "If you throw up or pass out, contact us" They cunningly phoned me the week before Christmas, to tell me they had a cancellation and could fit me in on Christmas Eve, which would have put me under the 1 year waiting time. I turned it down, I guess it was good for their waiting list figures?

Bob

It would have reset the clock on your waiting list because you turned it down...labour government is quite sneeky in how they can botch some of the figures together....

Lynne

It doesn't bear thinking about.

The only real stories hear about the NHS come from my in-laws who are currently at that "piss and moan about everything stage".

Recently I got an email from a friend of mine whose mum lives just outside London. For the last ten years at least, she has suffered with a pain in her hip. She is now walking with a cane, taking pain pills 24/7 and has to limit going up and down stairs to a minimum because of the pain. Fortunately she lives on one level. When I asked my friend what the actual problem was and why nothing was being done, she informed me that her mum's hip needed replacing but the specialist she has seen said that she is not considered a severe case, plus she is under 75 (she is now 71). A severe case is being totally immobile. When I asked my friend WTF age has to do with it, surely it's the quality of life, she said that they don't like doing them on under 75's unless it's absolutely necessary because a hip joint only has a life of ten years so if they wait until you are 75 it should see you until you croak. What happened to doctors doing what is best for patients. Had she been here she probably would have had a new hips several years ago and enjoying a much better quality of life.