Was in the A&E department today for four hours with a neighbour. Watched people coming in dazed from falls, being brought in by the police and showing signs of (domestic|) abuse, in pain from arm and and meg injuries, being sick with stomach agonies, children, teens, adults, heart problems, in need of drips, scans, a…
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Worrying Trend in the NHS
In 2023 PULSE ran a survey in which a quarter of GPs responded they have private medical insurance, citing concerns around waiting lists and the level of treatment available on the NHS, a Pulse survey has revealed. The survey of 860 GPs found that 21% have their own personal private medical insurance, while 4% have…
Modern medicine
There are many marvels of modern medicine but there are also huge gaps. When my mother’s salt levels crashed I was introduced to the Endocrine system which, it turned out, are a series of organs in the body that are lumped together because they don’t fit in with the other systems – heart, lung, nerves…
Tax
There has never been a sensible conversation with the public here in the UK about how tax is spent. There is such a lot of wastage in public finances that people actually dislike paying taxes because they never think the money is going to be spent well. The whole issue revolves around what kind of…
May I Strike Please
Withdrawing one’s labour in order to gain better pay and conditions is a basic tool in the armoury of the wage earner. Making sure they cannot is the basic tool of governance. It is essential if you are going to require some people not toe strike, or some people not to have the ability to…
A Winter of Strikes
The UK, entering what may be a decade of economic hardship, is facing a winter of strikes. Some quite unexpected. Nurses, coffin makers and ambulance staff are among the groups with train workers finding that government doesn’t care about them. If you have a group of workers whom you consider so vital they should not…
Too Much Truth
All lies have elements of truth in them, which is why so many lies are so believable. I have followed the arguments the British Government is having at the moment about the National Health Service and pensions for public sector workers and all the arguments circle the same thing: finances. The Conservative Government is steaming…
Tested and Passed
I had five hours at hospital today because my mother lost a lot of strength in her left arm overnight. The consensus is she had a minor stroke but I want to share the UK health system with you. Her doctor visited at 12 pm after a call in the morning and did the paperwork…
Medicinal Rights
I have had occasion to visit hospitals quite a bit in the last five years in the UK. Whilst we can always pick holes in services offered, and even services purchased, it is overlooked by those who complain just how amazing are in historical terms, free health care actually is, even in America the fountain…