everyone in the nhs to blame, institutional crapness

i think most people in the nhs have been dulled by constant exposure to bad service into thinking this is somehow normal

i think there has to come a point where individuals in a system like this have to stand up and be counted or just be considered part of the problem

the mass acceptance of everyone involved in the nhs that this is the way it is condems all of the nhs staff in my view

just like a nazi prison gaurd there is a process of dulling and peer acceptance that allows otherwise sensible people to accept the nhs ways

there is a root and branch failure in the nhs

in response to the knifeman

in response to the knifeman
http://theknifeman.blogspot.com/
thanks for the note

i do not think "it's all the doctor's fault" far from it
but there are some rubbish doctors and they are not systematically taken out of the system, and the patients have no ability in the nhs to vote with their feet to bring about their downfall

also the dr rant solution to the nhs problems of "give us more money and put the doctors in charge" will not work in my view!

its largely the system, the way the incentives work (or dont work), and the lack of real power in patients hands

as for the swear words this is largely in reference to the dr rant blog, of which i gently take the mickey, dr rant started using rather strong swear language, and my blog reflects that style played back to them

i have not named any medics, as well i could, my frustrations are largely with the system
i do feel coventry PCT should be shut down as a complete failure, i do feel the hospitals in sunderland should be flattened to the ground due their exceptional bad work and the patients given money to go anywhere else they want (if you give the patients real money they will be able to find better choices)

so throwing the word cunt around you should lay firmly at the door of the drs rant, and to be honest in a peter cook dudley moore kind of way it does add a little fun to a conversation, check out some pete and dudley swear ridden dialogs to see how effective it can be at breaking down barriers

and its a little to do with the anti working class prejudice riding through our society at the moment, so much politically correct nonsense if you mention a persons race and yet its common practise to talk down to folk with strong regional or working class accents, in the working class clubs of the land cunt can be a form of friendship ud be surprised

on balance i prefer free speach, which there isnt in the uk due to liable laws etc, id rather we could all just say what we want

i like ur blog, but never seen any medics blogs that reflect the dire state of the nhs from the patients point of view, and there are limited ways of fighting back given the mass of resources the nhs throws at its complaints teams, legal team, and PR folk

keep up the good blog
regards!

why so much scanning?

so youre now on the final stretch, you were diagnosed in 2001, the nhs failed to treat you at all between then and 2008, you are now on borrowed time and could die any time, on no treatment but hormone therapy too late and sub the dose the makers say you should have (im sure theres a medical excuse i mean reason), unable to exist without massive doses of morphine

and the fuckers of the nhs call you back every week or so for another set of scans

why? what are you fucking trying to prove? carnt you see its agnony to leave the house, you know death is certain and there is fuck all you can now do about it you lazy fuckers

whats the matter you didnt use all those nice scanners years ago and fucking operate or use radiation therapy

so yea dying in the nhs made all the more miserable by investigations with no possible positive outcome

sure its keeping some tick sheet checker busy

staggering

thanks to the NHS

we really appreciate the cushion to sit on

thanks for the pretty leaflets explaining end stage prostate cancer

that really is so sweet of you

it really makes up for no fucking treatment since an early diagnosis in 2001

you evil cunts

hope you die long painful deaths

Defend the Mao model of healthcare

The website over at

http://gillgeorge.wordpress.com/

Calling itself "defend the nhs"

Deleted a short critique of its position in their comments section

Really does show the lack of openness to debate, lack of belief in free speech, and lack of tolerance for folk who do not share their own views

These left wing nutters who believe in a communist model of healthcare centrally controlled and run for the benefit of the staff really have lost the plot

Playing on the publics desire for better healthcare they trade on slogans such as "defend the nhs"

We don't need to defend a failing institution, we need to defend the British peoples right to decent healthcare against all comers including Stalinist nutters who believe their own view is the only valid one

These people really are nutters, no where else in the developed world has copied the crap nhs, cos everywhere else can see it does not work, we have the UK at the bottom of all developed countries in terms of healthcare quality, and these nutters want us to have more of the same, I very humbly suggest we learn from the best of the rest of the world - and I can assure you if we do that Stalinist centralist state controlled nhs style care will not be the outcome, and the British people will be a whole lot better off

The current nhs based so closely on how Mao organised rice production in China will always lead to
i) False positive statistics from the managers telling us how great they are doing, how short the waits are, while at the same time folk needing treatment don't ever get on the lists, just as the managers always produced statistics telling Mao how high rice production was
ii) Shit non responsive low quality healthcare, just as the people starved from lack of rice when centralist top down control freakery was imposed on rice production in China

You see we have a failed communist model of running healthcare in this country which even the old communist superstates have long since rejected as a failed organisational structure and business model, we need a radical reform turning the NHS into a slim state guaranteed provider of medical insurance and all of the providers in a regulated free market, we do not need the state running production, we need patients given total control over their individual spend of the health insurance payouts forcing providers to compete and ramp up quality

Power to the patients!

world medical isotopes shortage

so there is a world wide shortage of medical isotopes, of course the NHS wont give a shit because it has given up on medicine

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=7c408ae7-832e-40a6-b96f-be4785c46558

Car parking charges

Car parking charges are to be abolished at NHS hospitals across Scotland, the health secretary Nicola Sturgeon has announced.

Scotlands version of the NHS is getting ever further away from the English version.

Like pay phones and pay TVs, these charges are obviously out of control. When the patients have no real choice of where they go there are no market forces to keep them down.

I'd rather just keep my tax contribution to the NHS and pay myself down at the local BUPA or Nuffield hospitals with large free carparks.