Ive recently had experience of both the N.H.S and a private hospitial and the difference is astounding.
The N.H.S hospital is like something you would expect to find in Ethopia and not in a so called developed country.
The private hospital was like a palace in comparision.
Surely we deserve better?
2006-10-29 08:59:08 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
If you've visited the Maternity Unit in the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff you'd say it was a shambles!
The place was disgusting. And as for the toilets, I've been in pub toilets that were cleaner. It made me feel sick.
The floors weren't clean, the rooms were shabby, the whole place stank. The piles of soiled sheets and bedding on trolleys in the corridor (complete with dirty bed pans) were also pretty nasty. I was afraid to breathe in or touch anything for fear of catching something.
I've chosen to have my baby in a midwife led unit at Caerphilly because its clean and homely and comfortable. Its not provate but they seem to have orginaised it so that it is the same sort of standard you'd expect from private medical care - comfortable single rooms with TVs and coffee/tea facilities, everything clean bright and scrubbed and welcoming.
People think I'm mad because there are no epidurals available there just gas and air and pethidine (you have to be transferred to the UHW if things don't go straightfowardly or you need an epidural) but to be honest the state of the UHW was upsetting to me that I'm willing to work through the pain in order to be somewhere that is in a acceptable condition. I couldn't cope with being in pain AND also being in some shabby dirty place in which I didn't feel comfortable.
2006-10-30 06:32:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What were you in for? Shortage of memory? In Thatcher's day you waited over two years for an operation. Now it is six months.
Some problems stem from the fact that many services were privatised by the old bat and still deliver under-rate services.
2006-10-29 21:01:34 · answer #2 · answered by lykovetos 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agree with first three answers. Far too many non-medical managers and administrators on fat salaries. Bring the proper administrators back..i.e. Matrons who have worked from the bottom to the top and know how to run a hospital. Something must be done large scale about hospital food too. If ever you need good, nourishing food its when you are recovering from illness. You get the reverse in hospital.
2006-10-29 09:10:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the nhs is indeed an absolute shambles. they [government] are facking this once great service up and sending it down into the realms of privatisation, which in my view is inevitable. they cannot continue to throw money into an abyss. however there is a solution, if Blair could legislate to drastically cut red tape and bureaucracy, and get rid of useless and futile managers, then maybe, just maybe we could see this once great service return to what it started out to provide, and that is the care, rehabilitation and discharge of the patient.
2006-10-29 09:08:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you bragging about having the means to go private or are you a Tory? The NHS is fine, the frill's are cut out so that those who are not in a position to pay can still get treatment. It you would like to pay 10% more tax maybe we could put the frills back into the NHS. Ethiopia? that is a gross insult to the staff of the NHS
2006-10-29 09:23:57 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
Its not just the NHS ... Its the Home office....DWP and all the other goverment depts also ... actually the whole thing is a shambles...
Too many targets .. and no direction
2006-10-30 12:42:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I see ur point mate. I used to praise the work of the NHS and have so much respect for doctors and nurses - i still do have respect for them cos of the hours and hard work they put in, but as for the whole NHS system itself it is a joke, and as tax payers we do deserve much more.
2006-10-29 09:02:56 · answer #7 · answered by Carmit 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it's bloody brilliant too many people slag it off. I have seen first hand on several occasions how good it is. Their isn't a bottomless pit of money so if you like the private hospital so much then pay thousands for it. They'll be more money for those who can't afford to go private.
2006-10-29 09:42:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
We deserve better yes, but we live under Blair/New Labour. I imagine that soon they will bring in legislation to make observations like yours illegal.
2006-10-29 09:02:17 · answer #9 · answered by A True Gentleman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have a 24hr walk in centre near us.
2006-10-30 02:11:11 · answer #10 · answered by marzmargs12 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋