What improvements would you like to see in the NHS?

Question

Having spent a lot of time in NHS hospitals these past few months I have come across lots of problems and lots of positives too which I think often get forgotten. What one thing would you like to see focussed on to improve our health care service? I personally would like the hospitals to concentrate on individual patient care and not trying to beat statistics and targets set by the government

Answer 1

Agree with Nursej. My wife is an ITU Nurse, and the MRSA precautions are very strict. In fact, theres MRSA in your local Mcdonalds and pretty much every public place, but people don't realise that, they just blame the Hospital as it's an easy target.

We should not treat Immigrants / Non citizens for free, stop medical tourism from other countries and do something with the inbalance caused by middle managment.
Point in question, IMy wife knows of patients who have had Dialysis, (which costs in excess of £1500 per day), they have been non UK Nationals and simply left the country after they got better, leaving muggins Joe Public to pick up the bill.

Agency staff are not to blame, they are actually NHS Nurses working on their days off because the pay for a D grade ward Nurse is so poor. Who's fault is that then?.

It should be left to each trust to run their own Hospital, the debts supported by the government until the trust is back on it's feet. They should charge Non UK Nationals for treatment and drugs, and be left to clean up the mess Tony and his useless wankers have left behind to make a fresh start.

Answer 2

As a staff member at an nhs hospital, i would like to see more nursing and medical staff and less management, that would give us the time to spend more with our patients, but i have to say the lady who answered this question first is wrong, most hospitals (i know ours do) do a full screen for mrsa as soon as patients come in, and we found out that the patients are already coming into hospitals with mrsa, also we have numerous alcohol gel dispensers around but not 1 visitor or patient uses them, and their the first to complain, most people have mrsa but just blame it on the hospitals, i think they should do a day there and see how hard everyone works.

Answer 3

i think the nhs would not be better off financially if free medical ltreatment was reserved for British citizens only regardless of race or gender. Imigration has stretched the NHS to breaking point. Why should non Nationals receive free care anywhere else in the world they would have to pay or have insurance cover. Why then is it the British public that have to pick up the bill for the rest of the world. We have already got third world diseases back in this country that we had illiminated 40 years ago
such as TB rife among the homeless. Who will draw the line? Before our great nation becomes a third world country too.

Answer 4

Yes I totally agree with that one. My main bug bear is that us nurses spend all day trying to prevent infection on the wards and the doctors just breeze into barrier nursed side wards without washing there hands, wearing gloves etc then just go on to the next patient!!! They think they are infalable!!!

Answer 5

I'd like to see a flatter wage regime and strict limits on the use of agency staff which are wasting huge amounts of money which would better be invested in permanent staff.

Answer 6

I have nothing but praise for our Health Service. I have always received excellent service.

Answer 7

Cleaner hospitals! As a victim of MRSA, I think this is very very important. I was lucky, others may not be.

Answer 8

just getting a doctors appointment when i need it not in a fortnights time its getting out of hand.

Answer 9

And why don't we knock the bloody lot down...then be left with nothing???????