Government seem to be taking the coronavirus seriously. Daughter is in London at the moment and has just gotten out of A&E. Sheās got a chest infection and is going to be on antibiotics.
However, the NHS offered her an ambulance down to the hospital over the telephone, which she declined. She says the doctors in London can be quite crap. Couldnāt do enough for her today.
Had āthe ordealā today. Another eye injection at St. Paulās Eye Unit. The last one was not nice. Couldnāt read for about half an hour before and not sure I was anaesthetised as much as I needed to be.
Also saw the doctor, which I do occasionally. He reckons Iāll get through a field test with the DVLA, which is welcome news after being off the roads for almost a year.
My experience over nine months is that everybody does a great job; there just need to be more of them. Iāve just got a Ā£900 jab so I canāt complain too much, but I did spent two and a half hours waiting about today.
Iāve got an understanding boss, but thatās basically half a day gone with the travel factored in.
All the most important bits are there. They need more people to man the posts and less people making a wedge.
I didnāt get past needle in the eye 
My boss said that too.
But when itās your sight, and by extension your ability to earn, you get past it.
Despite you all thinking I am rock hard, I cannot stand injections
I also prefer the cock ring
I know COVID has put the NHS under immense pressure, but fucking hell it is infuriatingly shit nowadays and I donāt think you can blame COVID for getting rid of all the hospital department secretaries.
Its pretty good once you actually get to talk to a doctor, but up until that point, what a fucking shit Show.
This is only a flavour of an ongoing saga I am having: 45 minutes waiting on the phone, just to tell them that the appointment they sent me is unfortunately at an impossible time. (No wonder the NHS has issues with no-shows). Another 45 minutes on the phone some weeks later because they didnāt send me out the details for the rearranged appointment. Of course the next day they then cancel the appointment themselves (for the third time) . Because of this I guarantee the GP is going to fuck up my prescription next month and Iāll have to deal with the clueless GP receptionists once again who will try to fob me off to an unqualified pharmacist once again and the whole cycle will repeat.
In the last ten years the service has become virtually unusable. Am I right?
Blimey you posted that over 2 years ago. You could have written it today 
Have to say that people talk about the NHS being a lottery and thatās true. Touch wood for Fam C_S it has been absolutely fine over the last 2 years - Go figure š¤·
Hope you get sorted though
It will all be fine once the bellend in No.10 makes good on his promise of 40 new hospitals and 50000 nurses.
But these include knocking down old ones and replacing them doesnāt it? Heās right that theyād be ānewā but not ānew, newā.
I think youāll find that having a first aid kit stuffed under the passenger seat of a nurseās car counts as a new hospital. Got to save a few quid somewhere and why not start by charging them to park too?
Is that one of the 50,000 new nurses to replace the ones already lost?
The fact that the NHS has more non clinical staff than clinical staff should tell you everything you need to know about why it has become fundamentally flawed
It does need a complete overhaul but it is too big - I wouldnāt even know where to start, let alone deliver upon it given the resistance that would be met
That was the problem in the 1990"s, itās only got worse.
Having seen Private & Hybrid systems at work, I know that the NHS COULD work. Just how do you undo 30 years of neglect?
Tht doesnāt in anyway criticise the amazing people who work there
Jeez- I work in plugging the private healthcare sector.
But
One the big problem is most NHS āConsultantsā work for the NHS but also do 50% private work in private hospitals.
Forgetting the rest of the NHS, who actually do a brilliant job - why should consultants, surgeons and anestheatists have to ignore NHS work and go āprivate ā?
Baz?
Another old thread but read this
My firm does a lot of work with corporate healthcare. One thing most people donāt realise is that virtually all NHS surgeons and other specialists also work privately- youāre likely to be operated on by exactly the same people regardless- just paying to jump the queue to see the same person.
Madness, but follow the money.
The dismantling of the NHS by the Tories (I think thereās a place for private care, but this is taking the piss)