Matey
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 11 Oct 2021
- Posts: 178
Arthur wrote:Am currently residing in the Chaucer hospital (courtesy of the NHS). Admitted this morning. Total knee replacement. Single room.
The pre operative consultation, operation and level of care has been exemplary. Incredibly well staffed and no one looks rushed off their feet, happy and attentive. Half hourly checks and regular supplies of tea - for visitors too. Physio has visited and I expect to be discharged tomorrow . This is how the service should run for the amount of money that is poured into the NHS. The question is - how do we make the private model work in the NHS?
Thank you Chaucer Hospital.
Arthur, I think that because the Chaucer has to make a profit, it is run as efficiently as it should, as a business. As the NHS doesn't have to make money, it's slack and often wasteful. Such a shame. Get well soon anyway!
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Morning prayers at Leeds General Infirmary. Photographed by Jack Esten in 1956.
Photo shows just a few of the thousands of nurses and doctors who came over on the Empire Windrush to save our NHS and rebuild our country post-war. (God knows how the rest of Europe survived not having a Commonwealth to fall back on!)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Wanted - Close Relative Marriage Neonatal Nurse (Wexham Park Hospital, Slough)
https://hirepros.co.uk/jobs/671a116c4d4b31d69de9f409?title=Close-Relative-Marriage-Neonatal-Nurse&company=Frimley-Health-NHS-Foundation-Trust
(Slough, England is one of the most ethnically diverse local authorities in the country, with 64% of its population coming from ethnic minority backgrounds)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,252
'On NHS efficiency'
So I had 15.15 appointment at the surgery at 15.30 I received a patient satisfaction survey (how did we do type of thing) I was still waiting to be called in!
You've got to laugh, (Just not at the doctor when you do get called though) they didn't like that!
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Arte et Marte
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,863
What surprised me was the fact Reginald actually saw a doctor!
I have not seen a doctor from my practice for well over five years although I have been honoured with three phone calls from some doctor I had previously never heard of. This is after two hospital stays
resulting in a diagnosis of significant heart failure.
Thank goodness for the wonderful community nurses who even told me not to bother with the doctor but ring them as almost certainly the doctor will want one of the overworked nurses to see and treat me.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
It continues ....................
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,863
Far to many chiefs and not enough indians.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
I have unfortunately had to have a number of dealings with the NHS over the past month.
Neuro consultant.
GP.
Pulmonary rehab.
Spirometry test.
COPD nurse.
FWIW my teeth are also on the way out - some of them literally.
Yesterday I had to see the 'Advanced Nurse Practitioner'.
I asked her where she appeared in the scheme of things.
She said she can do 'anything a GP can do except sign death certificates'.
I told her I was hoping it wouldn't come to that!
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,054
'Ah yes, you'll need the UCH dermatology clinic. Turn right off Tottenham Court Road, then do a left through the tunnel, and it's opposite the homeless tents'.
Enough to make your skin crawl.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Britannia Hospital is a 1982 British black comedy film, directed by Lindsay Anderson, which targets the National Health Service and contemporary British society.
Enjoy!
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8hxxxi"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,050
Came back from a 3-week trip to SE Asia (a red herring as it turned out) and within 24 hours developed a painful rash over half my neck and chest. Did an online GP surgery e-consult which (eventually) responded "dunno, so you'd better see your Quack". However, spotted that Buckland covers rashes, so used the bus pass to go there. No appointment, seen and diagnosed (shingles) within 10 mins, walked outside to bus stop and phone goes ping to say (free) prescription ready at pharmacy. Used bus pass to get there and home again. You can't fault it!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Starmer abolishes NHS England and condemns it as the 'world's largest quango' as he declares war on the 'flabby, unfocused and over-cautious' state.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14494351/Starmer-says-flabby-unfocused-cautious-state-giving-worst-value-says-civil-service-AI-drive-save-45bn.html
Just imagine the row if the Conservatives had done this! "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,252
Which Chinese AI company is Starmer about to give an 'all access' pass to?
Remember Cameron and Huawei? Half his top team have still got jobs with the firm.
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
As we lose one QUANGO we gain another 27!
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,050
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,863
Much like our almost invisible GPs , my wonderful community nurses seem to do their job most of the time.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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