Please please use your voice to raise these issues. I have so many similar stories to tell, and like you feel so frustrated with where we are as a country at the moment. I’ve decided to be more involved helping charities and do what I can every day to help those people around me. Sadly, I think this winter’s fuel crisis will bring so many more challenging stories. Thank you for your honesty…
I think we are really on the verge of a precipice - so many people so worried that they will lose their homes or starve/freeze this winter... and the massive oil companies trouser their biggest profits ever. Can't be right!
But the issues are political, how can it be kept out of it? Political decision making has led to this position, the choice of the next position will influence whether things improve or don't.
I've had so many fascinating emails from women who work in the NHS saying it's not just about funding, that the system is really broken and even where there is money it seems to run into the sand. But also about amazing care from individuals working in the NHS under ludicrous pressure who manage to be truly heroic in the love and empathy they extend to patients. It is so complicated but sorting out the Social Care aspect is a must, as currently A&E is being overloaded with elderly patients who cannot be discharged because there is nowhere for them to go!
My niece had a cancer scare recently - took longer than usual to get biopsy etc but that was fine. Only it's not cancer, so now she's on a non-essential list for getting the tumours removed. But they are still pressing on nerves and she's in a lot of pain but they've taken her off the heavy painkillers she was on when they thought it was cancer because they are highly addictive. So... she just gets to be in a lot of pain indefinitely.
It is so nice of you that you unfolded this problematic issue, actually is more necessary at nowadays world. Many people are stiff suffering and sadly and how bad of us that we do not aid these poor people although it is our sacred duty to do so .
Could not agree more. Not only does my husband work for the NHS, my own tales of woe are similar to the extent I actually ran away from the hospital 24 hrs post a major operation. I literally didn’t feel safe there. When they sent me to a hospital psychiatrist to be checked out (routine for people who unplug their own drips and run away apparently 😂) he said after 20 mins of hearing my story that he’d be sectioning me if I HAD NOT run away. I’m in the US this week and other countries still see our NHS as a beacon of “getting it right” but I wouldn’t agree at the moment; the NHS is broken.
Your story is so like so many others of women who have got in touch, or which I know about from family and friends. It's one of those things as a journalist that it is one thing reading stories about it in the papers but when multiple people in your own circle start reporting exactly the same thing you know it is really serious... yet no-one in government is tackling this..
Please please use your voice to raise these issues. I have so many similar stories to tell, and like you feel so frustrated with where we are as a country at the moment. I’ve decided to be more involved helping charities and do what I can every day to help those people around me. Sadly, I think this winter’s fuel crisis will bring so many more challenging stories. Thank you for your honesty…
I think we are really on the verge of a precipice - so many people so worried that they will lose their homes or starve/freeze this winter... and the massive oil companies trouser their biggest profits ever. Can't be right!
Sadly, but we must not set idly by and watch this awful crisis make us as nefarious as a warfare. We should participate and help.
Raise the issues by all means, the more the merrier. Let’s just leave the politics out of it?
But the issues are political, how can it be kept out of it? Political decision making has led to this position, the choice of the next position will influence whether things improve or don't.
I know what you mean but the NHS is a political football which no Party has ever tackled. There’s a reason no other country has the same system.
I've had so many fascinating emails from women who work in the NHS saying it's not just about funding, that the system is really broken and even where there is money it seems to run into the sand. But also about amazing care from individuals working in the NHS under ludicrous pressure who manage to be truly heroic in the love and empathy they extend to patients. It is so complicated but sorting out the Social Care aspect is a must, as currently A&E is being overloaded with elderly patients who cannot be discharged because there is nowhere for them to go!
You are quite right
My niece had a cancer scare recently - took longer than usual to get biopsy etc but that was fine. Only it's not cancer, so now she's on a non-essential list for getting the tumours removed. But they are still pressing on nerves and she's in a lot of pain but they've taken her off the heavy painkillers she was on when they thought it was cancer because they are highly addictive. So... she just gets to be in a lot of pain indefinitely.
Disaster story for system in overloaded by hospitals closed for being unprofitableor sued for failures in practices.
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It is so nice of you that you unfolded this problematic issue, actually is more necessary at nowadays world. Many people are stiff suffering and sadly and how bad of us that we do not aid these poor people although it is our sacred duty to do so .
Could not agree more. Not only does my husband work for the NHS, my own tales of woe are similar to the extent I actually ran away from the hospital 24 hrs post a major operation. I literally didn’t feel safe there. When they sent me to a hospital psychiatrist to be checked out (routine for people who unplug their own drips and run away apparently 😂) he said after 20 mins of hearing my story that he’d be sectioning me if I HAD NOT run away. I’m in the US this week and other countries still see our NHS as a beacon of “getting it right” but I wouldn’t agree at the moment; the NHS is broken.
Your story is so like so many others of women who have got in touch, or which I know about from family and friends. It's one of those things as a journalist that it is one thing reading stories about it in the papers but when multiple people in your own circle start reporting exactly the same thing you know it is really serious... yet no-one in government is tackling this..