Tory defector Dan Poulter in anger over Government's NHS performance
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2024
- The shock defection of a Tory MP to Labour in anger over the NHS crisis has heaped pressure on Rishi Sunak ahead of what is already expected to be a tough week for the Prime Minister.
Dr Dan Poulter, a former health minister and working medic, on Saturday quit the Tory Party saying it is “failing” the health service and that he could no longer “look my NHS colleagues in the eye” as a Conservative.
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Talk about rats jumping ship.
yes that's what it's all about them their political career and of course personal financial gain. I hope and pray when he needs votes in local elections those people he has betrayed and ignored remember him and vote against him ,
A total clown, tory gain labour loss for taking the fool on.
The NHS is totally usless, having gone through the system this last number of years due to hyperthyroidism and hyperparathyroidism, I was horrified to learn how little these gps and specialists know about these conditions.
I tought my self by reading up on both conditions, and joining 2 great sits with member in the same predicament, I found myself teaching these professionals about the conditions, which were the correct blood tests to be performed ect, all I got back from the NHS specialists and gps were... The quotes of the NHS guidelines for blood work, no care about the awful symptoms that go with both these conditions 😡 my gp could clearly see my decline in health, but chose to ignore it saying "your menupausal"... I became a futher burden to the NHS when I collapsed and were taken to hospital in thyroid storm 😮, "well done doctor" ... Now I'm a bigger burden taking a hospital bed up, just because of your total ignorance, and bad care😡 what are these gps and specialists being taught in medical school🤔
This is very sadly true I suffered hyperthyroidism graves with eye disease. At 39. I'm 52 now. My GP admitted they know very little about the disorder. I had full thyroid removal and because my parathyroids were damaged they were removed also. No one told me my body could no longer upload calcium from food and I'd need to use alfacalcidol for life. My GP stopped the alfa in 2020 10 months later I was admitted to hospital because I could no longer use walk and my muscles could no longer work to help me breath. Today the damage to my skeleton is irreversible, my hips knees and lower back are locked and I have great pain walking with constant numbing of the feet. I have fallen nemerous times at home damaging my head and chipping the bone in my elbow. Make of that what you will.
@@sillyshazzie... Yes I also lost my thyroid, but it could have been prevented if my gp knew what he was doing, 18 months of sheer hell from hyperthyroidism (graves) no TED though thankfully, the hyperparathyroidism thing was first diagnosed in 2004 and left with watch and wait, diagnosed again in 2020.
They tried the watch and wait again, but my son paid for a private parathyroid surgeon to see me to get the diagnosis as the NHS in my area didn't want to deal with me 😡 I've had kidney stones, now got CKD, calcification in most joints due to calcium in the blood stream, high calcium (gp never informed me of).. Im 62 and feel 92...my life is ruined.. Thanks to the nhs😡 I'm sorry to read you to have suffered with these conditions 😢 to think if they were better trained it might not have happened, but I also get a lot of feed back from fellow sufferers that it's money to, the nhs just don't want to treat us😡😡
@@karenwhitehead2260 I'm so sorry you're suffering this too. The feeling 90 odds really hit home with me. It's exactly how I feel every day too. From having a very physical job in health care then hospitality to waking up crying in the night because I changed position and hurt myself with my hips cracking has changed my life completely. I truly feel for you and completely understand you.
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Only took him 14 years.
If this government had any sense they would stop visitors using the nhs we have to pay if we visit a country nhs should be for uk citizens that would take alot of stress off the nhs
He had hissy fit. Why was he an MP if he was already a doctor?
How Convenient!
He knew he would lose.
To be fair he’s not standing at all in the next general election.
@@dafyddroff8084 I know he has stepped down after the fact.
To accommodate 700.000 people.
You need 5 hospitals.
53 doctors surgeries.
64 dental surgeries.
That’s how many people moved here last year.
That’s also the equivalent amount of capacity we lost last year, alone!
As a result of those 700.000 people moving here!
It’s basic supply and demand!
Too much demand equals poor supply of services!
Another dishonest Politician one of those who are year's too late..
Lee Anderson Mp - I want my country back 🤥
Dan Poulter Mp - Labour is the only hope for the NHS 😂 LMAO
Ive been waiting 20 years for 2 operations.
20 years.
Havent seen a dentist in over 23 yrs.
2001 Nederlands was the last time.
Plenty money to give away to jews in ukraine and israel though.
I'm lucky enough to have an NHS dentist. He works 6-7 days a week. He gets £25 per tooth extraction from the government, whereas a private dentist can charge £300 for the same procedure - so private dentists will not touch NHS patients as they don't get paid fairly. My dentist currently has a 'dental nurse' - but, she's a qualified dentist - she's not allowed to practice as a dentist yet. My dentist is Iranian and he will not turn patients away as he does not want people to suffer in pain. He says there isn't a national 'shortage' of dentists - that's what the tory government want you to think - it's the poor pay that puts NHS dentists off
7 years waiting for my hip replacement has resulted in irreparable damage to my spine, unfortunately for me Spines can’t be replaced… currently on the scrap heap at 62 .. my real anger is for those people who are not getting diagnosed quickly enough nor treated quickly enough to save their lives, it’s nothing short of Criminal!!
Yeah blaming the Jews will fix your issues.
@@AlwaysAC Who's blaming the 'Jews'?
@@AlwaysAC There's a reason for this. You should look at how many times they been expelled from cities. You'll be staggered when you find out the number. Nothing against jews especially honest jews (except zionists) but think about it that way, youll see that many of them are not troubleshooters but troublemakers.
Four days before an election.....Ouch.
Despite the defection I suspect he will be retiring from parliament at the next election to focus on his work as a doctor.
That would be a true vindication of what he has done and would earn the respect of his NHS colleagues.
it's a shame he has only realised now what he and his Tory government are responsible for . But why does he need to join the labour party before he stands down if he truly wants to stand down then why does he need to join labour to do so ? And I'm 100% certain if Labour win the next election he will not stand down and has no intention of doing so he's simply moving on to pastures new for his own selfish reasons now that the Tory ship is sinking ( thank god )
He knows the Tories are out so he jumped ship.Labour won’t be any better, maybe worse.
Keep burning public domain money in loads of resources, e.g., it’s crazy how the management team takes ages to recruit talent and transform their operations. Legacy will kill the service.
Odd that he chooses now to speak up, in the lead up to a general election that does not look good for the Tories. I would have been more impressed if he had said these things even a year ago, when the situation was exactly as it is now.
Why was he he an MP when he was already a doctor ?
Well maybe he has a weird foible about saving his patients lives.
NHS has inherit issues - denying patients proper diagnostics, treating "most likely disease" first, then if not working, treating "a second guess", etc. only after thd surustion became unreversable a referal is made. patients are invalidased by that approach. and there is no entry point for any innovation. MAY BE some decades ago that was saving some money. today this costs a lot more. patient trust is gone, as a doctor's main skill - denay the patient proper care.
a generation of doctors is unable to read a basic scan or blood test, do any kind of physical examination, even tommy palpation or listerning chest noises. total absence of clinical judgement as they had no chance to form it based on own experience of a full cycle diagnostic-treatment-result. the latest "find" - a new doctor each time you visit a ward. so no continuity, no individual responsibility, even less access to gaining at lessr some real experience by a doctor. Shame on management which leads to degradation of professional ethics.
Called 111, two hour wait. Many conversations later I am informed by a clinician that I will get called back by a dentist within 12 hours. 30 hours later I call back re no one calling me back. Told the referral isn’t in the system, asked to speak to a manager, told I’d get a call that evening, it’s been over a week… What’s going on??
"What’s going on" 14+ years of systematic Tory underfunding?
London is falling down the kids know from nursing song
It is easier to privatise a national service if it has been forced to fail by the government.
The government hasn't forced it to fail, it's the low/corrupt performance of its managers and personnel.
The NHS isn't failing because of government of lack of funding it's horrendous management and low performance and incompetent personnel. You're a perfect example of the sea of averageness the NHS is drowning in.
This. I have said this for a long time but the average man in the street won't see it. The NHS has been put on a pedestal that it does not deserve and is above criticism. To put it in to perspective if the NHS was a country the amount of funding it gets would make it the 42nd best economy on earth. It would be 15th out of the 27 countries in the EU. It is the 5th biggest employer in the world. Not the country but the entire planet. It isn't a funding problem it is an efficiency, or rather lack of, problem.
Also doesn't help when we let more people in to the country than the entire population of Liverpool every single year.
@@emceedoctorb3022 completely and totally correct. A net migration of 600k per year, that's 6 large towns, 6 large hospitals, 20 supermarkets, 20 go surgeries, 40 dentists etc need to be built every year just to maintain current levels of service, which is already poor.
When even a tory is disgusted with torydom it shows how low the bar has sunk. GENERAL ELECTION NOW!!!!!!!
Mental health doctor lost his allegiance with Sunak after deplorable recent hatchet job on doctors and those with mental health. .. good on him.
So he thinks Labour will be better, give me a break.
He obviously hasn`t seen what labour has done to the NHS in Wales.