"It Amounts To Deception!" | NHS Staff LAUGH At A&E Patient's 46-Hour Wait
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- Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
- Staff at Royal Shewsbury Hospital have come under fire after they were caught on film laughing about how they weren't hitting targets after they admitted one of their patients had already waited 46 hours for care.
Former NHS Chairman, Roy Lilley explains to Talk's Kevin O'Sullivan that even though the laughing may be seen as "black humour" by some people, staff should not be doing it. He says: "It's disgusting."
Kevin says: "You go in with a broken leg, you want to be seen a bit quicker than that."
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Open borders and an NHS is laughable.
Open borders and a welfare state cannot co-exist. It has to be one or the other.
Having both is just not possible and I cannot understand why people can't see that.
I bet illegal immigrants don't have to wait!
Obviously not, they get a BUPA voucher and keys to a Maserati, with £7k cash the second they climb out a their dingy
You effing prick
O f course not it will be their humanrights, meanwhile we we are polite, queue and wait our turn. Yes we should help people in need, but 800 in one day, .....
Don’t talk such BS.
What?
Two issues in the election, the cost of living and the NHS, BS, what about the boats?
Boats do should be top of the list for things needing attention.Stop the boats and deport the illegals
Yes I thought that. They daren’t bring that up.
Nursing is supposed to be the caring profession, but I see none of that here. Our society has totally lost it's way, and it's sad to witness.
Diversity
I get the impression a lot of these jobs are being done by people who don’t really care but it’s ‘a job’ and pays the bills.
They care but what do you want them to do?
You should try walking a mile in their shoes.....
That can only be bcoz the nursing staff are burnt out.Its soul destroying if you cant look after patients the way they should be looked after.Its the system that's wrong & lack of social care for the elderly ( bed lockers) Also too many Chiefs & not enough Indians in NHS.
I worked in the care sector for years I ran a domicillary care agency and was a manager of one of the top homes for ppl with dementia. I left why? All I saw was government cut backs to social care . And don't get met started on the private sector that rips families off!. The nhs needs a complete overhaul get rid of the top heavy management system, the diversity officers and get back to basics "caring for people!"
Could not agree more Sir.
I'm a holistic massage/reiki therapist and am considering doing caring as I also have experience in this sector.
I am sad to see how this profession has deteriorated.The foreign cares don't appear to be doing the job properly and are very likely not trained in caring.
@@janyb1907 my advice is don’t! Care staff in this country do an amazing job. But it’s long hours and very little “thank you’s” plus normally it’s minimum wage! They do a tremendous job but are undervalued and that’s such a shame. I always argued that carers should have a “pin” number and be trained and paid appropriately. But obviously corporations and profits are more important than lives
Completely agree with you. I was an NHS nurse, and last few years worked in nursing homes. Basic care has gone, it is shameful.
If you have nearly 1000 people a day coming into the country, no wonder the NHS is overwhelmed. 27.000 people across the channel to date THIS YEAR.
Your maths doesn't add up.
It's currently 26th June, that's day 178 of 2024. At 1000 people per day that would equate to 178,000 immigrants, but you also state 27,000 have crossed the channel which only brings the daily average to around 151.7
I'm all for stopping the boats but using inflated figures to drive a point home doesn't make your argument remotely believable.
Exactly but they are always brushing that off. It's not rocket science yet these bigoted politicians think they are so clever but cant do the maths.
If you had a cake to share around 8 at a party but 28 turned up, there would not be enough to go around, how do they not get it??? Another thing which peeves me is look at the amount of money they have (sunak for one) yet they too, use the NHS...... I bet they don't have to wait for treatment or have long waiting time either. With that sort of money, they could pay for their healthcare after all, it is them encouraging migrants to come here. Illegal or not.
@@Galerak1 Also, take into account the 750,000 net legal arrivals last year - that's about 2,000 a day. Either way - the maths do not add up for the NHS.
It’s more than that, they even lie about the numbers 😡😡🐀😡🐀
Who also haven’t paid a penny towards the pot. People come over here to HAVE operations! It’s a joke
Absolutely no one should be surprised at this.
The NHS spent a couple of years laughing at us over Covid. While we were under house arrest, they were in empty hospitals being so bored there was a massive spate of Tiktok dance routines, by dozens of staff at once in completely empty wards.
None of them spoke up and told us it was all a lie. Who wouldn't want to get paid to go to work, with no actual work to do?
These vile people should not be working in the health service.Only trained caring people should be doing this work
I never stood outside my house and clapped for the cretins, but I remember the sheep across the road glaring at me through the window for not participating in the farce. Also, my only time in A&E, I was left on a stretcher in a corridor for hours and I heard the scumbag nurses refer to me as "Corridor guy" 😒. As you say, no one should be surprised.
I spoke up, you didn’t want to listen.
My previous reply has been censored/removed.
I can't comment on all the tik tock NHS staff dancing. I worked all through Covid in a hospital and yes the wards were empty to start with, we were waiting for the influx of Covid patients to come in so the beds were empty ready for this. It didn't last long, we couldn't keep up with demand,, to the point most staff were going off sick with it. I will never forget that year and what everyone went through in the NHS hospitals and outside of the hospitals, very sad.
@@AJ-hi9fd same. The media had everyone believing every hospital was like a war scene. I tried to tell my family but they thought I was playing it down so they wouldn’t be so worried 😳
The NHS is a "Sacred Cow" that will never allow itself to be reformed. The levels of bureaucracy have been in power for a lifetime and will defeat any measure to "change" the NHS. Politicians are not powerful enough to reform the NHS. If you cannot stop the boats how do you think you can improve the NHS? The NHS will cry, "More money." And that is it!
Same as the BBC.Both are a law unto themselves and virtually untouchable.
Also, NHS is a voting block of sorts. People inside who benefit, people with chronic illness and in need of constant care and old school socialists will support whoever promises more to the NHS.
Historian David Starkey said the same on question time and he's never been on since
@@raymonddonaghy2314 Somewhere along the line the NHS went from serving the patients to serving the bureaucracy. The elite never see the suffering of the patients. Out of sight, out of mind.
Which is why I am voting REFORM UK after always voting Tory
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I pay a thousand pounds a week for my mother in care with severe dementia, she has been there two years so far, do the maths! She had a fall at home and was admitted to hospital. Doctor told me she had to go into care as I could not cope with her deteriorating condition, she is 88yrs and I’m 65 yrs . Social care must become a priority
Heart goes out to you. My father in law was in a care home for the last 18 months of his life, he died at 100 & 4 weeks old. Quite frankly after the illness of mother in law, then the watchful eye on father in law for 20 years, we had had enough!! As for the care home, his was £1,200 a week! he wasn't entitled to carers allowance, neither was he entitled as there is no system for it, TAX REFLIEF. Problem for the Health service, or the decanting of the elderly & other chronically ill people to social \ community care - the welfare state never considered the advances in medication & generally the longevity of the individual.
Go in . Get her as an outpatient green as her stuff and refuse to send her back. What can they do
My nan is 99 and thankfully lives in her house and is still ok and can go upstairs . My other babe was 95 got out in a hinge and 4 months later was dead
@@cashkitty3472 I can't make any sense of your comments, can anyone enlighten me ?
My mother was admitted into A&E with a broken femur. She lay there for 3 days and when we asked when were they going to operate they said they were dealing with emergencies first. I firmly pointed out that she was an emergency. 30 minutes later they came back and said they would now operate. I wonder how long she would have had to lay there in pain if we hadn't said something.
That's nothing. Wait until the real scandal of morphine abuse in NHS hospitals when it comes to the elderly. I'm not the only one who's had healthy elderly family members go into hospital for minor issues and then never return home. In one instance multiple complaints about unnecessary morphine being used. If you can afford it, go private.
Agree there uthinasing big time
Yes pensioners should go private bloody layabout
And midazolam
@@Paul-wt7woHancock should be arrested for treason
Going Private won't help in this situation. After all it is the same doctors one sees, therefore, there will be the same scrips written. I understand what you mean. My GP Practice is the worst for increasing my opioids.
put our tax money into our hospitals ,and stop paying paying it to fighting age men in 5 star hotels ,,
How about collecting 40 billion outstanding in corporation tax!
How about Politicians refusing a payrise on their first year of office as main parliamentarians. Make the pension to be received after a certain time.
@@clovermark39 yes and ban life time pesion payout and a private driven car for rest of there life when only done 6 weeks in office ,like that terrsa may , what a scam , if i worked for just 6 weeks caused a utter mess and got paid rest of my life and given my own chauffeur driver,i be laughing me butt off , just 6 weeks work and we paying her pay off for life ,,
The government closed our small hospital that use to take those from hospital who needed rehabilitation before going home, so no bed blocking,our country is not only broken it is over populated with immigration, hundreds of thousands of refugees that we were not acquitted to deal with,
Doctors who run surgeries should be paid for the patients they see, NOT how many there are on their books, my neighbour says he told the doctor that they were just a call centre,
Absolutely correct I can't believe that's never been implemented
My husband was left in an ambulance for 12hrs even though the cre0w phoned ahead to let them know he was a possible sepsis, he was still in the ambulance when I went back, but only for 1hr so intotal 13hrs with sepsis
In my area. We lost 2 hospitals, 1 was a training hospital. Both sites were built on for housing. A new hospital opened in 2000. It has 463 inpatient beds and it serves an area of 500,000 people. More houses are being built over the road from it also. No wonder there is problems.
My town in the Midlands population 90 thousand hospital gone houses built on site nearest hospital 18 miles away
I live in Shrewsbury. This is the hospital which has had a major scandal in the maternity unit. Hundreds of babies died or were brain damaged. Mothers also died. Staff blamed mothers for the death of their baby. This is not due to underfunding or to creeping privatisation. Look it up.
I don't think they're laughing at the patients. I was recently advised to go urgently to A&E (London) by a triage nurse on the 111 service after an accident. Despite being told my case was urgent, I was in the waiting room for 17 hours and considered myself lucky. There were others there when I arrived who had terrible injuries and were in dire need. It was horrible. I felt bad for the nurses as well. They weren't sitting around laughing, they were run off their feet and all looked exhausted. Some of the patients were a real handful too and trying to push to the front of the queue, and you'd end up torn between sympathy for them because they were in pain, and anger because everybody else was also in pain but was waiting their turn. The place seemed totally understaffed, and the doctors and nurses were drowning in backlog. Absolute state of the NHS.
Yes I agree its false to turn this all on the nurses laughing yes they are laughing but it's not that way its they are helpless
It all started some years ago when hospital managers were closing wards left right and centre which created this bed shortage in the first place. Simply not enough beds now, but far, far too many unnecessary managers. Disgusting state of affairs.
And who was the Health secretary at the time? HUNT!
Vote reform so I can get medical help in my own cuntry
Vote who you want but it not going to be a quick fix
4 hrs that’s a joke I was there 9 hours. Without pain relief got so dehydrated I had to be put on a drip after my blood pressure went so low. There’s no care in A&E. they have to look away
Unfortunately money won't fix the problem for the NHS. It needs rebuilding from the bottom up. Stopping health tourism and not free at point of entry for non indigenous population is a long overdue starting point.
Some of the most callous people in our country work in our hospitals.
I would wager that Princess Anne went straight in the other day
Yes I agree it makes me sick same for Charles and Kate. Why font they put some of there money into nhs
This is a ridiculous comment ; emergency cases -head injuries /road traffic accidents etc get the best care in ICU . It is the non urgent /hospital ward care that is lacking . If YOU had a head injury YOU would go to the very top of the list .
@@MOLL146 It's not so ridiculous after the experience I had recently with my mum. A twelve hour wait overnight with her in awful pain. Kept her in for two days, one of those in a corridor (I bet she didn't get that treatment either) sent home only to have to return as they didn't treat what we presented but something else..
So another 14 hour wait where I had to plead with a nurse practitioner to deal with what we actually came for rather than the low sodium that they found after a blood test.
She was admitted again for another week where she had the most awful treatment along with most of the people around her.
The whole experience has actually made me very fearful of ever going into hospital myself.
In addition my daughter has just spent three months working in the very hospital that Princess Anne was in and was equally appalled at the treatment given there.
I would also pretty much guess she wasn't roused from her sleep at 5am to move her to another ward, sorry corridor, as they needed her bed space.
The whole system stinks and it begins in A&E
No one's clapping now..
Personally I never did.
Same here. I just got glares and stares from sheeple neighbours, lol.
I had the misfortune of being in Shrewsbury A&E back in 2015
I had a freak accident with a motorcycle kick start putting a hole in my leg
The Nurses accused me of being a drug user and made me wait 4 hrs before even looking at me.
Stupidly I did it again 2 months later, went straight to my local surgery and got stitched up within 40 minutes
I have had several silly accidents like you explained here. First time going to a&e and being left to wait for several hours only to have it cleaned, stitched, dressed and sent home. I quickly realised that I was actually wasting the drs time and it was something I could take care of at home with a bottle of antiseptic and a few butterfly stitches. I wouldn't go to a&e now unless I had a limb hanging off.
We should be teaching basic medicine and how to stitch someone up as a standard lesson in schools so people can care for each other in the community.
4 hours! My partner has just got home from 26 hour waiting with staff bringing beds in the hall from the side rooms and the rooms were empty. They were lying saying the rooms were full when nobody was even in there. NHS is shocking, we are paying for NHS and most of the staff are incompetent in doing there jobs.
I have seen nurses in a hospital where I live, chatting in corridors and flashing their false eyelashes whilst patients buzzers are going off. My husband was taken from intensive care after organ failure and sepsis (he also got C dif) and put into a filthy room with full bins, yet the cleaner was at the nurses station, twirling her duster whilst chatting with nurses. I actually took pictures of his room for my complaint. They were adamant his room had been steam cleaned yet I could draw my name on the window and there was ground in grime on the floor.
whilst a lot of nurses are very overworked, you have some who just do not give a damn about the job or their patients. I voiced my concerns and one nurse had written on my husbands notes that I had told her I had a big mouth???? Why on earth would I say that, more than likely her opinion of me because I had complained. We have his paper notes and their comments about me on HIS health records are appalling.
I totally agree with you. I saw with my own eyes the care received by my mum before she passed away. She always used to tell us how the night nurses (mostly agency nurses) were treating her. I stayed the night with her 2 days before she passed away. She had trouble breathing and asked for a doctor but was ignored. When I asked one of the night nurses, who was on her phone, for a commode she told me to wait for another nurse. One male patient was asking for help but she did not get up. I wrote a complaint letter but only excuses were given. There is no point in complaining as you get nowhere.
@@HoneyBumblebee300 You would not believe the response I got from a surgeon after my husband ended up in intensive care. He needed a 2nd operation because a staple had come off his bowel. He was told he needed to go back to Theatre but was left a further 30 hours. Sepsis had set in by then and he went into organ failure, he spent 3 weeks in intensive care on a ventilator and dialysis machine. Thank god he is alive but he now has stage 3a CKD. The response from my complaint - I wish i had done the operation sooner but it was in hindsight. We all make mistakes.????? So sorry you lost your mum x
@@sparrow_6177 I too am sorry about what your husband had to go through. I know this is a bit drastic, but I rather die then end up in a hospital. Things have changed so much and most medical staff are not as caring as they used to be. I wish you sbd your husband all the best.
@@HoneyBumblebee300 Thank you so much. You too.
NHS is wasteful, and peoples taxes pay for it, but its not working and it needs to be changed, when something works in another country then look at why it works and look at how it can be implemented to make what you do better.
But a big big problem is there are too many people in this country for the infrastructure can handle. And until that changes no amount of tinkering will make the NHS a world class service. Its failing, its broken, it needs Reform.
I live in Shrewsbury and our hospital is disgusting and can vouch for it.
They laughed at us with their TikTok dances so what’s new?
I am so bored with the NHS being held up as an organisation of the most blessed and holy.
Whilst there are many extraordinary individuals working within this organisation, many of my experiences over the years have demonstrated quite the opposite, and sometimes to a very sadistic degree.
And politicians use its idealisation to make them appear good.
We need to be able to appraise it realistically.
I agree.
My mother went in , laid in her own excrement while nurses sat doing nothing , came home with bedsores , she does not deserve to be treated like that , all her life working and nhs did this she is 77 yrs old . Never felt so angry .on every visit to her , nurses sat , enjoying themselves while she laid , not being turned , pure neglect .
Need to bring back Matron. Everyone was scared of her and got their jobs done properly.
I'm so sorry your mother went through this absolutely shocking, take care😢
That was done to my Husband of 61 years. 59 years of being a KNOWN paralysed Paraplegic & me the only carer. Negligent Nursing finished him off with bed-sores.
tbh, that laughter is 'embrassed laughter', not 'mocking laughter'...
and, similar to the police forces around the nation, i dont blame the ground-level front-line staff, i blame the management-level people running the establishments and the utter waste of resources on things like DEI and 'inclusivity'...
Exactly.
I don’t think they are laughing. It must be awful for them. It’s a wonder they don’t leave. AND they want to close the other A&E in Telford. The town gets bigger and no more provision . Then they combined the drop in with A&E disgraceful. 😢😢
It's gallows humour as Kevin says. You laugh or you cry
Agreed. It's a very British way of dealing with a helpless situation. They're not laughing out of amusement.
Are you sure about that . WELL they dont seem to be laughing now they didn't get the PAY RISE they wanted.
What is needed is a similar enquiry to that of the Post Office with senior managers interrogated by qualified barristers in a public forum!
Still waiting for the NHS CEO Prtichard to be interviewd about what SHE's going to do to sort out the NHS. Her job, in other words.
My sister, an NHS Sister for over 30 years , retired , cried at listening to this.
To be fair I don't think the staff were laughing in that way at the 46hr wait. I really don't think so, but I agree with the comment's that during covid hospitals were empty, Save our NHS, but no one said Save the Care Homes
Yeah I don’t think they were laughing like that either. It’s also not the drs and nurses fault that this happens daily.
I've worked in 11 ERs and Trauma Centers in the US from coast to coast for decades.
I've never seen an emergency patient wait more than a few minutes to be seen by a provider.
Even when we have 2 or 3 codes at the same time, an emergency patient is still assessed within minutes.
My sister's bf is a HCA in A&E and says that apart from the constant 'sickness' days taken by staff, when they are actually at work they are on a go slow! She has been told by her boss not to rush as she'll "get no thanks for it". she says nurses are often sat around on the computer looking busy but actually just chatting together whilst patients wait in agony. Another says they have been told not to wake the on-call doctor unless it's a life or death emergency. Even when it is a life or death situation doctors will just not attend, particularly for the older patients. So many people are dying of strokes and sepsis. She says it's as though nobody wants to do any work. Patients are often ignored or told off for complaining. The elderly are just left in corridors until the next shift. Patients who have a family member with them are treated better than others. People are dying in corridors or side rooms and just left there for hours. I am terrified that I may end up in A&E one day.
In 1980 there were more managers in the teaching hospital I worked in than there were doctors and nurses put together and it’s got worse!
I was recently unfortunately in hospital and needed an mri on my back. Went in at 9am Friday and was sent to a&e for an xray etc even though it was an mri. Did a bladder scan, lost the results somewhere so did another one transferred to the trauma unit waited to hear when the mri was. Was told at 8 pm that it wouldn’t be until Monday. I asked for the appointment time and I’d come back. Was told I had to be kept in all weekend otherwise I’d be classed an outpatient and would wait 6 months. It’s a hospital not an hotel!!! How much would that cost using up a bed for someone who was able to take painkillers at home until mri apt on Monday? Absolute waste of time and money. Finally got the results of the mri by 5pm on the Monday. I literally sat watching time money and expertise being flushed down the toilet. They need restructuring and efficient processing not more money to waste.
Bring back the satelite hospitals where patients can be sent to recuperate thus freeing up space beds
I watched this programme in absolute horror. The only person who seemed to care was the excellent young man who went in as an undercover investigator and was moved to tears.
Even in Worcestershire its sometimes over 16 hours. Plenty of nurses and doctors chatting round a desk. We pay their wages. I wasleft outside ct room waiting for canula to be removed . I was told 10 minutes. More like 25 . No one else went into ct room. I tole him I thought you had forgotten forgotten . Ih no he said . Were having a bit of a banter as we stary early. What the hell. Lazy attitudes.
And they have time for tik tok routines
Our doctors and nurses are not dedicated as they used to be. They seem to be sitting doing very little!!!
So true
Yep
My daughter, 7 months pregnant, already had a collapsed lung 8 years ago, coughing up clumps of blood was made to wait for 8 hours, she was given a bed but went outside for air as she was feeling sick and her bed was given to someone else, she had to stand for ages as all the seats were taken as well, there must have been at least 150 people waiting to be seen, absolutely disgusting. The NHS needs to be stripped from the top all the way down, get rid of the DEI shite and the woke/trans crap as well, it's a friggin joke and we pay for this terrible service, if this was a different business it would have been shut down. Make foreigners pay for their treatment and stop illegals abusing it also, giving them free dental care when I've been kicked out my dentist after 50 years being there.
Totally agree
''Just stop '' net zero,
If you have to deal with the NHS you discover that the word "appointment" has a special meaning there. In normal life an appointment is an agreement between two people to meet at an agreed place and time which both parties will try to do or let the other know in good time if they can't. In NHS speak an appointment is where you are expected to turn up on time but they have no similar obligation. You may just wait for hours or tricks may be employed such as calling you somewhere around the appointed time, weighing you and returning you to the waiting room for another long wait, but you were "seen" on time. Then on leaving they tell you to go to the desk and make another appointment for a year's time, this will not be kept but will be changed at short notice at least once near the time.
Maybe reduce the uk population of ppl who aren't legally here taking the resources!! No housing, no health care, not enough schools, no dentists!!. Bad money management also.
I just spent 6 hours in the Northern General Hosp A&E waiting room while experiencing all the symptoms of a TIA stroke while informing them 5 times that my condition was worsening! I have lost the entire use of the left side of my face with slurred speech! I had a CT scan eventually and was told that i had a stroke and that i needed to have a more detailed MRI scan. I was then sent to another hospital who could do the MRI but not until the next morning, which turned out to be after lunch.! As ANY health care person can tell you speed is of the utmost importance. I was 28 hours before the Scan that should have happened within 4. I still dont have use in my face and have yet to have any aftercare.
Appalling situation for anyone to have to suffer, especially as you say, speed is the essence. My visit to A&E 7th March, I was number 115 out of 156+ on trolleys snaking up & down the corridors! I was lucky that it was only 6.5hrs before a bed was found & i/v in 4 hrs - I had sepsis!🤦♀️
Lucky you they didn’t bother sending me for my second scan… I was not important enough, beinga woman theno penis sort
I was told by the mother of a nurse that those who don't speak English are seen first because interpreters charge by the hour and the cost can be very high otherwise.
If you can't speak English you shouldn't get treated its that simple
@raymonddonaghy2314 if you can't speak English you shouldn't be living here!! It should be a prerequisite to being allowed to even stay in this country. They should be able to read write and speak English.
That's true I know
billions and billions of pounds spent on interpreters no mentions of that ,
I have witnessed a foreigner faking the need for an interpreter.......now I know why.
It's no laughing matter if u have a health condition .they take the piss.
Anyone mentioning the problem with getting a GP appointment taking so long that problems that might have been nipped in the bud deteriorate to the point A&E is the only option....and have YOU tried using 111 for something serious?
The entire Civil service need to be sacked
I work in the NHS and I can see why they're laughing. The whole NHS is a joke. How can you set targets when you don't even know what type of injuries patients are coming in with. Looking at a patient could take longer than another patient. They're right about bed blocking. It's not the patients fault there aren't enough places in the care homes. Then we get some care homes, not all I hasten to add who refuse to take them back when the patients needs haven't changed after being treated, so it then becomes the hospitals problem. I could go on but what's the point as nothing changes.
Our Ambulance Men & Woman are better than the Doctors etc👀❗️
@@miniward9182 One of my nephews is a paramedic, I can sort of see what you're saying there.
The NHS would save money by not giving repeat prescriptions to people that have stopped needing them or have enough in stock they haven't taken.
Worcester Royal 12 hours wait. 5 of them on a gurney in a corridor. I had dangerously high blood pressure brought on by this stress, on top of what I had gone in for, the process actually made my problem worse. All this was on the cusp of the Covid pandemic. My husband had the same experience but spent 4 hours in an ambulance on top of the wait inside the hospital. He had breathing problems and 2 small strokes. How we are still here amazes me. I would think luck had a lot to do with it !!!
Why does no one call for more beds. We have only one third those inFrance and Germany. We have been reducing beds for 30 years .That produces a total blockage that results in inefficiencies at the ambulance reception stage,then only half can be processed and then restrictions due to release when all the beds are taken up with shortages of volume.
We have to fix our care to the elderly in the community before anything will be fixed in the NHS, I have left work to care for my mum because I don’t trust our care system and I’m a Registered Nurse. People know they will have a huge wait in A&E, but the care when your actually in a bed is appalling. After the care my mum received from GP and Hospital admission I have no trust in the system for elderly, we should all remember that we will all be elderly and if the system is as bad as it is now god help us all. 😡
Theres lots of GPs there unemployed because practices are not the funding to employee them.
My husband was stuck in A&E for a whole week waiting for a bed. He had blood clots in both lungs and his leg. Also a blood clot in his leg, urosepsis. And was also given a terminal cancer diagnosis whilst still in A&E
Apart from the saga of ''bed blocking'' that is people waiting in A&E can't be admitted to a ward, the other issues are the public's abuse of what A&E is, they don't understand the word EMERGENCY Equally if someone is ill that can't get an appointment with their doctor. There needs to be more emphasis of public awareness & education. Our health service HAS SO CHANGED, there is excellent, there is good and there is plain bad & ugly. Throwing money and more staff at it, IS NOT THE ANSWER.
4 week wait to see a GP at my practice! The receptionists tell everyone to call an ambulance or go to A&E if they can't wait 4 weeks to be seen. It was never like this until 2019, when boats started arriving, unchecked, across the Channel.
@@Sun_Flower1 Can't remember the £millions now spent on interpreters for the NHS - but then you have to consider most are non taxpayers & if they are needing interpreters, they are needing treatment. Just too many now, what was it the other 800 !! good god and we pay France $millions also to help police it.
You should see that hospitals history of its maternity unit. Shocking.
A & E are often blocked because patients CANNOT get an appointment with a doctor.
We used to be able to go and sit in a Doctors surgery and wait our turn. Now, we can wait several weeks.
In consequence, people go to A & E.
For everything, it's not just a pain in the backside.
No wonder the A&E department s are so busy when you have to wait 6 weeks to see your GP. Which is the case with my 77 year old husband.
I always used to laugh at the 30 stone diabetes patients sitting in a cake shop surrounded by vending machines.
The hospital bosses also banned full fat milk and installed a Burger King.
We couldn’t even eat the stinging nettles or dandy lion’s in the carpark as they spray them with agent orange once a week.
They built a death trap without free staff parking but plenty of free X ray’s with as microwave’s as one can handle.
Unbelievable. And to think people moan about our healthcare system here in New Zealand. It's brilliant in comparison. 😮
Addenbrookes AE elderly father with stroke. Waited 14 hrs. No meds. Suffered dehydration just waiting. Funnily enough he was continually pressured to sign a DNR. Dark days if you can't afford private care.
It's no wonder that people would rather stay at home than go to hospital.
The NHS has been deteriorating for many years ,we noticed but those that had the power to make adjustments and changes ignored the problems . The Tories have put millions into the NHS but it is never enough and never will be. Too much money spent on wages for management at all levels .Its bad management that has brought about the gradual decline of what was once probably the best of British. Go to other countries and see how they do it because from what we hear there are some very successful models out there. We are a small country with a large population so drastic changes are needed.
People need to sue.
Our local A&E is being closed (because it’s not needed apparently) and we will have to travel 25/30 minutes to use the royal Shrewsbury hospitals A&E! Our A&E sees far more people than Shrewsbury yet we are losing it! It’s ridiculous and will lead to needles deaths in my opinion. And after watching the documentary, Shropshire’s NHS is completely doomed! It’s disgusting!
I spoke to 111 at 3am and was on the ward by 4.30am. Not all NHS services are bad.
Instead of sneering at staff on the very front line, why doesn't that very clever, better than nhs professionals, just give them the solution to these horrendous wait times?
it was only 2 minutes ago the sheep were pan bashing for the tiktok work-shy clowns.
Never forget - Never forgive ✊
Bed blocking was going on 25 years ago, Labour said they would solve the issue. My private Nursing Home used to contract with Derriford Hospital. Social services stopped this and eventually I closed the facility.
Gps are a nightmare also not all of them .but most are rubbish.and they don't know what they are doing.
super long waiting where i live due to a&e full of our new friends filling it up really paid f all free for them joke
I think it is being left to get into this state in order for health care to become private. Imo
This is Shrewsbury A&E in the programme and what they dont even mention is that they want to close the A&E in Telford 15 miles away and have only Shrewsbury A&E to service the entirety of Shropshire and mid wales. Absolutely disgusting.
Margate hospital, Sunday 11:30 pm 9+ hours wait 🤯🤬🤬
My most recent experience in A+E was a 14 hour wait.
It's like Boris and his 40 new hospitals!!!
Hospitals need better Complaint System
Too many patients. Too many old people living longer. Too many people with mental health issues and addiction. Too many clinically obese people. Not enough beds. Not enough nurses. Not enough Doctors. Not enough social care to move patients into. Too much of the budget spent on compensation. Too much of the budget spent on expensive items - £5 bog roll sort of thing. Politicians answer: spend more money and import some more staff. The root problems need to be handled... enough sticking plasters.
I totally agree. Also too many people who haven’t paid into the system using the system.
why are they turning away british youth for courses at uni? DEI?
I took my son to A&E and to be fair we were only there for 5 hours. But the annoying part was, we were only there for 5 minutes before he was sent through for an Xray but then had to wait 5 hours for the result of the Xrays to come back.
How can Isobel Bagshott laugh at an nurse & expect us to believe she cares for our NHS staff or those it cares for??
It they could discharge patients quicker it would help free the beds. Often you are told you can go home at 8.30 and don’t leave until tea time ( or even later!) because you are waiting for the pharmacy, or waiting for the doctor to complete the discharge etc etc. if they could smarten that process, more people would have access to beds.
There are not enough hospitals, or nursing staff. Registered nurses need to spend at least 6 months before training being healthcare assistants, so they have a grounding in practical nursing care. But the root cause is not enough beds. Huge cutback during Maggie Thatcher years.
That's nothing I went to a&e last July with a head injury and I waited 10 hours to see somebody in Shrewsbury hospital.
When talking about wait times, the staff emphasise wait times, breaches etc. nobody ever mentions the patients, no empathy for actual people waiting to be seen and treated.
The staff member was laughing at the ridiculous situation, not at the patients predicament. Pretty obvious.
My son, with a head injury, was kept waiting for six hours at the William Harvey, Ashford. he had been put on the wrong waiting list it seems! When I complained I had loads of communications from various people trying to make excuses!
Have to wait 4 weeks to get to see a doctor
Disgusting
I find them laughing at me or mine, they can expect a visit to ICU
Heart attack victim I personally know.............7hrs he was told by 999 to get an "emergency ambulance?????
Why am I not surprised at this?