What the NHS crisis looks like in Wales
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2023
- 1,000 ambulance workers across Wales were on strike today.
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The action by members of the Unite union follows two days of walkouts by GMB members, and comes as latest figures show the Welsh NHS under unprecedented pressure.
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As someone who is not British - it's shocking. If you have to wait *years* for a consultation/surgery, that's not a system that is collapsing - that's a system that has already collapsed.
We now have soviet-length wauting lists. Scary times: things that used to be routine matters can now kill.
@UCM0wDAwMMmqFTMVvV9clKYA Yeah. Some of us even know people who died because treatment came too late.
Spot on, how it is tolerated is unbelievable.
@@emm_arr dodgy Brits getting on planes to EU countries to get basic healthcare when they have free healthcare in their own country, burdening the eu
Absolutely. There’s no bottom to this chasm however so it will just get worse and worse until we’re left with hospitals with no staff and corpses pilling up in the corridors.
I ended up paying for my own knee surgery to avoid an 18month wait. Which is insane because I've paid all my taxes/national insurance for years. So essentially I've paid TWICE
If the health minister had one ounce of decency he would reimburse you. Unfortunately for us he hasn’t-along with the rest of this nasty uncaring government.
Health is paid for by car owners your just paying for current benefits system
@@schcbh4800 incorrect. Your NI pays for the NHS and your pension.
@@GoogleBot-lf7xv no it doesn't, it stop paying for the healthcare many years ago! Please do your research
@@GoogleBot-lf7xv a UK tax payer pays about 25% more into their healthcare system than a German , who get 20% better outcomes
NHS need experienced Doctors and nurses. I don’t think funding is an issue. Issue is too many admin and highly paid management staff. Those jobs need to cut down and need to hire more experienced doctors and nurses. Lots of misuse and mismanagement in NHS.
The more I watch about how the UK is falling apart as a non citizen is truly shocking. I used to believe that the english lived pretty well off. Seeing all the news about the food, housing, and health crisis its so very sad.
It’s what Brexiteers voted for so…
This article is about Wales not England.
England is just as bad. Entire UK is, for lack of a better word, fucked.
We have multi millions of dependant immigrants. Our population has completely changed in the last 20 years.
WE ARE TOO BUSY SAVING THE REST OF THE WORLD
I realise that it's not feasible for everyone to travel overseas for treatment, but if you are considering it, I personally recommend Prince Court Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. I am an Australian living in KL and the service and professionalism that I have experienced there is world class. Every single staff member speaks English so you won't have any communication barriers and the facilities and equipment are immaculately clean.
Surely it's not feasible for anyone except those travelling to KL 🤔
@@eyesodd Completely agree, I just thought that since so many of the specialists from Prince Court have spent years working in the UK, it may prove to be helpful information to someone. You can never have too many options!
I can sympathise with the lady waiting for a new hip. I've been waiting 23 months for a hip replacement in West Suffolk and it does affect every aspect of your day to day life. Nothing alleviates the pain and there is no hope of getting an operation this year. No way I could afford to go private, it is a hopeless situation.
That’s awful things are seriously messed up here in uk..hope things get better for you love ❤️
If the NHS has failed you go private and send the NHS the bill.
Sadly thats not how it works in the UK, and insurance is extremely limited aswell. The NHS is fucked right now.
There is always hope, it's a medicine in its self, which is good because it does seem that's all we have!
But if you could afford it, you would be seen to in days ! It is disgusting because the chances are that you would be operated on by a surgeon who was currently employed by the NHS. The whole thing is disgusting, and still they take our contributions on a weekly basis !
I have recently experienced the NHS in south west wales. A&E was truly shocking- probably worse than a WW2 field hospital. The Hywel Dda health board have managed to bring the ambulance service to a grinding halt with most of the ambulance force sitting idling outside A&E with passengers being treated therein for hours ! They cant staff Withybush hospital because everyone is led to believe it will be closed soon. Advice to anyone moving to Wales especially W Wales ---- DONT unless you are young and healthy ! WELL DONE WELSH ASSEMBLY !!!!!!
'probably worse than a WW2 field hospital'
Imagine being so clueless.
@@jagaloon216 Most of these people are.
I am told that hospitals pay more than twice as much for equipment than retail value from their suppliers. I thought the deal when you subscribe to a company to fully supply your needs you get a markable discount since your business is locked to that supplier but apparently these companies are happily skimming off the top.
It is the same with the food, they pay over £2 for a loaf of bread that can be bought anywhere for 50 pence.
its would be interesting to see which MPs benefit from it.
aspirin purchased at 9 quid a packet ........available in the local supermarket for 65pence ........the NHS is one big racket
That's how socialised medicine works. First, the people in charge of procuring equipment for the NHS don't really shop around for better deals, because, why would they? It's not their money. Secondly, the companies that manufacture medical equipment realise they can charge the NHS anything they want, because it's not their money. A third man is cheated, the taxpayer.
@@bigbinji6145 I had a discussion about this with my military doc it wasn’t for aspirin but for cough medicine he wanted me to take it from the pharmacy on camp which would have cost more rather than me going down the shop and getting it because the price was nothing to me I ended up just getting it from the shop because I would rather the money go elsewhere in the NHS
This makes me so sad.
Why are the hospital managers heads not on the block for this year on year crisis.
Labour in Wales have failed especially in health care. I’ve been waiting since 2019 to see a consultant re arthritis in both hips. Received a text message to contact the hospital and make an appointment, which I did, to be told that the clinic is now full. They could not tell me when the next available clinic is!
What type of service is this?
My wife was kept waiting over 6 years whilst her rotator cuff damage worsened and her pain increased and her mobility decreased to the point she had to give up her job. The NHS gave her appointments which were frequently cancelled, and if not cancelled were with another doctor who would have a different opinion about treatment or would decide another xray or mid was needed. Eventually, she went and stayed with h her mother in Rome and paid for private treatment and physio. Eventually the NHS refunded around £5k of the £7k she had spent. I think the NHS is broken beyond repair. It needs to be rebuilt from scratch, with a new set of objectives that put patients before finances or statistics.
How does the NHS process these refunds? What were the refunds for - private treatment? Never heard of this so genuinely curious.
We should scrap it.
The NHS refund overseas private costs when yhey accept that they have not acted in a timely manner and that you had no reasonable alternative. The refunds are made using a set table of costs. We got most costs back but the NHS were only prepared to pay for 4 (I think) physio sessions, whereas my wife had over 20 sessions in Rome. I can't remember if the refund was made by cheque or BACs.
@@markhawkins831 Is there a specific Department to contact for this? What was the process?
The NHS crisis is abysmal 😓
Wales has a higher level of elderly, as well as higher levels of poverty which means more health related incidents.
If you combine this, with underinvestment of the NHS within Welsh hospitals and additional services, it's understandable that this level care happens.
"Tory seats gain more from £4bn levelling up fund"
Class warfare is real and it's been particularly vicious since 2010.
3x more allocated to their own than labour constituencies. They strangle the purse strings on their opposition then blame them for failing services for political point scoring. The conservatives do not act in the interest of the people that live here. Its sickening how much damage they have done to the UK in the past 13 years.
Pork barrel politics. Apt for the Tories considering they are all either gammons or swine.
LIEbour gov here in Wales for 23 years. You clueless🤡
@@jamesmorrison4581 Baaaaa
@Terry That you thinking LIEbour going to improve Wales? 🤡
That’s called CORRUPTION
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” - Noam Chomsky
The tories are doing this for years.
So we still stuck on step 1, defund.
The NHS gets funded hand over fist. It's the single biggest cost in the UK government.
It just doesn't work. Throwing more money on the fire isn't going to out the fire.
@@garethkalum8297 This is happening because companies that belong to Tory donors siphon the money allocated to the NHS
The people of this country have had money taken from their wages every week since the NHS was started only to find that it does not mean very much because the NHS is no longer fit for purpose. They are still currently extorting money every week for which the donors are not getting a lot in return. The NHS as we knew it is finished. The other unacceptable facet to this is that some NHS surgeons are alleged to be carrying out private work in private hospitals while employed by the NHS ???? This should be stopped immediately. If they want to do private practice, then set it up privately and pay for it themselves . Worse still is the fact that it is alleged that many of them are seeing patients privately, and then fast tracking them through the NHS system ( is that what could be called queue jumping ) all of this means that when an NHS surgeon does a private job in NHS time, a " Joe Bloggs " gets passed over and has to wait even longer. The NHS is allegedly run by the consultants on a Hospital to Hospital basis as they are allegedly determining just what happens and when ??
Two overarching causes of the decline in Health Care weren't even mentioned 😶
Pretty much everyone understands that the Pandemic has massively increased waiting times, adding 18-24 months to most lists.
What people seem less clear about is how devolved Health & Education are FUNDED & why there are such HUGE staffing shortfalls.
FUNDING
ALL the revenues from the devolved nations go to the Westminster Treasury & are added to the revenues of England.
Westminster Government Cabinet decide what budget allocation to give to each Department - UK wide: Home Office, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Ministry of Defence, etc - Devolved: Health, Education, etc for ENGLAND.
The Devolved Departments budgets allocation for ENGLAND are then used to calculate how much each Devolved nation gets back from their revenue for each Devolved budget using the Barnett Formula.
They are FIXED BUDGETS that the Devolved nations then administer as best they can to meet the needs of their nation.
The Devolved nations have limited or ZERO borrowing powers for Capital Projects - Buildings, bridges, etc & are not allowed to use Capital allocations for any other purpose.
This arrangement essentially means they have to transfer money from one priority area to another to deal with the most urgent stresses.
Tories LOVE pointing at the Devolved nations struggles that they've caused & saying - The crisis isn't because of a Tory Government because the same is happening in Wales under Labour & the SNP in Scotland - And they get away with it because they're RARELY, CLEARLY challenged by the Legacy Media.
STAFFING SHORTFALLS
This started a long time ago when we joined what became the EU & wasn't really a problem until we left it.
(No, this isn't an anti Brexit reason, although we could have had many different, arguably better deals.)
The UK started to rely heavily on the already fully qualified nurses, specialist nurses, Jr doctors, surgeons & consultants from the EU to fill staffing shortfalls - Essentially replacing the same already qualified coming from the Commonwealth - rather than increasing the number of UK training places needed to cope with an increasing population due to people living much longer.
UK training places used to be paid for out of general taxation & had a bursary attached - NOW students are in thousands of pounds of debt by the time they qualify, (Different in Scotland where it's significantly less debt because they don't pay tuition fees.)
Pay has been frozen or increased by less than inflation for 12 years. This means their pay is worth between 20-30% less than in 2010.
The Health Service they work in is under even more pressure because of the lack of funding in Social Care, (which also lost HUGE numbers of staff when we left the EU), resulting in bed-blocking ➡️ A&E crisis ➡️ ambulance times increasing ➡️ excess deaths.
People must be rushing to training places to work in our NHS 😕
Thing is, immigration, employment law & funding are ALL decided by Westminster Government's NOT the Devolved Governments.
Very good overview.
As an English taxpayer, i would be more than happy for ALL tax revenue raised from devolved areas to be spent there. But this would also mean that revenue raised from English taxpayers can ONLY be spent in England.
@@lulabellegnostic8402 would agree if England stopped funding the crackpots in the Scottish Parliament with 20% more funding than an equivalent English person
@@lulabellegnostic8402
That's not what I'm saying. I'm merely pointing out how Westminster Government's absolve themselves of any responsibility for their fiscal policies
@@alisdairmclean8605
Thanks
I have to go overseas for all medical procedures, dental included.
I'd happily visit my local doctor only nobody answers the phones until the exact moment they stop taking appointments, then suddenly somebody's there to inform me to call back tomorrow
Blame the Tories for underfunding the NHS all over the UK for 12 years
This shows the current absolute disaster of the tories, pretty much no one can afford to do this.
Should have told them you were a tory donor, they probably would have sent a limo.
Same in Milton Keynes too
It so much depends on the surgery, at my doctor's surgery in Wales, I have always been able to talk to my doctor by phone. Yesterday they phoned me to offer an appontment with the doctor to review my prescriptions. The surgery also has an online consultations system. I used it once about a suspicious mole and had an appointment to see a dermatologist within a week.
The NHS has been dire in Wales for years.
Yes thanks to 23yrs of an incompetent mismanaged Welsh Labour Administration ....devolution thanks to the despot Blair is the worst thing that could ever have happened to this country...
@@junehill4636 100 per cent agree. Devolution has been a disaster for the UK, particularly Wales.
The NHS should pay for NHS patients to be treated abroad when waits are too long.
With what money you pleb
@@MistaKaskoDo you actually belive that there is no money? Are you a tory?🧐 You must be a tory? 🧐 Either way the government have a duty to provide health care. If they can't, due to their own failings and lack of efficient governance deliver that care at home then they should arrange provisions for people to seek medical treatment elsewhere.
Oh, and don't call me a pleb. I haven't insulted you so there is no need to be nasty. Be kind.
Guessing that might work for those who are well enough to travel.
It's not an international health service.
@@loulou6760 who said it was?
This has been brewing for a long time. However, it was decided to all but close the NHS for nearly 2 years with pointless covid restrictions and GP surgeries to almost completely close their doors... and now people are shocked that waiting times and lists are through the roof.
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Funnily enough. During those 2 years I had the quickest, most efficient painless use of the NHS in my life.
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I have had regular appointments at the local hospital all through the pandemic. Outpatients were really wierd for much off the time, with hardly any patients there, now however it is close to being back to normal. I have seen signs of attempts to catch up with short notice appointments and starting earlier in the morning.
And they will get their pay rises and we still won't be able to see a GP and the figures will not improve, Im disgusted tbh.
Did I hear right ‘ the majority getting a good service’ really? Was that one fifth of the Welsh population on a waiting list? Whatever is the burden of ill health? And what,s being done about that??
I waited 18 months for a physiotherapist, I was bedridden. Only because I had a mental breakdown during a telephone call with my GP he treated it as an urgent, I am forever grateful. My Therapist I paid private - otherwise I would not have been here no more
I am having this problem too. I have been paying taxes sins I started working for past 9 years. I hardly ever go or use the nhs im always keeping myself fit and healthy. I have 1 bad issue that I have really bad deviated nose which makes me suffer every night i strugle to sleep and suffer sleep aphenia, I have nasel drip and nose bleeds very often atleast once a week. I am only 29 and struggl to run alot as I struggle to breath when running. I have been put up in list for my nose to be just looked at for 2 years and I am still just waiting to be seen. I have asked privately how much it would cosr and they said 7k I hardly have saving as I dont earn enoigh to save enough.It is soo horrible Iv paid tax for this many yeaes and I cant get one operation done.
Nine years NI doesn't add up to much. That poor lady paid in for probably fifty years.
@@gary8306 although she also had the lower house prices of fifty years ago as well surely
You should be paying for private health care. There are people waiting for NHS care who have paid for the service all of their lives as have their parents since the inception of the nhs in 1948. You have barely paid in enough to cover a flu vaccination.
Same, nigh perfect bill of health.
Have one condition that is just consistently deteriorating because work is just not being done on it.
Basically guaranteed it's going to reach a stage where intervention isn't possible any more.
Thanks NHS, I'm not even 30 yet.
I wonder how many heroin addicts have been treated for not breathing in the same amount of time?
@@NeilCWCampbell what's that got to do with anything ? Wages were only a few pounds a week years ago. In my first job I was paid $22 for the whole week. That was the 70s.
The British government doesn't care clearly the State of Affairs shows
I'm not sure why people who have the money don't go private, it like people don't like to spend money on their own health.
My mum has had multiple fractures on her foot since August( she didn't know because x-ray can't show it). She is in constant pain! Finally, she had a scan in the beginning of January 2023 in order to get treatment!!
PLEASE try and remember that Wales because it has its OWN Parliament HAS ITS OWN NHS MONEY, AND FUNDING completely SEPARATE from ENGLAND
So she can't throw bricks.Weirdly so does the city of Manchester, under the offices of the Mayor Andy Burnham.
As with most things in society it seems… it’s become all about ‘money’ and not about saving lives/caring for each other
I can't get a dentist anywhere in the North West so I am registered in Thailand and get a check up/treatment when I can get over. I think that sums up the state of this county.
Your lucky you can afford the trip
@@framclean7910 it’s cheaper to get major dental treatment in Thailand than the UK. I can have treatment and a months holiday for the cost of UK treatment.
The worst thing is that if you can't have an operation there aren't even services to improve your symptoms... Weight loss, pain clinics, GP apt, et. Dear comrades better to look after yourselves. Avoid getting tO the point where you need to use the NHS!
But surely we all have an obligation to look after ourselves,we should look after our weight,reduce drinking,stop smoking these are all health risks we can moderate.
We can’t abuse our bodies and then expect the NHS to put everything right
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"Threatening to hurt themselves IN ODER TO TRY TO GET ACCESS TO TREATMENT"???
FOR REAL? Maybe they are merely asking the question, if inflicting pain on human in a military prison like Abu Ghraib is considered torture, how long are they supposed to wait until stopping the pain becomes available for them as well? The UK is one same country. If there are no places for surgery in Wales, there is no space available anywhere!
Practically if you have the money to see a private doctor you receive care, and if you don't you feel like you are begging the Abu Ghraib's prison guards to have mercy on you and stop the pain! How long time do you think one would spend begging for mercy, until they come to the conclusion the only department actually working in the NHS is the morgue?
It's pretty obvious that someone is paying for troll activity on NHS reporting.
Yes
Anyone who uses the word ‘crisis’
@@belkentens ^^Ruzzian
Health is devolved here in Wales and it’s totally on the welsh government how this has been allowed
she just denied the very points that surgeons and consultants specifically stated.
for years a major problem is that rather than the NHS being a health service that treats people they are paying private companies for treatment.
this costs the NHS twice as much for a lower standard of treatment
its the costs of these private company profits in the NHS which is spiraling out of control and becoming unaffordable.
the vast majority of the UK population want a NHS which treats patients not a NHS as an insurance scheme for a private health service
if the NHS will pay a private health company to cary out treatment but their are long dellays & the paitent can find the treatment abroad without the dellay and at a lower price maybe the NHS should ofer to cover the cost of treatment abroad and even save money on the treatment
I waited for 2 and half years for my hand surgery causing complications! A&E is very busy, wards are busy and short staffed all the time. Winter pressure is going on for years years now and not only in winter but throughout the year. Patients wait for social worker allocation for many weeks. Everyone is burnout and stressed. Nurses deserve pay rise for their hard work +dedication and and so does the paramedics!
try asking the nurses how many of their colleagues have happily used the phony versions of Covid to get an extra 6 months Fully Paid holiday every year since 2020 ......,,
We had a 12 hour ambulance wait for a suspected stroke. The call was not instigated on a strike day either!
IMHO Wales is one of the worst places to live even without an NHS in crisis (e.g. terrible climate for most of the year, bad food, crumbling ancient infrastructure, places like Rhyl the most depressing on earth, it's like a third-world deprived country). My advice as soneone who unfortunately lives here but cannot afford to move elsehwere: move if you can. It might look picture-postcard idyllic in summer with the sun shining and birds tweeting but living here 360 days a year is a totally different story. God help me literally if I ever have to depend on the NHS.
I had to give up work 5 years ago because of arthritis, was told 4 years ago by doctor that I can have a hip replacement, still waiting.
it sounds like the British healthcare system is completely broken. if you have cancer, you have died already😢
@@cathie3874 I know someone who died in exactly the say you suggest.
Patient facing staff should have their own pay scale and it should be higher than office staff, cleaners etc
75 years old. No transport. Crying in pain with appendicitis. 8 hours for an ambulance
Swansea
Not enough people to work for NHS
The pay doesn’t attracted people to join !!!
Unfortunately this has been going on for years !! Time to make a big big change
Last election the NHS staff did say if you vote anything but Labour you are voting to destroy the NHS but all people seemd to care about was getting Brexit done. The Conservative had had 13 years to do something we are still waiting for the missing 40,000 nurses plus all the rest.
How is it possible with all these doctors and engineers coming over in rubber dinghy, they are supposed to be making such problems better not worse
Medical should not free for well off..They should take private insurance.NHS should be only for those can't afford private.Need to relate with the annual income of all the citizen.
Why dont they mention the lack of staff to work in these brand new theatres they keep building! Hence those brand new theatres are not being used? The hospitals are wasting money building new theatres but why not use that money to pay the nhs workers instead - a huge part if the backlog has a large part to do with lack of staff available to work!
The system is working for the vast majority of people. Great news. Thank you NHS
No need to go abroad. Excellent private care available in Emersons Green, Bristol. Minimal waiting times.
Look like our healthcare will be like USA soon
Aye shyte!
Already is. Private hospitals and clinics are everywhere.
That’s always been the Tory long term plan.
Surgeons benchmarking against productivity? Benchmarking is one thing in order to help maintain good practices but if as soon as you start to demand an increase in productivity you’re more likely to cause complications for patients, longterm complications!
504,000 net immigration last year.
1974 there was a payrise of up to 40% for nurses and midwives under labour government
I’ve been waiting 2 years for an operation on my face
People are still calling 999 for a cold or if they need a poo.
Get rid of the disaster covid procedures so that we can get back to normal service and save lives in the NHS
ALL THOSE EMPTY BEDS, WHAT A WASTE.
Elect to go to a different areas hospital. It speeds up the process.
Terrible 😔
I wish I earned enough money to be able to strike.
From what i saw today some of them could do with missing a meal 2 or 3 meals
Its almost like taking the funding out of a service regularly, so it has less and less to work with every year means you can't maintain it. The continuous attempt to privatise our healthcare is disgusting.
She was not forced to go abroad. If she was low priority on the waiting list shed have to wait. Obviously her operation was not necessary. If you are crippled or in a life threatening way you get sorted out in around 3 to 6 months. I have sympathy for her as ive had it in both hips but i became wheel chair bound within 2 years of being diagnosed. She needs to press her GP and chase up the consultation appt. If shes really in pain they will give her morphine which helps. Its up to her to point out how urgent her op is. You can get treated faster if you speak out.
You have a skilled surgeon spouting on about lack of this and that yet he’s in a multi million pound empty operating theatre!!!!! That’s absolutely typical
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I flew to the United States twice to see a ophthalmologist to confirm laser injury to both macular in 2010 and 2013, for my own sanity, conformation took one hour that I had been injured on returning I presented the report to Andrew RT Davis shadow health minister, I went to court for compensation in 2013 and got nothing, the NHS had out of focus fundis cameras operated by unskilled operators even today they would say I am uninjured, the statue in Cardiff needs to be crushed of the founder of the NHS and melted down, I've met phoney,s in the United States and Europe and of course the UK and Wales, the world is full of phone's.
If on strike, are employees paid still? I never knew how a strike worked. You know what I mean.
"I never knew how a strike worked."
Time to find out and edgeyougate yourself.
@@emm_arr edgeyougate 😂😂
No
Those on strike don't get paid on strike days. Only specific days are strikes and emergency care is still operated, yet because of the tories it's dysfunctional.
Strikers don't get paid. When you see them striking just remember that many of them are putting themselves through real hardship to do so; they're not doing it for fun, or so that they can 'stick it to the man', they do it because the status quo is intolerable.
It's so so bad!!!! Terrible
I'd rather wait years than know that I did not have to wait years, but would go absolutely financially bankrupt over getting a surgery, like people do here in the US. I am not denigrating the seriousness of this report, but there are intolerable problems with the healthcare "system" in the US too. The psychological and emotional stress for patients and one assumes for some of the healthcare providers is extreme.
The grass is always greener - would you rather die or be bankrupt? Pick your poison. In the UK the waiting times for an ambulance is in the order of several hours. That could be you waiting for HOURS with a heart attack before getting an ambulance. Then several hours more in the Emergency department waiting to be seen. Waiting times in A+E are not uncommonly in excess of 10 hrs. At that point you near enough have no healthcare system.
@@Sydneysider1980 I'm an American journalist who has used the health care services in the US, Australia (Spring Hill area of Brisbane, to be exact), southern Wales, and Prague, Czech Republic, paying cash out-of-pocket to pay for the medical services in foreign countries. The best, least expensive, least amount of bullsh*t, most efficient, and quickest health care ? Australia, hands down.
Why don't you get private cover and help pay for your own healthcare like the rest of the world does?
I went all the way to Kenya for my operation. The NHS lives a lot to be desired. Shame on them
Why did you return to our country?
@@daftwod Ask my prime minister. "OUR" country mate
@@gkat5860 So you like it here more than there..
Why not just say so?
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@@gkat5860 Looks like you came chasing money.
This'll teach them for voting tory.
A failing government won't transform our economy or our standard of living. Another term, no way after we have suffered for the stagnation, inflation and poorly management in both foreign and home affairs
How many of our recent overseas visitors have registered with already oversubscribed doctors and the NHS. Been quite a few people dumped there into small communities recently.
100k they spent telling nurses to call breast feeding chest feeding oh and how much money has been wasted on hormone blockers for kids or surgeries that were never needed
If doctors did their jobs then A&E would not be full up with needless minor problems tying up the hospitals this is just part of the problems that the NHS is facing , as getting a face to face meeting with doctors now is almost impossible and 111 just say go to A&E
Instead of criticising the NHS blame the Tories for systematic destruction by 12 years of underfunding and outsourcing ..all so the Tories can promote private healthcare to make money for share holders
I don't think that they are criticising the NHS, rather the circumstances that it is currently experiencing. You are correct of course, the Tories have contributed enormously to these circumstances, but also the constitutional set-up of what the Welsh Government (or Scottish and Northern Irish) can and cannot do is ludicrous. Westminster have kept all the devolved countries on a very tight leash which hampers each government's ability to deal with matters properly.
I actually dont think funding is too much of an issue in the NHS it mostly poor management and poor leadership with a sprinkling of utter bureaucracy
The NHS went downhill since the 1970s, if the NHS staff worked in the private sector they would all be sacked, useless layabouts.
@SassySam My wife had to go private after her surgery was cancelled 4 times inside a 3 1/2 year period, the cost was just over £5500 which was paid by ourselves but we got our money back from the NHS. The NHS is a useless lemon of thing that employs layabouts who get paid for sitting on their backsides doing nothing.
Q. What's the difference between a Ruzzian troll and a bedpan?
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Boo
Wales runs the NHS in their country and they have a Labour Government.
The welsh need to be able to raise local taxes. Rather than expecting the English to keep subsidising them. They already get more per head from the exchequer than the English.
Do you remember all those contracts given out in the covid madness
Maybe start by telling those who can afford to, to go private (i mean people with millions or hundreds of thousands saved up)
or sack the staff who have played the phony covid variant card for 3 years extra holiday ....on full pay. NHS ? An endless pit of wasted resources
NHS is as same as Brexit. Not your call commoners. You could go private as how Sunak mentioned. Please send more aid to Ukraine.
When he was confronted the chief minister Mark Drakeford went BALLISTIC!!!!!!!don't blame me!!!!!!!!stop wasting money on posing and look after the people of Wales
Q. What's the difference between a Ruzzian troll and a bedpan?
A. You can incinerate used bedpans more eaily!
Haha
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@@moiseshuerta3984 I got a reaction instead.
7:21 Que Andy 💀
The welsh government just blame Westminster
Maybe they should bring back prescription charges like we’ve had in England all along, then perhaps they could pay for a few locum doctors??
and perhaps you could pay US for all the water we send you when you run dry every year?
Works both ways you know?
prescriptions have nothing to do with the systemic way the NHS in the WHOLE country is being deliberately destroyed, all to line the pockets of a few fatcats who see a massive payday coming the day this creaking institution finally cracks.
1st step - strip out a whole level of middle management bureaucrats, and if that's not enough, strip out ANOTHER level
enough is enough
@@b8nnytez not all parts of England are the same, we’re near the East Coast & have plenty of water
Just get back to work- you get paid above average- don’t put more lives at risks - everyone pays taxes for this crazy service
You should address that comment to Steve Barclay.
When you close the country down (including hospitals)
What did you think would happen?
We need higher immigration to fix this.
More nurses and doctors arriving on boats
Q. How many bedpans does it take to change a Ruzzian troll?
A. 12. Five of them are just for decoration to brighten it up in St Petersburg.
Billions wasted, prudent management, not paying billions to agency staff, not paying billions in PFI payments
Every day lost costs taxpayers as people cannot work
It's a sorry state..... And getting worse.