Health service in Northern Ireland under immense strain
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- Опубликовано: 2 июн 2024
- Across the UK, hospitals are under immense strain. But in Northern Ireland, the problems are on another scale.
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Before Covid, more than one in sixteen of the population were on a hospital waiting list, and problems have gotten much worse since then.
Our own Factcheck team have been looking into the state of the health service in Northern Ireland.
In A&E, the number waiting more than four hours for treatment has gone up from an average of 11,000 a month in 2011 to nearly 30,000 last year; a nearly three-fold rise. And, just looking at breast cancer, the number of patients waiting more than two weeks to see a consultant went from an average of 10 per month to 570 over the same period; that's 57 times more.
We were in the Craigavon Area Hospital in Portadown.
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same thing happening here in Canada, people are dying waiting in emergncy room because staff are too busy to get to them.
Shame on the DUP and the Tories. We need a working government in Stormont as Northern Ireland can't get anything done and this has been going on for years it's not fair on the public. The DUP say they won't work because of the Northern Ireland protocol which is the same one they signed, they lost in the elections and their infulence over legislation is now severly diminished that's the reason they won't go to work so nothing can get passed they wouldn't agree to but couldn't vote down. As for the Tories they have the NHS right where they want it.
Ppl at nhs paid more than a pm to get job right..
We need to get the Executive operating again. The staff in Northern Irish hospitals work incredibly hard, but this situation is devastating.
They're not Irish,they're British
@@guff9567 when did I say they were ‘Irish’?
@@mypradasatthecleanerss .. "Northern 'Irish' hospitals" ...
Well Sinn Fein is ready to return to government but hahah let's just say someone is still outside on the Stormont Gardens dragging their heels
@@guff9567 which part of the UK are they from?
I get paid 40k to sit on my chair and do work for the year. Yeah it's stressful. But I won't get ptsd from it. I'll go home to a warm bed and plenty of food. I'll get paid double for any overtime. If the same can't be said for a regular nurse, the system is broken.
Interesting they don't blame Putin on NHS problems. It worked so nicely on everything else
An NHS system on "life support" by the looks of it...😮💨
Whilst I completely sympathise with Eileen, I think taking the trust to court over waiting times seems ridiculous. The entire system is at fault, starting with the Tories in Westminster right down to the DUP opting out of going into Stormont so our local government can, at the very least, TRY to alleviate this huge systemic failure.
NHS HAS SELF SABOTAGED THE DUP AND OTHER PARTIES RELY ON NHS TO BE KNOWLEDGEABLE ENOUGH TO RUN ITSELF
It's bad in the Republic too, today we had about 500 on trolleys in A&E across the country.
Nowhere near as bad as in NI though.
The Republic of what? France?
I believe it's just called Ireland.
@@imastaycool It's the Republic of Ireland.
@@RandomBloke007 muppet, that's the Irish football team.
Our president is the president of IRELAND.
Our own president made that very clear to the orange twits in the north of Ireland.
@@imastaycool Check your sources, you nationalist troll. It's officially called the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann).
@@RandomBloke007 The dispute with the UK continued. The British aversion to recognizing our English name, Ireland, mellowed somewhat as they now conceded to referring to our country as the ‘Republic of Ireland’ but only because they realized that other countries would recognize the name we chose for ourselves!
British underhand tactics continued as they enjoyed bastardising our name and trying to popularise the wrong one, referring to Ireland by names such as the Irish Republic and Southern Ireland. They even refused to acknowledge the ‘Embassy of Ireland’ in London insisting it be called the ‘Irish Embassy’.
How can they (the norther irish) demand changes when they haven't got a active government......
Tell that to the DUP
Ask the DUP.
Their own fault for choosing to be Irish. The rest of us don't
This is gonna sound ignorant but hear me out
If all the older generation were able to receive care outside of EDs and hospitals in general, there would be way less blockages in the beds, more resources etc. For example, that elderly patient who fell. I feel like seeing as they are the 99.99% of people taking up the beds, more help should be provided to those caring for them and better training so that they’re not going to a&e for silly things. I ended up in hospital a week ago with an allergic reaction, taken in blue lights and sirens in an ambulance, and when I got to a&e I have to say maybe 15/20 people waiting in that area were elderly.
Stormount needs to get back in office or do one fs alot off us is suffering in n.i and need the help
Write/email/call the DUP. It is they who are refusing.
I bet if there was a second war going on, there would be an almost infinite amount of money, staff and supplies for that.
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The only way to solve this is for everyone to strike.
As was said in the piece much more emphasis on prevention, they could also pay carers more a decent amount to look after loved ones. Especially when people are struggling to keep themselves due to the poverty caused by the mismanagement of budgets by those tasked to in charge of finance's.
Beds would be unblocked .
Why why why are people not been helped to improve their health and given the money and resources to stay out of hospital.
Its insane to keep flogging dead donkies.
You're right. Carers' Allowence is pitiful. Tories would rather keep throwing good money after bad at the NHS than give people a decent living wage.
1.7 million people in Northern Ireland. There are 3.6 million in greatest Manchester. There is something fundamentally wrong going on here. The key to fixing this, is separating the over 65s into separate hospital facilities to allow them recovery, while the 500 beds at the main hospital get freed up.a 65 year old will take a lot longer to recover from a fall than a 30 year old from the same injury. Build a hospital facility specifically for the elderly.
Honestly idk why they aren't doing this like old people and young people really shouldn't be housed in the same hospitals
It's not fair what is going on. The NHS just do not care. Because it's the same here in the uk
"Brexit means Brexit!"
The UK government should just step in and govern directly
Yes, with their thriving economy and NHS England doing better than ever, give NI what it needs!!
@@Irishgui83 NHS bla bla bla. Socialist loser
Nhs doctors whether GPs or in AE direct patients to go private now in NI because the waiting lists are sso long to be non functional.
I think some people are not suitable or qualified to stay in the hospital overnight - they should be given good medicines to go home. But some emergency cases need to be rescued immediately. If not staff enough, then this strategy should be more important.
Systemic change, or reinstatement of services??
All down to STORMONT AND THE DUP.simple facts
Same problem as in England..
Those who are fit to be discharged from hospital should be sent to care/nursing homes who have spare beds. So many managers, would be better using their resources to facilitate this with care providers, thus freeing up beds. Also closing a+e services in smaller local hospitals has contributed to these trolley waits. Bad management, throwing money at it , wasting money.
Many folks don't want to go to a care/nursing home, even temporarily. Many people want to go home but can't because they can't look after themselves properly. Some people could live at home but can't access the proper social care which would allow them to do so. a few may be long-term homeless. It's a complex problem with no easy answers sometimes.
just send them home? What do you mean theres nowhere for them to go? In the US they would have thrown them on the street once they're better to make room for more patients. I thought nationalized care was sweet but not any more.
Did anyone notice that the percentages in that poll added up to 101, not getting at them, im just saying !! But on that, Government should be ashamed of itself; more so in Northern Ireland. I have to ask why the Government is bringing in legislation to stop nurses from striking when MLA's have been on strike for well over a year ?
A hit piece against devolution? I was mistaking you for journalists, not PR.
May I suggest to hire Health workers abroad????
Contentious. How about people are kept alive beyond our human ability for us to continue. Beyond nature.
These people are offered so called "palliative care ". I've seen what it looks like.. Sad.. Assisted dying when terminally ill is a privilege for the rich who have enough funds to book their final journey to Switzerland...
People who pay full taxes are having to go private to pay for their own N h s
5 years for a phone call is garbage. I got all my health taken care of quickly.
Strange how all G7 Nations have all the same issues, almost as if it's all by design 🤔
Makes me wonder if they're giving Dutch farmers a hard time because they want the best for us.
strange how we all wear socks, almost like its a plot by big sock. 🧦 🧦
Invest in decrepit , you end up with a society full of the decrepit
@Dario Z▪️No common design! It's only GB that's hit *on all fronts* . It's political spin that the other G7 countries are hit as hard as GB because they all learned their lesson after the first wave of COVID. All G7 countries may struggle to meet their targets... but GB is the only one failing on all fronts 🙄
Imagine being this paranoid.
All G7 nations aren't having these same problems. They're having their own localised problems because we all went through the biggest shock to the global economy in recorded history. The G20 nations, which include the G7 are all struggling to keep their budgets from collapsing the country.
It's the economic blowback of keep their citizens from starving to death during the lockdowns. That wasn't free. It's bankrupted some countries, including the UK.
Let me say that again. The UK is bankrupt. A budget deficit of £500 Billion, with a B, per YEAR to pay for normal bills means the UK is bankrupt.
That's 7.69% of GDP in loans accumulating annually. Currency devaluation (inflation) means the interest alone on those loans has increased 35% and the government is only paying the interest right now.
There's all this talk about the NHS, but really it's not just the NHS on life support it's the entire UK economy.
That started in 2000 under Labour and no successive government from either side of the aisle has done anything about it. Indeed they've all just made the problem worse.
Can we blame the
What part of China are you from?
@@anthonym6559 None, why?
1% and the rest ...
It is of absolute importance that Health Workers get more as the Projected Inflation I 18.6%. The Tories should not say there is not enough money as they can cut military spending. We need health much more than war.
What we need is Britain out of Ireland and the creation of new all Ireland system
Roi healthcare system is equally as buggered.
First, all of us agree to save the emergency patients and don't be panic just calm down. Second, please all of health officers to service and take care of the health of patients in anycircumstances, give the medicines and nutrition. Third, rest of the bed, keep praying for living and living of praying. God always save and bless us in every situation and condition.
God isn't real. Underpaid doctors, nurses and caregivers are. We should save the thanks for them as they are literally holding up our healthcare service and saving lives.
@@Irishgui83 are you atheis or comunism? God is real. God creat you and I. It's absolutely and facts
Must be out of the UK Indian boy control.
🤔🤔🤔 or it could be the EXTRA 720,000 NEW ARRIVALS
All pre-meditated problems created as an attempt to make the ones that created such problems look good when they claim they are rectifying such problems , but you don't look good at all as these problems shouldn't be in existence in the first place and hasn't been much rectification of such problems unfolding, but it keeps them that created such problems in a job hey ,but for how much longer ?
Hospital work is without fault however GP work is a joke!
Nightingale hospitals perhaps
no staff to staff them
All those microplastics packed single use masks.... the heart bleeds for how we humans are selfishly destroying the planet :(
Tories aren't cheap.
This situation highlights one of the potential problems with a single payer system. If that single payer gets hit with issues like the covid 19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine it can be very difficult to dissipate all those increased costs.
Nonsense. A decade of austerity and real term cuts is what has caused the NHS to be on its knees.
Nurses are earning 35 k on average
Train drivers 50k
Minimum wage workers should be the priority
Nurses should become train drivers, if they're unhappy
@@Paul-sl9zm I'm happy to let each nurse spend a night with David Carrick.
@@Paul-sl9zm if so, who's gonna give care to the patients? I believe it's A LOT more important than driving trains.
Vote DUP, get no government and worse healthcare. Time to join the rest of Ireland.
Which Sen is why I want the DUP to keep on stalling these Morons dont seem to understand the longer they keep stalling the more pissed off people are gonna become and the more will realise
Hang on in our current system we have 1 party that commits political terrorism by refusing to cooperate when it's not on their terms which causes Northern Ireland to shut down and wait the United Ireland model actually gives us a working government ?? Damn
They want lime light...these medics, all fir wrong reasons.
They crave attention. They don't feel valued, so they desperate for people to be jabbed, so they say look we have too much work.
What kind of thinking is this?
Are you for real?
Would mass, uncontrolled immigration be a factor?
Its like most things. If a major contributing factor is against the narrative, the subject is never brought up, so either way the official answer is always 'no'.
Just join the Republic and all will be fine
Is anyone forced to live in Northern Ireland? No. Don't like it? Move, just like the rest of us
Remember to email that to the Loyalists in the event of a border poll winning
NEED MORE MONEY FROM CHINESE
Come to the Republic of Ireland it’s worse again.
hello Geoffrey Donaldson.
Their fault for choosing independence
@@guff9567 to be free of the tories. bargain.
@@tedcrilly46 Not really free though .. if you're stuck in their immigration zone
@@guff9567 what? who's they?
what immigration?
Republic isn't in Schengen.
Blame the Tory's for this folks just look at the main land more strikes please .