(12-11-2019, 11:35 AM)Pickle Rick Wrote: (12-11-2019, 11:18 AM)Ossian Wrote: (12-11-2019, 11:14 AM)Pickle Rick Wrote: When Labour eventually do get it, will they fix the NHS any more than the last time...
What?
Hard to know what what means. I will try and interpret.
I'm saying they will find it very difficult to 'fix' the NHS (especially areas like A&E) in my opinion and there will still be problems as there always have been under any government to my recollection even Labour. But normally I would trust them more on the NHS. That was in the whole post but you just selected a small bit. If the NHS was perfect and there were no problems or scandals in Labour's time in office, then obviously I am mistaken.
My dad died in hospital. He'd been in hospital for a while with various complications and was let out early. Later that same night he had to be taken back in. It was around 11pm when he got to hospital. They found a bed for him at midday the following day. He spent the night sat in a chair in a corridor.
While in hospital a number of issues arose, culminating in him getting up on his own because no one was responding to his calls for assistance - we noticed this happening quite a bit to other patients when we visited. He fell and banged his head, resulting in a stroke which left him dead 5 days later.
The issues of concern, including him not being administered medication for a pre- existing condition, were raised with the coroner. He said he was compiling a dossier of complaints against the hospital. We never heard anything further.
My dad was 83 years old when he was left overnight in a chair in a corridor and subsequently died. The year was 2008.
I hate making any comments on this 'ere politics bored because as the token Stokie I can't really afford to get too involved in anything toxic which politics can be.
I make no excuses for what's currently happening in the NHS or for Boris' half-arsed/bizarre response to the recent situation in Leeds. But this issue is personal to me.
It riles me when people make out that the NHS is only now being neglected. Maybe that's because somewhere in the dark depths of my mind it kind of feels like my dad and what happened to him didn't count. Well, he counted to me.
My only point really is that the mess the NHS is in didn't start with this Tory administration. That doesn't mean the Tories shouldn't have moved Heaven and Earth to put it right. Just don't take it as read that a different party will automatically wave that magic wand. They all have form in my opinion.