“Grim, Grim Situation” | Undercover A&E Footage Shows ‘Shocking Lack Of Dignity’ For Patients

[@carentipler419]

Why are you still asking these people what theyre going to do? Theyve shown you, wake up

[@collier8931]

They will do fk all, as usual.

[@shiftshift6926]

Be nice if NHS whistleblowers weren't pilloried for bringing attention to poor practices too. Management don't want to hear about problems, especially anything that makes them/ the hospital look bad.

[@pmarmify]

I was crippled working in NHS by member of public. I had to leave service. Abandoned. When I found out I was entitled to NHS permanent injury pension, POOLE HOSPITAL kept telling lies to stop me getting my injury pension. I won my case & proved they even forged my signature & lied! No accountability!

[@1961-v9k]

@@pmarmifyI can well believe what happened to you. Something similar happened to my sister. She worked for the NHS for forty years as a medical records assessor (band 6) She has always said that her hospital has had millions thrown at it, yet the problem is there are wet behind the ears managers being placed into positions they haven’t a clue how to organise or manage and they sit behind closed doors building little empires for themselves with no accountability whatsoever. In a nutshell, not one person is responsible for the money pot.

[@d.d.4703]

When nearly 10 million people have come here since Blair and another 6.5 million forecast to come by 2036 (less than 10 years) then it is no mystery why the NHS is collapsing. It is just being overwhelmed. But, still any foreigner can rock up here and get whatever treatment they need.

[@natnat_o3]

Listen that aside we have a man called bill gates who single-handedly not only could fix global healthcare FOR ALL but he could end world hunger let that sit in.. politicians everywhere vs just one man

[@deborahjardimdasilva9154]

You Certainly have not been to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital the beds are occupied by Britisj and the Staff is mainly foreigners if tge foreigners are not there no one to look after the British

[@davidbedwell8503]

💯💯

[@voulathomacos-lagonas8445]

How about you make politicians get in line just like the average citizens

[@sumary7663]

Simple answer is far too many people in the country. Brits pushed to the back of the queue.

[@deborahjardimdasilva9154]

This particular hospital has too many British patients and a lot of foreigner workers if the foreigners dont work there than no one to look after people

[@sparrow_6177]

Of course, the problem is, despite university education, these Politicians cannot do the maths. People are being forced to go private...... or except the consequences.

[@johnfrancis2215]

💯👌

[@agenttruecrime399]

There is very little that the nurses can do. They are having to go to work every day knowing that they will be failing patients because there isnt enough of them to even carry out basic care. Its depressing leaving work knowing you have failed. Nobody listens to the staff when issues are raised. Management do not care! Nurses are leaving because they are demoralised and worn out. This is not going to change any time soon. Labour claim they will fix the NHS, but the NHS here in wales has been run by Labour for over 20 years, and we have far more problems than in England.

[@walkingthroughpixels]

They could have not sacked the thousands of nurses that spoke out against the covid vaccines.

[@lorraine739]

I bet princess Anne wasn’t kept on a corridor for 48 hours age 85 after suffering a suspected stroke. My mum aged 84 was told she had a duty of care to look after him while there and told she could not leave his side to call and update family and they would not even give her a drink.

[@FaceFcuk]

And so she should she's royalty 😂

[@searan5130]

I was on a waiting list for a year to see an ENT specialist who then referred me to Nurology for an MRI. I have now been put on another waiting list to see a Nurologist to discuss the results which I haven't been given. In the meantime, I have been left to cope by my doctor with horrendous headaches and facial pain, which has been going on since February 2022 I have given up...

[@JoeMunday-ov6es]

@searan 5130 You have my sympathy; I suffered the same for many years, and nothing touched the pain. Many people are misdiagnosed with migraine, or even psychosomatic disorder. Pls push for an MRI to rule out occipital neuralgia. And ask for 2nd opinion, preferably at Pain Clinic, to check for trigeminal neuralgia. (I have both , and I really hope you get somewhere. ) :)

[@yvonnelygo681]

I thought Id written this and forgotten. The last ENT nhs I saw LAUFHED in my face. I have what seems to be an abcess and swollen tongue which causes headaches ,neck painn, sore throat. The thing which eases my pain is sticking pins into the lump every day.

[@SAS-vx1jk]

There is a website where you can check waiting list times and opt for a different hospital if the wait is shorter . I'm sorry I can't remember it's name but something like NHS Your Choice. Also tell the specialist secretary that you can do a cancellation at short notice (if you can) and they may be able to see you more quickly

[@johncatto5019]

Sack and replace the management, once you have done that they can sack and replace unsuitable staff.

[@ARNM55-l9v]

Older American here. Who do you get to replace them if they were brought up in the same culture, which I suspect they were? Is the culture at the top or the standards / practices so broken that no one will succeed in fixing the problems? Do you really have enough people who have worked outside the NHS system to bring in alternative solutions & a different management style? You need people with different professional experiences who have different administrative experiences. Changing the culture & correcting deficiencies in established practices is just as important as changing the people.

[@ruspj]

big problem is that the NHS doesnt run hospitals anymore - most are run by private companies and are run for profits rather than for patients. putting more money into the NHS will just go into profits rather than making improvements. the only solution is to turn the NHS back into a national(ised) health service. tax payers should be covering the cost of running the hospitals and treating patients. not covering the huge profit margins private companies add to the cost. not only are hospitals run for profit but the management companies hide the profits by choosing to set up a seperate property company to permanantly pay rent to rather than mortgage hospitals directly at the same cost or cheaper and eventually own the property rent free.

[@mannie7028]

Indeed. The PFI, private funding initiative, was introduced by Blair and continued by Major.

[@sarahosman4933]

Blair's Private Finance Initiative...a JOKE!!

[@Susan-kd3rv]

👏👏 🎯

[@collier8931]

Absolutely DISGUSTING, the NHS IS BROKEN. Organised Chaos.

[@yvonnelygo681]

How many more citizens UNDER THE RADAR, Not listened to, not part of statistics BEING FOBBED OFF DAILY BY GP.

[@sparrow_6177]

You got the chaos right but in our experience it wasn't even organised.

[@JustDaniel6764]

I'm sick of the BS if all the immigrant doctors and nurses left the NhS would collapse. No it wouldn't because they'd all be going not just the Doctors and nurses. Look at any waiting room up and down the land! It's all immigrants

[@sparrow_6177]

@@JustDaniel6764 Our waiting room is always full of them. They look at you like you shouldn't be there. They think they are superior and they are !!!!

[@JustDaniel6764]

@@sparrow_6177 Oh I know, And in many circumstances our elderly won't go because they don't want to be burden even though they've paid in all their lives. Day in day out it's full of them, same with the Doctors surgery. Nothing visibly wrong with them probably just having an appointment as part of an insurance scam or benefit fraud. Sickens me.

[@Keith-l5n]

Born and raised in Shropshire, massive county with very few people and no city so they don't get much money. As usual with all government's rural people get a lot less per person yet we have low crime well behaved locals. We are mostly white British but no special projects for us. Old schools, crap healthcare, terrible roads and low wages. This hospital has always been useless, they would close it but its the only big one we have.

[@truthforall1303]

You must be talking about southwest uk and the royal devon and Exeter hospital of which my father was treated appalling

[@whylie74]

It is a dump, where I had to go felt like it was in the basement dark and dindgy, where I am now isn't much better, Worcester royal is appalling.

[@Th3_Gael]

This stems from the attitude that the NHS Is free. I've seen the difference between private and NHS attitudes with the same staff in the same clinic. People need to change their attitude, it's not free It's prepaid!

[@Seekingsophia00]

Rishi Im sorry you feel that way Sunak.

[@suesanbooth6739]

Someone needs to go under cover at Wrexham Maelor hospital,,it's disgusting and no empathy towards patients

[@rickkarsan4491]

Doctors need to be put in jail

[@eileenpritchard9154]

​@@rickkarsan4491 And the government's due to CO N VI D.

[@williamwilliams3358]

Oh dear, my grandson was taken there today after a motorbike accident. Now you got me worried

[@lydialove2138]

Gloucester royal is the worse the abuse that goes on from staff is disgusting 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@BangtaiL_WitcH]

Correct, visited that area two years ago got taken ill, left in the AE dept 5+ hours,lost my blood work, rude staff and a Nigerian Dr seen me whilst eating his dinner... disgusting ! Disgraceful behaviour by staff , entitled behaviour by them as they know the NHS back them up .That is why the Plexiglas stays up! Ohh and when begging for a ambulance they told me to get a taxi..I COULD NOT WALK FAR AT AT . Inhumane aholes who have built medical cathedrals for the private sector to walk in and bleed us dry !!!

[@oldshiny3012]

sunaks empty promises

[@redbeard3923]

He means treat yourself

[@Palominohusky]

Some years ago our local hospital was given a multi million pound work over. This resulted in a reduction in the number of beds. When I questioned the Chairman why they hadn’t increased the number of beds his reaction was ‘well, if you increase the number of beds they will only use them.’ With that sort of attitude no wonder the NHS is in the state it is. It turned out that his mother was being treated in a private hospital !!

[@sparrow_6177]

My husband went into hospital in February to have bowel surgery. The staple holding his intestine to his bowel failed but despite him becoming critically ill and being advised he had to go back to surgery, he was left a further 30 hrs. He had a second emergency surgery and ended up on intensive care with Sepsis, causing multi organ failure which led him to be ventilated and on kidney dialysis. He had a third surgery to close his stomach and create a stoma (3 surgeries in 6 days). I thank god he is alive because others are not so lucky but he went from a healthy 56 year old who now is a shadow of the man he was, he now has a stoma bag, can barely walk, has stage 3a kidney disease which may require life long dialysis and after 5 weeks in hospital was sent home without any blood thinners so has developed a deep vein thrombosis in his thigh and calf. During the 5 hour wait to decide if it was DVT, he was also told he had a nodule on his lung which they knew about before his first operation but failed to mention it to him. He has to now inject himself daily for the next 6 months with an anti coagulant.

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

It's like a real life horror movie. After they realised the staple holding his intestine to his bowel had failed, they knew infection was happening. Your husband might be due a massive compensation claim, although money can't buy health, but if people sued every time things like this happened, I think they'd start providing better care, just to avoid being sued.

[@eileenpritchard9154]

​@@claireseyeviewonredbubble This is disgraceful,I feel so sad for this family, God bless.

[@sparrow_6177]

@@claireseyeviewonredbubble We are suing because we have been told by a solicitor he has a claim for medical negligence. They have taken it on but you are right, money cannot compensate for the impact this has had on his life, on all our lives as a family. The response from the surgeon concerning my initial complaint was, he wished he had operated sooner but it is with hindsight and we all make mistakes. This is in writing on the report ????? You couldn't make it up.

[@sparrow_6177]

@@eileenpritchard9154 Thank you for your kind words. I cannot believe this is happening to us and other people who put their trust in the NHS.

[@claireseyeviewonredbubble]

@@eileenpritchard9154 Yes, it's diabolical.

[@teamev1976]

Please vote Reform 🇬🇧 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@laylaembleton6142]

But Reform plans to do more of the same re the NHS

[@MrCOUNTYCORK]

Nigel loves the thought of privatisation of the NHS

[@lddixon2394]

@@MrCOUNTYCORK Wrong.

[@lddixon2394]

@@laylaembleton6142 No. Read the contract.

[@MrCOUNTYCORK]

@@lddixon2394 he's already being discussing it so it's not wrong

[@suzieb8366]

Its not a building or IT that makes people well!!!! It is People, medicine, therapy and treatment that make people well!! FGS Any intelligent person can see the lack of CARE in the NHS .. to its STAFF and PATIENTS.

[@anthonymichaelwilson8401]

They prefer to send money to the Ukraine 😢

[@eileenpritchard9154]

Definitely 💯💯💯💯

[@sparrow_6177]

To fight a war which is never going to get won. considering the support they have been given from around the world you would have thought it would have been done and dusted by now. All for a country which isn't even in NATO - questionable if you ask me.

[@GolfMike09]

Which is obscene, imagine the good that could do rather than than the bad that it is. Money just flushed down the toilet.

[@bluewater2241]

​@@sparrow_6177money lau💸dering come to my mind.

[@johnfrancis2215]

Yes. But a lots of it is greasing a lot of palms here and the US

[@robertjackson301]

Mike Typical 6and a half hour wait at Salisbury A&E. My mother in law taken there with a big gash on her forehead by ambulance. She suffers with Dementia but wasn’t seen by a doctor for 12 hours. It was horrible experience for her and me who sat with her.

[@ianmacg4771]

Tony Blair's plan to Reduce the effectiveness of the NHS is in its final stages. Jonathon Redmond and his friend who completed the study and came up with the plan, must be cock-a-hoop and their friends in Private health care companies and shareholders there in, must also be wringing their hands. The prospect of even more money for them and more heartache for the poorer in society must bring them such Joy. Jonathan Pilger's documentary " The dirty war in the NHS" was so on the money and yet the apathetic society we live in was not allowed to see this documentary on main stream tv, even though Pilger was one of the most respected journalists of all time. Just ask yourself the ? Why would any government of the people ( alleged government of the people ) allow it's once prized health service to be run down the way it has ( coincidentally since Blair's secret paper ) . Why if course, so as to allow private health care providers from Tony Blair's friends list to scoop up the money and reward Tests like him with even more money. Likewise let its police service be run into the ground, what possible reason. Listen to Sunak saying I'm part of the health service family. Wonder what kind of private health care he won't have. It's all deliberate to bring about a 2 tier system,One for the rich and the craps for the hard working general public. Wake up people.

[@rickkarsan4491]

Tories ha e had 14 years to fix it amd have made it worse. It was at least serviceable under Bliar.

[@elaine8417]

Its not hard! Population increased the hospitals are the same size!! Got those covid hospitals up quick enough

[@whylie74]

The number of beds shrank.

[@Tigger-roo1234]

I am gobsmacked at how strong that lady was to stand up and speak as she did after so recently losing her dad and rishis reaction was to make it about him and how he worked in the nhs with his parents..disgusting response..his stuff sidnt need to be mentioned..

[@tracydavies-tk3lm]

Waiting to go on a healthcare forum to discuss outcomes of health care as a patient and parent/ carer in wales. Went on for disability forum and things have improved and we need taking on board. Outside influences are needed

[@wishIdpaidattention]

26 hours waiting overnight in a chair for me was inhumanly uncaring and negligent. A 90 year eldery lady, waiting alongside me, in a wheelchair was stoic. Surgery Doctors who are paid handsomely are dumping anyone and everyone at A&E without due care and diligence and this is Lincoln in the last 6 weeks.

[@grahametindale8292]

No more closures. More emergency units in city/town centres; then patient can be transferred to a hospital once stable. 90 Million UK Citizens, we need more GPs, HOSPITALS, specialist services.

[@ellendoherty7816]

We saw and experienced the failings first hand,twice in less than 12 months,almost losing two of my grandchildren. Too much to go into here, but an example: One was due to sheer arrogance between hospital staff and Drs from opposite hospitals. They argued about correct protocol in front of our family and other patients and families ,the first arguing with the critical care team from another, who clearly spelt out that the treatment level the first were giving my grandson was all wrong for his size. He is tall and a lot heavier than a standard 8 yr old. But the first hospital would not budge ,causing him to slip into a diabetic coma. Thank god we were transferred to an icu at the other very much older hospital. The staff at the second had no qualms about making it clear the first hospital treated all wrong,carried out u essary treatments,one by boring a whole into his shoulder bone to get a line in. The senior consultant in the icu saying it was completely unnecessary. The attitude of the staff at the first hospital was shocking and i cried openly when they told us,once he pulled through,we were going back there. The very evening we got back,the nursing staff completely ignored the instructions of the icu staff ,to feed my grandson as much as possible as they needed to get his ketones down . To do that,he said to feed him ,as they could treat high blood sugar but struggled more with the ketones. So,get him out of starvation mode and the rest will be brought right. The first nurse on the high dependency ,when i asked if i could have yoghurt for him ,refused saying, we dont just feed children on this ward ,we wait until mealtimes. I told her what the consultant had said,and added dont they communicate. She told me to not tell her how to do her job and it wasnt until i really let rip,they finally took notice. Brought the ward and department manager in,apologised and got him food immediately. It was shocking. That night he became very poorly again,but thank god i did kick off or he wouldn't be with us today. I could go on and on. The nurses were absolutely awful. I nursed for many years and if id have spoken to people the way most of them did I'd be on an immediate disciplinary. Im sorry to say but we've put nurses on such high pedastals now ,they believe they can behave in anyway they want,also there is such a shortage that management are too scared to do much about it. I witnessed high dependency staff standing around gossiping, whilst bleepers were going off everywhere. I witnessed a nurse gossiping about her night out with a patient whilst a Dr called her 3 times ,and they lost the spot because she was too busy gossiping which potentially put a patient at risk. I also saw a Dr run down the corridor to the gossiping nurses and scream at them when the emergency alarms went off," can i get sime help here or are you all too busy?" It was shocking my grandsonwas newly diagnosed type 1 diabetic.

[@allanbeard7427]

Telford A&E is closing down and relocating to Shrewsbury. How ironic is that.

[@StanleyPritchard]

Just another load of pass the buck answers.

[@JulieMalone-oy1ll]

Shrewsbury hospital isnt that good, im in telford and the telford hospital isnt great but its better than shrewsbury

[@stephenblazey8030]

At least his dad wasn’t a Tool, allegedly 😂😂

[@ellendoherty7816]

There is so much more i could say here. But i found it was the nurses,not the Drs that seemed to be the worst culprits for poor care attitude and respect of patients ,and that breaks my heart. When did nurses go into work wearing huge false nails and eyelashes,plastered in makeup,wearing lots of jewellery ,totally inappropriate heels and so on. What happened to infection control? When we had to take my gransdon back to childrens a n e because his sugar levels wouldnt stabilise,a couple of weeks after he returned home,see my first comment above, we arrived at 7 p.m and i spent most of my time sitting on the floor,as there was just nowhere to sit. This was until he was finally seen at 4.30 a.m -9.30 hrs later,which by all accounts was good. Hazardous waste bins were overflowing everywhere. A child came in ,must have been 3 at most,he was vomiting. No one came to help him and his poor young mother. I ran to reception ,put my hand through, and grabbed some sick bowls. There was no one on reception to help. Nobody around at all. I helped the mother clean up the child,cleaned the floor,put a hazard sign around the wet area then went and knocked the triage room to tell the triage nurse,handed him the sick bowls and said were is the receptionist. He ,the triage nurse, came to me an hour later and said,sorry,he went on his break. Surely to goodness somebody should have replaced him on reception whilst he took his break? And thats just a few of a few thousand things i could tell here. Absolutely shocking

[@JulieMalone-oy1ll]

Vote reform

[@globalwellbeing1984]

I live in Telford and it definitely needs a shake up. There are good staff and there is quite a lot of resources in this area, with many people being naturally resilient, yet coordinating it all together into a functioning collaborative system addressing an holistic approach is required. There would also be great benefit in adopting systems and philosophies which value and respect the individual whatever their age or cultural differences. Wellbeing of staff needs to be addressed so that the whole place becomes a pleasant, efficient and disciplined venue where staff can feel valued for their contributions at all levels. I hope this comment is seen by those who are able to act upon it.

[@ianmacg4771]

My step daughter lay on the floor of a hospital corridor at the weekend in Glasgow s Queen Elisabeth Hospital, waiting to be seen. 28 years old and suffering with Myocarditis since her 2nd Booster. She was being physically sick whilst lying there. Eventually, her father said enough is enough and took her home. Unbelievable but, part of the plan. Dont blame the satff, blame bent politicians eho have deliberately created this problem for the own ends.

[@walkingthroughpixels]

Blame the people, encouraging everyone to take those vaccines if you want to blame anybody.

[@SAS-vx1jk]

Sue them for negligence

[@CDRS2012]

​@@walkingthroughpixelsplease don't be such a gullible, ignorant fool. Ever since the use of cowpox vaccinations by Jenner, millions of lives have been saved by vaccination.

[@geordiesatstjamess]

whistleblowers get sacked end of,

[@jsteere9222]

They closed too many beds years ago. Harlow hospital A&E is horrendous short staffed and a shortage of space.

[@ellendoherty7816]

Ironically just a few days later (see my other two comments above) , my daughter had to go to the first,so called super,hospital, as an emergency. We waited 8 hours to be seen. They came to take blood as her sodium levels were dangerously high. The first nurse couldnt get any,sent another in 2 hours later ,bear in mind we had been told this was an emergency and she wouldnt be going home that night/day. That nurse couldnt get the xanula in. They then sent another nurse in who told my daughter not to be so dramatic when my daughter said she was hurting her(the bruising the next day was horrendous). They finally sent a nurses support to take the blood,whilst he was half way to completing ,with the canula and needle in place,a senior nurse came flying into the room,screamed at him "what the hell are you doing? Leave that right now and get v Back to your area,i need you down there!!! He fled ,leaving the open canula in my daughters arm and blood pouring from it. I capped it off and removed it. My poor daughter fled in a major panick attack. ,refusing to go back. I persuaded her to go back the next evening ,after taking hours to calm her and convince her it would be ok. We agreed we'd go to another hospital 20 miles away. We were in ,blood taken ,first time and out,within 2 hours. The attitude of the staff at the second hospital was amazing and the reassurance we were given that this was not as bad as we were originally told ,was great. The bloods were back almost immediately and though a little high ,we were told what to do and sent on our merry way. It seems to me ,its the more modern,super hospitals are the worst as are the staff attitudes in them.

[@gillianmarr73]

Its sickening i live in the area. Its worse than you saw! Im paying for an operation privately in liverpool!!!!!! Sickening!

[@lizrigby-jones3700]

Rishi, your Government had 14 years to sort out the NHS and failed miserably.

[@geordiesatstjamess]

staff paid crap wages

[@oasisfani8353]

As a prime minister especially Sunak is a rich person. He doesn´t care about anyone. He took money away from healthcare and now people are dying. This kind of behaviour is in every country that is lead by rich people. Here in Finland too. Our government cares only saving money and people has also died because of that and now they are closing ER:s in some cities. It´s so easy when you are rich and have money, you don´t have to care other people suffering. This kind of behavior is new normal in Europe and people who WE voted there are gaining more power and more rich as the time goes by. Rich get richer and poor poorer. The scale of this is so massive it will someday maybe really soon blow up in they´re faces. Because these kind of situations has been before in the world and it never works out. Always there will be time when poor or working people take the rich out. And it ends in lot of violence and suffering. It always has. And i don´t blame people. When the braking point comes...i would like to have rich people to stand up and do they´re part of the community. HELP people. Many has so much money they will even die filthy rich. What´s the point??? If those people would help we wouldn´t have so much broblems anymore. Most of them are even making money for our expense. Poor pay in work so they get more. DISGUSTING. Richi Sunak can hop in the boat and sail away in Britain.

[@joejames8797]

As someone with 30 years experience of working as a nurse in the nhs, although the gentleman interviewed made good points, I'm guessing he had no health care experience but was made chairman of a hospital trust. In my hospital we have had 4 accountants, a local business owner and a car dealership owner, all appointed as chief executives. The greatest confidence trick on the general public was following scandals in the nhs in the 90,s regarding the numbers of managers in the nhs and the government pledging to reduce managers but in reality they merely renamed them as "Modern matrons". Most never have any dealings with patients and continue in the same role as when they were called business managers.

[@pz0lfs]

How about a serious debate on privatising it?

[@sarahosman4933]

Dentistry is ALSO supposed to be in the National Horror Sho

[@dynamitedave1438]

They dont care Vote reform They do care ❤

[@ameliagfawkes512]

Cancer "treatment" is barbaric. Nearly everyone I know who took the advice to take treatment died before it was even finished.

[@richard6704]

My son was left with a life-long and life-limiting health condition, due to negligence under the Shrewsbury & Telford trust.

[@robtheplod]

currently waiting for an urgent genetic blood test result - 2 months currently.....

[@PaulWrigh]

How can the mansges in these hospitals allow such poor standards of care Were is the dignity of caring for patients in trolleys in corridors.

[@whylie74]

need the money for the christmas party and go on a couple of jollies somewhere hot like thailand, might try and get some nurses if they have the time between cocktails.

[@lorrainemoore7807]

They work twelve hr shifts , they are too tired to carry on and could make mistakes when tired, maybe the nhs directors should try working half as hard as these doctors and nurses do xx

[@KeepingTheFaith123]

It wud be cheaper to get the NHS sorted and give people the operations they need so they can get back to work and contribute to paying taxes again. And the government wonders why the PIP bill is skyrocketing. This is why. I know people that have been claiming PIP for 10 years. It wud be cheaper to just give them the operation they need and get them off PIP

[@kenh3344]

Well don the 1st lady to address the the primeinister .

[@ARNM55-l9v]

Older American here. Let's assume you fire a bunch of administrators & staff. Who do you get to replace them if their replacements were brought up in the same culture, which I suspect they were? Is the culture at the top &/or the standards & practices so broken or resistant to change that no one will succeed in fixing the problems? Do you really have enough people who have worked outside the NHS system to bring in alternative solutions & a different management style? You need people with different professional experiences who have different administrative & operational experiences. Changing the culture & correcting deficiencies in established practices is just as important as changing the people. It doesn't matter who you put into the drivers seat if the car doesn't run. I've got experience in education, medicine & in manufacturing & in my very American opinion, saying things like back in the day it used to work or we've always done things this way isn't an answer, it's just an excuse for people who refuse to change.

[@anthonyramos-ul2wu]

Lets make it a 2 way system, if you got money you can jump the Kew if you poor you be in the waiting list. Vote reform

[@dashingdave928]

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting a different result. Why keep voting Tory or Labour? Nothing will change. Break the mold. Vote Reform.

[@moffat5914]

sorry your dads dead but i didn't have sky tv so we all have our own struggles

[@GolfMike09]

It's not just a political problem it's a many faceted problem that includes arrogant NHS staff, substandard NHS staff, politics/financing, an increasing population that lives longer and bringing in overpaid positions that are ridiculous and unnecessary.

[@robinakhan8155]

Rishi sunkar what are you going to do about Barnet hospital I was mistreated at Barnet hospital and the nurses shout at the patients and I was suffering with stomach and back pain and they didn’t care at all I am so anger and I was a patient there and because I was a Muslim person they left me In the corner the Doctor was good but the nurses was rude and nasty I wouldn’t step In Barnet hospital again

[@SusanWebb-q5y]

From personal experience, its never a good idea to extend/build on a working hospital. The disruption etc causes chaos to an already difficult environment. The NHS has always been a reactive service instead of a proactive service. The powers that be, do not ask the right questions from the right people. Those that challenge the culture are quietly treated with suspicion and therefore either move or leave altogether. Its not about patient care anymore, its about politics, money and status. Its all very well showing programmes such as 'Super Surgeons', but the majority of healthcare is about compassion, kindness, dignity and being professional.

[@Thomas-vg8ov]

Although you can't deny that shifty Sunak should shoulder the blame, he's not the only one who should take the blame, let's not forget lockdowns and the ever growing numbers of newly imported patents and unnecessary waste of money diversity managers that all parties are in favour of.

[@oasisfani8353]

The problem is also that Britain is country that many people like´s to move. So last decade there has come so many people that you can´t cope with the..increase. You maybe had a good healthcare before but it was that amount of people that used to be there. Now it´s so over crouded. It´s the same in the housing. No enough houses for people to live. It´s too much. You have to put some ristriction to your country. Many countries are gonna have to do that sooner or later, because over population. And these problems needs lot of money to be solved. They had 14 f..years to do nothing. Opposite. You need new houses,more nurses and doctors, new bigger and better hospitals. And that takes a lot of money. But i would see it as investment. It will pay back.

[@eyesopen1850]

Not so much the National Health Service as the National Health Shambles.

[@helenlloyd6564]

We have seen enough of Sunak. About time he goes away from the media. He needs to go and start packing his luggage and phone Pickfords removals for an estimate.

[@CliveAdlam-yn8uz]

Sunak, like talking to a ghost.😊

[@grahametindale8292]

NHS STAFF need to know about medicine and patient needs. They have stopped being a caring profession. Never returned to normal, after Covid lockdown. Why I have private care! Gives me control; not some QUACK, pretending to be a doctor!

[@3D_Printing]

Private Health for Profits

[@Andrew-fq6gm]

The day to day running of hospitals is the responsibility of the trusts ont the government who gives them the money

[@JamieSmithlovesJesus]

I was SA’d at this A&E and this was under labour, it’s not a political issue.

[@iosifo3472]

The reality is most of the NHS money go to management and administrative they have very high wages %70 and the rest to nurses and doctors the buttom bands very low wages basically always they recruit cheap work force to keep the upper wages high amd pay penats. It's simple.

[@3D_Printing]

So Sorry, another LIE?

[@RedSkysAreOnFire]

the nhs is for the forigners first and british last.

[@Masud_S_Hoghughi]

Pfftt - Richi and his fam get private healthcare - he can ring up a doctor any time for a few hundred pounds

[@wotaneye]

What caused his cancer? Was it the -ab?

[@donjones5793]

Another hospital that is Top heavy.

[@emilyrobinson3452]

False words so why did you not do these treatments years ago!

[@prezzeruk4054]

All these mp's, all the suits shaking their heads in the channel 4 nhs doc, i bet they all have private health care? I bet NONE of them experience nhs treatment? How this country allocates spending in alot of sectors, blows my mind! How many hundreds of millions of pounds is thrown towards football in this country? How many millions does London new years fireworks cost each year? I cant work due to spinal problems that were missed by the nhs. Sorry, not missed, never investigated until i was in my late 40's, wen it was too late to do anything about. Abnormal spine growth that could have been spotted in my teens. But no, i was told continually i was too young to have a bad back. Take these pain killers and a week off work for ur fake back pain, that i was too young to have. If I was a doctor and a young man, keeps returning to me with the same issue, i would think, hang on something must be going on here! Lets investigate. But no, didnt get my first scan until my late 40's! In the last 6 years ive not worked, ive had countless and unhelpfull physio sessions, often making me worse. Several spinal injections that are very painfull and dont help and finally a spinal fusion, that has helped one problem, but created other issues. I can hardly walk and am in constant pain. Iam now addicted to cannibis, because normal painkillers dont help! Wat country we live in!

[@darrylwigginton1067]

Rishi had talks when Trump came over as President discussed ways too get NHS to a position that it can be sold off in the end

[@SAS-vx1jk]

Basically American owns the UK and tells us what to do

[@davrosalien630]

It wouldn't be so bad if people weren't dropping like flies from the yabajabado.

[@PatIsaac-w7z]

They get away with murder just because they are doctors nurses council workers. I got raped in a hospital and they won’t even register me with a gp anymore. It’s disgusting that we have to share a room with three other people when jails have their own cells bigger than my room growing up. Nurses are horrible- they force you into things and don’t explain. No dignity and no respect. They would take your babies if there was enough staff to take them. People are dieing because people are more bothered about how things look. Can’t put a complaint in whilst you’re there and not allowed to access your files. If London paid for every appointment then the rest of the nhs would be ok. We are literally just topping up London yet again.

[@paulstephens3901]

My mum had carers before she died one night they tried to shut the door so i couldnt see what they were doing so i chucked both of the arseholes out of the house and told them never come back

[@TronLegacy5000]

mike graham reading from a paper; clearly doesn’t care about the NHS and clearly didn’t watch the documentary

[@peterthosegriffins666]

Sunak is a cancer so really, he's the perfect person to ask about this

[@7th.trumpet]

Doesn't help when all the nhs staff keep going on strike ! Delaying treatments and putting lives at risk !!! Absolute disgrace the lot of them !

[@ianmacg4771]

I suggest if you haven't seen it yet, look up Jonathon Pilger's documentary " The Dirty war on the NHS" the whole situation has been engineered, including having staff so bewildered about the organisation they work for and the standards of pay they receive, that they take action to try and save the NHS and to ensure pay parity. This then breeds a sense of anger, apathy in society and which leads to people saying ( as Tony Blair intended) Well anything must be better than this! That's when it will be suggested that Perhaps Private health care companies could help rescue the situation? Job done.

[@midgemagoo]

DON'T blame the staff, blame the management and government.

[@sarahosman4933]

...you go be a nurse then.....

[@mannie7028]

I agree 7th trumpet. They’re all in it together. I’ve witnessed some shocking attitudes but didn’t speak out as I was afraid my own treatment would be sidelined, which is in itself I know submitting to bullying. It’s happening in all walks of life ... 1984 was never truer!

[@johnfrancis2215]

Meanwhile all the Dinghy arrivals have a medical centre in their nice free comfortable hotels

[@anthonyramos-ul2wu]

Vote reform, they definitely will make quicker if you got lots of dosh 💰

[@LouiseIngram-hd5yc]

Unbelievable and this will only get worse with over population 😱 Sunak is loaded he can afford to jump the queue.