Your N.H.S. Experiences

[Captain Kong]

Some hospitals now have a seperate room for drunks to sleep it off, several mattresses on the floor so they cannot fall out of bed.
Portsmouth Hospital where Rob was and where my son is a Consultant there, who has to look after the effects of binge drinking, has such a room, maybe 20 mattresses on the floor. so it helps to keep the A&E customers down a bit. They are monitored in case a stomach pump is needed etc.
If these clowns can afford to drink so much then at least they could afford to pay Bed and Breakfast rates, any medical treatment would be Free.
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.BUT again, in this day, sureley people should be able to keep themselves fit and healthy to a certain extent. and not have as many accidents. Some ilnesses are unavoidable but these illnesses are usually dealt with by a different department than A&E, usually referred to a Consultant there by their GP.
Such as mine, been on cancer treatment for ten months now but never saw the inside of an A&E.
Brian

[Captain Kong]

Referring To John Pru`s bad experience of his dear mother at the hospital, maybe it was the "Liverpool Pathway" the Doctors put her on, No food or drink, no medication. This started in Liverpool , hence the name. Where they put elderly people on as the Doctors think it would not help the patient to recover any quality of life and so end the life quietly.
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Now my sister in law, my brothers wife, was in a care home for Dementia, she took ill and was taken to hospital, they assessed her and put her on that "Liverpool Pathway", no medication, no sustenance, after a while they wanted her bed so she was transferred back to her Care Home. There, they fed her and she recovered, she was walking about again and lasted another 18 months before she finally died.
So what is that all about??
. Before a person goes on the "Liverpool Pathway" permission must be got from next of kin.
I am not sure now if the Pathway is still being operated or if it has been stopped.
Cheers
Brioan

[Captain Kong]

I was talking to an American last year, he was on holiday in the UK the year before, and his wife was taken ill, she was taken to hospital and treated, and what amazed him was no charge was made. My wife worked in a school, and the school operated an exchange teacher scheme with USA teachers, and one openly admitted that him and his wife deliberately started a family while here as it was free medicals and hospitalisation , so i think in these type of cases a charge should be made. Our NHS is something we should all be fighting to retain KT
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. Hi KT
health tourism is also a big expensive problem, many come here on a "vacation " and just call into the nearest A&E and get free treatment that would cost maybe thousand s of Dollars back home.
In the States medicine is expensive. My operations in Hawaii two years ago cost $85,000....£55,000.
Cheaper to fly to UK on vacation and then go ill, The savings pay for the Vacation.
Cheers
Brian

[gray_marian]

#42, Brian, Pathway was apparently being phased out here in Scotland by the end of 2014. Not sure about the rest of UK.

[John Pruden]

brian my mam went in holly and solei for the camera nothing else wrong with her but due to age they wanted to make sure she was empty and an overnight stay would be needed? by the time the cancelations where put into place by them it turned into 10/11 days she went in ok and came out in a box I even told the doctor the seen her passing that there was a f..k up that had gone on he put his head down he was the last in the line at the cardiac unit.. jp

[Captain Kong]

Sorry about that John.
Someone should have been held Responsible over that. Pure neglect by Consultants, Doctors and Nurses I would say.
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The berstereds killed my Dad with neglect at the Bolton Royal infirmary.
He walked into the hospital, a fit and healthy man. He had polyps in his bladder, They removed his bladder and was being sent to a convelescent home to recuperate for a week then home.
After the operation which was successful, the porters wheel him out on a trolly to the car park to await an ambulance to take him to the Convescent home. The Porters then went inside to have a ciggy. It started snowing The ambulance never showed up, the Porters disapeared and he lay in the snow on the trolly for quite some time before someone decided that lying in the snow in a car park is not good for patients. He had hyperthermia, and developed pneumonia and a week later he died.
He was a powerful strong man, Once held Strength records unbroken for 16 years He beat me at arm wrestling only a few weeks before. I was a fit 39 year old and he could beat me.
Unfortunately I was in Guam in the Mariannas when all this happened so I didnt get to go to the funeral to say good bye..
What a terrible waste of a good man.
Brian

[Red Lead Ted]

Jim, first of all I bid you a speedy recovery, As for I.D.S. Taking £5 out of my dosh every week to save our N.H.S. I don't have a problem with. I would rather that than the proposed 20,000 soldiers being cut. Regardless of what government we get next May, Governments over the last 4 decades have sold just about every thing else to the private sector, If are N.H.S. is to become a money making exercise for some private firm, Heaven help joe blogs in the street, We think things are bad now, They might as well cut our throats on the point of entry. Regards Terry.

[ray-c]

Further to young people binge drinking and ending up in A&E, what happened to the law of being arrested for being "Drunk an incapable"and thrown into the slammer for the night,appearing before the magistrate the following morning and paying a fine.That makes more sense to me but maybe with the police resource's that we have now it cant be done.The only time I have seen a young person in A&E through binge drinking they were sitting in a wheelchair in the alleyway sleeping it off causing no hassle or receiving any treatment.
Regards.
Jim.B.

The main reason, the police don't want them, is the clearing up in the morning. pass the buck

[John Pruden]

got a call from hospital tonight 6pm wanting me for an MRI tomorrow at the oncology unit tomorrow see what happens for a dye to be put in so fingers crossed? after pneumonia over xmas another one to take on the chin infection seems to have gone to liver and kidneys what f. cking next can I get thrown at me?/jp

[gray_marian]

Best Wishes John for tomorrow. Marian x