I think I'd like to dedicate this blog to the NHS.
I mean, I didn't believe I would wake up this morning and have quite an overwhelming urge to sit here typing a blog that speaks wholly about our National Health Service, but apparently, i have...
I think that although there are still a hell of a lot of issues with cleanliness in our hospitals, the fact that treatment for various illnesses, for example: cancer, is extremely prompt, it's like a single flutter of the wings of a butterfly, waiting for treatment, from diagnosis.
Okay, maybe I'm exaggerating? But seriously, that's the experience I've had with the service.
When my dad took ill with cancer, although the diagnosis was a little slow, as soon as he had been diagnosed, the tests on him followed very shortly afterwards and treatment should be soon too.
He was treated extremely well and his needs were looked after, which obviously, as a daughter, knowing my dad, my idol, is being looked after exceptionally well, frees a hell of a lot off of my mind.
However, I know that there are a lot of disgusting cases of people who have been neglected in hospitals, whilst terminally ill, which makes my blood boil. Any cases of neglect makes my blood boil.
Thinking that people who have paid taxes their whole lives, take ill and are neglected by people who've been trained to care for them, is absolutely terrifying. But there is no excuse for it. None at all. Even for people who do not pay taxes, they deserve the best treatments available too.
Also, although i am careering dramatically off of the subject, in most fairness, there are a lot of cases of people within the much loved British public that say that smoking related diseases and people who smoke (you know, those demonic people that use their freedom of choice to pick up a cigarette, light it and smoke it) do not deserve health care off of the NHS because they've caused their illness them selves.
Firstly, that is extremely inhumane, because we all deserve to be cared for when we are sick and secondly, please do a bit of research and see how much revenue smoking puts into the economy and compare it with how much money is spent on treating smoking related illnesses, because, seriously, a lot more is put into the economy than what is taken out.
I am not saying that smokers are superior to non smokers or that people don't deserve their opinions on this highly controversial topic, but I am saying that people should get off of their high horses and realise that we are all going to get ill and die at one point in our lives and it doesn't mean that we have caused the illness just because we may have had vices in our lives such as smoking and alcohol.
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The NHS - or more specifically, Lincoln County Hospital - in my opinion, killed my mum. She was 74 and was taken in with a chest infection. She was ignored, moved from ward to ward by nurses who didn't want to look after her. After five weeks, she was put on a stretcher and into an ambulance and sent home, apparently, well.
ReplyDeleteThat same evening, she was found in a coma in the same chair where the ambulance staff had left her. She never regained consciousness. It seems her chest infection turned to pneumonia and none of the nurses gave a damn. Why? Because the hospital would appear to have an unwritten rule that anyone over the age of 70 doesn't deserve to live. Up to her death, she was still being moved around, a bit like brushing the dust under the carpet rather than have to face cleaning it up. She died on the Maternity Ward. Can you believe that? An old, vulnerable and sick woman ignored to death by the NHS. An elderly woman dying on a ward where babies were born! It beggars belief.
The hopsital would not accept that they did anything wrong and claimed they cared for my mum as well as anyone else.... they refused to allow us to complain to the ombudsman. Our MP saw it differently. He asked the ombudsman to investigate. It did. It upheld all of our complaints and said it was tragic that "the needs of a sick and dying woman were ignored by LCH" and things had to change. I very much doubt that they have.
I think the NHS unwritten policy of not dealing with smokers shows that it is a bigoted organisation that should now be scrapped in favour of us all having our own health care plans. I swear I never thought the day would come when I would say that.