NHS

Cheers, all things being well she will be home today.

What really worries me is that state of the hospitals in general.

I knew things were bad but I didn't know they were that bad, it is really sobering to see people with serious injuries lined up on corridors waiting to be seen.

Glad to hear she is back home.
It must be a worrying time for you both.
You and your wife have my sympathy.

Sorry to hear about your Mrs RR.

Terrible to watch a love one waste away with such Awful disease.

Could you get your Mrs in a Hospice nice present places .

Hospital no place for the Termley I'll.

It is always a major election issue played on by the Westminster party. Who always think throwing more money at it is the answer. 

I am sorry about your wife's condition RedRum, and hope something can be done. Both my parents died of cancer of differing types. 

The problem with the NHS sources from when government decided they have better things to spend public money on, rather than the NHS, so in order to achieve this they rationed the service.
That's what it amounts to, when:
you have to wait to see your G.P., and then have to
wait for the hospital appointment letter, and then have to
wait the time stated on the letter till the appointment,
and that's what it also amounts to when
hospital treatment is authorized and people have to wait months or years for it.

Government also managed to avoid spending what is required on the NHS by: 
Getting rid of the Matron system, 
by getting rid of old-style nursing which had been about genuine empathy for people, 

(new style nursing involves training similar to that of doctors and a caring training different to that of old style nursing which I believe was better for patients), 
(nothing in what I am mentioning here is intended to question the professionalism of the personnel employed in the NHS, which is second to none) 

and by employing business managers, 
and indeed by seeking to run the NHS as a business, which is not only entirely inappropriate but also I would also say, dishonest. 

Running the NHS as a business is why we are frequently told, that the NHS has "overspent"; the British government have no justification for running the NHS as a business; it needs the funding required. 

By comparison, when was the last time we were told that the Armed Forces had: "overspent?

I have also heard but cannot confirm that, there are many doctors working in the NHS, who are private doctors that only do some work for the NHS.

How does the British government "get away" with this?
Because all the main British political parties behave the same way when in power; they want to spend British public money on what they prefer to spend it on, and not on what the British people have paid, for the NHS. 

I'm going to be perfectly frank with you RedRum: Recently I got booted-off "Boards.ie" (you won't tell anyone else about this will you!), but I did manage to contact them and I must say that so far, I have had some really nice empathy from a Bot, but hope to get a more substantive response from them in due course! Now, while the reasons for the Boot may be numerous - I haven't a clue what upset them specifically. However, its not what you may think: They are an Irish Board and I tend to defend I****, while, as you know, the Irish are known for defending the other guys. No, what ever it was, it was not that, because on their website, they require 50 posts on other subjects before one is allowed to post in "Politics" or "Current Affairs" and I was someway through that when the ball was taken away from me! Well, on their "Mustard" area (yes, they have an area for connoisseurs of the finer attributes of mustard) I wrote that, while the American mustard can be somewhat boring, and the English mustard (I put that I hoped it was alright to discuss that one on their site!) is hot and spicy, the French mustard is wet and wild!
Anyway as I said, I have no idea why they gave me the Boot ... 

I hope your wife gets the effective help she needs.


Robert