Healthcare - NHS/Private

[sasguru]

I wouldn't touch Fomant with my 3' pole.

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FTFY.
She speaks highly of you too.

[MyUserName]

I wouldn't touch Fomant - the judge was very specific about that

FTFY

[vetran]

Model it on airports...

Simply being able to pay to skip the queue in A&E would be very valuable. Or a private waiting room away from the drunken bleeding chavs.

works fine until a tax funded (even partially) part of the hospital allows a private patient to jump the queue and a granny dies.

[formant]

3 FTFYs and nobody fixes the .

Seriously?

[doodab]

3 FTFYs and nobody fixes the .

Seriously?

I'd guess most people don't know what formants are so they don't notice the mistake.

[formant]

I'd guess most people don't know what formants are so they don't notice the mistake.

Sigh. Yeah.

On that note: Formant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Not 'Fomant' or 'Format'.

[mudskipper]

Don't mind NHS for emergencies its just everything else they're useless for !

Depends on the emergency.

My mother had a shocking experience in A&E when she was critically ill with a perforated bowel with a junior doctor feeding her laxatives. It took him 6 hours to call a consultant who then had her in surgery immediately.

[minestrone]

I know an ex Doctor ( struck off ) who used to get his pen light and wave it about a the patient's head in a Star Trek Dr McCoy manner making dzzghh dzzghh noises then would tell them that they were cured. Honest, that is a true story.

[KentPhilip]

When my wife got pregnant we went to the doctor to discuss a genetic problem that her family has which can be fatal (killed her sister when she was a few days old), the doctor refered us to a paediatrician whom we explained things to again.

They had told us that if they do not get back to use that means everything is okay. No one got back to us. A few days before the due date I mention in passing about this and the doctor gets confused so she phones around.

It turns out someone went to get records from a microfiche machine just after we saw the paediatrician but it was broken so they could not get the records. They forgot about it and the paediatrician did not chase them about it.

It turns out that the condition is lethal for my daughter and we should have been having genetic counselling every two weeks the entire time. Now it is too late to do anything, if she has it then she is dead - end of.

As luck would have it there is nothing wrong with her but I was simply amazed that this massive balls up could happen and no one seemed to care apart from our GP.

This seems to be a recurring theme in NHS problems: There is a chain of activity involving several players, but nobody (apart from the patient, who is ignorant of the process) has any stake in the success of the activity.

There is a failure to communicate between people.

It seems to me that patients need a professional follower-upper person involved in their treatment, who has the knowledge, authorization, and ability to communicate with all players in all locations, to keep tabs on progress and keep people accountable for their tasks and responsibilities.

Something like a cross between a project manager and a helpdesk system manager, perhaps?

[DodgyAgent]

This seems to be a recurring theme in NHS problems: There is a chain of activity involving several players, but nobody (apart from the patient, who is ignorant of the process) has any stake in the success of the activity.

There is a failure to communicate between people.

It seems to me that patients need a professional follower-upper person involved in their treatment, who has the knowledge, authorization, and ability to communicate with all players in all locations, to keep tabs on progress and keep people accountable for their tasks and responsibilities.

Something like a cross between a project manager and a helpdesk system manager, perhaps?

They are called Macmillan nurses for cancer care and this service is supplied by a charity and they are superb
Cancer care and support charity - Macmillan Cancer Support