Spent most of last night in an inner city hospital with a sick family member. Was dreading it because of the stories about health care this winter.
The NHS is under attack from our government who are running it down so that they can sell it off.
So we get there and she is on a ward. She phoned an NHS helpline earlier when she felt unwell. She described her symptoms and they told he to sit tight because they were sending an ambulance.
She got to hospital and saw a Dr and had various tests. Then she saw a different specialist and then another as they were trying to pinpoint the problem. She then had an x ray on her back.
They kept her in overnight for observations and she has just called to say that she has been released and will be going home once her meds have been sorted by the pharmacy. They have pinpointed the problem and all is well.
The cost to her ? Nothing.It is all covered by our taxation.
The cost to me ? £2 to park around the corner.
Many thanks to the staff at the Royal Liverpool Hospital.
The NHS is worth fighting for. Its the cornerstone of our civilisation.
To begin I am happy that your relative is okay and that the situation was not life threatening etc
"The cost to her ? Nothing.It is all covered by our taxation."
The cost to all of you is from your taxation it is not free the NHS you pay from your taxes, it being free would be that you piad nothing including nothing from your taxes.
So we know someone they are about 25 km outside North London. He arrived home to see a paramedic ambulance outside his house, inside the house with his wife and Mother In Law two paramedics, his wife had chronic stomach pains and also chest pains the two paramedics decide she probably had food poisoning and so everyone is taken to the hospital.
This was several years ago our friends had one girl aged two years in age at that time and had been told they were to expect another baby. So they all get to the hospital and our friend told them that his wife was to have another baby and he thought the paramedics saying she had food poisoning was not correct and he wanted her to have a scan.
What then occur was no scan and our friends wife was put on a bed where she was not seen for FIVE HOURS because they were to busy attending what they had in as emergency situations, our friend attempt repeatedly to get a senior nurse to get a doctor this did not happen. So FIVE HOURS later our friends wife he said she shot upright in the bed and gasp and then stopped breathing and he say that then he could not count the amount of nurses around the bed and also two doctors, his wife was DEAD this was a massive heart attack. She was not in the female age group that just die of massive heart attacks so they had to have an autopsy.
The autopsy say that she died of a massive heart attack because of massive internal bleding because of an Ectopic Pregnancy which in Western nations is NOT considered life threatening because Western nations are advanced, but in Britain because of shortages of nurses and doctors in NHS hospitals and because they do not want to spend 1,500 Pounds from their local NHS budget women die, I do not think our friends wife is the ONLY British woman to die in Britain in this way.
Ectopic pregnancy - Wikipedia
Our friend has a Barrister employed and is suing that hospital for Medical Negligence this now has been ongoing for more than one year and six months, it will not return his wife to him but they need to face consequences for NOT preventing a preventable death.
What should have happened she should have been given a scan immediately with that she would have had to be given an Emergency Abortion to save her life, this would have saved her life, but they did not do this and she is dead and they are to blame and this is the British NHS allowing women to die from situations that are in Western nations NOT considered life threatening IF the hospital is paying attention and doing what they are supposed to do.