Posted on 01/05/2018 8:31:40 PM PST by TBP
Britain’s National Health Service has ordered hospitals to cancel as many as 55,000 planned surgeries amid chaos from a spike in winter illnesses.
Instructions on Tuesday from NHS Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh called for “all but the most urgent cases” to be canceled until at least February, which includes closing outpatient clinics for weeks, The Telegraph reported.
The jump in flu cases has come at a time when many hospitals had almost reached capacity, and according to The Telegraph, frail patients are “facing 12-hour waits and some units running out of corridor space.”
Metro reported that hospital occupancy rates on New Year’s Eve were as high as 93.5 percent across the NHS system.
Some senior physicians are saying the patient care conditions in England are more like those found in “third-world” countries.
Hospital chief executives are calling it worst winter crisis in 30 years, The Telegraph reported.
Dr. Richard Fawcett, an emergency medicine consultant at Royal Stoke hospital, told The Telegraph it’s heartbreaking to see frail and elderly patients lining the hospital corridors.
Fawcett, an Army doctor who has completed three tours in Afghanistan, even tweeted an apology to patients for the poor conditions.
“Socialized medicine at work, doing what it does best. “
It’s not nice!
“Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way”
Pretty soon it will like the Monty Python skit..
“Fractured tibia, Sargeant...Fractured Tibia, Sargeant...Ooooh, Proper Little Mummy’s boy, aren’t we?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52EEzBNn48g
Cancellation of 55,000 surgeries? Imagine a major terrorist attack in an environment like this.
Probably a lot of sick healthcare workers not showing up for work either.
It saved my life last year when I had cancer and has never been anything but excellent whenever I've had to use it (birth of my son. Care for my dad when he was dying. Care for my mum.
I’m happy for you, but there are too many cases that are the opposite of yours. Socialized medicine doesn’t work.
The NHS needs more funding. I am happy to pay for the NHS via taxes as it cares for ALL citizens. It's the only thing I am happy to pay taxes for, mind, because it benefits all of us.
You point out one of the biggest problems with government-run health care: The government has to pay for it. One day, a bureaucrat will say to someone “Hey, why don’t we make people pay for their own medical care and we’ll just keep the money we take from them for it?”.
Not the people whose surgeries are being postponed. Not Charlie Gard.
It’s a typical socialist scheme to ensure that the elites get good care while everyone else suffers. And the elites mostly get it by going out of country.
Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.
For my own story, I was diagnosed with colon cancer after my GP picked up on the fact I had anaemia, so she sent me for a colonoscopy and a scan. I was in surgery within 3 weeks and then had follow-up chemotherapy as it had spread a little into my lymph system. Of course, the vested interests would't dream of reporting this sort of efficiency as it doesn't support their agenda.
They're being postponed because the system is deliberately underfunded - that's the agenda of the elites. They want to make more profit from privatisation of services.
“That would be a recipe for electoral disaster, currently.”
So was the poll tax but.......
Labor sees all the money going into medical care and thinks to itself “What if we could convert some of that money to outright Welfare?”. Then they ask the public “Why are we paying for the health care of the very rich? Why can’t they pay for their own health care?”.
In America, that’s how it would work. And, even though I have a mere staff job for the government, I would be a member of the very rich in that case.
Deliberately underfunded? You can’t possibly fund all the medical care people want.
Socialized medicine doesn’t work.
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