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Third World Conditions’: UK’s Socialised Health Service Forced to Cancel Non-Emergency Operations
Breitbart ^ | 3 Jan 2018 | Liam Deacon

Posted on 01/03/2018 10:39:24 AM PST by GonzoII

Around 55,000 planned procedures are expected to be axed in a desperate attempt to free up beds, the Evening Standard reports. One senior doctor claimed that patients are being treated in “third world” conditions in some hospitals.

Other NHS trusts have abandoned basic rules that state that men and women should be kept on separate wards and some patients are facing a 12-hour wait to receive Accident and Emergency care as hospitals run out of space.

The emergency has been preceded by a growing flu crisis, and as of Tuesday, 12 NHS trusts covering millions of people have said they are at the maximum state of emergency.

In Staffordshire, senior consultant Dr. Richard Fawcett claimed vulnerable patients were being treated in “third world conditions” in overcrowded wards.

The former Army doctor, who has served in Afghanistan, made a dramatic apology to people in his area on Twitter.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: europeanunion; nhs; obamacare; obamacarefuture; singlepayer; socializedmedicine; unitedkingdom

1 posted on 01/03/2018 10:39:24 AM PST by GonzoII
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To: GonzoII

I’d trust a witch doctor before I trusted Marxist healthcare.

I remember when Govenor Palin called this right, and the Marxists mauled her for it


2 posted on 01/03/2018 10:40:54 AM PST by WashingtonFire (President Trump - it's like having your dad as President !)
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To: All

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/tens-of-thousands-of-preplanned-operations-could-be-postponed-in-january-nhs-officials-estimate-a3730416.html


3 posted on 01/03/2018 10:41:55 AM PST by GonzoII ("If the new crime be, to believe in God, let us all be criminals" -Sheen)
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To: GonzoII

Maybe they could fly to Venezuela and get a sammich and some surgery there.


4 posted on 01/03/2018 10:42:30 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: GonzoII
Third World Conditions’: UK’s Socialised Health Service Forced to Cancel Non-Emergency Operations

There's always Healthcare Tourism for all a UK citizen's needs, and you can bring the family to stay in a four star hotel next door, too.

5 posted on 01/03/2018 10:46:16 AM PST by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: GonzoII

Meanwhile...... Doc Martin is still afraid of blood


6 posted on 01/03/2018 10:49:58 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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To: GonzoII

Hooray for universal health care!


7 posted on 01/03/2018 10:52:19 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: GonzoII

“Sex change” surgery is, no doubt, still considered crucial and necessary...


8 posted on 01/03/2018 10:53:50 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: GonzoII

Australasian flu is beginning to appear which is worrying

that’s the strain the vaccine doesn’t work against.


9 posted on 01/03/2018 10:56:00 AM PST by EBH ( May God Save the Republic)
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To: GonzoII

“have abandoned basic rules that state that men and women should be kept on separate wards”

Wards...how advanced.


10 posted on 01/03/2018 11:02:43 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: GonzoII

The only problem liberals would see here is that there’s not enough money allocated to health care. If 100% of England’s GDP were allocated to health care, they’d still say it isn’t enough.


11 posted on 01/03/2018 11:15:11 AM PST by American Quilter (When does the wall start going up?)
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To: GonzoII

The public hospitals in the UK are crawling with deadly staff infections.


12 posted on 01/03/2018 11:31:40 AM PST by LongWayHome
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To: WashingtonFire

Maybe not a witch doctor, but how ‘bout a vet?


13 posted on 01/03/2018 12:19:17 PM PST by Little Ray (Freedom Before Security!)
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To: GonzoII

Winter seasons just about anywhere are always a riskier health season than is summer. Winter nearly always has more weather related deaths and hospitalizations than do the summers.

It goes along with the giant human population disparity that favors the tropics over the northernmost or southernmost extremes.

Ponder what all that means.


14 posted on 01/03/2018 12:44:33 PM PST by Wuli
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To: GonzoII

I bet when immigration rates increased access to health care decreased.


15 posted on 01/03/2018 3:51:49 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: LongWayHome

Staff or staph or both?


16 posted on 01/03/2018 3:52:39 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

Lol, you caught that. Both. Someone I knew just passed away in the UK after an endless round of infections. MRSA finally took him out. NHS hospital.


17 posted on 01/03/2018 4:03:28 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: LongWayHome

Is that a pun or a typo?


18 posted on 01/04/2018 3:26:40 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: LongWayHome

I am sorry for your loss. Even in the U.S. hospitals can be a very deadly place for the sick. I am convinced that a pro-longed hospital stay hastened my father in law’s passing.


19 posted on 01/04/2018 6:53:51 AM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: lastchance

Thanks. Yes...infection are frequent here in the States.


20 posted on 01/04/2018 9:30:40 AM PST by LongWayHome
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