NHS

I never used that term in relation to your word salad on the NHS.

I’m becoming more convinced by the day it’s a postcode lottery , notts nhs have been brilliant , Leicestershire not so , rang to ask what was happening with kidney op at beginning of April ( should of been done months ago ( though we were waiting for a biopsy result that took 5 weeks not 12 days ) , your 1 st on list , we’re waiting for surgeon , waiting list are saying may hopefully , I’d of been in ages ago if notts ( but apparently op not avaliable at present ) , I’m starting to understand people’s frustrations , even my nurse daughter said just a regular op would of been done by now
If not done soon wife ( nhs ) has said we’re going private , surprisingly the surgeon does private work apparently so maybe end up with him anyway .

I wish you the very best. There are very hard working people in the NHS. They deserve better pay. But sadly the NHS is totally broken and needs fundamental reform. But Labour and the Tories are too scared to say it. They just pledge more and more money which goes into the NHS bottomless pit without any sign of the money making a blind bit of difference. Nobbygas has mentioned the German health system. Which evidently works. German efficiency eh? 

UK FIRST: 91-year-old man makes history by becoming the first patient in England to receive an artificial cornea..by Iris Cleak & PA Media, BBC News, South East.

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Cecil Farley, 91, from Chobham in Surrey.

A 91-year-old man who became the first patient in England to receive an artificial cornea says having it has made his life "fuller".

Cecil Farley, from Chobham, Surrey, faced a year-long wait for sight-saving surgery after a human cornea transplant failed.

But he was offered a chance to skip the queue for an artificial one.

Medics hope one day the artificial corneas could reduce the need for human cornea donations.

Mr Farley, who said he had suffered problems with his right eye for about 15 years, had the procedure in February.

He said he had gone from having no vision in the eye to the sight slowly returning.

Mr Farley said: "It makes your life fuller when your eyes work properly - you don't realise how debilitating it is until it happens to you.

"I can still see my wife after 63 years of marriage, we can just carry on as normal and live life as fully as we can."

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Mr Farley had no vison in his right eye and now following the operation in February his sight has been slowly improving

The procedure - likened to a contact lens being surgically attached to the eye by a single stitch and put in place with a gas bubble - was offered to Mr Farley by Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.

Consultant ophthalmologist Thomas Poole said the use of artificial corneas was a "great advancement for patient care".

Mr Poole and his colleague, Hanbin Lee, have successfully given four patients artificial corneas in the past two months and initial results have shown an improvement in vision.

Only 200 have so far been implanted worldwide, including in Mr Farley, the experts said.

It doesn't help when 'our Angels in the NHS' keep going on strike !

This demonstrates the stupidity of the MSM and the way they report things.

When Covid struck there was much criticism of the government/NHS because there was not enough PPE in stock to go around. What followed was a massive scramble by governments around the world to get PPE, ironically from China.  It costs a lot of money to buy and store this equipment. It also has a shelf-life, so has to be replaced constantly. Lack of PPE was a stick that the MSM beat the government with at the time.
Now, there is enough PPE in stock, however, as I have stated, it has a shelf-life. It has to be destroyed and replaced. This costs a huge amount of money. The government/NHS has learned the lesson from Covid, however it is now another stick the MSM are using to beat the government/NHS.
In reality it is just unresponsible reporting. Anything for the 'shock' factor.

The problem is if they hadn’t procured all that Ppe & covid had continued longer / they’d of run out there would of been hell to play , we’ve still got boxes of masks , still had hand gel long after covid .
The ones doing the screaming are Labour who wanted to lock down longer & harder 🙄

Wes Streeting says three 'big shifts' needed to fix NHS after damning report..by Aoife Walsh

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Earlier Health Secretary Wes Streeting had been speaking to BBC Breakfast.

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, says today's report is about providing the doctor's diagnosis to lead to a major recovery and reform programme of the NHS.

He says there will be three "big shifts": from hospital to community care, from analogue to digital, from treating sickness to preventing it


Streeting says the challenges facing the NHS immediately must be resolved, as well as the service being prepared for the future.

Streeting is pressed on the government's plan to move care out of hospitals and into the community.

Does that mean less money for hospitals and more money into community services, Streeting is asked?

Yes, Streeting replies, "as a proportion of NHS budget we want to shift the balance in favour of neighbourhood services".

He says the reason for queues of ambulances outside hospitals is because of pressures outside the hospital.


Pressed on exactly how much less money hospitals will get (as a proportion of the budget), Streeting says those plans will be outlined in the budget and spending reviews.

"The first port of call will be primary care and community services...we've got to deal with systemic problems in health and care services."

As we reported earlier, hospital staff numbers have risen "sharply", the Darzi report says.

But Streeting tells us that recruiting more staff without addressing other issues is "a bit like British Airways recruiting a bunch of pilots but giving them no planes to fly".

The government's programme will be about making use of data, medical technology and life sciences to give NHS staff better tools, he says.

He is now asked whether the government will be building new hospitals.

Streeting says the previous government's hospital building plan is under review, and the Labour government will have a timetable for buildings and other improvements in due course.

Some of the plans were new units as opposed to new hospitals, Streeting adds, but he is "determined to deliver those schemes".

However he goes onto say "I might have to do it over a longer period of time".

People know the NHS will take time to fix, Streeting says. "Some distasteful medicine is a damn sight better than not having the medicine at all," he says.


On the subject of the winter fuel allowance being scrapped for millions of pensioners, Streeting is pressed on whether the government carried out health assessments on the potential risk to elderly people.

He avoids the question, and repeats lines about tough decisions and pensioners being better off overall.

Streeting says: "I'm going hell for leather to get the NHS back to what's known as the constitutional standards, the targets it sets for itself, over the five-year period that we committed to, and to make sure that by the end of this Parliament we see waiting lists millions lower than they are today."

With that, the interview ends.