I’m sorry but this is not the NHS we experienced, maybe the difference between NHS Trusts perhaps?
I really don’t think it was brilliant under Conservatives, I think it should have been reformed by them when they were in power to incorporate the private sector, I wouldn’t be surprised if not providing more money wasn’t part of the plan – to make it so awful that people would welcome the overhaul.
Digressing slightly, I also wouldn’t be surprised that the whole DSS system isn’t designed to piss you off into getting a job with all their forms, paperwork and appeals process so only the determined would get the benefits! :-)
Anyway, I stand by my statement that the NHS is brilliant in an emergency and can’t be faulted but they do fail people and you are governed by your particular Trust.
In 2004/5 (where I lived) there was no such thing as an out of hours doctors visit, you either had to drag yourself out of your death-bed and go to some pooled doctor’s centre or call an ambulance or go to A&E and wait for 4 1/2 hours.
Gave up trying for appointments at the doctors on some occasions, got offered 2 weeks ahead once and told to phone for an ambulance if it wasn’t good enough. Got told to phone Parentline once! I mean, phone Parentline!! I went bloody crazy down the phone at the stupid woman.
I lived on the outskirts of a city so that probably didn’t help our service. My mother lived a little further away and usually got her appointments within a reasonable time frame.
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