Whats happenig to our NHS ??
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Has this really been a good year for NHS? I used to work for them, too many manager positions, not enough employees, today's Evening Standard newspaper wrote that 10 000 student nurses will not have nursing jobs after they graduate. What is this.. 40% of senior nurses would resign if they could. Me too, I'd love to do something else.
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Check out this link for useful information/web addresses etc: http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleId=28\n\nHope you're feeling better soon.
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We try to be liberal, caring, and help people to have shelter from oppressive regimes. Some of them take advantage; lie even. \n\n"The road to destruction is paved with good intentions". \n\nLook at our welfare system - supposed to be a safety net, whereby the weakest and most desperate members of society are helped back on their feet. Do you think the people who founded our welfare system would ever have envisaged the abuse of the benefits system which we see today? \n\nA similar story with the NHS. My grandparents, in the 1930s, couldn't afford a doctor's visit or medicine when their child was seriously ill. The NHS was set up to address that - now people can have plastic surgery etc., paid for by the taxpayer; the NHS scope has got too big, and spending has spiralled out of control.\n\nThe thing is that you can't trust people to be honest and incorruptible. Some will take advantage, and mess it up for everyone else.
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I think it's spiraling out of control.  There are just so many people on drugs, collecting welfare checks and having more babies to put into the system that it has become impossible to control.  We're doomed
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The NI contribution is just another tax by another name.\n\nWe pay close to 60% of what we earn back to the government in direct and indirect taxation, and much of it is swallowed up by a badly managed, top-heavy health-service.\n\nThen there are the civil-servants, who require full pensions.....you know....police, officials, judges, teachers etc.\n\nThen we have to pay for all those computer systems which don't work, and all those local government people who start at 9am and slam the doors shut at 4pm, or hold "training days" and meetings beause they'd rather have an extended tea-break than do some work.\n\nThen we have to pay for the military adventures, security, fire, police, ambulances, bad schools, social services and all the other services which work as badly as the next.\n\nIf there's anything left over, the chancellor reluctantly gives the pensioners a couple of quid extra per week, or announces a meagre increase in benefits for the following year.\n\nOf course, we musn't forget all the other taxes, like speed-cameras, corporation tax, company contributions, community charges etc etc.\n\nThis is the UK to-day......happy to support a system which will probably strangle us economically eventually, if it hasn't done already.\n\nDon't expect ANYTHING if you fall ill, lose a leg, go blind or manage to reach old-age, because there are more important people in front of you in the queue.
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Nicking our jobs, nicking our housing, clogging up the supermarket aisles, being arrogant and rude to Brits - need I go on ?? x\nSorry - forgot to add the males that are in their 20's to 30's are laughing their arses off at us as they pay with their £80.00 food vouchers at the checkout - given by the government !!!!!!
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Please make an urgent Doctor's appointment NOW.  Alternatively go to an NHS Walk in centre NOW.  You really should not be waiting. \n\nEDIT\n\n(Why don't you ring and ask your midwife about this? - She will have been visiting for the first two weeks and can visit for up to 28 days.)
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If you are British you dont need to speak any other language than English. The NHS is for the British people and paid for by British peoples taxes. Therefore if you are entitled to use the NHS you should be able to read and speak English. If you cant do this then hard luck and go back home where your language is spoken.
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The article on NHS Direct is good and informative about anaemia. The one on dotpharmacy gives lots of info too.
833675
i really feel for you. go docs as it sounds like they are ruining your life he may get you a reduction or something on the nhs if your british. and speak up to people how dare they sexually harrass you like your a piece of meat. good luck xx
975420
put your X somewhere else... and tell everyone who'll listen just how pathetic they are. write to your local paper..and make your observations official. write to the leader of the council, and have it raised at the next council meeting..have it minuted and demand a written response. (as is your right).\n\ni live in coventry..our wonderful council just spent bazillions on knocking down a local landmark and building a clock.... theyve just had a massive overspend, and now are taking the 3 quid a week off special needs people...and charging disabled people to park at the new super hospital... but thats what happens when we get a conservative council... the rich and the greedy always come before the poor and the needy...
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OMG don't get me started!\n\nFirstly as a British (Welsh) person I totally agree with you. about us becoming the world's soup kitchen - but let me try and explain how our system works and why it has gone wrong.\n\nWe have a more socialist system than you.  Healthcare is funded by the Government and there is provision made for social housing (Government funded), Welfare Benefits etc which are far more than you get.\n\nBut they are meant to be for those British people who REALLY need them!! The sick, elderly, disabled, those who through no fault of their own are unemployed, or have fallen on hard times or those who are poorly paid.  The architect of the Welfare State was a 1950's Welsh politician named Aneurin Bevan (Great Welshman!).  He believed that all working people had the right to such basic things as medical care, roof over their head, food, education and the chance to earn a fair wage and live a decent life.  That these things were not luxuries to be bought but fundamental rights.  He had grown up amongst the poor Welsh Mining Communities, and had seen hard working people being paid low wages by their greedy bosses, and having to go without food and medical care because they couldn't afford it.  He wanted to put a stop to this.\n\nOver the years these benefits have been taken advantage of.  Not just by lazy British people who didn't want to work and do the best for themselves, but by foreigners who saw that by coming here they would get housing, free healthcare, education, benefits etc.\n\nWe still need the Welfare State because there will always be genuine hard working British people who fall on hard times (through no fault of their own) and are in need of these basics of life.  Expecting them to rely on "charities" for help is farcical.  Charities are always under funded and can do little other than open soup kitchens and give "advice".   Thats not going to clothe and house people or find them work or treat them when they are sick.  Charities will never be able to provide for all the poor and destitute - ever read Charles Dickens?  They are  supplementary measure but nothing more.   Responsiblity needs to lie with the Govenrnment.\n\nAt the moment we have a useless, spineless government who are so PC its a joke (if you are an muslim or minority you can rant and rage and do what you want but a white person makes an un-PC comment and you end up in court - see Nick Griffin's recent case) and are so terrified of being considered "racist" that they are just allowing our country to be swamped with the poor and scrounging from the rest of the world.  \n\nAs a result, social housing has become nonexistant (5-7 year waiting lists for a council house in my area - British families who can't afford private rents or mortgages are homleless), and there is high unemployment, as British people are being pushed out of work by immigrants who will work for minimum wage.   You can educate yourself and work hard but it doesn't pay off.  And people are getting sick of it.  Hence the rise in popularity of the BNP (British Nationalist Party) - a far right political party.\n\nUnless the Government take steps to do something about the homelessness, poverty, misery, unemployment and crime currently swamping our country (and greatly contributed to by immigrants) then things will go from bad to worse.  Hopefully, Tony Blair and his shower of losers (such as John "Two Jags" Prescott the fattest ugliest stupidest man on earth) will soon be out on their ears.   All we need is a REAL leader to put this country right.
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Try email address clare.wilde@wmsha.nhs.uk hope you get sorted.
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From experience with NHS re MH and physical health problems I would say it is always down to individuals within services. Services are sometimes very impoverished, there are time pressures which are less if you go private. But I had excellent MH support with depression from a student clinical psychologist after I 'forced' my GP to refer me for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which was NHS. I have had chronic and excellent care for a serious condition on the NHS. I have had very prompt, polite treatment privately but resent paying for it!!
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what I don't understand is your failure to recognise that Blair never answers the questions put to him, he will answer e.g. Mr. Prime Minister what do you intend to do about the appalling situation regarding funding for NHS? \n..Answer I do know that when the opposition were in power they never spent as much as we do now  on helping the poor.. or something equally irrelevant!
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i'm in the UK, we have an equally mucked-up, directionless party in power and no viable opposition.\ni think ur just a normal person, exasperated with spaff politicians that bander 2 whatever they think will win/gain votes.\nour NHS is disintegrating b4 our eyes and no-one really seems 2 care.\nu r a free thinker that refuses 2 b pigeon-holed.\nmany more like u and the politicians may have no choice but sit up and listen.
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hi\nmost Singaporeans worried abt the Hospital/Medical Bill, No pay increasement and home loan...