One for DCI to blow off some steam
The cost of woke in the NHS, yes there is a budget and time off to indulge in your favourite woke project.
Try to get an appointment to see a doctor, yes, well, sorry, they are all off for the afternoon at a picnic with rainbow cake.
This is just one example, we know that the woke are in every fucking aspect of life, if you aren’t in tune, watch your fucking back. Like the wrong tweet and you may as well go into hiding and if you are a student at university you are out the fucking door.
Back to the NHS, who are the people organising all this woke shit, is it management asking for cunts to run a woke group.
When will it end or more likely when will we (the normal) end.
Nominated by: Sick of it
“Try to get an appointment to see a doctor, yes, well, sorry, they are all off for the afternoon at a picnic with rainbow cake.”
One of the most ill-informed statements on this forum ever.
GPs are leaving the NHS in droves due to the unsustainable workloads. The population is swelling and more and more idiots are encouraged by papers like the Daily Fail of their “right” to see their GP.
Still, don’t let this stand in the way of a good Fail yarn, even if it is utter bullcrap.
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Excellent post, Paul.
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Ambulance drivers leaving for pretty much the same reason. I know a student who qualified and left pretty much straight away. Relentless pressure, an entitled population, no demographic, that are ‘entitled’ to an ambulance, and we’re too frightened of getting sued to tell them to fuck off, hundreds of calls in the stack, poor cunts dying due to the aforementioned cunts. Throw the risk-averse ‘111’ into the mix, and it’s not ending well.
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Don’t get your knickers in a twist Paul, it’s more about wasting money than anything else, my local hospital have painted the pedestrian crossings in rainbow colours, sorry but you can’t say that isn’t wasting money. Rainbow cake for tea 👍
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My undergarments are fine and I wouldn’t say it isn’t wasting money, SOI.
However there is a world of difference between wanker Trust Managers spending £££ on painting pedestrian crossings in rainbow colours and Doctors supposedly being off duty at a picnic with rainbow cake. Two completely different things.
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Glad to hear it Paul (about your undies) but in todays workplace, there is a culture of ‘having to attend’ the woke bullshit.
Some cunt comes up with a bullshit idea and before you know if you are ‘invited’ to take part in an inclusivity workshop on understanding going green on the ward 😂
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Well, my GP surgery is fucking useless. As is the hospital. The NHS failed my Mum big time and will always be useless fuckers.
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Just so Pm, not enough staff, to many persons needing treatment. My younger daughter is a midwife and the low staff numbers are impacting her work, personal life everything. She would be working 24 7 if the buggers in charge thought they could get away with it. Many shifts she has no breaks and when informing her superiors the answer is always “well you should take them” yeah she would leave some 16 year old kid with complications on her own while she goes of for a coffee break. My daughter will likely resign if things do not improve. What a fucking waste. Two weeks ago my daughter was the only medical person on the Labour ward with 36 expectant ladies three of which ended up having emergency c sections. Not right, you can bet your bottom dollar if something had gone horribly wrong my poor kid would have taken the flak, we all know shit rolls down hill. System is broken and only the good will and sense of duty from most of the staff keep everything clanking along. Of course this sense of helping others, doing the job at heavy cost to mental health etc is what the managers and government rely on.
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No-one would blame her if she left, BB. Most people are unaware, but the previous staff “goodwill” that held the NHS together is running dry. My wife, who is a GP, has now quit her post and finishes in October.
She has simply had enough of working 13 hours days with no break, only to be given paperwork (12-20 referral letters per day) to write at sometime outside the 13 hour working day.
The NHS simply doesn’t give a big fat shiny shit about the wellbeing and health of its own employees.
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I have been grateful personally in my past for the dedication and skill of some doctors and nurses who work in the nhs
That said the nhs is a giant money serpent that needs its fucking head lopping off
Unlimited fiancé’s for cunts to spend/waste.
Bit like the beeb. But on a bigger scale.
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How many fiancé’s do you want? One is usually deemed enough.
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None typo mate
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GP appts.? The majority of cunts that call us because they can’t “Get one, can you?”, usually just listen to the narrative and don’t try fucking hard enough, as they find out when we make them try, in front of us, and get an appt. I needed to see a GP, got an appt. easy. Entitled cunts expect to see a specific GP, at a specific time on a specific day rather than an appt. with a GP. It ain’t just you at thst practice, you bellend. Maybe that’s just around here. ‘Woke’? Yep, but, I’ve managed to get by just by being careful and, treating people how I’d like my family to be treated – one chance though, act the cunt, be rude, you’re on a sticky wicket – and, stay away from social fucking media. Too many managers, on high banding though. I only deal with the emergency side, though, and I think we’re pretty good. Social care, mental health needs help, though, so hospitals can send pts home, but, without a package of care, they can’t, can’t release the bed, can’t move someone from ED to that bed, can’t get a pt out of an ambulance, ambulance unavailable, long ambulance waiting times, people die, repeat ad infinitum.
This is my experience, rather than heresay or media ‘reporting’.
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I don’t use the NHS as I’m in rude health and not a hypochondriac.
But I heard our health centre is only seeing tranny’s or ethnic minorities on the one day the doctors can drag themselves out of bed or off the sun loungers.
It’s a disgrace.
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Can’t get an appointment at our doctors for love or money.
Phone lines open at 8. Phone at 8, lines not open. Phone at 8.01, lines not open. Phone at 8.02, you get the message you are beyond 30 in the queue. By time phone is answered all the appointments have gone.
Used to 7 doctors at the surgery, now appears to be 4.
I don’t blame the NHS, it’s another victim to letting 10 million or so people into the country over the last 20 years. Didn’t have the infrastructure in place to cope with it. We all suffer.
What I will say for the NHS is most of the front line staff are excellent. However, I was involved in the internal audit of the finance side of our local NHS around 25 years ago and the money wasted and lack of business acumen was staggering.
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Hehe, you must have the same doctors surgery as me, I phone on morning at 11 to make an appointment knowing it would be a telephone consultation.
I was told I would have to phone back in the morning at 8, I asked why I couldn’t make the appointment now for tomorrow, nope can’t do that.
Same thing phoned at 8 and was already in a queue, to be fair once I got through I was invited to come in, what I did find strange was the doctor i saw had to refer to a senior colleague to see if was ok to refer me for an ultrasound scan, did my medical need justify the expense 😂
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A whiny,soft population who run to the Quack at every opportunity because “it’s free,innit”….too many old people living too long….inbred immigrants…children that eat shit and sit in front of computers all day…drug addicts…lazy fat fuckers…. hopeless cases kept alive long after their sell-by date…drugs and therapy for children that are just badly raised…veganism….etc…..
It’s all to fucking pay for and as this Country disappears down the financial plughole,it’ll be interesting to see just how the taxpayer will come up with the money to indulge so many wasters who expect their every self-induced or trivial illness to be treated “for free”
Oh I could come up with one or two suggestions to “Save our NHS” alright.
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Very good points, Dick, very good. CAT 1 to a 101 year old, not breathing?
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you’re right Dick – I think the country needs to have a grown up conversation as to how we fund the NHS. Apparently, it’s the envy of the world but no-one else follows its model.
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The answer to that Dick is a £5 fee to visit the GP and £10 to visit
A & E. Not too much but at least some sort of contribution.
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Trouble is “those on benefits” and children will be exempt…and they are 90% of the problem.
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Fines for drinkers and druggies using A & E. No service to anyone being violent to staff. I believe A & E should cost less than a GP appointment due to the ’emergency’ nature of that department.
Benefit claimants might get discount but not free appointments. Only over 75s and children should go free.
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If you need an apopintment but can’t get one, just tell them that you are a man who wishes to transition to female (or a female who wishes to transition to Eddie Izzard) and the doctor will see you tomorrow morning.
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I personally use healing crystals and Gwyneth paltrows farts to cure all my ills.
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Great comment!
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It’s the financial mismanagement that causes problems.
Misdirecting funds on vanity projects like the above rainbow cake and Philippinos doing Kung fu.
It’s overburdened and run by financial managers that would make Viv Nichols blush.
The founding of the NHS is something we should be proud of but it shouldn’t be some sacred cow immune from criticism.
If the benchmark for healthcare is Stepping Hill in Stockport,
Well, they had their own serial killer.
If you come out of there your in worse shape than when you went in.
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Harold Shipman was ahead of his time.
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I suggested he should be our Clinical Director…
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I’ve mentioned this before on here but Mrs K worked with Shipman’s daughter every now and again. One day she and some other colleagues were offered sweets from a bag by the daughter. With slight awkwardness they all declined.
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I’d like to have taken the good doctor out third-manning!
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So have I Rob ; Worked with Shipmans’ daughter that is. I didn’t mind accepting sweets of her tbh.
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The Liverpool pathway was loosely based on Dr Shipman.
One way to reduce the cost, is to copy the film Logan’s Run and have a chip in our hand that flashes when our time is up, then its off to the carousel, saves on pension funding too.
A win win.
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And we should remember it is the National Health Service NOT the International Health Service.
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As I stated earlier 25 years back I used to spend about 3 months a year doing internal audit on our NHS trust. Member of staff sick, get in bank staff at double the rate. The bank staff were existing employees also on a agency. Let along the £22k paid to a consultant for moving house to Essex from the West Midlands. Salary of over £100k on the NHS and earn double that again privately.
Told them he should be paying that himself. How many treatments for £22k. In the end they capped future moving costs at £8.5k.
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My abiding memory of working with the NHS from an IT perspective was for the unmitigated disaster that was the Lorenzo Patient Record System back in the early 00s.
A team from the IT company I worked for was contracted out to a company called CSC who was the major provider for Lorenzo to the NHS. However, even at the initial stages we knew this was going to be one hell of an expensive, over-complicated balls-up because too many NHS managers (NHS Crew, as we called them) wanted to get involved in the project, quite often ignoring the advice and software/hardware capabilities of the Lorenzo system we were trying to implement.
Delays and major cost-overruns went on for months as the NHS management kept on moving the goalposts time and time again. And then when the government at the time wanted to know what the fuck was going on the NHS Crew blamed CSC for the delays, even though it was complete bollocks!
As a consequence we were given deadlines to hand the project over, but typically the NHS Crew made shortcuts to save time – in other words there was no Quality Assurance Testing, no Beta Testing, scarcely any training given to the poor sods who were going to be lumbered with this half-baked piece of software. All the NHS Crew wanted was for it to go live and damn the consequences!
Anyway, it went live and ultimately landed on it arse as we knew it would.
Total cost to the Taxpayer?
Almost £10bn
Who was to blame?
No one as far as the NHS Crew was concerned!
NHS Management – complete and utter cock wombles.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/sep/18/nhs-records-system-10bn
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You are not wrong, Techno.
I can’t remember the details now but back when the world was saner than it is now (1990s), we had paper computer journals/newspapers delivered to our offices. Computing and Computer Weekly were the main ones. I remember reading the unfolding story of the then latest new IT project for the NHS and how it was a pile of shit, costing millions, always being delayed, didn’t work properly, etc. etc. etc.
I’ve lost count of the number of number of times this has happened with the NHS and other government run departments. It’s fuck ups like this which paved the way for the industry to embrace RAD (Rapid Application Development) which morphed into “Agile”. Yeah, let’s not have an analysis and requirements gathering phase or a design phase or actually unit test then system test the code. Let’s just start writing code on day one. What could possibly go wrong? Cunts.
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I need an appointment with my GP. Urgently.
I’ve just heard R4 gushing on about Serena Williams and all the barriers she has broken down for black folk AND women.
And it’s made me feel sick…
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They gave the silly fa bitch a “wild card” and she still fucked up. I daresay Lewis Hamilton and Andy Murray, now their careers are down the lavatory will also be given wild cards to keeptheir iserable careers going a bit longer.
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Williams was a bully who steamrollered opponents with her masculine physique. Normal female tennis players didn’t stand a chance. She showed no empathy with beaten opponents and when she lost she blamed everything and everyone else and gave no praise to the victor. A bad sport. Towards the end even the useless radacantdo beat her.
Like Hamilton she hates whiteys and claims she battled racism when like him she actually got every advantage.
Now she is going to be an ‘icon’ ffs.
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and she looks like Mike Tyson in a ra-ra skirt.
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There was actually a pair of black sisters who were professional tennis players in the 1930s…
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2353528-remembering-the-first-pair-of-african-american-sisters-to-take-tennis-by-storm
It always makes me laugh when the media acts like black people in [insert occupation] is something new. Jack Johnson was knocking out white boxers with ease in the early 1900s.
All of this politicized, fake adulation is actually insulting to black people. It’s 2022 not 1822. America had a black President for fuck’s sake, we’ve moved on. But the media won’t stop with this crap even when black people themselves tell them to shut the fuck up.
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Which set of cunts decided the health service was a business and needed an army of vastly overpaid bureaucrats?
Was it that John the grey man Major?
I’m blaming that cunt anyway as I can’t be arsed looking it up.
Add millions of foreigners who hammer it as they can’t believe their good fortune and we are where we are.
In a right mess.
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NHS should be there to treat ill people only. Stop pissing away valuable resources subsidising expensive lifestyle choices like IVF, tit enlargements, sex change surgery, liposuction, gastric bands, tattoo removals, scams like Homeopathy – give the cunts placebos instead because that’s all Homeopathy is anyway. Get rid of translators, diversity managers, 50% of all managers – those remaining need to start earning their keep by charging health tourists and foreigners who don’t have insurance. Also cancel or renegotiate those PFI contracts Blair and Brown were so fond of ripping the taxpayer off with.
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Our eldest is a doctor and judging from our discussions on the NHS I think she would agree with every point you make. MJB.
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Same here. With the addition that emergency ambulances are for that, only, not just because you or someone wants decides you want “checking over”.
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When Mrs Bastard was a senior theatre recovery nurse, they were awarded with a new manager. You cannot make it up, SHE came from Toys R Us. That about sums the NH fucking S up. Cunts.
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Not unlike the police, with direct-entry superintendants. (Think that was the rank).
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Of fucking Hell! That’s beyond satire, fuck me.
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You should have to pay to see a GP. Minimum of 20 quid per appointment. If you are desperate, you’ll pay, I would. I was once in the clinic and I could hear an old cunt and the doctor laughing loudly for about 10 minutes. Old cunt comes out, he looks fine, fuck all wrong with him, in the pink. A lot of the old cunts LOVE going to doctors, it’s a social occasion, and that was acceptable in the days of old, but these days, a lot of people clog up the GP clinics with minor ailments that the chemist will sort out – of course you have to PAY MONEY for that, every cunt wants a free prescription (Scotland only) . Where I used to live, if the schedule was full, they would ask you to go to the clinic half a mile up the road. Guess what? A lot of people would go, “no, I’ll just wait until there is an appointment at my own clinic,” uh, didn’t you just say you were ill? You can see a GP today instead of three to five days from now. That clinic up the road was always empty when I went it. The “normal” one was always packed. Fucking comical. “I dinna like the doctors up the road, it’s nay the same.”
A good percentage of people in Britain have became useless, dithering, clueless spastics. Too much dead wood that needs cutting out.
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It’s like when we say we’re taking them to X-hospital rather than Y-hospital, especially if we go over the border.
“But they have my notes”
they whine. Heard of computers? We’re not a fucking taxi you state your destination to, cunt.
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I would just sedate EVERY patient.
“UHHHHHHHH! MY ARM! DON’T YOU TOUCH ME! CALLING MY LAWYER!!!”
Droperidol into the arm, lights out, you cow!
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From neoclassical to neoliberal, seemed like a good idea at the time, if you were a raging sociopath. Anyway I’ve ticked my box for sad old cunt.
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Ever since my kidneys failed, my local medical centre and GP have not spoken one word to me. Straight up, since last November, those cunts haven’t even bothered to ask if I am dead or alive. You’d think that someone who has been going there for over 40 years would get a call from the Doctors when diagnosed with dialysis, Fat fucking chance.
And they don’t even do prescriptions any more. And they don’t -or won’t – help out the pharmacy next door, who are snowed under (migrants and all that. You know the score). They even treat the chemists staff like shit. My local medical centre and its GPs have always been cunts. But now, since Covid, they are absolutely insufferable and bigger cunts than ever.
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I firmly believe that most problems afflicting this country stem from 1 source, over population that has been achieved artificially instead of natural growth whereby the society adapts slowly and things are built up as needed, but we have huge amounts of incomers dumped in without any of the infrastructure to cope. The equivalent if you will of trying to get a gallon into a pint pot with a huge mess resulting.
I’m very pro NHS as they saved my life on 3 occasions, but it does need drastic surgery on itself.
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I’d imagine the smart and enlightened folks here on ISAC know the dirty little secret when it comes to health care. Something the Yanks can’t or don’t want to acknowledge for fear of the meltdown that would inevitably follow. That is, the demand for healthcare will always out pace its supply. We will never live in a world where there are fully staffed, fully equipped hospitals with nothing to do. That means choices have to be made over who and what gets treated. Put another way, it’s healthcare rationing and the law of averages plus human intervention means it’s never going to be fair or equitable.
The NHS is so huge with so many moving parts that a natural consequence is pockets of excellent care and pockets of catastrophic failure of care. My elderly dad fell over outside a few months back. My equally elderly mum called for an ambulance and was told it would be 7 hours. Yep, you read that correctly – SEVEN!
I think it’s clear and obvious the NHS is abused on a daily basis and overall simply can’t cope with the demand. There also appears to be blatant mismanagement of resources which has been going on for decades. For some it’s a gravy train. For others it’s an overwhelming, thankless, low paid, vocation that mercilessly exploits people’s goodwill, desire to help and willingness to go the extra mile or more. For me, it’s a case of simple economics, self respect and career choice. If you don’t like being overworked, under appreciated, underpaid and exploited, quite whining and get a different job. No one is holding a gun to your head to be a nurse, doctor, ambulance driver or whatever.
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The NHS IS abused on a daily basis, and, I say this with respect, you state that your dad fell over so your mum called an ambulance? Now, I don’t know the circumstances, but, I’d say that the majority of calls like that, we just pick them up, (which I have no problem doing), do a set of obs and leave. However, with the waits experienced at the moment, they’re on the floor for hours, like your dad, and it turns into a long-lie so they have to go into hospital. Care homes are cunts for this. This could be avoided if they’re assisted up. Harsh as it may sound, but there is no need for a paramedic crew to come and pick someone up who’s not injured. Family, friends, neighbours, anyone can do it! If there’re bones sticking out, shortening and rotation, etc, yes, call us. Fall, non-injury? No. There’s not an infinite supply of ambulances, probably 80% of calls in the stack are non-emergency jobs – would you call the fire brigade to blow your fucking candles out, just in case, or the Coastguard if there’s a deep puddle, just in case? – and, it’s going to get worse.
As you say, nobody’s holding a gun to our heads to stay, but, you can thank fuck that some of us do… at the moment.
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My mum was just doing what she was told by a previous ambulance crew. A previous time it happened, she tried to get my dad back on his feet. Long story short, she fractured a bone in the unsuccessful and long winded attempt. A small framed 80+ year old woman shouldn’t be attempting such a thing, but you can’t reason with her. Relatives live nowhere close by and the few neighbours are themselves pretty elderly. So there’s no immediate help on hand.
We could debate the wisdom of them living in a semi-rural location with little in the way of help/assistance on hand. What we can’t debate is the limited resources available to the ambulance service and the fact they had to make (priority) choices which left an old man lying on the cold ground for many, many hours. I’m pretty sure that’s not what my folks had in mind while they paid their NI contributions and income tax for 80 odd years combined.
Still, by the time the crew showed up my dad was in a bad way and they actually took him away with them for hospital treatment. To this day I don’t know where he ended up, but he was under constant care for almost 3 weeks before he was allowed home again. I dread to think how many times this kind of scenario plays out. Little to no care on the front end causing longer and more expensive care on the back end.
NHS – gotta love it.
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“I dread to think how many times this kind of scenario plays out. Little to no care on the front end causing longer and more expensive care on the back end.”
Daily, all over the country and, I covered your last point, in a post, above. Social care is a joke, and, guess who picks up the pieces? I’m surprised that somedody, private ambulance provider, hasn’t started up a company that just goes around picking people up off the floor. All you need is a lifting cushion, training in assessment and a normal car. Doesn’t require lights and sirens – certainly don’t use mine for these jobs – charge £X per job. You’d coin it in.
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And, to add, as harsh as it sounds, consious, breathing, not catastrophic bleeding, isn’t a priority for an emergency ambulance. I’ll not tell you about the triage protocols at a major incident for P1, P2 etc…
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I would just sedate EVERY patient.
“UHHHHHHHH! MY ARM! DON’T YOU TOUCH ME! CALLING MY LAWYER!!!”
Droperidol into the arm, lights out, you cow!
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I’ve had a text from my GPS, asking me to make an appointment for my annual blood sucking/vampire experience.
Just joking, BP check and liver/kidney function tests.
Now, I truly hate the blood test, my BP is usually through the ceiling, but needs must, except…
I can’t get through to the surgery by phone, I can’t walk in to make an appointment, Covid, innit!
What in the name of all that’s Holy am I supposed to do?
Don’t worry, DCI, I won’t dial the 9s.
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I had a tip, rang them 10 minutes before surgery closed, got an appointment.
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I worked for the NHS 4 yrs back in the 90s. The wastage of money was shocking, specifically money wasted on an army of middle management who do absolutely fuck all, and spent on contractors who fleece it (made catastrophic by Blairs PFI madness). The NHS has more than enough money- an unpalatable truth, lost on the demented, clapping seals and their puppet masters.
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