There is a blog, although one that has not been updated for a long while, called the National Death Service, which has covered stories of the cruelty and incompetence that characterises Britain’s NHS. Although this blog has not been updated for years it’s still a useful resource and one that gives the lie to the oft repeated and groundless claim that the NHS is the ‘envy of the world.’
The NHS is not in reality the ‘envy of the world’, it is in fact one of the worst ways that any country could deliver comprehensive healthcare to all its citizens or subjects. It is a sclerotic monster where piss poor treatment and indeed cruelty is the norm.
On National Death Service you can read about such ‘delights’ as doctors putting ‘do no resucisstate’ notices on the notes of patients who do not require them, discrimination against patients who have disabilities, failure to feed and water patients and hospitals refusing to admit seriously ill people on the grounds that the correct admission procedure has not been followed. Some of us, for good reason, do not love the NHS, we fear having anything to do with it because it is so damned bad.
I have a couple of reasons to hate them too:
A pig-ignorant midwife nearly killed my wife and daughter in childbirth – she was “retrained” after complaints and then again allowed to endanger others. (The inquiry tried hard to cover it up – we had to fight hard for justice against the closed ranks of self-protecting jobsworths.)
My wife’s cancer was misdiagnosed, then treated incorrectly. She died, much sooner than could have been the case with good care. Again, no-one’s fault according to them.
There are more examples in my family – I now have zero trust in hospital medics (& especially the admin creatures) and would rather die at home than enter one of their killing zones.
F221:
I think I read on your site about the NHS releasing patients with or suspected with Covid-19 back to nursing homes without informing the nursing homes that they were (potential) carriers.
Yesterday on BBC1 Liz Kendall implicitly corroborated this bit of information.
Thus I am not surprised that the care-home death toll is so high.
Whilst personally I have a high regard for the Doctors and nurses in the NHS – my family’s experience of the NHS has been good – I find the managers etc. truly appalling.
In fact I will go so far as to say that *if* this report can be fully corroborated then corporate man-slaugher charges should be brought against all those hospitals. Administrators found guilty of not providing care homes with the data on Covid-19 and suspected cases should be summarily dismissed and for preference prosecuted for man-slaughter and disbarred from working within the care sector for life.
I completely agree that those who made the decision to sacrifice care home residents to Covid19 should face manslaughter charges. It seems that the NHS afford and can give treatment to unwanted migrants from Greece but not keep our elderly in hospital and away from potentially infecting care home residents. I’m glad that you have had some good service from the NHS, however that has not been the experience of either myself or my family. I don’t entirely blame management for the bad state of the NHS, I think that all are culpable, including front line medical staff. For more on why I despise the NHS please read this post https://www.fahrenheit211.net/2020/03/29/i-refuse-to-bow-down-to-this-idol/ I would be more than happy if the Govt paid for every Briton’s medical insurance and closed down the appalling, often dangerous and now very politicised National Health Service.