The Sin Bin • Re: Kier Starmer
ColD wrote:
Has the waiting list for appointments and operations not grown significantly??
Now I have no idea what they were/are doing instead, but from personal experience
- a relative with cancer having his appointments/scans/treatment put off until you literally have to beg for scans and the appointment date with the consultant to be met
- to then have a scan 4 weeks prior to the appointment, then arrive at the appointment to be told by a registrar (consultant in a meeting, despite it being his normal clinic time) that the scans haven’t yet been read and someone will phone us but couldn’t say when
GP’s no longer undertaking face to face appointments without a telephone consultation first - and whilst giving a day can’t say at what point during that day they will phone. Indeed the wife’s GP surgery still has locked doors so you can’t get to reception, forms handed out through windows and any face to face appointments through a side door
Tough times for NHS workers no doubt, and especially critical care - but rest of it not covered itself in glory in my experience
It is sad, a tragedy in fact, but they had to prioritise. Which meant other things were de-prioritised - because the resource to cope with what had happened and everything as else as well doesn’t exist. It wasn’t that the oncologists weren’t working, for example, it was that many of them were assigned to managing patients with COVID-19 instead of carrying out their normal practice.
Statistics: Posted by Mild Rover — Mon May 03, 2021 10:08 pm