[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

I've had the misfortune to experience the NHS quite a lot this year, with my mother's run of ill-health. It's a shambles. And for those who say the NHS is 24/7, you are sadly mistaken. Don't expect to see a doctor or get ANY kind of decision from a doctor over the weekend because it won't happen. There are plenty of doctors in casualty but don't expect one on the wards over the weekend unless it's a dire emergency, even in a stroke ward. No Physios or Occupational Therapists are available over the weekend so all progress stops for two days. And since my mother has been home she'll be visited by a district nurse in the morning to do one procedure and another in the afternoon to do something else. They waste money hand over fist. Someone needs to get hold of the NHS and teach them how to budget because right now it is run by what seems to be a bunch of happy amateurs and it's a very sad state of affairs for such a brilliant institution.

The junior doctors need to think about how they are perceived now and how else they can get their message across. At the start of this they had public backing, but the series of strikes coming up will, I predict, end that support.

How will ending the junior doctors strike provide physios or OTs on a weekend? Your mother receives two home visits a day that is a fantastic level of care of which many would be over the moon with.
I'm wondering if what she has done is something family could help with? it would free up a valuable visit.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

How will ending the junior doctors strike provide physios or OTs on a weekend? Your mother receives two home visits a day that is a fantastic level of care of which many would be over the moon with.
I'm wondering if what she has done is something family could help with? it would free up a valuable visit.

It's so tiresome having to explain these things, but here we go...

I mentioned physios and OTs because people are saying that the NHS is already a 24 hour service which it is not.

Two visits by two different nurses when one visit to do two things would have been enough is madness and it's typical of the bloody shambles that is the NHS.

It is nothing whatsoever to do with you to suggest that my mother's treatment could be carried out by the family. What a ****ing nerve....

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

It's so tiresome having to explain these things, but here we go...

I mentioned physios and OTs because people are saying that the NHS is already a 24 hour service which it is not.

Two visits by two different nurses when one visit to do two things would have been enough is madness and it's typical of the bloody shambles that is the NHS.

It is nothing whatsoever to do with you to suggest that my mother's treatment could be carried out by the family. What a ****ing nerve....

If you don't wish to discuss things a discussion forum is mot the best place for you is it?

Again regardless of what happens to the contracts it won't impact on any other service, junior doctors do work 7 days however therefore their service is 24/7.

It was not designed to cause offence at all, they may have separate specialisms perhaps?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

If you don't wish to discuss things a discussion forum is mot the best place for you is it?

Again regardless of what happens to the contracts it won't impact on any other service, junior doctors do work 7 days however therefore their service is 24/7.

It was not designed to cause offence at all, they may have separate specialisms perhaps?

Actually, it was something one nurse could have done in one visit. THEY said that, not me. District nurses are rushed off their feet at the best of times so it would help if they, or whoever does the rotas, could be a bit more organised.

I used my mother's experience as an anecdotal reference which was valid. It's not your business whether she needs nursing care or the family could do it.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

Actually, it was something one nurse could have done in one visit. THEY said that, not me. District nurses are rushed off their feet at the best of times so it would help if they, or whoever does the rotas, could be a bit more organised.

I used my mother's experience as an anecdotal reference which was valid. It's not your business whether she needs nursing care or the family could do it.

One error is not indicative of a failing service.

You have made that clear, by asking me the same was that you making that point or just being facetious?

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

One error is not indicative of a failing service.

You have made that clear, by asking me the same was that you making that point or just being facetious?

If it was one error that would be amazing. But is isn't... It's been a series of ridiculous **** ups. For instance, she's been prescribed Warfarin when her stroke was due to a bleed, not a clot, and Warfarin could have killed her. Luckily, the family spotted it. There's been a whole host of mistakes that've come one after another.

That was me making a point. Obviously.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Livia

If it was one error that would be amazing. But is isn't... It's been a series of ridiculous **** ups. For instance, she's been prescribed Warfarin when her stroke was due to a bleed, not a clot, and Warfarin could have killed her. Luckily, the family spotted it. There's been a whole host of mistakes that've come one after another.

That was me making a point. Obviously.

But again how is the imposition of the junior drs contracts to remedy this?