Freeman Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Does the NHS spend £Millions on a new A&E, and then forget to actually staff the bloody place adequately on a wednesday night....? Don't get me wrong, facilities are great, but 5 people queueing and an hours wait to see a Doc? Felt sorry for the bloke who'd mashed his finger with a hammer, proper raspberry jam job. Ho-hum, one 7yo with a 'buckled' bone and 3 hours later And wtf is a buckled bone? And before anyone pipes up, have 'nuff respect for those working in the NHS, just wish they'd spend more in it, so it runs properly Quote
Freeman Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Posted October 23, 2008 And wtf is a buckled bone? Ah, Greenstick Torus Fracture, caused by Impaction..... Google is your friend Quote
Sir Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I hope they sorted out whatever it was that you were in there for as quick as they could mate Ad Quote
tarion Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I'm sorry about ur bad experience but it's getting the same in every hospital across the country. It's not just that not enough money is spent, but nobody wants to work for the NHS anymore, especially A&E! I should know, I work in A&E and on ANY given shift we r a 3rd of the staff (docs & nurses) down! They have been advertising these vacancies for as long as i've been there, (getting on 5 years,) but as soon as they a fill a post, someone else walks out. It is not a nice place to work anymore as we are constantly abused, verbally and physically and I have been assaulted numerous times, twice seriously. And before anyone says well we're paid a reasonable amount to compensate, no we're not! U could never be paid enough to take that kind of abuse, and I don't call £9.60 an hour enough to live on, let alone anything else! :( Quote
dreadycraig Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 The NHS need to sack the managers that do F all and employ more nurses and doctors! Quote
GIBBYDMG Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 ^^^ I'm with you all the way on this one bud there is more admin than people doing the job and it's not only in the NHS Quote
DavidOps Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Also, anyone who assaults a member of NHS staff in a hospital should get banned from the NHS for life. Complete cutoff, the only way to get treatment is to go totally private. Serve 'em right. Bloody oxygen thieves. Quote
tarion Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Also, anyone who assaults a member of NHS staff in a hospital should get banned from the NHS for life. Complete cutoff, the only way to get treatment is to go totally private. Serve 'em right. Bloody oxygen thieves. Oh if only..................................................... Bloody oxygen thieves. PMSL!!!! Love it! Quote
Freeman Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Posted October 23, 2008 Well good-ish news, Orthopaedics have confirmed it as a bent bone? Splint for two-three weeks rather than a cast Littl' uns gutted, he wanted a cast like his friend at school, muppet. Quote
Fluffy-lou Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Glad to hear it's not as bad as feared Col... Here's to a speedy recovery for your lil'un. If I had a pound for every hour I've sat waiting in A&E / fracture clinics / x-ray etc with Nemo then I'd be a VERY wealthy woman. The one thing that always winds me up dreadfully is WHY a triage nurse can't order an x-ray... Waiting to see the doctor for hours to be told something I knew before I even walked in through the door drives me nuts. Got away with it this time tho' - her Dad took her Quote
Freeman Posted October 23, 2008 Author Report Posted October 23, 2008 The one thing that always winds me up dreadfully is WHY a triage nurse can't order an x-ray... Waiting to see the doctor for hours to be told something I knew before I even walked in through the door drives me nuts. Oddly enough, that was exactly what I told reception.... Still had to wait over an hour to see a doctor, 40 min in Xray while they wheeled in Patients off wards, another 40min to see the Doc again, and then twenty min waiting for a splint.... Hopefully it's not a family trait, as my old fella broke his right arm 4 times as a nipper, I broke my left 4 times..... and that was before I started Kiting Quote
tarion Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Well good-ish news, Orthopaedics have confirmed it as a bent bone? Splint for two-three weeks rather than a cast Littl' uns gutted, he wanted a cast like his friend at school, muppet. Fab news for u both, i'm glad for u. The one thing that always winds me up dreadfully is WHY a triage nurse can't order an x-ray... I have asked till i'm blue in the face to go on this study day for the exact reason u mentioned, but guess what, no funding..............(don't get me started on all the millions of ways they waste money, not to mention the 'operational managers', of which there is more of them than us, (no i'm not kidding,) that come up with supposed ways to make the department run smother....... (more complicated more like,) including just last week forcing us to increase our shift hours from 10.5 hrs to 12.5 hrs! (We we're breaking the law doing 10.5 hr shifts!) Apparently it doesn't matter that the EU strongly discourages this for health reasons, we obviously have no human rights in this matter!) :mad::mad: Quote
Kiteboyza Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 see thats why I married a doctor, no waiting around...lol Col, you should have phoned an ambulance, everyone else does! Quote
Fluffy-lou Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Shaz - the reasons you quote are EXACTLY why I left the NHS 18 years ago and why I have no plans to return, ever Quote
tarion Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Sod off D! That's the reason why the NHS has no sodding money, because ppl squander it by calling ambulances for non life-threatening emergencies! And besides, he'd not have been seen any quicker as he'd still have been triaged and seen according to severity of injury. CALLING AN AMBULANCE DOES NOT GET U SEEN ANY QUICKER! iT JUST WASTES VALUABLE RESOURCES AND THEN REAL EMERGENCIES HAVE TO WAIT AND SUFFER! :mad::mad: Quote
eeyore Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I know an A+E doc twice removed... the idiot kept helping himsllf to the medical cabinet. Quote
Kiteboyza Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 Sod off D! That's the reason why the NHS has no sodding money, because ppl squander it by calling ambulances for non life-threatening emergencies! And besides, he'd not have been seen any quicker as he'd still have been triaged and seen according to severity of injury. CALLING AN AMBULANCE DOES NOT GET U SEEN ANY QUICKER! iT JUST WASTES VALUABLE RESOURCES AND THEN REAL EMERGENCIES HAVE TO WAIT AND SUFFER! :mad::mad: Im calling an ambulance next time to get tot he pub as I dont have taxi fare Col, on second thoughts, you should have demanded a home visit as it was dark and you cant drive in the dark Quote
Nemo Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I have huge amounts of respect for people who work for the NHS, they have patched me up enough times, take sh!t that they shouldn't have to and are still generally brilliant . But there are a hell of alot of things that wind me up too. The first being the ordering of X-rays, when i broke my arm this time around it took two hours for the doc to see me for 2mins and say I needed an x-ray . Got wound up at the fracture clinic the other day too. When I got the appointment they gave me a 5min lecture on how I shouldn't be late (fair enough) but then was seen 2 and a half hours after my appointment time. I can understand this if it was because one of the docs or nurses needed to go to an emergency, but then one of the nurses told me it was because one of the docs had scheduled a non-emergency operation when he was meant to be in the fracture clinic, and there was no-one to cover. So its ok for them to decide that an operation is much more interesting than clinic duty, but it's not ok for me to be 5 mins late if the bus didn't run? IMHO, too many managers and not enough staff that actually treat patients. And not giving the nurses enough credit or powers to order basic things like an x-ray. But on the other hand - I love the NHS despite all its faults. I probably couldn't afford to live somewhere else if I had to pay for medical treatment. I have a friend who lives in the US, she thinks she has broken her ankle but doesn't get health cover at work but doesn't earn enough to be able to afford it either, so is limping around without being able to get treatment. I never want to be in that situation, where I couldn't afford to get help when I needed it. Sometimes I think we forget that we are actually pretty lucky here! Quote
The Surgeon Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I think one hour is pretty darn good. Over the years I've had to wait for up to 5 hours for broken bones to be seen and only once did I get seen in under an hour. That day there was a bank siege in town and they were turning all the people away who'd broken a nail or got a little cut on their thumb or stubbed their toe or other stuff that shouldn't even make into A&E. I've got nowt but respect for the NHS. I'm with Nemo. Watch 'Sicko' and thank your lucky stars. Quote
MatJ Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I've only been to A&E once (though I should have been more often, really), but I was seen in 20 minutes. Mind you, they did think I'd broken my thumb (turned out to be a torn ligament). Quote
Bertie Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 i broke and dislocated my little toe. went to A&E and sat around with my little toe at a right angle (literally) for 3 hours. when i go tot see a doctor they told me i should have said it was so bad, i would have got in there sooner! whilst there are a large number of muppets in the NHS who waste a lot of my time through pointless appointments and giving wrong information, there are a select few who are awesome people who deserve big respect Quote
tigertim Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 What a joke our health service is! I had an appointment with a specialist the other day. 58 days waiting - apparently quite good. 10.15 appointment booked on their new online system. The working day starts at 09.00 yet somehow by 12.00 I still hadn't been seen. I need to leave by 12.30 and when I enquire if theres any hope of being seen by then I'm told not a hope as the specialist still hadn't turned up!!! So I say I need to leave and ask to book another appointment - only to be told since I booked online I'd need to do it there. What a total shambles. How can you be more than 2.5 hours delayed just 1 hour into the day? WTF do we pay national insurance for? Quote
kitegirl Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 I think one hour is pretty darn good. Over the years I've had to wait for up to 5 hours for broken bones to be seen and only once did I get seen in under an hour. My thoughts entirely. You wanna try Hull Royal Infirmary. Has got a lot better though recently I gotta say. Once took me 5 hours from hobbling in to hobbling out. The other week I was in and out in just under an hour! Quote
Kiteboyza Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 What a joke our health service is! I had an appointment with a specialist the other day. 58 days waiting - apparently quite good. 10.15 appointment booked on their new online system. The working day starts at 09.00 yet somehow by 12.00 I still hadn't been seen. I need to leave by 12.30 and when I enquire if theres any hope of being seen by then I'm told not a hope as the specialist still hadn't turned up!!! So I say I need to leave and ask to book another appointment - only to be told since I booked online I'd need to do it there. What a total shambles. How can you be more than 2.5 hours delayed just 1 hour into the day? WTF do we pay national insurance for? go private and see what it costs, it will make you national insurance contribution look silly....now stop being such a misserable fecker;) Quote
sym170 Posted October 23, 2008 Report Posted October 23, 2008 i had to wait on the wrong side of 4 hours to bee seen when i broke my tib and fib. then i had to be put into a different room where it took 2 hours to be seen by a doctor who then sent me for xrays. i was told what was broken after 1 hour of waiting for the doctor to tell me what id done. then i was sent home with painkillers and i had to report to the fracture clinic the next day. On the way out a lady on crutches who i saw in the waiting room (who got an ambulance in 2 mins when i was refused ) told me she was in sooooo much pain, so i asked her what she'd done...sprained ankle!!!!!!! that was only a 2 hour wait "rolleyes" and then i was told i needed an op and had to schedule it for a week later cos i was in the middle of a levels. now this is where it gets funny. when i was on the way to the fracture clinic to report for the opporation, i slipped over just before i reached the door cos the floor was f u c k i n g wet!!!!!! luckily i avoided falling on my temp cast! well i had to wait 2 days in a bed to get the op obviously because i wasn't in any risk of death then i had the op, all was good...untill i caught some infection which meant i had an 8 day stay in the hospital. i went through 7 intravenous needles in that time because the nurses kept missing my EXTREMELY prominant veins and got fed flucloxacilin (sp) and penicillin 4 times a day, one of which i had to get up at 5 to have it, not exactly pleasant lol but other than that, it wern't too bad Quote
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