NHS is a Farce! (The NHS vs Private Health Care)

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Product:	The NHS vs Private Health Care
Date:	18/03/01 (278 review reads)
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Advantages: NHS doesn't discriminate

Disadvantages: discriminates against the less well off

Well by the end of this opinion i think you will understand that me and hospitals don't get on very well at all!

I have been in hospital for numerous reasons over the 16 years of my life, firstly i will give examples of these and then i will answer the question, should the NHS go private?

1:playing rugby in my garden, a knee landed in my mouth, teeth went through my lip. I needed 6 stitches in my lip which i got from a very friendly young nurse who handled the situation very well, she told me she was putting 3 in and that's how many i thought went in. However i had to wait 3 hours to get this attention!

2:playing rugby at school and i actually broke down in the changing rooms and i couldn't stop my legs shaking and i was scared! walked out to my mum in the car and we drove straight to the hospital. We waited there for, wait for it, 7 hours all together!However i waited 7 hours to be seen and was then told to go home by the junior doctor, there was nothing wrong with me, apparently. Got home and had a phone call, the hospital? the head of accident and emergency told me to get up there immediately and i had to stay in hospital for 2 weeks and get numerous scans etc done and to this day they still don't really know what's wrong with me, they think it was discitis!

3:Fractured finger i got up to the hospital and waited for 5 hours to be seen and i was sent home to come in the next week to get a permanent cast. Got there the next week and got a cat but had to wait for 2 hours!

4:Stood on glass on a beach in Donegal had to come straight home because donegal hospital was shut! had to wait 4 hours to get the 6 measly stitches i needed!

5:Checkups for my fractured finger last week had to wait 2 hours and i had a bloody appointment!

6:today one of my mates through a hockey ball at me and it hit me on the elbow, i think i've got a broken bone in my elbow but guess what, i'm stayin
g at home, no way i'm sitting in a hospital doing nothing for about 6 hours.

7:Perferated ear drum in cyprus, taken to the hospital and i got seen straight away and i was put into a bed and stayed there for a week, my mum wasn't allowed to sleep in the bed beside me which was free! A joke!

Right, first of all don't get injured like me. But really the state of our hospitals. Well really are they actually that bad compared to other countries. I was listening to the radio the other night and i found out that Canada's health service is private but there was a man who wasn't ensured and needed a life saving operation but the hospital wouldn't give it to him, that's an absolute joke. So first of all i believe that the NHS (national service) is the right option. Insurance would cost too much and many people wouldn't be able to afford it and then some couldn't get their operations.
I think the main issue here is though there are problems, serious problems with the NHS. The waiting lists are huge because of not enough doctors and nurses and they can't cope. The doctors and nurses, very often young or foreign are forced to work late nights and get very little pay for the great job they do. Instead of encouraging people to enlist and be doctors and nurses the government has decided that the best policy is to rely on foreign doctors entirely. The government should be advertising the NHS and doctors and nurses on the tv like they've done with the new northern ireland police service, encouraging doctors and nurses to train that are actually from this country. The doctor i was referring to above could hardly speak english and he had no bed side manner, he told my mum to shut up and sit down!
Money is being poured int the NHS in the wrong ways money is being wasted on extremely expensive drugs, that are being sold on the NHS to people for free instead of using that money to encourage doctors and nur
ses which will have an effect of reducing waiting lists, which would be great.
I believe that most of the doctors and nurses of the NHS do a great job and are very committed and there pay should be increased, have you seen the hours they work!
They are some of the most committed people i know and should be publicly acclaimed.
Obviously the scandal about the organs being kept of young children is another blot in the copy book of the NHS but hopefully they will have learned from it. Another thing is that apparently the hospitals are in an awful state of repair, where's the money Tony!
Can i just add one more thing, hospital food is disgusting and i think the idea of getting a chef in to try and change the meals is a good idea but remember meals are a minor thing it's the waiting list that most people care about. Waiting years to get an operation, often life saving is not on!

In conclusion i believe the NHS is the way forward, a private system can often be discriminative against the less well off of society and in fairness the NHS is a really great system, it's just being run badly, money is going into wrong areas. Why should Viagra be on the NHS, it's a joke. In theory the NHS is great but in practice it's poor.

Gordon Brown get your check book out now!

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