The nhs is clearly really inefficient.
After my Atlantic trip, my last task was to park the boat securely. I made a big concrete mooring, rowed it out into the river, and threw it over the back of the dinghy. After two years sailing without a day's illness or injury, I just gave myself a hernia., putting the hand brake on as it were
I went to the doctor with my hand in my pocket, holding my guts in place. After I was examined, I was given a sheet of A4 with a bit of writing on it, entitled, How to live with your hernia. I said, but I do manual work, and now I'm going around with my hand in my pocket holding myself together. How's that going to work? New policy he said, it's the cuts. So how do I get the operation? You'll have to contact me a few times, and if I hear from you often enough, I can put you forward for the op. I went home, and immediately rang the doctor. Phone call number one I said. Are you ready for another?
I got the op maybe 3 weeks later. Talking to the surgeon, I said I was surprised it was so quick. He said well, they've got nothing to do. It's all gone quiet for some reason...
And don't get me started on the antique software and the incompatibility between agencies. And the amount of money spent on failing to solve that.
But it's not the NHS as an organisation that people are clapping for. It's the individuals putting themselves at risk helping others. Working mad hours. Working in the insane bureaucracy and putting up with it. And now, risking their own lives - how many NHS people have died now? 50? It's the people they're clapping for, not the organisation. (Surely?)
