UK. This is going to be a touch controversial but do you, like me, think every time we are told to 'help our NHS' that shouldn't the NHS?

Question

really be helping US? It's just because in recent years, the situation with the NHS has deteriorated to the point it cannot function when disasters happen?

Answer 1

I would not like to be working in a hospital right now but at the end of the day, that is what they’ve signed up for. Not detracting from the job they’re doing though , except for GPS (ours anyway), who seem to have opted out. You can’t get an appointment (nothing new there), and they are taking forever with sick notes etc

Answer 2

Its their job.



They shouldn't be doing it for praise and media attention.



just do your damn job.



does the postman come on the news and ask for extra love and attention for delivering our mail each morning in these tough times ?  NO he does not.



but he still does his job.



being praised for doing what you are trained to do is odd imo.

Answer 3

The reason the NHS isn't functioning is because our current Government has been under funding it for 10 years and selling off parts to private companies.  So yes you do need to help the NHS, as at some point you will need to have an operation or some form of medical treatment and without those Nurses, Doctors, Porters, Cleaners and Administrators, Ambulance drivers and Paramedics, you'll die.



Perhaps you could offer to pay for some of the equipment they need to function in a safe environment, your probably a Conservative supporter, who isn't aware of the low salaries and unsociable hours that most NHS work, just to keep us alive and well.

Answer 4

NHS lost my brother's record. He is not able to get an appointment for a surgery to fix his hernia which is painful even when he sits. It's been more than a year! 

My colleague nearly died because her problem was brushed off as 'gas'.

My other colleague's friend who had cancer got an all clear, she was deemed completely healthy, no cancer cells. A month later she died. Of that cancer. 

I had a dislocated shoulder. I got a physiotherapy appointment 8! months later.

Should I go on?

I think I'd fear for my life if I had to go to the hospital. 

Answer 5

The NHS does not bill Africans who fly in for expensive treament daily meaning UK taxpayers who need it wait longer for appointments so the NHS is malevolent to UK taxpayers.

Answer 6

The NHS have never done  anything for me except misdiagnose me on numerous occasions and I have ended up paying to see somebody so why should I do anything to help the NHS?.  

Answer 7

The best way to help the NHS is to never, ever vote Tory.

Answer 8

That’s hardly the NHS’s fault, but 10 years of the Tories cutting everything in the name of austerity. The austerity which didn’t need to happen, it was a political choice.



The use of “war” analogies for the current situation is interesting, because we spend a massive amount on defence against countries we choose as enemies, yet would not contemplate spending enough on a pandemic which might happen.  



It’s not as though people haven’t been warning that it had to happen for the last forty years.

Answer 9

"Helping the NHS" means not being selfish bastards and heeding the medical experts' advice intended to slow the increase in cases to minimise the extent of hospitals and their staff being overwhelmed. I don't have much optimism where I live after years of Tory budget cuts. The hospital struggles to cope and declares black alerts at the peak of most flu seasons.

Answer 10

far right gammons voted for conservatives

tories hated NHS from the beginning and have continually tried to wreck it

10 years of tory austerity 

in tory hour of need, the NHS has saved them 

funny how tories now call NHS staff HEROES, yet defend chas jumping the queue

Answer 11

The Americans, the Japanese, the Canadians and the Russians are all REALLY getting their act together and fighting this disease effectively which they each are increasing over the coming weeks. The trouble spots are now the UK and for some reason Sweden and Finland but Sweden and Finland are learning to pick up admirably as it seems. Italy is on severe watch. Iraq is a mystery. And of course China is the epicenter and it is a data-silent ghost town, a morgue. No info anymore, not even fake news, not even a hint. Persia is really trying hard and making an historical effort. South America has really put the lockdown on everything on an unprecedented historical level. Most of Africa is trying. Most of Australia is trying. New Zealand seems on complete lockdown now. The UK, though, that is frightening. The UK needs to take this seriously. I hope everyone keeps the precautions going and keeps it up until this is beaten. The idea that this may take years, yes years, sounds so ominous, but we have all got to hang in there. Hopefully, hopefully, hopefully we will all beat this thing in the end. Let's all get this done.

Answer 12

the NHS just want volunteers just because of the corona virus after it all calms down the extra volunteers will be told to get on their bikes they are being used 

Answer 13

I am extremely annoyed with the NHS. My local surgery has employed some chavs in reception who speak rudely to people and do not do their job properly or go out their way to solve any issues/queries the patients have. When my mum had a chest infection and went to A&E an African nurse spoke to her rudely, didn't do any x-rays and didn't thoroughly check her. She couldn't wait to get my mum out the door. The GP's at my local doctors surgery are useless and should go back to medical school. The problem with the NHS is that a lot of people are not doing their job properly, fast and efficiently. Many nurses, doctors and GP's should be re-trained and some of them even sacked! A lot of people waste resources and time, many GP's and hospitals are not run very efficiently and managers sometimes have poor leadership, organizational and budget managing skills.

Answer 14

Well, you voted Tory, so you should know.The Tories have been under funding the NHS the last 10 years.Where's the 350 million a week that you lot were going to give the NHS? The Tories want an American style health system, well as it stand today and in the light of the present crisis, they the Yanks, are well and truly SCREWED.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjUWX6S8iYU



So be thankful for small Labour mercies. It's their healthcare foresight through the eyes of Labour politician Aneurin Bevan that might get us out of your Tory balls-up.

Where Tories just look after Tories. Labour looks after the community as a whole.

Answer 15

So all the years of Tory Austerity have nothing to do with the current situation in the NHS. They cut it to the bone and cannot fill the thousand vacancies for clinical staff, it may be too late to rectify what was done but this crises will bring it into sharp focus. 

Answer 16

I was hospitalised for a while and was rather shocked at the sense of entitlement some patients had, expecting to be waited on hand and foot as if they were in a hotel. I was brought up to assist nurses etc as much as possible and I don't see this call for help to be much different, albeit on a massive scale. The present emergency is unprecedented in the NHS and I shudder to think how people managed in the Spanish Flu epidemic without it. I am only sorry I am not well enough to sign up.

Answer 17

It would be phenomenally expensive to staff the NHS to cater for the present emergency year on year. Using trained nurses to deliver food to people who are self-isolating would also seem a strange use of resources. Sure the army could do some of that, but giving people a purpose at a time like this seems a good idea. it is reminiscent of the 'gamesmakers' that were recruited to great success in the London 2012  Olympics.

Answer 18

If we're gonna get political then well, since when are the Tories in charge of Italy, France, Spain, Holland, Belgium  ....?

"Help the nhs" means don't cry wolf and bother them for the merest sniffle.

People have gone the a&e for paper cuts, splinters, hangovers and advice on giving up smoking due to the entitlement culture.

 

Answer 19

They are doing all they can, beyond expectancy. The massive funding needed, has always been the issue. Governments are always under pressure from other bodies, such as doctors&nurses/social care/police/fire brigade/schooling/local councils/low State Pensions, for more funding. This will not change, whichever Party is in power.

Answer 20

You are right to some extent. However the current situation is unique and the best medical facilities in the world are struggling to cope. By 'helping the NHS' at this time you are improving survival chances for millions of fellow citizens. So moan all you like but it would be selfish not to do your bit.