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I was close to posting here last night to say farewell thinking I was dieing.

Basically I had to go to the royal infirmary in leicester last night, and in my adult life I have never seen such chaos.

1 - Security guards and porter casually talking in front of patients that its stupid there is more security guards than nurses.
2 - 200 people waiting to see one nurse in a&e minors, eventually agency staff turned up, there was also no doctors until agency staff turned up.
3 - waiting 6 hours to be transferred from a&e minors to majors. due to lack of beds
4 - When I got to majors (4am) I and other patients were sitting in hard plastic chairs as no beds to use (I wasnt bothered as my pain was worse lieing down). But some looked in huge agony having to sit like they were.
5 - I have no complaints in all the staff that dealt with me, but however at 6am a manager appeared on the ward and was applying huge pressure on my doctor to discharge me, he fighted it for 90 minutes but she got another doctor to bypass him, when he tried to get me powerful meds to take home she shouted at him in front of everyone saying to tell me to take paracetamol (which one of the reasons I Was there was ineffective). I had to have a morphine injection whilst there.
6 - When discharged the doctor told me the manager's name and said to make it clear on record he didnt initiate the discharge, told me if it persists (note he didnt say if gets worse) to go back. He also told me if I get slurred speach, paralysation etc, to ring 999 suggesting he hadnt confidently ruled out a stroke.

I was going to speak to this manager on the way out but she seemed to vanish, had no energy to chase her down due to the pain so went home. The good news is my CT scan was clean so I dont think I had a stroke at least. However I remain undiagnosed on a bank holiday friday.

My honest opinion based on observation the NHS has gone downhill sharply since I last went to a&e a couple of years back. Clearly needs an injection of cash, and probably lots of it. google and co should be ashamed of themselves.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7000966.html

Poor George, his Aunty has had a go at him now for being pro-EU. No kipper tie for him this Xmas :(

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Where is George? Very concerned somethings happened to him. There's lots more cuts to be made and his punishment Budget to deliver. The police should be alerted as he seems to be missing...

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He's been rumbled as a liar and untrustworthy. Now Dave, his protector, is no more he's gone to ground to lick his wounds.

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Does more money solve the issues? There has been money pumped into the NHS over the years and we are still and always have the same moans and gripes so surely more money isn't always the answer.

More managment no doubt will arise from more money. When i have done the odd bit of work within various hospitals there are many many people employed, many reception desks in differing departments manned by 2-3 people,(great for telling where to go ect) but at a vast cost.

Basically a whole industry off the back of the NHS?

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You and pretty much the rest of the country.

Fantastic leadership from our Chancellor.

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Oh sorry I've closed the page now and I don't keep history.
just kidding!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...-exist-8280148

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Wonder why you don't keep history Gary :D

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To stop people annoying me asking for links all the time.

No, it's to to stop myself from seeing what I'm buying myself for Xmas :D

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Good news ! George has been, found ! Hiding in the No.11 cellar apparantly, like a naughty boy ;)

Anyway he's made a speech to reassure the markets this morning and they have reacted accordingly.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36636853

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so we were losing out financially by been in the EU.

Then why are tax rises and more cuts needed as a result of the exit? Someone is telling fibs, either osborne using the EU as an excuse or the leave campaigners.

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The sad truth is politicians from all sides of the divide obfuscate and tell fibs so its pretty hard to tell when the odd politician is actually telling the truth Chrys.

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We are getting sold off at some point the whole Renal sector in Yorkshire the trust can't afford it apparently.

fresenius a maker of some of the dialysis machines we use (German made) have their own private units across the UK and make a pretty penny apparently.

However they pay much lower for their workers and a lot are employed through agencies and are usually from across the pond for example I am on 18k a year (band 2) while they pay just 16k to a (band 3) which in the NHS get around 19.4k

They have shown some interest in buying up some of these units and the NHS want to port staff across with protected pay for 2 years but fresenius have stipulated that staff would need to re-apply for jobs after that period starting at their lower rate of pay so for a Band 3 they start at (14k) rising to just over (16k) not sure what term that is over.

They also want to cherry pick staff as well. while the NHS will re-deploy staff it just goes to show that fresenius who are a German company has much influence on this country even on hour health service.

Could you blame our GOV for that allowing private companies to come in and do medical care? I'm not sure this could be part of the freedom of movement with being in the EU I guess businesses like this setting up?