NHS Scotland .Content from media watch

Scotland may have more GPS per 100,000 people, but we need to know how many are actually working full time to properly compare.

There is a two year wait for hip and knee replacements in Scotland. We had to go down the private route to get help with DH health problems . I really appreciate our local surgery and could not fault them but when trying to speed up a consultation with a consultant DH was told he was not sick enough so it was useless to try.

What are “Scots”?

SueDonim

What are “Scots”?

www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=What+are+Scots%3F&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 I suggest scrolling down the page to get the full picture.

Anything about cutting £46million from higher and further education budget or failure to pass on £33 million of farm support from UK government given in 2019?

Floradora I sympathise.
I'm probably going to fork out ££££ to be able to see properly.
The queue for cataract surgery is more than 2 years.
When you say neighbours Paddyann do you mean Europe?
My hip will have to wait as I don't have that sort of money.

So by some parameters of what a Scot is, I was Indonesian when I lived in Jakarta and Nigerian when I lived in Lagos. Or maybe I’m South African because that is where my dad was born. :think:

I’d rarely heard of people in Scotland using private healthcare until recent years. Ime, the NHS in Scotland is worse than it was five years ago and five years ago it was worse than ten years ago. Now, I’m getting used to friends saying they’re having to pay to get healthcare care. Someone I know is now having to travel regularly to the Midlands for their double amputee prosthetics service, having been able to receive this service locally for the previous 65+ years.

My experience has been that we are better off here in Scotland. My whole family work in Health a Social Care, but DD and DS were working in the South West at the start of the pandemic. DS became seriously ill in 2019 and I stayed with him for 2 months and to help with DGS. Despite a very serious medical history afflicting 3 members of the family and now DGS we were told this was not grounds for a referral to a specialist. He eventually returned to work in March 2020 but his condition worsened again and, despite his surgery having full details of his condition and family history, he was wrongly diagnosed in hospital and discharged by 2 Health Trusts. a third recognised the severity of his condition but he had to go to Northants for treatment and then to London. Despite his consultant's best efforts in 3 areas, he could not secure the level and duration of support he had assessed DS would need on discharge. We managed to get him up to the North of Scotland just before the first lockdown where he received a full support service for over a year until he was able to return to his very demanding profession in April last year. DD had to go private after over 8 years of debilitating symptoms to get a diagnosis and treatment for a very serious auto immune illness. Nevertheless she continued to work in Oncology throughout the pandemic until she caught Covid recently....at work when the govt changed the guidance about PPE and she had to visit a ward she does not normally cover! DH caught Covid here in Scotland in April last year and his vital signs were all over the place so I called an ambulance. Paramedics arrived within 8 minutes, assessed him and phoned the GP who prescribed doxycycline. As for me; an Osteopath I consulted recently requested by letter that my GP arrange an assessment for surgery for me. Within the week of receiving the letter a receptionist phoned to offer me an appointment with the GP at the end of June at "7.30 or 8.30 am!!! These are just a few examples of the contrast between the treatment family members have received in the South of England and that which we have received here in the North of Scotland. The other glaring contrast, despite all the furore surrounding the Scottish government, is that the SNP Health ministers had personally negotiated with health care staff to arrive at pay settlements and avoid strikes to date.....