NHS v Private

in a lot of countries you have to sort your own private medical insurance as there is no nhs

america an example - read something in mirror today, a bullet lodged in a lasses eye but she had to leave hospital after 3 days coz her medical insurance didnt cover it

i think we shud be thankful to have a service like we do, there are a few cockups and stuff wey aye, and people get pissed off at waiting times but haway - when have you ever enjoyed queuing? no offence intended but if youre on a waiting list you can guarantee someone is in front of you who NEEDS it more

Its not just the waitijng times tho is it ... Its the quality of the facilities the lack of staff and beds . it all adds up to being a poor service . Dont get me wrong im gl;ad its there and feel it needs to be there but until its overhauled . tret properley by the government and funded better then your always going to get a better all round performance from the private places !

I'm with AXA PPA - through work like.

Went for keyhole surgery on the right knee in Nov 06. From being referred at the Docs I was under the knife in a month. The clinic was more like a hotel - I could have stopped there all week.

I'd recommend it if you can aford it.

Hexham has a brand new hospital so can't really say for elsewhere.

Fair point.... my work pays for mine.

It's maybe more useful when a bit older.

im getting an operation done on the nhs, if i went private it could have been carried out within a couple of weeks probs. when the ops been done itle have taken about 7 months, its none essential the op so obviously not high priority like

when I had my car crash it was obvs straight to an NHS hospital.

It only had one female ward so I was in with all the expecting mothers, bleeding and trippin off the morphine.


And they cut my clothes off and left me on a trolley with my pups hanging out and my fishnets ripped up to my thighs.

It was not a good look!

sounds horrible, hope your all right now

when i was about 10 i got a 2 footed challenge to my right leg from behind by an older lad wearing studs, it broke my leg. fibula and tibia smashed in 2 places and fractured ankle. my mates older bro carried me to me grans house and because i got a lift in and not an ambulance it meant i had to wait about 5 hours in waiting rooms until i could get a Dr to fix it. they didnt give me any pain killers or owt and i was delirious with the pain, i wasnt amused. To make matters worse im sure they used an apprentice wall plasterer to do my cast cos the job was that bad.

don't be sorry I got shit loads of compo and a big pile of coedine

winner

fact of the matter it's not free - we all pay thru our NI payments.

if i could opt out, i would and pay the same amount into a private healthcare plan

the NHS deals with a much larger demographic than the private sector - you can't compare waiting times as it would result in misleading statsitics.

other than waiting times where is the nhs failing?