Supporting NHS

Absolving nurses etc of any responsibility at all for shortcomings in healthcare is neither helpful nor accurate imo. It's the sort of mindset that means complaints are not taken seriously because 'it could never be a nurse's fault'. Nurses are like any other professional group - they range for excellent to making you wonder how they've kept their registration. It's good to hear the OP has had really positive experiences but it's not right to accept that some of us in appallingingly sad situations have had quite the opposite. What I've said applies to doctors as well btw

Today, absolutely zero help from GP receptionist (we went in person so as to avoid the dastardly ^hanging on the telephone^😡

Rang 111, they sent prescription to local pharmacy, we picked it up, all in under 10 minutes, including phone call 👏👏👏

(vital meds for DD)

Goodness, NanaTuesday, that's quite a list.
Like you, I give thanks to all who keep the creaky old ship that is the NHS afloat.
Over the last year, three friends have received long, expensive treatment for different cancers. All seem to have been successful.
My youngest DD is an insulin dependent diabetic. She has been kept well, and has had excellent care, during her second pregnancy recently, resulting in my healthy new GC.
Shaky though it is, the NHS is a jewel in our crown.

Having worked for the NHS for the last 17 years of my working life I can say that whatever is wrong with the NHS is nothing whatsoever to do with the nurses, midwives and healthcare assistants. They do their utmost, in overworked and understaffed hospitals, to deliver the best care they can provide. The crisis in the NHS has everything to do with both Tory & Labour Governments having made a total hash of it for decades. Lovely that NanaTuesday took the time to let us know her positive experiences.

Absolutely

Hope you will all do well for the rest of the year.
When it works, the NHS is great.

What a year your family has had! Hope you are all recovering and doing better now.