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Why I’m applauding the NHS 👏👏

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bevisp1 Fri 27-Jan-23 11:59:07

After all the bad hype of late with the NHS, I thought I’d share my experience this week.
After all last weekend suffering from loads of stabbing like pains in my head after two separate knocks to my head, on Monday I phoned my GP surgery, actually got through, within an hour a dr phoned me & made me a appointment to go the same morning. Advised me not to drive myself. At appointment dr checked me over, all seemed ok, but said I was slurring my words & by that alone sent me off to the hospital with a letter. She was concerned I might have had a bleed to the brain. Got checked over very thoroughly at hospital, but as a precaution to have a CT scan, which was booked for Wednesday, I was told to relax & rest at home. This morning (Friday) had to return for my results. Everything is good, just concussion.
At every step of the way, I can’t thank these individual nurses enough, I very nearly didn’t bother with my gp surgery, didn’t think I’d get through, or they would be too overstretched to see me, I wasn’t too long at all 3 appointments at hospital, so I applaud the NHS staff.

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Callistemon21 Wed 05-Apr-23 23:47:51

Nicegranny

I to applaud the NHS.
After catching Covid in Hong Kong I couldn’t wait to get home to see my doctor as I had a huge ulcer type lesion on the roof of my mouth.
My GP had me in hospital by the very next morning to have a biopsy. It was an ulcer that mimics cancer and luckily nothing to worry about.
I think our NHS is wonderful for so many reasons I respect it immensely.

Did they say that could be a side effect of Covid Nicegranny?
I found I had mouth ulcers for a while after having Covid, but not as horrendous as yours sounded.

annsixty I think that's right, it is mostly very good to excellent but often let down by administrative and other errors, some of which can have serious consequences.

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Nicegranny Thu 06-Apr-23 00:10:32

Callistemon21, yes it was due to Covid but I also had quite a few Strepsils and I did wonder if they affected the roof of my mouth.

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NanaDana Thu 06-Apr-23 06:50:09

My DH and I are both pushing 80, and have multiple age-related health issues. Our personal experience of the NHS locally has been very good, both in terms of hospital treatment and in access to our GP. In fact it's no exaggeration to say that without it, neither of us would probably still be around today. However, I'm conscious of the fact that it's a bit of a postcode lottery as regards quality of care, so we are among the lucky ones. I also feel that staff at every level are struggling to provide care against a background of long term under-funding and under-resourcing.

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