A positive NHS experience

I heartily agree vegansrock I hope he recovers well, we’ve all been young and daft.

My own fairly recent experience (pneumonia followed by pleurisy, nearly 3 weeks in hospital) was also very positive - I could not fault the care, and everyone (well, bar just one rather snippy little HCA) was very kind.

TOTALLY Agree. Over the past few years my family and close friends have had more than our fair share of needing NHSScotland. We have had the best of service and in every way we (both patients and loved ones) have felt respected, supported, and cared for. In spite of the obvious pressure on the staff, they have gone above and beyond to be helpful. In return, each and every one of them deserves, not only our thanks, but better pay and conditions, without having to beg or strike for them.

vegansrock - we had an experience similar to yours when my SIL went head to head with a concrete bollard. He was whisked to a London hospital ( a trip of 80 miles) into ICU and both he and my daughter received nothing but kindness until he was sent home to recover. Goodness knows how much it all cost. Thank you NHS . Thank you Nye Bevan.
As an aside, a person working nearby looked after his bike until he was able to collect it : so many thoughtful folk around!

DH had excellent care in the cardiac unit, then recently from paramedics, in Resus and on the ward, until the end.
( He only grumbled about being woken up in the night to have bloods taken or to be weighed. Sleep is precious, when you can get it, but the night staff were ticking boxes)
I even received a phone call and a card from his GP after he died.
They all have my vote for better pay and conditions.

I have nothing but praise for the NHS.

I was very ill and the NHS was brilliant. The hospital staff coped with all my follow on problems brilliantly. Dd1 has had brilliant treatment for her breast cancer and my brother had his life saved - all by the much maligned NHS.

It might not be perfect but it is brilliant.

vegansrock Wishing your ‘daft’ 😂 son a speedy recovery. I agree with all the positive comments, we’ve had such excellent treatment, throughout my daughter’s breast cancer and OH’s Erythrocytosis. They definitely deserve better pay & conditions. The NHS financial management/admin is more in need of professionals who understand where the money is needed, and where it is currently being wasted and exploited. It’s been going on for years!

OK I had to wait more than two weeks for a blood test because I opted to go to our local hospital rather than waste a surgery appointment while the practice nurse attempted to find one of my impossible veins, but my appointment was right on time and I was out in 5 minutes. The blood was taken at 3.15 pm on Thursday and at midday on Friday I had an email from the surgery saying that the results were back and a prescription for Folic Acid had been sent to the pharmacy. I've still got a couple of things I really need to SEE someone about but I couldn't fault them on this occasion.

My husband is having fantastic treatment from the NHS since being diagnosed with Atrial Fibulation. He goes twice a week to hospital. The staff are brilliant. So much so, he bought them all Easter eggs at Easter.

We still get good service from our GP. I get eye clinic appointments on time by contacting the consultant’s secretary. Not sure if that counts as good service as they should come through the appointments system but never do. My husband had a basal cell carcinoma removed from his back. Not too long a wait, diagnosed by phone consultation (plus photograph), appointment a week later and on the day they rang to ask him to go earlier than planned. Unfortunately prior to that he had a very bad NHS hospital experience which drove us to private surgery but that’s not what this thread’s about. It’s good to hear about positive NHS experiences.

Vegansrock. I hope your son recovers well. I would not be here without the NHS and I am so grateful. They have my full support for fair pay and conditions.

My husband, heart surgery, and my eye operation all went very well, both in the last few months, both unexpected, fabulous staff (apart from one stroppy receptionist!) who all went beyond what was needed. Also includes an A&E visit, Kings London, again fab and very competent staff, a bit of a queue but not too long, but some very rude patients and relations!

Fully appreciate that waiting lists are a huge problem, but once in the hospitals, we had very good and competent treatment. Very thankful for the NHS and hopefully with a new government soon, the lack of funding can be recitified for the benefit of patients, their families and staff.

We should be rioting in the streets

Ah hope he’s better soon. 100% agree, the staff do the job they trained for in face of adversity

Perhaps you can but your ‘daft’ son a helmet for his birthday ….you never know he might wear it!😂

The NHS is certainly one part of our culture that still does all we expect of it, the priceless backround that is always there when needed. We are so lucky

I will be forever grateful for the care and help I received after my breast cancer diagnosis. Can't speak highly enough of the Churchill Hospital, Oxfordshire.

My friend was diagnosed with cataracts by his optician in early March, I picked him up earlier today from having one eye done.

most of my experience with hospitals has always been positive, when i was in for 3 weeks with sepis i was hooked up to antibiotics/ potassium for 8 hours, i was to ring the buzzer when one emptied but i always said to the nurse when she came in that i could wait until they had more time as i could hear buzzers going off all over the place, some days on that ward only had 2 nurses to cope with 30 patients, it was all single rooms and it was the infectious diseases ward so the nurses had to constantly kit up for other patients, they were all fantastic and deserve a good pay as most of the time they are run off there feet.

vegansrock, generally, the staff are just lovely - but the service itself is still crap. I'd be seething about a five hour wait myself. I just couldn't do it.

Why are people so very 'grateful' and full of praise - for a service we all pay for, one that's declined dramatically over recent years?

My (ex-nurse) friend couldn't stand the 'clapping seals' of the pandemic - those who made a noise but voted against the NHS and still do.

Yes I agree. Such a shame the politicians don't listen to us.

I’m grateful because they saved my life on more than one occasion. When I had serious Covid, when I had Clostridium Difficile, and when I had pneumonia as a very young baby. Also when I had appendicitis age six and was operated on at midnight as it was about to burst.
I’m grateful because I’ve had surgeries on my eyes, both hands, tonsils and appendix.
I’m grateful because the NHS saved two of my children from damage or death when they were born. I’m Rhesus Negative and they were Rhesus Positive and there were huge problems in my pregnancies and after birth. The NHS gave me back healthy and undamaged children.
There are many other reasons why I’m grateful, but these were the most serious and life threatening.

This year I have (unfortunately) had more to do with the NHS than I have ever and they have been blxxdy wonderful yes the nurses and doctors are brilliant but the whole system for me has been an incredibly positive experience.
I ve had two routine operations and two unexpected day ops since Christmas and I cannot fault them in any way

My 86 year old friend broke her hip and has had a two week stay in hospital which she was so, so positive about, in every way, she went home within 2 weeks with so much help offered and gratefully accepted (items of help for the house commode walker risers cushions etc plus six weeks free carers (3 times a day to get her back to be able to stay independent) however she was then found to be very anaemia and was back in hospital for a week (she waited 20 minutes for an ambulance to get her there) shes had three blood transfusions and again been nursed back to health
She’s going home again today
God bless the NHS and once we lose the ‘longing to privatise Tories’ hopefully it will fully get back on its feet

I had my first cataract op. 6 weeks ago. Went for my post op. check up last Friday, which they then referred me there and then to have my other eye done. Got a phone call yesterday from the hospital and having my op. this coming Saturday morning. I’ve got nothing but praise for our NHS!