NHS wasting money

Absolutely slimswim
I was waiting a very long time for an NHS cataract op so I privately had an assessment and was about to take out a loan to pay £££ for this when miraculously a letter arrived from NHS offering a shorter wait.
I cancelled the private but the NHS was still months away and they insisted on doing their own assessment.
Aren't I the same person whether or not I go privately or wait for NHS?

Both eyes have now been done which is great but years have passed in waiting, stress and bad eyesight.
Surely it doesn't have to be so cumbersome?
The operations themselves were over a matter of minutes.

One of the things I learnt, from working for the NHS, in various capacities for 40 years, is that whoever they are who administer the finances they are expert at wasting money.

Incidentally the branch of Specsavers I went to managed to keep very quiet about their NHS contract and I was presented with no option but to pay for my hearing aid.

We have thrown hundreds of £ worth of unwanted/un needed NHS supplies in recent months. My son was on a nasal feed machine for many months and we had to throw out boxes and boxes of liquid feed, syringes and pipes still in their original packaging.

Prior to this my husband had been on high calorie drinks and I was told to throw away over £300 worth. I didn’t - I was telling a physio assistant who visited and she filled her boot with them and said she would make sure they went to people who needed them.

I had vein surgery a few years ago and prior to surgery had to go to hospital and get measured by a nurse for support stockings. After the operation the Dr said “you can choose whether or not you wear the stockings but I have to tick the box to say they have been given to you.” I didn’t need to wear them so that was a total waste of money for the NHS.

My late Mum’s stoma nurse told me that she regularly goes to homes where patients have several thousand £ worth of stoma bags, disposal bags, adhesive spray etc. when they die the families just have to throw the lot.

Automatic prescription requests are a pet hate of mine. I used to go to patients homes and they had boxes full of unwanted meds that were prescribed for ‘as and when required’ but were issued every month regardless……….GTN sprays, inhalers etc being examples.
The money wasted was criminal!

The nhs waste money day in day out...it will never change .