Things we took for granted.

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welbeck

being able to get a prescription for antibiotics dispensed without having to go to 30 pharmacies and ring 10 more.
people dying of strep A simply because they cannot get access to a doc who will prescribe antbx

Exactly

Low levels of inflation, freedom of European travel and residence, being able to see a GP, less waiting for NHS treatment, a reliable train service, clean rivers, energy at a reasonable cost....the list is endless and most of it is due to an incompetent series of Tory governments, political opportunism by Johnson, idiots listening to Farage and corruption.

Ilovecheese

Ear wax removal is not offered as standard any more.

But they can manage operations to give penises to transmen. I'm pretty sure the NHS was not set up for treatments like that.

It cannot afford to provide all the expensive new drugs and equipment we have today, plus all the new treatments (like penises) that never existed in the past.

Apart from losing the freedom to travel round Europe with most borders not even looking at your passport I think the worst loss is continuity of care from a GP. DH and I had two GPs that we would normally see. Both knew us well and were au fait with all our medical problems, but both have now retired. Now if I get to speak to a GP it's always one I've never met and we spend most of the phone call finding out who I am, why I wanted to speak to someone, and what was wrong with me in the first place. Why do they phone without having all this information in front of them? There's no "How have you been since I last saw you?" or "How are you finding this treatment are you having any problems with it?"

Being able to make a GP appointment by calling in to the surgery instead of being in a queue of 40+ on the phone then a GP calling you back if you are lucky before all the appointment slots are gone by 9am after opening at 8.30am. When you are at work earlier how can anyone hang on a phone for 30+ minutes to get an appointment or not.

I paid for a consultant to diagnose my unbearable pain after numerous trips to A & E. It was my gall bladder, but I went on to have it removed on the nhs.

Well I have had to pay for minor op that a decade ago would have been done on the NHS. The stupid thing is that it was carried out in a private clinic within a doctor's surgery by a NHS doctor. Not mine, but local. Go figure.

My DH was so against paying for private medical help but he was forces into it because of the long wait for a NHS appointment.

www.theguardian.com/society/2022/dec/09/parents-report-struggle-to-find-antibiotics-uk-strep-a-cases-rise

being able to get a prescription for antibiotics dispensed without having to go to 30 pharmacies and ring 10 more.
people dying of strep A simply because they cannot get access to a doc who will prescribe antbx

Ear wax removal is not offered as standard any more.

I not have experienced any healthcare that I have had to pay for short of my dentist but I have been paying him for years
Which services have you had to pay for Ww
I actually think the NHS will be unable to continue in its present form forever

9 out of 10 of our worst fears never happen!

They did as far as Brexit is concerned.

A Pollyanna attitude is not very sensible, look where it got us with Brexit!

Whitewavemark2

Creeping privatisation will mean that the vast majority of GN posters will not be insurable for most of their underlying issues.

Yes, I agree. But what about all the mistakes that the NHS have made? Still waiting a positive outcome for my mis-diagnosis; someone is accountable but getting them to admit it is another matter. Why should people have to pay to correct someone else's mistakes?

Well we’re not ‘there’ yet.
Try not to ruminate WWmk2 and remember 9 out of 10 of our worst fears never happen!
😊
Worrying away like a dog with a bone won’t help.

Creeping privatisation will mean that the vast majority of GN posters will not be insurable for most of their underlying issues.