A&E in this country must be absolutely run off their feet. With all the funding cuts over decades, the gradual trickle of the glacial dismantling of the system by the implacable plastic men at the top of the system right now must be stretching our friends the care workers that CARE to breaking.
GPs now have to be booked about a week in advance. By which time the flu you had has either killed you or got better. So we all have to go to urgent care in order to get a prescription of antibiotics for a septic tooth.
I have scavenged a fair amount of antibiotics over the years, a good two courses. They are for emergencies where something definitely needs them quickly. Say it happens on a Friday night? Then it’ll save me a trip to A&E and five hours or more waiting because they have to bump the guy who fell into a vat of tapioca up the list ahead of me.
What’s the solution? More funding TO PAY THE STAFF WITH. Captain Tom knew this, but nothing that he earned walking went that way. It went to NHS Trusts, which is like Pizza Express saying the tips go “to the advantage” of staff, meaning they build a training centre.
We can clap all we like, but these people are working incredibly hard for us and everything is being defunded, including them. They make it work. just. But they do it for complicated reasons of their own. And eventually most of them are going to get squeezed out. Apart from a new government that isn’t made of plastic and lies, I’m not sure what we can actually do to save the ruins of this incredible healthcare system I’ve lived with all my life.
Lou went to A&E today to get a prescription of antibiotics for an infected bite. That would normally be a GP thing but on Friday they had nothing until Thursday. That’s a mess of a situation. Means you can only really use your GP for routine medical check ups. Anything pressing and you just have to go to A&E…
I’m at home, trying again to chip away at the mountain. Progress is being made but slowly slowly.
AlBarclay 