Is the NHS broken? | Doctors | Appointments | Healthcare

Is this NHS, as an entity, broken? What was your last experience like?
Do you differentiate between the people that work there and the NHS as a service?
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[@RoseMaryHalliwell]

There does need to be some serious readjustment to the NHS. When I started investigating my toe problem (this has been a problem most of my life but getting worse all the time), I had little trouble getting a GP appointment, X-ray the next day, and the hospital rushed the result through within 2 days. GP decision was for me to visit orthopaedic clinic. Waited for 3 weeks without notice of an appointment, rang up to be told the letter hadn’t been typed. When the appointment came it was moved 3 times. Who knows how long a surgery appointment would take, so decided to go private. Should have done that at the beginning, everything went smoothly, care and aftercare were amazing. I had private medical insurance when I worked but have had 2 private operations in the last 10 years, both because the NHS waiting time was too long, for which I have paid. I feel the older you get the less they are inclined to treat you. Just a personal opinion.

[@loosegadgies]

It's weird. I would've assumed the opposite is true: the older you get the higher your priority. I often feel it needs to be ran more like a business than a service. Perhaps have someone from the private sector take over a hospital and make an example of it.

[@jackiethomas8200]

You have to make your way to hospital, ambulance anything from 4-12 hours. If you lucky . It’s all by design, forcing us to go private, privatisation through back door . Recruiting is still big problem

[@loosegadgies]

This is something we've been wondering: is it by design? But, which is worse: being gradually encouraged to go private, or that we have lost so much trust we're willing to believe/suspect our Gov't would do it?
Yep. Recruiting and retention are a big problem. Someone needs to have the balls to wade in and make big changes.