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@evoman3957 wrote:

..........and just so EVERYBODY on here has the FACTS and not the garbage that politicians and other " Know nothing " IDIOTS try to peddle.

So far my Son has had to deal with a Cardiac arrest in A&E ( crash team ). He's had to send people for scans and X-Rays ( ordering the procedures directly himself ). He's had to certify a death & make out a death certificate. He's had to break the news of a death to relatives. He's had to make out a discharge report / discharge a patient & write a follow up letter to the patient's GP.  He and another F1 Doctor have done a Ward Round and in case people don't know.

AS AN F1 DOCTOR, HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE DOING ANY OF THESE THINGS ON HIS OWN.........but, as he says, without consultants or S.H.O's, what are you supposed to do........just let everybody " go to hell ".  This is life in the NHS in a Hospital that's in special measures.........not fiction........THE TRUTH !!............and when he first got there and mentioned a few ideas, that might improve things, he was told by a consultant not to " rock the boat " or he could find himself out of a job.

I don't know where he got his care and compassion from, the World sent mine to Hell............years ago.

 

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The doctors, nurses and support staff are all saints as far as I'm concerned.  I've only been admitted to hospital for two problems during my adult life, for a broken neck vertebrae about 15 years ago and just recently for unstable angina.  Every single member of staff I came into contact with, from the A&E receptionist to the neurosurgeon demonstrated a level of care beyond reproach.

Yes there were staff shortages as demonstrated by the signs outside each ward and department stating the 'planned' number of staff and the actual number on duty.

There are just three ways to overcome that shortage, reduce the services offered, reduce the number of patients or increase the number of staff.  The first is politically unacceptable, the second physically impossible, leaving the third as the only viable option.   Restricting a growth in the number of patients by restricting immigration won't make the current situation better - the absolute most it can do is stop it getting worse.

So what does the UK government do to help the situation - it introduces 'tougher' immigration rules for non-EU citizens requiring an immigrant who has been working in this country for 6 years but is earning less than £35k a year to leave - the result, tens of thousands of nurses and teachers will be deported - if that's an example of the sort of policy that will be applied to EU citizens if we opt out of Europe then I have to say that I'm not impressed.