Life

Had a very busy day yesterday, ended up with my grandson hurting his back falling off his scooter, then it starts, call 111 the new number got advice finally being told that it would be quicker to dial 999, at this time he looked very ill feeling sick had a headache, it is difficult to find his home so I stood at the end of his street waiting to give directions to the ambulance, very windy and cold, I waited and waited very cold, a further phone call 999 and still had to wait finally a fast response paramedic arrived over 2 hours after the first call then it took a further 20 mins for an ambulance to arrive, now I have no complaint regarding the treatment given to him by the crews they were very efficient and helpful, but the service was so long arriving it was awful, if they are really busy they should tell you that there will be a delay because of demand not leave you in limbo it was very worrying time and caused some grief to his mum and the rest of the family, as it turned out he was OK had a jarred back and needs to rest for 2/3 days, this is another thought about just what you can expect from  the ambulance service, it seems to me that every area of the NHS is  in turmoil something has to be done the service just can't sustain these levels of cuts!!.

I have to say that I am not anti NHS but it seems to me that the bill pushed through Parliament by Andrew Landsley was a massive mistake, it will become apparent after April 1st when it becomes fully active, just the right day really April fools day, you can make some savings but you can't keep cutting or you end up with an empty purse, the government has to accept that the NHS has to have increases each year to provide essential services, it has to be realised that there are more and more elderly needing help, unfortunately causing bed blocking at the hospital, why does this happen? because local councils have abdicated their responsibilities regarding the elderly closing any homes that they ran leaving care of the elderly to the private sector, and it seems that there are not enough places for them, this government has managed to destroy the health service as we knew it, obviously no one told ministers that the population is getting older by the day, time to reverse some of these decisions and get us back to being a caring community not one who does not give a dam!!.