Friday 5 October 2007

A journalist' s view

Nick Robinson, the BBC political correspondent has just posted this on his website:

Key to today's NHS review is giving patients access to services when they need them. Funnily enough I've just been putting that to the test in Blackpool, so here's my input to the Darzi review.

Finding myself without my asthma inhaler when I needed it in the middle of the night I ring NHS Direct for advice on how to get another. Having answered a dozen form-filling questions (none of which include the basic "what do you think you need?") I am then advised to call another number for an out-of-hours doctors service.

Not wishing to waste a doctor's time in the middle of night I decide to wait till the morning. I go to the local chemist and wave my empty inhaler and wheeze loudly. You need a prescription they say. So I go to the doctor's surgery who say they can get me a prescription if I can wait till three o'clock, or I can go the NHS walk-in centre. Off I go only to be told they don't issue prescriptions there and I need to go somewhere else. Everyone I've spoken to has been pleasant but yet ultimately not helpful.

I've given up and am wheezing my way home.

So a young, intelligent, articulate journalist can't get the system to work; what hope is there for those who are poor, sick, inarticulate, or immobile?

THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO CHANGE THE POLITICS OF THE NHS

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It was late one Sunday night on a river cruiser in Northampton..it was dark...I cooked myseklf a couple of Jacket Potatoes, then began to feel unwell later that night.
I looked at the Bag of spuds only to see they were green..I logged onto the Mobile internet and found out that Greem spuds are Poisonous prodicibg a poison called Solanine...I was having Kidney pains and felt vey thirsty etc..
I rang NHS Direct, they called me back 1/2 hour later and I told them what I had done, did they have any information on Solanine ad what should I do.
She went away and rang me back ten minutes later saying, there was no information could she ring me Back on Tuesday..

I said she could do

BUT I MIGHT NOT FU*KING ANSWER...

Anonymous said...

Action Stations....and does anyone know where I can buy 350 Gallows.

Blog and Email these links before it's too late Please..I thought it was just a trade agreement..

http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/865
http://thewestminsternews.co.uk/
http://www.brugesgroup.com/
http://www.eutruth.org.uk
http://www.betteroffout.co.uk/sup01.htm
http://www.european-referendum.org.uk/101-reasons.html
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3664960863576873594&hl=en-GB
BE THERE
http://www.proreferendumrally.co.uk/

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http://www.betteroffout.co.uk
http://www.bdicampaign.org/
http://www.britsattheirbest.com/freedom/f_your_own_choice.htm
http://blairwitch.typepad.com/
http://www.impeachblair.org/
http://conservativehome.blogs.com/platform/2006/11/a_farmer_margar.html?cid=84939240#comments
Note how none of this has ever appeared in the Press or on the News.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/27/wislam127.xml
http://balder.org/avisartikler/Barcelona-Declaration-Euro-Mediterranean-English.php
http://balder.org/avisartikler/Open-Letter-To-Danish-Prime-Minister-Anders-Fogh-Rasmussen.php
Europe Sold out for oil
http://www.westernresistance.com/blog/archives/003027.html
http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2458
Pope says 'ATTEMPTS TO ISLAMIFY EUROPE.....CANNOT BE DENIED'.........
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/27/wislam127.xml

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