Immigration, hospital waiting lists and patient health
Labour – and the Tories before them – will tell you they are building 40 new hospitals, that waiting times are down, that it all going fantastically. They are lying. They think we are all gullible, stupid.
In the last 30 years – since Blair and mass migration they – against our wishes – have added about 10,000,000 people to the UK, mostly from third world countries. So a huge rise in demand.
In that time hardly any new hospital have been built in the UK. We were promised at least 40!
Yes, some have had wings added (under PFI).
Some, like Whiston and The Royal in Merseyside, have been torn down and replaced (again with PFI), but that’s not new build hospitals.
And the number of beds in these new hospitals is always less than the old open ward hospitals, so the capacity is going down, while the need is continually rising.
(Officially, PFI loans are a ‘solution’ to get things done. In reality they are making a deal with the devil in the form of glorified loan sharks (and brown envelopes) and passing the cost, along with unimaginable, eye-watering levels of interest debts down to future governments – and to your grandchildren – who will be paying off the debt for generations to come.
IMO it should be written off and everyone involved in PFI should be jailed!)
Google AI:
Exactly how many “new” (not replacement or upgraded) hospitals have been built in the UK since 2000 is heavily debated.
The National Audit Office has concluded that of the many projects branded as “new” across government initiatives, only about 11 were entirely whole new hospitals. The vast majority are expansions or replacements.
Massaging figure is not treating people – other than treating them like idiots.
But the government swear, the 10,000,000 migrants they added to the country without adding new hospital beds is not a factor. Honest. Would we lie to you?
Yes, you would and do daily. All of you are gaslighting us!
I have some fairly gnarly health issue and need regular surgery.
The procedure used to be every 3 months,
then 6,
then 9,
then 12,
So far this year I’m up around around 13, 14 months now, and still no date.
Now, some of this is new materials, new theatre tools and computer advances, making the operation faster, smoother, less risky.
It was cutting edge the first time they did it on me, twenty-odd years back and I took 3 months to recover. Now it’s so routine you are in and out in an hour and they are hustling you out the front door because they need the bed for the next person!
Now, every operation has risks and leaves scarring. In cases like mine (uteric stents), eventually they are pushing though scarring to reach the kidneys.
Alongside that, the tubes calcify over time. If they calcify externally then removing them can be hugely problematic.
As they calcify internally the risk of urinary tract infections rises, as does the risk of hydronephrosis. Eventually they can block, causing anuria.
Untreated, anuria is fatal in a matter of days for a healthy person. For a renal patient, it’s more likely measured in hours, not days :/
(I found that out the hard way!)
I’ve lived with this for decades, can tell the state of my kidney functions (eGFR) simply by how I feel, so I know when I’m at risk or in trouble. This is true for most people with long-term health problems.
I have encountered sneering junior doctors giving it “What would you know? I’M the expert here!”.
With no due respect, no, you are not. You have barely qualified, and have not specialised in anything, while I have lived with this for 30 years.
Others will not be so “lucky”.
One minute, “Oh, it’ll be fine, dear, I don’t need to bother the GP with this, you can’t get an appointment anyway.” Next your gran is dead!
Anyway, so, for a renal patient:
Frothy pee, you are passing proteins. The foamier the froth…
Cloudy pee, infection
Nausea? That’s urea building up. If I can settle it with carbs (usually cereal), it’s fine, if I’m throwing up with it, I’m probably dying.
Headaches and wooziness? What’s my BP? 140/90, meh, I’ll monitor it. 180/100 crap. 200/120 and rising, call an ambulance. 180/140, I’m dying.
Can’t stand direct sunlight because of a nasty prickly feeling? This is frequently due to uremia (build-up of toxins) causing nerve irritation or sensitive. (Worse would be calciphylaxis, a serious and painful condition where calcium builds up in small blood vessels in the skin and underlying tissues).
You get the idea!
Returning to Google AI:
“Leaving a stent in for longer can cause severe complications like encrustation (mineral or stone build-up), infections, and potential loss of kidney function.”
“Long-term stents: Periodically changed every 3 to 6 months. Some specialised materials can last up to 12 months, but this requires strict monitoring by your medical team.”
Needless to say, I am not being monitored by my medical teams or even my GP because they are overworked. This is not the fault of my consultants, this is wholly the fault of 30 years of uncontrolled mass migration. Also, with the added problem of bloating the NHS with admin and trust directors, oversight, and box-ticking paperwork – all instead of frontline medical staff.
(I went looking on medical sites for a suitable, clean graphic imagine to illustrate this. I should not have done that! 🤢)
You can repeat all the above for cardiac patient, cancer patients, and all the rest. Uncontrolled mass migration is literally, LITERALLY killing us!
Yes, I used to work for the NHS, albeit in IT, and my mother was a nurse, a midwifery sister for over 40 years.
