Margaret Dixon

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AS forumites will know despite being a liberal lefty I hold no torch for this current Labour Govt but few things have filled me with more disgust that the Tory exploitation of this unfortunate woman .

Does anyone seriously think the NHS would have had anywhere near the increased funding if the Tories were in charge . Poor Mrs Dixon would still be waiting for an appointment with a specialist .

The UK public is not stupid - I expect Tory opinion poll ratings to have fallen .


Few things more than repeated Michael Howard appearances make me more likely to grit my teeth and vote Labour
 
"...despite being a liberal lefty I hold no torch for this current Labour Govt".

What is the word "despite" doing in that sentence?!

I don't have a problem with the story, it's fast becoming a tradition in elections to have some dire treatment of a patient by he NHS. Wasn't there some hoo-ha about a child with grommets in his ears, and a woman who wasn't fed for several days, last time around?

The patient this time didn't seem to mind about the ruckus, and said at least the NHS and its shortcomings get put in the forefront of public debate.

I think the first "scandal" of the NHS occurred soon afer it was started. My father told me recently that when we arrived from Canada to the UK at the end of 1948 the big row then was about the many thousands of free wigs being handed out to all and sundry, while people with illnesses were having to, yes you've guessed it, go on waiting lists. In my parents' opinion, the Canadian system was vastly superior to the NHS, the main reason being that it was properly funded.

Apart from the American example, almost any Western health system would be preferable to our "Envy of The World".
 
Exploitation? ?

I don't think she will feel she has been exploited when she gets her operation done in double quick time, which she will now. And why shouldn't the Tories highlight this? The Nu-Labour leadership has consistently told us waiting times are falling. The occasional shaft of truth is helpful, not to say surprising with this government.

"Does anyone seriously think the NHS would have had anywhere near the increased funding if the Tories were in charge."

Possibly not but I think most people will believe they would have used the funding available in a far better way than simply hiring more and more layers of bureaucrats, who, surprise surprise, will, of course vote Nu-Labour at the next election. (Well, I would if it would help keep me in a job.) I must dig up those facts about the number of employees in the public sector as against the private since Mr Blair came to the throne - very illuminating I seem to recall.
 
The thing that has not been publicised is that apparently Mrs Dixon's operations have been cancelled in favour of urgent cases - unfortunate but easy to understand and justify .

Ray - the evidence shows that users of the NHS when polled say time after time that the NHS is much improved .

The speed with which i was looked after for a stomach problem last year was really impressive .It runs in our family and my grandmother in 1995 had to wait six months for a procedure I had in four weeks
 
:lol: until Blair got his authoritarian hat on Labour was a progressive democratic socialist party . John Smith would be revolving in his grave at control orders, house arrest and detention without trial .

I am pretty sure he would have had no truck with anti social behaviour orders , admitting evidence of previous convictions even when they are not for similar fact offences , reduction of trial by jury either .

The sooner we get rid of Blair in favour of Brown the better .
 
Well, how about this for a much more important example of the current NHS crisis.

I have a 33 yo friend, mother of 6 lovely children. She's a real worker and is not one to 'fuss'. You can walk into her house, any day, and it's always immaculate. Her husband's a dossing waste of space schizo and she's the breadwinner (runs her own nail/manicure business and a burgeoning packaging business for cosmetics products for Next/M&S etc). He's a compulsive gambler and violent.... They are chronically short of money because he's run through it...

As one does, we've mulled over our various gynae problems over the past couple of years, which superficially were not dissimilar. I went Private last May, had a minor but very 'new' op and have felt 100% since. Fantastic!

She, however, who had worse symptoms to me, still hadn't been given an appointment at that point and it wasn't until early January this year she went in for a similar op to mine but also a sterilisation too. While she was 'under', they found some suspicious looking fibroids, which were sent off for biopsy and which meant they couldn't do the procedure she needed.

The results took over a week to come and the consultant phoned her at 8.30 pm in the evening, so she knew it wasn't good news. The cultures proved it was malignant. So she needs a hysterectomy. This was mid January. The date she was given was May 18th. There are only two consultants in Taunton able to do the op (apparently) and as one of them was off for a month's sabbatical a week later, the other was over-booked and she'll just have to wait, unless a cancellation appears.

The consultant told her 'not to worry'.

Yeah, right.......................
 
Some might suggest that the consultants could have been too busy with all their work for private medicine patients?

The husband sounds as if he needs gelding.
 
You might but you'd be wrong, Brian.

Both are NHS only consultants who do not accept private referrals - they operate out of the Musgrove County Hospital.

In Taunton, there is a Nuffield Private Hospital.

Only three are his.
 
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