It also seems to be different from trust to trust. I dealt with the last few months of my grandma’s life two years ago near Birmingham and they kept sending her home to be alone with sepsis. In the end my sister and I had to take turns looking after her in her house till she passed.
However, I’m in the northeast with two hospitals ranked in The top 50 in the world. Been seen at a&e twice in the last year with only a 40ish minute wait both times and can see a doctor in the same day. I don’t understand how my two experiences can be completely polar opposites.
....they are keeping her on oxygen, it seems the steroids are they only thing keeping her breathing properly, so when she cam off them we went down hill again, side of effects or not she will probably have to stay on them.
When she got past the wait, the care seemed good, although the lack of digitised records is fucking prehistoric.
The stores from the other folk waiting were terrifying, one guy and his old dad had been there 18 hours, plenty of 6, 8 10 hour waits.
Another story of a woman who fell in the woods was found by another walker in shock and waited 4 and hours for an ambulance and another 3 on a trolly.
The same scene as the other week, really ill looking people on trollies everywhere and I mean everywhere.
Sounds like this is far from being a UK problem.
Just like climate change, and several other wopping problems, ageing population isnt being addressed in any serious way anywhere.
People throughout history have always felt things are getting worse, often despite evidence to the contrary, well things ARE getting worse now.
We should be rioting in the streets about the state of this. Good help us all.
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