Alex Phillips Brought To Tears From Heartbreaking Call Over NHS Failure
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2023
- Caller Catherine from Middlesex brought Alex Phillips to tears as she talks about a not getting a GP referral in time, leading to a terminal illness.
#talktv #talkradio #nhs
Have you, or do you know someone who has had similar experiences with the health service?
My friends wife was due to go into hospital in April 2020 for cancer treatment. It got cancelled due to lockdown. While the nurses made tictok videos she died in agony.
I hate the NHS. It needs to be sold off to anyone brave enough to bid on it.
I WAS LEFT TO ROT FOR NEARLY 18 MTHS WITH NO HELP AND MEDICINE WITHDRAWN WHICH HAS MADE ME VERY VERY ILL. I HAVE A LIFE CHANGING CONDITION CALLED ANKOLISING SPONDOLITUS AND COPD AND STILL RECOVERING FROM OPEN SURGERY BRAIN TUMOR REMOVAL. I HAVE HAD HEART ATTACKS X 2, AND JUST BEEN RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL AFTER A SUSPECTED STROKE STILL LOOKING IN TO THAT. I AM 58 YRS OLD AND LOOK MORE LIKE 70 NOW THANKS TO THE NHS MY LIFE HAS CHANGED BEYOND RECOGNITION. I NOW HAVE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, I DO NOT GO OUT ANYMORE, CANNOT FACE THE WORLD AS IT HAS DISFIGURED ME BEYOND MY WORST DREAMS. I NEED HELP BUT CANNOT AFFORD TO GET SOLICITORS ETC. THE DR'S INVOLVED HAVE LIED THREW THERE TEETH AS WELL.I AM IN CONSTANT PAIN CANNOT EVEN HOLD MY HEAD UP NOW MY CONDITION IS THAT BAD. AND STILL NO MEDICATION HAS BEEN SUPPLIED TO ME AS OF TODAY..I TRULY FEEL I COULD JUST END IT ALL TBH.
@@tobenamedshortlyring Samaritans or Marie curie tell them I’m sure they would get you help never give in my heart breaks for you
My brother, went to his GP when he lost his voice, he was constantly fobbed off with acid reflux or laryngitis diagnosis, this was in 2021 not sure on exact dates, 6 months or so later he went to A&E with his problem on the advice of his wife's doctor, after examination by doctors at the hospital it was suspected throat cancer, all through his illness he had the worst treatment, he did have most of it removed, just a few spores left they said which could be treated with radiotherapy, problem was that he needed a mask moulding onto his face which would mean he would have to lay on his back, he had breathing problems and just could not lay on his back long enough to have the mask fitted, the hospital never came up with a solution, we don't have a clue as to why the mask could not have been moulded whilst he sat up, he passed away nearly 12 months ago now, his throat covered in cancer growth inside and out, his GP was pretty much useless in the first place...
My wife died a few hours into the new year after a 2 year battle against bile duct cancer. Excellent care in hospital, only delayed slightly by the abyssmal covid testing lie, but frankly GPs are not much use these days. It is hard to fathom what they actually do.
Heartbroken for this lady - she and the UK public deserve better. The NHS has become utterly negligent.
Are they still banging the pots and pans.
Yea bet most of NHS workers aren't ethnic.
Poor woman.
@@alyb731 one of thousands …it’s a disgrace, Worst still the enablers/criminals are actually in power.
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My wife's Doctor fobbed her off for two years with misdiagnosis of her symptoms, it wasn't until we went private that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. My wife lasted 10 months and passed away in April 2023, she was an NHS nurse for 40 years and was failed by the organisation she loved and served so professionally and compassionately. The NHS has failed my Wife and my family.
Do not blame the Government or lack of funding. Take it from me they have the Best of equipment and facilities, the problem lies with so many restrictive practises that allow Doctors & Nurses to carve up the service for there own advantage. In my wife's case she could not get an CT scan because the radiologists do not work the weekends ! nor could we get it annotated by a radiologist until my wifes health had deteriorated to the point she was dying. It is down rite deceitful to blame the Government or funding of the NHS, simply its just so badly run its beyond saving.
GPS should improve as well they have made lots of mistakes over the years with me and my family
I lost my disabled sister ONE WEEK after being diagnosed with terminal bladder cancer in A and E...GP had been giving her antibiotics for UTI for months on end.i am inconsolable...they should be done for manslaughter.
@@peachmelba1637 There are no words to describe what you must be feeling right now, the hurt, anger and frustration must be emmence along with dealing with your grief.
Sadly we are hearing more and more stories such as yours, GPS have a lot to answer for in fobbing off patients with pills and misdiagnosed conditions, all to save them time and money.
I am so very very sorry for your loss of your dear sister. This has got to end and GPs should be made accountable for their actions. God bless for sharing your story.
Years ago .my pituitary gland stopped eorking or hardly working. Went to drs numerous times theyvseemed tontine the symptoms were stress as I kept going to the drs. Iooked pregnant and they just said do exercises. Went private theyvsent me to nhs hospital and after numerous tests itvwas found itvwas my pituitary gland had tablets for years and blood tests after a long time undid get better but my point is my go's didn't have a clue and they were really annoyed I went private
The NHS is an absolute disgrace.
She could of got private healthcare!
It’s not like she lives in the USA where it’s expensive! The U.K. private healthcare is really cheap so there’s no reason not to get it !?
The problem with the British is they want everything for free!
@@timwoodger7896
Are you taking the piss?
Private healthcare is way beyond most working people in the UK.
The karma bus will be around shortly.
But they all want a payrise!
Every time they strike it costs someone their life.
NHS is failing thousands of lives as it is.
@@timwoodger7896not everyone has the money for private health care!
Us workers are slammed in tax and national insurance to pay for our health care.
Just imagine if the tens of millions spent on housing Illegals and treating illegals was invested in actual CITIZENS of the nation.
Yet some say the Nhs is the envy of the world. Poor lady how disgusting what's happened to her.
That’s a sick joke. In no other advanced industrial nation would people literally be sacrificed for the sake of ideology.
Not anymore. The NHS is good at emergency care, the rest is questionable. Money is wasted on gender ideology crap nowadays, putting posters up dehumanizing women.
@ivorbiggun2097how many countries copy the American system?
Murdoch propaganda BS, fake tears. The elites are driving this country into the ground for their own greed and setting society against itself. They keep pinning the blame on others to distract the masses whilst they bleed this country dry. They are killing the NHS and are desperate to sell it off and the masses will cheer when it is. The masses are too fucking thick to realise what's happening
And uk is for free? I pay for nhs more than my work private insurance cost, yet I can choose a consultant and see them the same day or next day
We have gone from a great country to a third world nation and I am ashamed.
Travel through London and look for anything written in English. Spot the whitey!
The British are commies and have one aim and that is to destroy ENGLAND... Time to wake up
On purpose too, the globalist puppets of the WEF have driven the UK backwards into the eighteenth century !
it's all been set up and manufactured. the bad guys doing this are sick.
@@tatyanamelnikoff9578 IT IS TO MAKE US EU COMPLIANT ,,,,,WE NEVER LEFT
Heart goes out to that poor woman, I'm so angry this Country has become so broken and I don't think we have any politicians capable of fixing it.
It's insane to keep voting the same ones back in
Those bums have zero concern for the NHS or anything else for that matter. They're only interested in lining their own pockets, feeding us utter bs day after day and getting paid handsomely for doing it. They are an absolute disgrace to humanity.
@@jamesirvine9541 I agree 💯, and Labour will win the next election but( there's always a but) there's going to be a lot of disappointed people , I can already hear it now ,there will be 4 years of excuses, things are so bad there's no money, we can't fix this we can't do that, just wait for it it's on the way, there all so self obsessed, power obsessed, say anything to get the position they crave to be in, that whole house is a den of inadequate egos, worse set of politicians in my lifetime the lot of them.
Listen now you idiots your vote or opinions mean nothing to the government they will do what they want and when they want. If I was you I would just worry about your own life not others now get this message through your thick 💀😂😂😂😂
@@jamesirvine9541your vote or other 🐑 votevmean nothing you are just rats and you will always love by the government rules
Absolutely heartbreaking! This country is doomed.
Illagel immigration get Free Doctors on call? 😡😡😡
But if you're a illegal it's seems its not 🤬
@@JCLAS01 It's disgusting that we don't look after our own people first! The UK is a great hostess but a TERRIBLE mother!
Unless you come in on boat who get every thing free, top thr medical list
@@JCLAS01 It's an utter disgrace. Our own MUST come first. It is they who have paid for the NHS!
They are helping people to die, rather than diagnosing and preventing people from dying, its all part of the plan.
I hope those responsible for the shocking non treatment of this woman and the thousands of others who have had a similar experience are brought to justice 🙏
All they'll do is blame COVID for years to come ! 🦬💩
You're absolutely right in what you say here. The most important systems in society are failing us.
@@dontFwsocal here's to more savings ! 😂👍
@@dontFwsocal genius idea ! 😂👍
I was devastated listening to this lpoor ladies terrible treatment what a brave dignified woman
Absolutely disgusting happening to many times
But don't worry if she had come in a dinghy she would have been triaged on arrival and sent for an x ray within two days! That's the reality of what we are putting up with in this country! People need to rise up and put an end to this madness!
She'd be on a nice warm barge with it's on live in medical care.
Absolutely this country neglect s it’s own
@@denisewoods6389 Fast Track the strangers with zero paperwork that ALL PAID the human traffickers to get here, asylum seekers my hairy swingers, economic CHANCERS more like.
Final destination = DisneyLAND UK!
I agree she would have been treated so much better my heart breaks for this lady may god bless her
Yes
I hope she has faith, and it's justified!
God take care of her.
Unfortunately "faith" won't do her any good
@@monty0289 How do you know? A belief doesn't have to be true to effect change in someone's life for the better, it could very easily make her passing less traumatic and fearful. This is from someone who is a total atheist.
@@adrianh332 An amazing response! Thoughtful and compassionate. On a personal note - I have prayed many times for myself and others and it has worked.
He hasn't done such a great job so far ....
@@AmazinglyEasyCookingneither has man done a great job on this earth since the beginning of time. Stop blaming God & take responsibility yourself man see if you can do a better job cleaning up this mess we created.🤨
Before covid my husband died from cancer.
For 5/6 months at least he’d been treated for urine infection time after time & showed all signs of bladder cancer & lost 4 stone in weight. They even said it could be thyroid related & he had to wait 3 months for thyroid appointment.
We all knew he was fading fast.
He had a history of cancer, having had bowel cancer & kidney cancer in his 30’s.
And with that history ,they kept treating him for urine infection.
So sad how things are heading 😢
My mother was told the same and also fobbed off with antibiotics for urine infection, eventually diagnosed with terminal cancer but too late.😢 taken within six months I will never forgive them, my thoughts are with you 🕊🙏✝️
They are lazy cowards. 35% payrise my ar..
Same happened to my sister....said was UTI endless rounds of antibiotics... finally diagnosed with bladder cancer in A and E and dead a week later....we hear how wonderful the NHS is...we don't hear about the incompetence
Our NHS is the envy of the world utter claptrap
That’s why they come from all over the world to use it
Back in the late 90s, I got chatting to a young nurse who had just qualified. She said then that we had a 3rd world health service, and I would say that today its worse.
When you "import" the third world you become the third world.
it's underfunded that's why
@@equalitypeace1695 absolutely
Unfortunately, this dear lady isn't an isolated incident. I send all my love to her and her family at this time. Let the light shine on these people. I have a medical background but I am not a medical doc and I lost a friend on 3 August - 2 days after his birthday last year to lung cancer. He kept being told it was long covid, then it was a chest infection. I was asked to check him over, which I did - the red flags were blindingly obvious! I told him in no uncertain terms that he needed to go to A&E and needed an X-ray urgently which he did. He was also diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He had been in & out of the GP's office for 8 months! It's disgusting! I fight & refer my patients all the time with what we call 'red flags' - I shouldn't be doing this - this is the job of a GP!
Long Covid is a favourite diagnosis of theirs. I'm sorry. They're supposed to be the experts but we can see how laughable that is.
God Rest Your Earthly Friends Soul Amen xxxxxxx Home To Heaven Amen xxxxxxx With Our Ever Growing Ever Loveing Heavenly Family Amen xxxxxxx
This is my complaint as well. The ads on tv say go to your doctor but if your symptoms continue after a few weeks and a chemist can't give you something to make you feel better and get complete relief you need a hospital. B12 for instance can end up life threatening if not treated and your daily life is impacted greatly.
A lot of tests show in the normal range but don't end up to be in the end.
The hospitals are short of doctors and nurses but short of equipment as well...especially items that actually work.
This Govt has run things into the ground with their total mismanagement.
@@Black.Sabbath My doctor is left with Long Covid so it is a thing but the Govt doesn't offer any help with it and I agree that it is easier to say you have that but not do anything further to help. She is struggling with it so you can imagine ordinary people not getting the help they need!
@@janetmalcolm6191 I am 75 years old, and the opposite end of the spectrum to a hypochondriac. I applied, for the first time in about two years to get a face-to-face doctor's appointment, which I obtained - six weeks later. PS: Nicola and Janet, and other sisters and brothers in arms, your comments are much appreciated; keep them coming!
So how much we paying for those economic migrants...can someone remind me please...
This country lost the logic and moral spine
Millions per day and rising
@@G4RY1159 Yes because of the CONservatives
Not only do they get immediate housing, they also get immediate medical care. All ahead of British people who go to the back of the queue.
@@snowysnowyriverIf you ask me , in I my opinion its treason against British people
This lady is Irish imbecile! How disrespectful to non English people
Such a wonderful lady, and Alex reaction is so human.
Well she is human so I’d expect a human reaction…
My heart absolutely goes out to her What a lady thoughts and prayers to you my love for how you handled yourself with that said news 🙏🙏🙏
*sad than said - if you want to edit by the way
@@robertryan6782Prit! Edit that one.
Pfffff, it's horrible. My life has just dwindled by in agony due to the NHS unwilling to operate again. I was an extremely active, sporty person who had a severe accident that nearly killed me... had my last rights read to my comatose body and everything. Its been 15 years of me suffering every day of my life, NHS services are non existent for many, many people of this once great nation.
What aren't they doing to help you?
@edda682 passing me on to surgical, I've been under anaesthetic for prolonged periods beforehand (many years ago) so they are trying not to put me under again... which harms me, upsettingly. I cannot even get an appointment with a consultant nowadays.
This made me cry. I am devastated for this brave lady. Shame on the NHS for treating her and her son like this. There should be an enquiry and Heads should roll!!! 😢
disgraceful treatment... in any other walk of life people would be held to account... but as this lady said it's just classed as one of these things....
NHS is untouchable, no accountability - it needs independent regulation , unfortunately by the majority of folk it’s looked upon with rose tinted glasses, and they play on that, oh they play on that!
This is so, so heartbreaking ... My goodness ... 😢
My dad was unlucky enough to have an initial appointment in February 2020 just before Covid started. By the time he got his follow up appointment in September, it was too late. His relatively minor condition had become terminal. He died 7 months later.
That's terrible David. My heart goes out to you and your family.
@@terryreknaw6152 thank you for that. I don’t know even now who to blame the most. The government that imposed the cruel restrictions on us or the hospital that cancelled all treatments apart from Covid. I doubt that wasting millions of taxpayer money on an inquiry will provide
answers either, everybody is covering their own back. Disgusting behaviour.
David no doubt you dad will be one of thousands that were neglected by the very people who’s job it was to care for him, but we will never ever know the extent of this negligence because the NHS will continue to conceal their contributions to the crime of the century. My thoughts are with you and the loss of your dad.
@@DavidSmith-zs9dg I would blame all of them especially the political stance to start with and as for the nhs they should of seen people. We've all seen them dancing. It's disgraceful. Again I'm sorry for your loss. All the best.
God comfort you
This is way more common than most would realise. Awful doesnt beginning to describe it.
Heartbreaking what a incredible women.
My heart breaks listening to this brave woman . 🥺😪
This is happening in Canada too... Hugs to the caller Catherine for speaking out. Wishing her strength and love.
My god, the UK is in such a bad state, and its the vulnerable that pay the highest price. The British deserve so much better than this. My parents, grand parents , great grand parents all fought for, in one way or another, in the protection of British human rights, people and sovereignty of England, and this is what England has become. This all comes down to atrocious leadership, priorities and at the end of the day the British. We need to stand up for and help each other get our country back, and protect, restore and re establish our country and its people
Tony Blair and Labour started it. The Conservatives carried it on, and I doubt today's Labour will be any different. There's literally no-one to vote for any more with policies I agree with.
What's changed though? Poor management of NHS? Lack of docs, nurses and professionals? Boomers living longer? Just curious to see why people are not getting the quality services anymore
@eyeswideopen7777 there's probably lots of causes, but a lot of the funds get spent on managers, so not filtering down to the point of contact and spent on stupid unnecessary woke type stuff as well. In lockdown, it was impossible to see a doctor so a lot went undiagnosed and untreated - people have died - and ailments people have now are often worse than if they'd been caught earlier and as a result, waiting lists/backlogs are huge. We currently have/have had staff including junior doctors striking and wanting huge rises while people can't get an appointment. Ambulances for some reason can't unload patients so spend hours stuck with people they can't drop off and waiting times for urgent calls are anywhere upwards of 12 hours if they come at all. There's massive illegal immigration via the channel adding pressure although they get medical helicopters and hotels costing to the tune of £7million A DAY. It's all gone to pot.
@@ChrisAndCats did NHS become bureaucratic
@@ChrisAndCats I heard the docs say they are overworked. No breaktimrs.
My condolences to that lady and her family. Bitterly let down.
Wish was in position to help this lady god bless her
What a lovely lady. Don't know what to say.....ashamed of my country, our NHS, Doctors. My mother was also told she had chest infections, acid reflux, bronchitis etc for about 2 years ...before dying of lung cancer. This country is not the country I love anymore.
Get rid of the NHS.
@@candorsspot2775or improve it? It would be replaced by private healthcare that many wouldn't be able to afford, then what?
@@GG-zl3et So you think it's better to have mediocre care that most can't even get in a timely fashion?
A private system will serve far more people, far more cheaply. Get govt restrictions and controls and medical care can be very inexpensive. It's a tragedy what people who hate economic activity and their fellow man have done.
@@candorsspot2775 private medical only suits those that can afford it. In the US, people are paying thousands and thousands for operations. Some can't afford it at all. How about Government actually improve the NHS and it give it the investment it needs.
@@GG-zl3et In the US, most people have insurance. There is plenty that can be improved in the US system, mostly getting rid of government controls.
The biggest problem with any public system is that you can dump billions more into a govt system and there is no accountability to make sure money is actually going into care instead of bureaucracy.
Why is it people only call for more money and not look at how much waste there is? Where are the promises that the govt will make good use of any extra money they get?
And maybe you can afford dying in an emergency room or waiting so long for cancer care it's too late to save you, but I prefer a system where the govt can't force me to wait to death. I just can't imagine being forced to pay for healthcare with my taxes and being told to make my funeral arrangements because the govt won't let me get care in time to save my life.
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My mama in 2020 passed from the same fate (6wks and she was gone) and they said she had allergies for over a year.
God bless this dear woman.
And the left think right-wingers are heartless.
Alex has a heart as big as Britain!
Left and right doesn’t matter anymore. It’s the have and have nots.
@@MrTimmy1979
It maters to the champagne socialists in London.
@@OfficialnrbWhat exactly is a champagne socialist ???
@@Officialnrb They sound like have’s.
@@sharonwilliams974
Rich folks hijacking the Labour Party and looking down their noses at workers.
Two billion being spent on migrants could go on NHS . Money is wasted however on things like diversity managers.
So many services and charities are doing backflips for economic migrants, a bloody disgrace is an understatement.
Hahaha its 11 billion just for ilegals annually, legal migration is 13 times higher annually, like pouring oil onto a fire and wondering why its getting worse 😂
They are murderers by proxy.
I guess that will come with all the money from the Breixt bus, right?
@angelachicken4141 . Brexit has restored democracy to uk. We never had a vote on commission leader. The financial hit has been exaggerated. City of London doing fine. Covid was the problem and the fact we borrowed 100s of millions. The country is living above its means . We are already taxed to a stupid level. U got a cost of living crisis compounded by net zero policy costs.
So proud of this woman telling it like it is in the real world❤ love to her and her family❤
What an amazing women ❤ God bless, I'm preying your you and your family x
doctors supposed to take a oath i swear? its actually criminal
The oath has become a mockery. It no longer carries any weight. These so called doctors will do as they are instructed by higher authority regardless of if they think it's wrong just so they can keep their salaries.
depopulation agenda 21
@@gregabott5583 The GP doctors bled the COVID payments dry while they sat at home even after the shutdown ended, only contact was with some underling by phone. They were as bad as the MPs.
@@gregabott5583So if it was up to you there wouldn’t have been a lockdown causing more deaths and debilitating long covid. The UK wasn’t the only country to have lockdowns. Even before covid19 the waiting list under the Tories was extremely high.
@@gregabott5583So if it was up to you there wouldn’t have been a lockdown causing more deaths and debilitating long covid. The UK wasn’t the only country to have lockdowns. Even before covid19 the waiting list under the Tories was extremely high.
My wife was also let down by the GP, fobbed off for months, and couldn't get an appointment, we went there in the end , and said we are not moving until she is seen, still didn't see the GP instead Sent us the hospital, sadly I lost my wife to cancer. Had she had been seen when she first phoned it would have been in the early stages. Have no faith in the GPs. So my sympathies are with this lady.
We had a viable and working nation 40 years ago but it has been systematically taken apart by several vested interests and various factions.
Yes, before immigration we were a great and admired nation.
@@truckerfromreno What has an immigrant ever done to you ???
@@sharonwilliams974 Boo hoo.
@sharonwilliams974 how about you love ?
@@truckerfromreno You’re so mature…
This used to be a great country but sadly no more I feel angry for this lovely lady this is absolutely disgusting
This is what happens when you stretch and stretch until its over stretched .These are lives not an elastic band that snaps its families .
What is so annoying about the NHS, I.M.H.O., the taxpayer pays for the service upfront, but, cannot receive nor demand it when needed ... my brother in law, on 2 occasions has been diagnosed with a life threatening issue, on one of these two occasions, according to the consultant, that would end his life within 24 hours, so convinced they even said he could receive his beloved dog at his bedside before he went. Over one year later he still breathes along with us all, yet, no worthwhile action can be issued against the guilty party, in the opinion of a local solicitor. Never in my 65 years has my faith in the N.H.S. been so low. P.S. what a wonderful and stoic woman that dear Irish lady seems.
I hear stories such as this everyday, lots of people suffering in silence.
This is very upsetting. Yet we have people arriving in this country who get to see a dr or medical team as soon as they arrive, and apparently twice a week too! We're headed into a third world country, health isn't a priority for our government, only wokism and diversity is. Someone who identifies as a transgender is more likely to receive treatment within days yet someone with serious issues are left. Is age a contributing factor... I believe it is, they want to get rid of the old as we're a burden! The receptionists do not have a license to practice medicine and this needs to be addressed too.
I wish this lady love and may she find herself on a beautiful path into her next journey.
I'm so Sorry to this lady, and her family.
PLEASE BE AWARE - Your doctors surgery are recording your calls.
They DO NOT notify you of this - it is buried within their privacy policy.
They will use it against you if they need to.
So sorry for this lady -
All public service sector record calls. For training purposes. This has been the case for the past 30 years at least and usually a recorded message tells you this is taking place. It is used to try and exempt them from blame if they missed something they should have taken more seriously.
@@bridiesmith5110 The part where it says - they DO NOT notify you of this. RING THEM. Do your own research.
What your saying is not true. It has not been happening for 30 years.
@@millionaire2631 I can assure you it has. Every hospital, local council site etc has been recording calls, for training purposes for years. How do I know this, I had to retrieve said calls if incidents happened and we had to check what the caller said and how we responded to the calls.
Just because you were not aware of it or they no longer announce it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. All emergency services record calls too.
@@bridiesmith5110 At a GP surgery?
Worked GP myself since 2000…
They never recorded calls.
Emergency - maybe.
Not confidential GP..
you seem to miss the point too - if you know, that’s a different matter but you don’t - unless your confronted with it and then you take yourself to their policies.
Raising awareness - don’t miss this point for wanting to be ‘RIGHT’
Just ring them - before the receptionist answers - does it say, ‘these calls are recorded for training and monitoring purposes’
It doesn’t.
In todays suing culture they need to be recorded for both your own and their protection. You are told that all calls are recorded when you ring my Doctors so its not everywhere. Also a good lesson is maybe to read the privacy policy when you sign up to a surgery.
My heart is aching for her😢
My heart goes out to the lovely lady and her family.
See this is what the world is abandoning, good decent people like her yet also what more heartbreaking is her own immediate family was also too shafted too over their own health problems. And the way she said these things, is the result of self centered and selfish world has been made around good people like her and her family. Bless her and her entire family.
This is all as it is written. There will be justice in the end.
The older you get, the more you've paid in, the less you're cared for.
This country has gone to the dogs.
The GP does only 2 days a week for NHS, the rest of the week is for 'private' patients.
I guess he/she isn't in it just for the money?
Yes I caught that. So he deals with Private clients for 3 days and weekends off, of course.
Wonder how many others are into this nice little earner resulting in huge and growing waiting lists.
Actually you can bet pretty much all are doing this 'private' work and the 'underpaid/overworked' nurses.
@@wideye2901Who
@wideye2901 Yep! I've heard the hotels get a doctor's visit each week.
That poor lady is bang on. The receptionist decides who gets an appointment on the basis of whether she judges one's symptoms to be serious enough.
@@fip62 And yet the doctors don't refuse. They swan off and leave their own local community some of whom they'll have been seeing for years. No doubt they have something in common with what's on the boats.
I looked at the video of that barge in Portland with a medical room and a private doctor for illegal vermin, then you hear this heartbreaking story of that poor lady who has worked and paid into the system all her life and now has a terminal illness. I have no words. I think the lovely Alex's reaction says it all. God bless that lady, how badly she's been treated. 😢
You should be angry at the government, Mr fkn HAPPY!
@@josephobi.837 If you're HAPPY about that matey you want your f'ing head testing. Think yourself lucky you ain't got what she has. SMH.
My Mam, 78, has been on to doctors for 3 years with pains in her side, losing weight, and lost appetite, I have asked repeatedly for a scan for her, and she eventually got one in May, she's on palliative care now, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, cancer of her liver and a blood clot near her liver. I was a carer for 10 years, dementia and end of life so I knew something was wrong, I'm looking after my Mam at the end of her life now, I'm in bits typing this and I feel for this poor woman also as well as anyone else that has gone or is going through this right now. Our NHS is a fkg disgrace, with top bosses getting millions in bonuses and wages while we suffer, it should be stripped from the very top down, get rid of all these diversity, inclusion clowns that bend to these ideologies and get the matrons back on the wards. It also boils my blood that illegals coming here in boats get the treatments they need straight away and are free to them but paid for by us. I seriously hate this govt for what it has done to this country. Bless this lady, I feel your pain, you have been wronged so badly.
Totally agree with you, so sorry for your Mom, and the lady who phoned in.
I'm so sorry. I lost my mum twelve years ago. She had been a nurse that devoted herself to her career. Even then her care wasn't that great. I can't imagine the frustration and anger you are feeling. The only blessing I can see, is at least your mum has a caring daughter like you, to care for her. Your post made me cry but I stand with you in the outrage at the NHS. Stay strong and big hugs xxxx
I am in total agreement with you. Get rid of bloated managers and bring back matrons. I too am angry that illegals get treatments without having paid a penny and those of us who have paid for years have to wait to get treatment.
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Sorry for your loss, but you can't blame immigration for this one - Brexit has already happened. Oh, and Brexit is one of the reasons the NHS is on its arse - where do you think we got our doctors and nurses from? Hint - most are not British nationals - we sent them all back, which was what you wanted.....
Yay! Lets all clap for the great work the NHS does!!!!
N O T ! ! !
In Oxfordshire there is a 2 year wait for a routine gynaecologist referral and 6 months for urgent!! Absolutely disgusting!
God bless that lady...... 💖♥️💖🇫🇷🇫🇷
NHS has been on the very bones of it's arse for years. AND why do we all now need a smartphone to function or be part of society ?
Not everyone is tech savvy or have any interest in a smartphone - tablet or PC, Remember the days you called the Doctors surgery at ANY GIVEN TIME and THEY ANSWERED!
My aunt went to her Drs 3 times in 6 months, bleeding when she had a poo...Dr dismissed it saying she had piles...she bled to death from stomach cancer! Couldn't get passed the front desk most of the time, unqualified staff doing triage for Drs who aren't on site anymore...who knows where they are.
Still the NHS nurses did do some lovely TikTok dance videos though. Even though they knew it was Bollocks.
They keep banging On about wages, from what I hear a nurse gets 30k+ per year, they should have a little attempt at getting by on carers allowance.
Empty hospitals during Convid. Scans, consultations and operations cancelled. Old people given DNR's and killed off with Midazolam. Then labelled Covid to get the numbers up. Most people have no idea due to the lying, complicit and criminal media.
@@G4RY1159Nurses are more skilled than carers, it is obvious that they should be paid more, their salaries have been eroded for years thanks to the Tories. However, you are right to point out that carer salary is appalling.
@@Bluesky-gk4qy Carer Salary lol
Thank goodness l live in South Africa, best healthcare ever. This poor woman.
My Mother was treated like a nuisance for month after month after month by the GP & local NHS hospitals, instead of looking at her as a whole they treated separate "illnesses", her last admission to hospital she was in 2 weeks & died a long & painful death, heart failure, kidney failure & liver failure, there was no way back & we watched her leave us. We are traumatised for life, she deserved better.
My late mother was also delayed cancer treatment because of the lockdowns.
its vital to start treatment as soon as possible in stage 3. she had to wait months while it spread more. it looked like it had just pogressed to stage 3 when she got her first x-ray/ CT-scan. she lasted about 2.5 years after she found out. they started the treatment too late. she passed away only 3 weeks ago.
my late step dad had cardiac arrest about 3 months after they found out and it took the ambulance 30 minutes to get to the house. he was gone before they showed up.
its about 15 minute drive to the nearest hospital and it took them twice as long to show up.
An absolute disgrace,,,so sorry for you
No words , I’m just angry at what’s been done to our wonderful country .
What a brave humble woman! I myself have been waiting nr a year now to be referred to the E.n.t. Department in Sheffield. I can hardly hear, however listening to Catherine I'm one of the lucky ones it's just my hearing n not life threatening!!
Bless her she's amazing, wow
The NHS don't care unfortunately people are dying but they would rather go on strike because of greed. They should be ashamed of themselves
This happened before the strikes you idiot, don’t blame them for 7 million people on waiting lists, blame this bunch of self serving tory bastards that don’t give a s;:t for the working class.
That's just falling for the tory tricks which is what they want! The tories want to privitise all healthcare so that only those with money can get access to it, after the second world war when the NHS was first thought of, the conservatives voted against it then because they said that they didn't want 'us' people having free healthcare, even though it was 'us' people who had won the war for them and it was 'us' people who had been left with disabilities due to the war!! The conservatives are a disgrace and they want everyone fighting because it distracts from their wrong doings, don't fall for it and use your vote in the next general election and get them out!!! That's the only way to stop all the rubbish that the conservatives have done and are continuing to do, they've made a right mess of everything at their own gain!! This is not the doctors/nurses fault at all, the tories just want us to blame them and turn on them, don't fall for it!!!
I know I have little to no respect left for NHS.
Greed? What rubbish, the NHS has been neglected for years thanks to the Tories.
@@wendyfreeman32Really? Have you ever been to hospital ?
A very similar story for someone dear to me, and she is much younger than this poor lady.
I have been waiting 20 year for something and i have just have they just sent me to charity. as well as the rest. god Bless this wonderful women and Shame on the government (including the oppositions and civil services) and NHS
They M**DERED my mum like this. She was meant to have a routine operation as an outpatient in April 2020. She had water retention that needed draining. The George Eliot in Nuneaton phoned her up two days into the scam and cancelled it. Her date came and went. In mid May 2020 she lost her balance from going dizzy and fell in the living room and bashed the back of her head on the TV cabinet. For a week, she had vertigo issues. She called herself an ambulance which took her to the same hospital. IT WAS EMPTY! They put her in ICU on day 1 and gave her a video link to my brother and I which showed the ICU to be less than half full with no rushing around. This was the 26th May 2020 at the height of the lies. Day 2 they moved mum to the Melly Ward - the ONLY ward in the entire hospital that was operational. My brother and I were given 30 mins each to "say our goodbyes" because they told us she wasn't going to make it. They STILL RFEFUSED TO OPERATE citing that the government had told them "nothing but C one NINEs". My brother refused to leave her side. I came and went multiple times per day, looking after mum's dogs and running my business. The hospital plied her with morphene and midazolam and left her to drown in her own body. at 2am on the 1st June 2020, she died. But it's ok because AT LEAST ALL THE MEDICAL TEAMS GOT TO DANCE ON TIKTOK AND GET CLAPPED ON A THURSDAY!!
Disgusting ..your poor mum ..I was admitted to hospital with a undiagnosed perforated cyst during covid almost died the hospital was empty ..I have zero faith in the NHS
Heartbreaking 😔
What a beautiful Irish lady. Given her life to the care of others and cast aside by the establishment. May God bless her and her family. How I detest the system of government and care of the elderly in this country. It's disgraceful, peoples lives in old age and now even middle age mean nothing.
My heart breaks for this lady ,I am irish and worked in the health service for 47years in England,,she deserves so much better treatment ,I blame her g.p I know they are overworked ,but they can refuse to take on asylum seekers saying their lists are full ,it's all down to money again
God love and protect you and your family ,you are in my prayers 🙏🏾 ❤
My partner went to see our GP in January this year as she had lost a huge amount of weight very quickly and was sleeping all the time. The doctor sent her away with anti depressants. She died of cancer in May.
Doctor should be struck off asap before his incompetence strikes again.
That is ghastly. 'Anti'depressants are awful even for a healthy person.
Sorry
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Socialized medicine is collapsing in 🇨🇦 as well. People die in emerg waiting to be seen. Diagnostic bloodwork or scans very hard to access. It’s a system run by bean counters, not doctors. However, if you want medical assistance in dying, Trudeau will be delighted to make that happen pronto. I’m guessing NHS is watching closely .
@alligator_pie Unfortunately not, too many do-gooders here preventing it. They want all us oldies to suffer to the bitter end.
That brave lady is 100% correct I'm 60 and growing up you looked up to gp's as they were there 24/7 they did the job because they cared but that's long gone 😢 you can't get an appointment because half the time they are not there that's why I along with many go straight to A+E and everyone should do the same and then the government would have to do something about the diabolical state of the GP service
My heart goes out to her 😢
Yeah, nationalized care has its problems. Here in the US, we don’t have that. It’s expensive to get care, but here in the US, you can get great care quickly.
So sad and so wrong.
Strong woman
My heart goes out to this beautiful lady. How brave of her to go on air to highlight the huge cracks in the system, whilst not seeking any special treatment or compensation. My uncle recently passed. The incompetence of the GPs signing off his cause of death, which was subsequently challenged and proven to be incorrect and the service from the coroner's office, which has been placed on special measures due to the poor service, demonstrates where we are at with the entire system. It is so overstretched and for those at the very top of the tree, who have allowed our health system to get into this state, they should hold their heads in shame - but they won't. I pray for this lady that she doesn't suffer too much pain with the time that she has left. 😢
NHS is Finished My wife had the same problem
I worked in a hospital and the level of care for NHS patients has become absolutely abysmal, I've seen nurses standing around doing nothing while the NHS patients are buzzing for help Where does all the money go???
I attend dialysis 3 times a week. It's amazing how you see the same faces on their phones or having a good laugh and gossip in the corridors. Then you see the nurses coming in on their days off to cover shifts. One charge nurse was even putting the rubbish out. As it was quicker to do it herself than find someone willing to do it.
I complained to the hospital about the care received by my mum before she passed away. I stayed the night with her and when I asked a night nurse, who was on her phone (I guess Social media) to get a bidet, she told me to ask the other nurse who was nowhere to be seen. Apparently these were agency nurses. The hospital did not give a damn.
A real crying shame, somebody please explain why a doctor is allowed to do 3 days private work and only 2 days NHS, every working man and woman has paid for NHS care. Nothing is free, the NHS is a paid for service. Doctors should not be allowed to prioritise private over NHS.
because the government is trying to do away with the NHS, has been underfunding the NHS and underpaying NHS staff for years. They put more and more into private health care
The tip of the iceberg. This has only just begun.
For years and years I've been reading comments on UA-cam, dozens of people say their loved ones waiting for doctors, hospitals appointments and dying waiting, way before the pandemic, it's the world national health service, mass migration, 7 million from EU living here alone want free health care, people in Europe not living here coming for free care too. There was 100s of comments which couldn't read on same topic, even those given care quality is getting worse 😢
My father was diagnosed with the same disease as Katherine in late December 2018. We waited all through January 2019 for a hospital appointment with the Oncologist...no reply. February came & went..also with no reply, by the beginning of March we were becoming frantic & we contacted his GP who assured us that they would look in to it immediately...2 weeks later no reply.
By then we were almost in to April & he had received no lung cancer treatment whatsoever, this time we physically visited both his GP surgery & the local hospital to demand an explanation.
My dad received a letter from his GP approx. one week later apologising that his hospital referral had been found in the bottom of a drawer...it had never been sent. By the time the Oncologist assessed my dad the cancer had metastasized everywhere & he died in January 2020.
Completely no words Friend.
Sue the whole lot of useless incompetents.
@@1oldgit Thank you.
We seriously debated it but then 2 months later Covid hit & the whole World stood still for 2 years as you know, infact the NHS is still standing still because absolutely nothing has improved, I am mid life & I worry where it'll be when I'm truly old.
@@jeekelsThe problem is that everybody thinks that way, I know it's not in our nature to cause a fuss but this is how they get away with it.
That is APPALLING! My situation was minor - a referral from my optician to pass on their findings to my doctor - so he then would create a hospital appointment with a consultant. The receptionist didn’t pass their letter on having filed it away by mistake. That wasted three months. Three appointments were made - two cancelled by the hospital - in all I have waited over TWO AND A HALF YEARS to see a consultant.
The same here New Zealand. Good bless that poor women ❤. May her son have better news
We are the forgotten people.
This is why people love Alex.... She's one of us and always wears her heart on her sleeve
Alex is probably in private Bupa! Don't get carried away too quickly.
My gynecology appointment has been delayed by my 6 months check up former cancer survivor, now adnormal cells have returned after a hysterectomy in 2007 been checked every year since then until it went to 6 monthly now it's delayed and counting to over a year excuse catching up on the back log by putting myself on the back log
I will sue the NHS if my cancer returns from neglect
My husband didnt smoke or drink and died of lung cancer ...he got it from imported cheap cement from europe..he was 76 and still working and the way he was treated at the hospital was criminal...all they cared about were their private patients.
He never visted a dr or hospital in the 47 years we were married and they let him down when he needed them..
Sorry to hear about your husband. 🙏
I personally find this conversation extremely difficult.
People like me were called "conspiracy theorists" when I pointed out that the NHS would never recover from lockdowns.
& I'm inclined to have ZERO sympathy for lockdown pushers, who now experience NHS waiting lists.
It is the logical consequence of your choices.
You have a good heart and a caring person Alex ❤
My GP is still hiding from Covid. Appointments are by phone call, and the only time you are told to come to the surgery is to see a nurse. Patient files are not kept up to date, and I do know I am not alone on that one... He is quite happy to keep taking his rather large salary though?
Oh he would be....bet he got plenty of Private stuff too to fill his bank account.
@@1oldgit You know it!
This is brutal .brave soul to speak about this.take care.
As a retired nurse in the States this makes me so angry 😡 I also worry if we get national health we will have same issues. I’ve seen it when I was working in recovery room a lot of my patients came from Canada because they didn’t want to wait sometimes 2 years for their surgery. That is unacceptable . Prayers for the woman who called that she may have family surround her at this horrible time.
But people are already dying from not receiving care, or receiving delayed care, in America - just for different reasons. The only difference is that here, this happens because people don't have access to healthcare at all because they have no insurance, or because many people with insurance delay their care because they can't afford the astronomical bills. Lots of Americans either receive no care at all and die because of it, or they only receive care once their illness has gotten so bad that they end up in the emergency room...and then they die. In America, this woman's story would present itself as someone who couldn't get the scan because they couldn't afford it; or it would be someone who only got the scan in the emergency room after their cough became unbearable. On top of the fact that their condition is now worse because they couldn't afford care earlier, now they have a $500 ambulance bill, plus a hospital bill.
I have a genetic heart condition and heart failure. I actually LOVE my insurance that I pay for through my job. I receive speedy, high quality care at a world class hospital at costs that are affordable for me...but that's only because I make enough money to afford it. When I was diagnosed, I paid almost $300 for the cardiac MRI that diagnosed me. I also now take 7 pills everyday, so am paying monthly for multiple prescriptions. That's in addition to my monthly costs for the insurance itself. A lot of people could never afford this. And I realize that I never have to wait for my care only because so many others never receive care at all, which frees up time and resources in hospitals. That's seriously messed up. Not sure how you think that's any better than what the UK is doing. Morally, it's worse than what they're doing, and our health outcomes are worse than theirs, as well.
At least, in the UK, they're *trying* to offer care to the most people. In America, we don't even try, because we treat people as if it's their fault that they were born and need healthcare to stay alive. We treat healthcare as if it's a luxury, or something that's optional. The UK is a healthier country than the US overall, which is ridiculous, since we have access to better healthcare than they do and are a richer country overall. We have the best healthcare in the world (I'm referring to technology, quality of doctors, and treatments), yet you could never tell by looking at the state of our health. Many people just cannot afford to access our best-in-the-world resources.
That's so disgusting and sad. That lady should sue the NHS to stop this from happening to others.
It takes years to fight negligence by doctors or NHS, this poor lady probably hasn't got long enough left and what time she has, could do without that kind of trauma. Not that it's right to just let it go, but it's a bitter pill, either way.....shocking state of affairs.
@@errin-mp1zy I've had breast cancer. I would and expect my son to continue the fight for me even if I died in that time. No matter how long it would take.
@@errin-mp1zy As the lady doesn't have much time they would have to speed things up anyway. It only takes a long time when they drag it out.
If you sue NHS and win it means more money is taken away from NHS. I could have sued my doctor but I rather they learn from their mistakes and make sure it does not happen again. But I guess it is wishful thinking on my part.
@@HoneyBumblebee300 don’t think they care it’s just already all part of a plan
Our NHS has collapsed am so sorry for this lady, it could happen to any of us.
Our family is in Ontario, Canada, but my sister moved to Birmingham, England, years ago. She had a Liver-Kidney transplant but then ended up with pain in her lung during Covid-19 but it took forever to get it checked out. She finally made it into the hospital and one day she was talking to her dr. Ten or fifteen minutes later the nurse came in and she was gone. She died in March 2020 at age 63.
Is the waiting time for treatment, the same for illegal imigrants too?
Just wondering, as they seem to be put first for everything else.
I totally agree, I recently diagnose with Pi-RADS 3 prostate cancer, all I. Get is. Cancellation after cancellation on my appointments. It’s wrong. 😮 this poor women God bless her 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
This is unforgivable.
After a year of illness i convinced my wife to change GP and surgery the new doctor after 2 weeks wasn't happy after a hospital appointment she had kidney cancer 10 weeks later she was gone follow your gut feeling.we where from Northern Ireland and just like that lady great full to England.
How many poor souls is this happening to
Very true there are lots of decent retired people out there shy quiet people with a lot of them afraid to express themselves to a doctor because they grew up and lived their lives when d elderly were respected