Medical Malpractice

Why do people usually complain about the English hospitals?

Not the NHS in particular, they can be dodgy, but the Hospitals. Its the only English facility I havent had a problem with, in fact as a patient on Nightwatch program said 'They have restored my faith in human nature'! Its great to have something Great about England, and its free. So why do so many people complain then?

Public Comments

1. cuz they arent all that medically advanced....how do i know? i got banged up in England once...
2. Because they keep catching deadly diseases there! Just because it LOOKS clean doesn't mean it is
3. Because people was hurted if somebody's gone... They feel bad about the news... But they're feelings aren't controled.... LOVE cannot be broken...
4. Because they never been in Hungary in the hospitals... By the way nothing is free, its included in taxes, just as here
5. Well, a friend of mine had a bad experience. Her mum was in for heart bypass surgery and was all scrubbed up and on the gurney outside of the operating room. The doctor came out and told her they had no beds, so she should go home and come back in 3-4 months. 3-4 MONTHS! We are not talking about a band-aid situation here...it was for heart bypass surgery. That is what is wrong with the system.
6. English hospitals are the best in the world, and a lot of people from abroad do come to have their treatment there and are very satisfied with the service that they got
7. Only free at the point of use. What we pay for them in the longer term is far from it. MRSA has also given a lot of people cause to complain about them and so they get a bad press. There is also the complaining culture, whatever they do will not be good enough for some people.
8. The main reason that both English and Canadian patients complain about is the very long wait for an elective surgery operation or an appointment. Both systems do not have enough money and people, and must therefore establish waiting lists which many patients find unbearable, and thus choose to go to a private hospital or out-of-country hospital where they would pay to get thei medical problem or operation taken care of much sooner. Also the English and Canadian hospitals are less likely to provide newer and more expensive medical operations, again because of limited funding.
9. i complain about them because when my mam was in receiving chemotherpay and radiotherapy and have her lymph glands removed she was left for several hours without any one offering her even a glass of water and for 2 days her bandages weren't replaced even after herself and family asking. It was appauling the way she was treat. Myself after giving birth was left with dirty bedding through out the night as was my new born baby and i had no help in getting showered and because i had forgotton to pack a towel in my overstay bag the nurse suggested i phone someone who could bring me one in the morning but the hospital would not supply one.
10. Unfortunately I had my first experience of a British hospital when I was 18. I'm now 41 and have regularly had to take advantage of the NHS. I think the issue isn't that they're terrible hospitals, it's just that the standards of care and cleanliness have deteriorated beyond belief. I've watched our facilities go backwards over the past 20-odd years and it's very, very sad. I'm not placing blame (I worked for the NHS and I know how tough it is on the staff) but there's just not enough money, not enough staff and it's not going to get any better in the near future.
11. Because there's not many people alive now who remember pre NHS. If you want to see how bad things could be, watch Sicko By Michael Moore. Whilst I don't work for the NHS I do work in a hospital and I see hard working dedicated staff doing their very best every day. Unfortunately " system runs as it should." doesn't make good headline copy for the Daily Mail or Express.
12. Because if they are old enough they can remember when they were efficiently run and beautifully clean. When they started converting wards to offices to accommodate the managers that they introduced to replace matrons it all fell apart. Any nurses of the old school worth their salt ended up in the private sector where standards are higher and there doesn't seem to be same MRSA problems.
13. It might be paid for by the masses, but I know that when my granddad had heart surgery, his operation cost a lot more than he ever paid in! It's sharing the wealth.