Woman, 95, left lying on cold pavement with broken hip for five hours as 'not a priority'

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I bet they’re conservative voters but wonder why the NHS has no funding

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  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The problem with NHS is that it is free, therefore, anybody with a cold, or bruised bone seeks services. This lady wasn’t dying, so she wasn’t priority. It is inefficient to have free services, yet scarce resources to handle those services. The doctors feel like they are underpaid. NHS is like Soviet healthcare. Underpaid, poor services, yet it is free, which is what really matters.

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    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The NHS worked great for decades. Whenever the Conservatives are elected, they repeatedly reduce funding. Its free at point of use. I pay national insurance every month which funds the NHS. its not funded from the magic money tree

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Even if they just had two guys and a van, I’d expect it to take under 5 hours. This isn’t triage, this is negligence.

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    • breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Youre equating paramedics and an ambulance with “two guys with a van”?

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• superkret@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sounds like the NHS is in desperate need of more public funding, or a dispatcher is in desperate need of getting fired and sued, or possibly both.

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• Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  She fell over with her husband and people nearby gave her blankets.

  Nobody could just fuckin take her to the hospital?

  Foh

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  • Kaboom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s the UK, they need the government to wipe their asses too! I don’t know what went wrong with their country, but something did.

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