The NHS aren’t interested in helping people

[Marktheghost]

I was discharged from hospital in April 2020, and I've only just found out!

I was referred there in late 2016 because I'm suicidal and lonely; and they've done nothing to help me! The nurses there are useless! So I put in a complaint about the NHS.

I got their response to my complaint about a week or 2 ago. It says I was discharged in April 2020, and a doctor wrote to me to tell me why. If he did, I didn't receive the letter. I didn't know until now!

Apparently the reason is that I don't have any significant mental health issues. Well why was I referred there in the 1st place then?!!

I was even offered an appointment there in October 2020, so what was that about if I'd been discharged in April 2020?

And that was all they said in response to my complaint! They didn't address any of what I said about them doing nothing to help me and the way they (mis)treated me before April 2020!

 

[JustAMatterOfTime]

You can't insult the golden calf!

 

[Pain In The Ass]

I was discharged from hospital in April 2020, and I've only just found out!

I was referred there in late 2016 because I'm suicidal and lonely; and they've done nothing to help me! The nurses there are useless! So I put in a complaint about the NHS.

I got their response to my complaint about a week or 2 ago. It says I was discharged in April 2020, and a doctor wrote to me to tell me why. If he did, I didn't receive the letter. I didn't know until now!

Apparently the reason is that I don't have any significant mental health issues. Well why was I referred there in the 1st place then?!!

I was even offered an appointment there in October 2020, so what was that about if I'd been discharged in April 2020?

And that was all they said in response to my complaint! They didn't address any of what I said about them doing nothing to help me and the way they (mis)treated me before April 2020!

They do what is minimally required of them legally, so that their jobs and incomes are safe. An organization, 'The NHS', is not capable of compassion. Only individual people are capable of compassion, and people are primarily concerned with self-preservation. The main reason they all work in healthcare is that they are outgoing, extroverted types who feel the need to be around people, talking to them all day long, and they need a job to earn money. It has very little to do with compassion for strangers.

 

[summers]

The healthcare system is there to make money, not help people - in every country.

 

[trianglesplayhouse]

They don't care about anyone there. I went to the hospital from an overdose when I was 12 and it took them so long to get me a bed and make sure I was safe. What did they do in terms of mental health? Refer me to a psychologist. How long did it take? 3 years to be seen, and it was shit.

If they don't give a fuck about children I don't think they give one about anyone.

 

[summers]

I don't think they give one about anyone.

They do - politicians and the rich.

 

[trianglesplayhouse]

The healthcare system is there to make money, not help people - in every country.

Kind of, NHS is a free service so the government pays for it. It's understaffed in every aspect and the doctors are extremely overworked, so a lot of them will try not to see patients if possible. They may explain away symptoms of cancer (such as a lump) as to not deal with getting the person seen.

 

[summers]

Kind of, NHS is a free service so the government pays for it. It's understaffed in every aspect and the doctors are extremely overworked, so a lot of them will try not to see patients if possible. They may explain away symptoms of cancer (such as a lump) as to not deal with getting the person seen.

The NHS is an excuse for the government to tax you for poor/no service.

 

[trianglesplayhouse]

The NHS is an excuse for the government to tax you for poor/no service.

To be fair, they do things occasionally. But I'm putting that achievement on the workers not the government.

 

[Rational man]

Kind of, NHS is a free service so the government pays for it. It's understaffed in every aspect and the doctors are extremely overworked, so a lot of them will try not to see patients if possible. They may explain away symptoms of cancer (such as a lump) as to not deal with getting the person seen.

Many doctor's and nurses have devoted their soul to helping people. I can understand why you say this but their hands are tied by bureaucratic rules and government restrictions. NHS does save lives but i have come to accept that they cannot save everyone including me. I expected more but in the end, we all die somehow. I feel your pain, really.❤

 

[KuriGohan&Kamehameha]

Unsurprisingly, the NHS's top priority is keeping people alive, not stabilising them, or properly managing their conditions in the long term. They are under pressure to meet benchmark targets of x cancer screenings, x heart attack ambulance calls seen before 10 minutes, and that's where they will be funneling their resources until the outcry dies down.

The fact of the matter is that the NHS, like most healthcare systems, prioritise an explicitly fatal case rather than one where the patient's condition is going to deteriorate slowly and eventually become dire if no attention is given.

Even if the fatal case will end up succumbing to complications within a few days/weeks, doctors are obligated and bound by oath to save their life, rather than siphoning resources to improve the quality of life of someone who is completely miserable and suicidal because their issue isn't being tended to.

In a perfect world, everyone could have top quality care, but when resources are in scarcity, they have to pick their battles. The NHS will waste millions keeping people locked up in mental wards whilst offering them no tangible help, forcibly keeping brain dead individuals alive who will never wake up, etc because of this obsession with life at all costs.

No one ever stops to think, what constitutes a happy, healthy, fulfilled life? There is a serious lack of focus on improving quality of life, especially when the issue is seen as "no big deal" because it isn't imminently killing you. I'm sorry that you were shrugged off in this manner, yanked around, lied to, and dismissed.

The services are not fit for purpose and sooner or later, something must give and things will have to change. I understand that being treated this way makes you feel even worse, it really is unfair when you are crying for help and no one hears your pleas.

 

[FuneralCry]

That sounds very frustrating. I'm sorry you had that experience. I wish you the best.