NHS is anarchist is why people are now “go” | Private health care

Francis Ryan’s article rings familiar bells (they want young people to “move to the private sector” – I am a lifelong supporter of NHS, but I can see why, August 20). I was waiting for 60 weeks to replace the partial knee. “The patient’s average waiting time is 18 weeks,” says the hospital site and the NHS website on the web.

However, at each stage, waiting for delays to be avoided: the canceled dates were rescheduled after months, a delay for three months in reviewing the MRI scan, referring from one adviser to another-a “new referral”-and awaited for 12 weeks. After the first pre -operation, the failure to follow up in distinguished investigations pre -second operation was required, after which the clearance process of the surgery was not connected to acceptance until I follow it, after four weeks.

The current message is that they “will try to give me an appointment within eight weeks.” A complaint with the patient’s relationship sparked the interpretation: “This is the way we do things.” Meanwhile, official complaints raise long responses full of irrational confusion. If the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare depends on the waiting list information from hospital funds such as these, NHS reform plans are failed.

I could have had a special surgery at the NHS Hospital himself, with the same consultant, within weeks of referral. If you have gone 14 months ago, you may be able to enjoy 2025-paint phone. Maybe I will go to the private sector next time?
Ed Mason
Kendall, Cambria

Unlike Francis Ryan, I am lucky because I have never faced the dilemma of the need to use private health care due to clear failures in NHS. But despite her personal circumstances, I think she might think about the fact that patients who buy individual care have a broader effect on other patients who may have greater clinical needs.

Perhaps a special physiotherapist you used was completely independent, but the vast majority of doctors working in private health care also work part -time in NHS. The fact that they shine, and deal with those who choose to pay, contributes directly to what Ryan describes as a waiting lists of “Sky -Height” from NHS.

In what is now our society, “I First”, is swimming against the tide to refer to the public good. But access to private health care is only a neutral work. It is very worse on the horizons of those who cannot or unwilling to take this step, whose health problems are often worse than the waiting list template.
David Henchev
Holmfirt, West Yorkshire