Another manic day. I was not on call, but helped out a bit, and am still behind on paperwork from my days when I was on call. While catching up on paperwork, I did get to watch the Holland equaliser against Argentina and the penalty shootout.
Before this surge in workload due to Scarlet Fever, working in the NHS could be summed up as playing for England against France with eight players and no subs. Now we are playing against both France and Argentina at the same time. I am lucky to work with a great team, and while we don’t have eight players, I would say we have ten. But there are no subs on the bench. Now with Scarlet Fever, the numbers needing to be seen have doubled.
My MP claims that the NHS is to get better, but it has got worse while the Conservatives in charge, and the reasons are simple, it is not funded properly.
A paramedic who works with us cannot remember a time before 2010 when he had to wait outside A&E to hand over a patient, something that is far too common how. I have had a patient wait hours with a fractured hip before he was taken to A&E, a patient with a possible heart attack giving up and coming to see me the next day due to symptoms. None of this happened between 1997 and 2010 when Labour was in charge of the NHS.
