Comments by "rob shirewood" (@robshirewood5060) on "The real reason that you can’t see your doctor: the feminisation of British medicine" video.

  1. The reason why people local to me cannot get an appointment is because there are so many ethnic "minority" patients and eastern European patients and their families "blocking" any chance of elderly (who paid for the service for over 60 years ) getting the chance of even getting an appointment even on the phone,. Three years ago to be seen by a Doc you had to predict a week in advance if you were going to be ill in  7 days time, a virtual impossibility. Then and now if you have to go to A and E there is the same problem added to by illegals being seen because they cannot register with a GP, who block the A and E and create massive waiting times which are too much for elderly injured or sick people to endure. My sister is a casualty nurse and sees it every day.  There should be two casualty departments at hospitals one for the people who have lived here all their lives and paid for the service and a separate one for those who have not, and triaging in both for different urgencies for care. There should also be Ambulance waiting rooms which also Triage to free ambulances to get on with their duties. The NHS and especially the RCN cut the vital blood of the NHS years ago by stabbing Enrolled Nurses in the back and losing  thousands of good nurses to the profession, we could use that level of practical experienced nurses today to alleviate this madness. My aunt was a 20 year professional SEN who lost her profession and could have worked for another 30 years in nursing, it broke her heart.
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