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[Lower]

If all goes to plan I'll be very lucky, a little over 3 months from the x ray to an op, on the nhs but in a private hospital. Hope it goes well for your mum, tell her an anonymous avatar on a left leaning diy forum wishes her luck, she'll be made up.

she wouldn’t even know what an avatar is.

Good luck to you with your op too.

 

[JohnD]

The nhs is a failed institution that needs rebuilding from the ground up in my opinion. Throwing kore money at it is just throwing away more money.

Starving it of resources, while we have an ageing population that needs more care, more often, for longer, doesn't seem to have worked.

Does that surprise you?

 

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Starving it of resources, while we have an ageing population that needs more care, more often, for longer, doesn't seem to have worked.

Does that surprise you?

It needs ground up reform as well as money. The amount of waste, inefficiency and non medical related spending in the nhs is obscene.

 

[carmanmemoranda]

It needs ground up reform as well as money. The amount of waste, inefficiency and non medical related spending in the nhs is obscene.

Years of ignoring the buildings and infrastructure.

Lots of money needed just to stabilise that before real efficiencies.

Neglect has been the issue, it's the last thing it needs right now

 

[JohnD]

Does that surprise you?

Seemingly not.

 

[Murdochcat]

Starving it of resources, while we have an ageing population that needs more care, more often, for longer, doesn't seem to have worked.

Does that surprise you?

Starving it of resources?

The NHS has been broken for about 20 years and all the time it’s a political football nothing will change.

Nobody in politics has the balls to do what is necessary to improve it

 

[Notch7]

Been in pain for over 3 years but told on each visit it was a trapped nerve and was referred to a physio. This year it escalated and I had to give up work end of Sept because there were days when I couldn't walk, previously I've been able to work through it but not anymore

I’m sorry to hear that, I know somebody well that has been waiting for a hip replacement, from what he says it’s very painful having a worn hip.

I hope you get it sorted soon….it must be horrible waiting an unknown amount of time and being in pain.

This year it escalated and I had to give up work end of Sept

Whatever’s people politics, I think we can all agree that people being unable to work because being incapacitated due to waiting for NHS is really bad for the economy.

If you were working, you would be paying tax and there’s getting on for a million people in your situation.

A friend of my wife’s has just had 7 weeks off work because of a ruptured disc and is desperate to get it sorted.

 

[motorbiking]

Ruptured or herniated? Best advice I’ve been following since I had my diagnosis 10 years ago is do lots of exercise and stretch regularly. As long as you don’t have any of the red flags, you won’t go wrong. The worse thing you can do, after the spasms have stopped of course, is rest.

 

[Notch7]

Nobody in politics has the balls to do what is necessary to improve it

I dont think it’s lack of courage as such.

Our political system is geared to 5 year cycles, so short termism is the name of the game.

NHS is a project far longer than 5 years.

The NHS has been broken for about 20 years

It was improved in the early years of Blair, although he did it by making future generations pay extortionate PFI repayments…..again the result of short termism….if he had done it by govt borrowing Labour would’ve been accused of spending too much.

it’s a political football nothing will change

I would say the biggest problem is greed and vested self interest, the 2019 govt had 20% of its new MPs connected to private healthcare……Matt Hancock as health secretary got £32,000 from the IEA and gosh he issued loads of private healthcare contracts during his tenure.

I fear those lobbyist connections are continuing under this govt.

NHS failure is a result of our weak parliamentary system that allows far too much policy to be influenced, by let’s call it what is: bribery.

 

[Notch7]

Ruptured or herniated? Best advice I’ve been following since I had my diagnosis 10 years ago is do lots of exercise and stretch regularly. As long as you don’t have any of the red flags, you won’t go wrong. The worse thing you can do, after the spasms have stopped of course, is rest.

Thanks for that, I’m not sure to be honest, I shall ask.

 

[motorbiking]

Thanks for that, I’m not sure to be honest, I shall ask.

My Sortof MIL is in a similar situation and has just had an X-ray under NHS. We are considering paying for a consultation and MRI so that she can come up with the right exercise regime.

Mine flares up a couple of times a year and normally if I’ve skipped exercises or been on a longer flight. Stretching is really important.

When I originally went to my GP the offer was strong pain killers. I went private and got some really great advice which I’ve been following.

 

[fillyboy]

I’m sorry to hear that, I know somebody well that has been waiting for a hip replacement, from what he says it’s very painful having a worn hip.

I hope you get it sorted soon….it must be horrible waiting an unknown amount of time and being in pain.


Whatever’s people politics, I think we can all agree that people being unable to work because being incapacitated due to waiting for NHS is really bad for the economy.

If you were working, you would be paying tax and there’s getting on for a million people in your situation.

A friend of my wife’s has just had 7 weeks off work because of a ruptured disc and is desperate to get it sorted.

To be fair, 2025 was definitely going to be my last year, I'll be 69 in January so I've had a decent run, especially in our line of work.
I'm not getting rid of the van just yet, if the outcome after the op is good I might do just enough to keep my hand in, I don't particularly need the money but I miss the interaction with customers many of whom have become friends over the years.

 

[motorbiking]

Thanks for that, I’m not sure to be honest, I shall ask.

it does depend which disc. Mine was L5, thats quite common and often genetic if the lower sections are fused at birth, again quite common. Anyone who is lordotic (curved lower back) should really be doing all they can to flatten it out. Pilates, Yoga, Thai chi etc.

 

[Murdochcat]

I dont think it’s lack of courage as such.

Our political system is geared to 5 year cycles, so short termism is the name of the game.

NHS is a project far longer than 5 years.

Rubbish. A decent plan could be discussed and agreed on then implemented over a much longer period

It was improved in the early years of Blair, although he did it by making future generations pay extortionate PFI repayments…..again the result of short termism….if he had done it by govt borrowing Labour would’ve been accused of spending too much.

PFI = profit for investors. Fortunately this was stopped after 2010 BUT we pay huge sums for very little and the agreements run for decades.

Blair threw money at the NHS with few strings attached.

Blair paid doctors more to do less

Blair rewrote NHS dentists agreements which drove countless dentists into private schemes

Brown gave the NHS more directed them not to increase training places and to recruit from abroad, to save money

I would say the biggest problem is greed and vested self interest, the 2019 govt had 20% of its new MPs connected to private healthcare……Matt Hancock as health secretary got £32,000 from the IEA and gosh he issued loads of private healthcare contracts during his tenure.

Hancock and Blair presided over huge amounts of privatisation in the NHS

I fear those lobbyist connections are continuing under this govt.

This government doesn’t know what day of the week it is

NHS failure is a result of our weak parliamentary system that allows far too much policy to be influenced, by let’s call it what is: bribery.

Rubbish

I know a consultant who visits COUNTLESS NHS facilities giving them the same advice. IF, such procedures were dictated from the centre huge sums of money would be saved and it would mean lots of paper pushers out of a job.

This individual stated this at a NHS conference to the anger of the audience

 

[carmanmemoranda]

Rubbish. A decent plan could be discussed and agreed on then implemented over a much longer period




PFI = profit for investors. Fortunately this was stopped after 2010 BUT we pay huge sums for very little and the agreements run for decades.

Blair threw money at the NHS with few strings attached.

Blair paid doctors more to do less

Blair rewrote NHS dentists agreements which drove countless dentists into private schemes

Brown gave the NHS more directed them not to increase training places and to recruit from abroad, to save money



Hancock and Blair presided over huge amounts of privatisation in the NHS



This government doesn’t know what day of the week it is



Rubbish

I know a consultant who visits COUNTLESS NHS facilities giving them the same advice. IF, such procedures were dictated from the centre huge sums of money would be saved and it would mean lots of paper pushers out of a job.

This individual stated this at a NHS conference to the anger of the audience

It needs a long term cross party plan.

More chance of that happening under labour than Tory, but I'm still not confident they will do it either.

Step 1 is deciding we need it. A lot of Tories are not on that page.