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The NHS was not fit for purpose a long time ago. It took the fake pandemic for us to realise just how bad it is. The NHS is responsible for crimes against humanity by becoming a covid only service and cancelling chemo, radiotherapy appointments and delaying surgery. While the wards were empty the nurses were choreographing their dance routines to put on TikTok. Middle management and diversity posts need to largely be abolished. The money wasted on these non medical people is scandalous. My mammogram was delayed by 18 months during covid I couldn’t even get one privately. I was lucky that my lump was not cancerous but for other people it was too late to save them once the NHS eventually started seeing patients.

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I agree, the good will the public feel towards it has been actively weaponised against it. We are held to ransom by our misplaced affection for it.

Yes, so many people had crucial treatments denied and diagnoses delayed. Glad your scare didn’t end up being something too terrible x

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Acid, Julie.

Pure vitriol with humour.

Just the way we like it, and brimming over with truth.

I can only sit open-mouthed and admire, and I REALLY don’t do that often!

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Cheers. Was deffo in sarcastic rant mode😂😂

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You are very brave to write & publish this. Not because it's inaccurate but because it IS.

Not to drone about my experience but ex husband was & still is NHS radiographer. He managed the department too so 20 + years ago I knew about the shocking waste of money in the NHS.

NHS pays insane price for basics like loo roll, rubber gloves etc. I used to wonder if those awarding the contracts were on kickbacks because they were paying mad amounts of money & just couldn't understand it unless massive fraud. Who knows..

NHS let my Nan die back in the early 90s'. They euthanized my mum in 2015. She had cancer but her life was ended by morphine overdose. They practice euthanasia everyday and while I'm not suggesting they kill healthy people, it's partly why I was very alarmed by the DNRs' being put on many people during the 'pandemic'. I believe disabled young people were let die. Or so I've read & I can believe it. They had DNRs' on all over 45s' at one point I think?

So yes very courageous of you. To say what we're all thinking but state it passionately and eloquently!! X

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This is true, contracts were set up to effect the ridiculous prices you mention. All mates helping each other out no doubt.

Yes my grandma’s final days at the hands of the NHS were horrible too. I hear you xx

And I don’t give a monkeys about speaking out loud and proud.

I can’t go along with this ‘envy of the world’ bollocks. It takes the piss.

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Oh Julie ! Right on the button yet again! Eloquent as ever! I feel so sorry for anyone who has no choice but to place their lives in the hands of the National Horrific Service. It’s kept deliberately in a state of crisis so it can be dragged out as a stick to beat us with whenever they need to.

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I agree. It is of course ‘better than nothing’ but envy of the world it ain’t.

Who are we kidding…..🙄

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You’ve hit the nail on the head! Although my dad and sister have had brilliant care when needed, my late mum not so. I have some sympathy with front line staff but the management layers leave a lot to be desired.

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It’s a postcode lottery isn’t it? Some people do end up receiving some excellent care. But many do not, sadly.

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I now liken the NHS to the Monty Python “Dead Parrot” sketch…

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Totally 😂😂

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Very well said , Julie, and I totally agree . NHS is just the sales arm of big Harma , and I suspect it always has been. I will never forgive them for prematurely putting my my beloved dad on an end of life pathway in 2007 , not to mention the ever increasing number of friends, family and neighbours who have died suddenly or become terribly ill after taking their latest poison darts.

Earlier This year a very close friend of mine fell victim to “cancer Overdiagnosis “ . What was actually laryngitis suddenly became “laryngeal cancer “ , along with its harmful and traumatic diagnostic procedures and offered “the only treatments available “ , ie ones that will maim or kill you first , the free ones , the ones they try to scare you into thinking you have no choice over. (Sound familiar ? ) . This story has a happy ending though (so far so good anyway ) : after being extremely belligerent , and asking the right questions , he saw the head oncologist who admitted that it wasn’t cancer at all ! And he is feeling 100% better in himself .

So the nhs is 75? I think its probably time it got a taste of its own medicine !

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What you say makes sense. I’ve stopped going for any of the ‘screenings’ and ‘health checks’ now. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it, and when it is broken I try my hardest to fix it myself.

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Spat out my wine reading that!

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Another great piece Julie. Totally agree with all you write.👏

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Cheers Debbie

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To paraphrase my Facebook comment on this piece - Julie, you’re better than Jesus. This is hella funny whilst also being so laden with pathos that it tugs at my heart strings. I’ve spent all my working life in the NHS in one way or another (NHS proper, private sector and local authority) and for all my naive hopes of changing it from within or, failing that, just making every human interaction count, I can honestly say that my proudest claim is I’ve never used it myself and probably never will unless I happen to be unconscious.

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Cheers.

Yes I imagine if I’d worked in it I would be even more wary than I already am.

The way I am about the local authority and insurance, two sectors I have worked in.

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Struggling to find anything to disagree with here Julie. Eloquently expressed as always. I'll just add the comment I put in Notes earlier today:

I was awoken by my radio alarm this morning. I swear I heard someone say that there are celebrations planned for 75 years of the NHS. If true we will no doubt be encouraged to exhibit Muppet Show-like jauntiness in celebrating a collapsed health system whose embers are still weakly glowing. Politicians making political capital out of bogus patriotic gestures. General Election, anyone? Oh sorry, I forgot. It’s too late.

Bit of a downer to start the day but that's how I see it!

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Yes, first newspaper story I read this morning was this one. What a mockery that woman made of that poor exploited old man. Hideous.

https://news.sky.com/story/captain-tom-foundation-stops-taking-donations-amid-investigation-12915032

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Yes, another story that beggars belief.

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Oh I’m not familiar with the statins push. I try and keep my relationship with them as minimalist as possible.

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I recently had a popliteal aneurism fixed in my left leg - a technical bit of wizardry involving replacing an artery with Teflon inner tube.

Surgeon skilled, but did the ‘you really should be ‘vaxxed’ cack.

However, on discharge, he wrote to my GP instructing him to prescribe statins.

I’m 6ft, 12 stone and have low LDL cholesterol. Odd, to say the least!

Needless to say, I refused.

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I came off my asthma inhalers, was sick of their invasive check ups.12 years later I don’t even use em. The body has great potential to heal itself when unmeddled with.

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