Conservative @lemm.ee Kaboom @reddthat.com 4 wk. ago

Woman, 95, left lying on cold pavement with broken hip for five hours as 'not a priority'

www.mirror.co.uk Woman, 95, left lying on pavement with broken hip for 5 hours as 'not priority'

Winifred Soanes, 95, suffered a broken hip when she fell in Christchurch High Street, Dorset, this week but was kept waiting five hours for an ambulance to take her to hospital

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I bet they’re conservative voters but wonder why the NHS has no funding
- Even if they just had two guys and a van, I'd expect it to take under 5 hours. This isn't triage, this is negligence.
  
  Youre equating paramedics and an ambulance with “two guys with a van”?
- The problem with NHS is that it is free, therefore, anybody with a cold, or bruised bone seeks services. This lady wasn't dying, so she wasn't priority. It is inefficient to have free services, yet scarce resources to handle those services. The doctors feel like they are underpaid. NHS is like Soviet healthcare. Underpaid, poor services, yet it is free, which is what really matters. To make an inefficient system work, they have to triage everything. Singapore has no such problem with healthcare costs or accessibility.
  
  The NHS worked great for decades. Whenever the Conservatives are elected, they repeatedly reduce funding. Its free at point of use. I pay national insurance every month which funds the NHS. its not funded from the magic money tree
Sounds like the NHS is in desperate need of more public funding, or a dispatcher is in desperate need of getting fired and sued, or possibly both.
A small English town in peacetime shouldn't be a place that requires triage.
She fell over with her husband and people nearby gave her blankets.

Nobody could just fuckin take her to the hospital?

Foh
- It's the UK, they need the government to wipe their asses too! I don't know what went wrong with their country, but something did.

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