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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
If you have had a bad experience of the NHS then you should follow the complaints procedure.
You say that the complaints procedure is inadequate, but you don't elaborate and tell us in what way it is inadequate.
Doctors are regulated by the General Medical Council....and if your complaint is about a doctor then you should complain to them giving full details, I can assure you that the complaint will be full investigated.
Many of the problems beset by the NHS are due to politicians (who know nothing about how the service should be run) meddling...introducing Market forces, targets, tick lists. Since when have patients been tins of beans?
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Think the main problem is to much red tape Margaret, one example is in my earlier post, what the hell it had to do with my care and treatment while in hospital god only knows, but it did take half and hour to complete and tied the ward sister up when she could have been doing other things, multiply that by all the patients admitted and it mounts up to a lot of wasted time, and for what, to keep some civil servant in a job evaluating them
Another thing that came in around 2009 was the paperwork that ambulance drivers had to fill in when carrying patients on oxygen (in triplicate)yet again some bright spark justifying their telephone number salary and that's just the tip of the iceberg, the rain forests have lost loads of trees to furnish all the new paperwork introduce over the last decade and for why