What things matter?

Some thoughts on Brexit, Trump, the Impeachment, Poll meddling, and the UK’s NHS

The NHS

(The UK “National Health Service”)

My Dad, late in his seventies, just spent a week in NHS hospital with pneumonia.

Thank god he is back home today with partner and is getting well again.

But the first few days of his stay were a worrying time.

On each day I visited, I overheard valiant nurses proudly explaining the hours they’d worked over those few days, amongst one another, and with patients.

14 hours per day seems a typical minimum worth talking about.

All looked pretty exhausted to me.

My Dad also described how a nurse had explained to him that even the amount of cleaning fluid they used to clean the floor was closely monitored to ensure no-one was exceeding it.

In the news of the past few days we hear also of a four year old baby being treated for pneumonia on the floor of another NHS hospital, with what appears to be just his clothes and a blanket for a bed.

I just hope the little fluid that would have been allowed to clean that floor also, was enough to protect that baby from further infection.

It is tragically laughable that it is still argued by some, that privatisation has not already affected the NHS for the worse.