A prominent GP today blamed Britons’ ‘Amazon Prime mentality’ for a surge in demand for emergency NHS care.
Dr Jonathan Griffiths said an increasing number of patients were turning up at A&E with non-urgent symptoms that could be managed by a GP.
He likened the situation to Amazon’s same-day delivery service, adding that people had ‘high expectations’ and an ‘inability to wait for anything’.
The arrogance on display here is staggering. If you have tried to get an appointment lately, you will realise just how difficult that is. Gone are the days when you phone up and book a non urgent appointment a few days hence. No, you phone up at 08:00 and if you get through then you are put through a telephone triage, whereupon a GP will condescend to talk to you and might, just might, see you in person. Now this insufferable poltroon is blaming us for this state of affairs.
I really can’t express just how angry this behaviour makes me. They create a situation and then blame us, the patients, for their mess. So of course people are bypassing them. What did they expect? They have created a system where we cannot book ahead and wait.
Whilst resolutely ignoring the comparison with all the 1st world countries without the bkessing of a Wah!NHS that do not have these problems.
Well here’s the thing doc, this is the twenty first century not the nineteen effing forties. When people part with their money they have come to expect prompt and good quality service in return, because that is what the private sector is providing. So how about you putting the blame where it actually lies, at the door of the outdated ramshackle outfit that you laughably call a health service?
These holier than thou mortals don’t need to explain what they think of us proles, it’s dripping in shovelfulls from their held aloft snotty noses.
High time these types, indeed almost all of the state sector, were paid like the rest of us, by results or by expected results from our time, half of them would be paying us so little do they actually contribute.
How dare you expect the Envy of the World™ to produce the same level of service as a glorified catalogue store! You’ll take your gruel and like it.
The more I think about it, the more I agree with Neil Oliver’s idea that we’re in an abusive relationship with the government. And far too many people are going around telling everyone they just walked into a door and probably deserved it anyway.
That’s exactly how it is. Neil is spot on.
When half the country happily clapped them from their doorsteps every week just for doing their half-arsed job, is it any wonder they’ve decided not to bother doing the job at all, just bank the cash and the pension?
It seems that all you need to get people on side are a few horror stories about the cost of healthcare in the US. Even if we concede that America’s healthcare system is the worst in the world, having only the second worst isn’t that great.
Kings Fund report: “However, the NHS does not have especially good outcomes relative to other wealthy countries. For the most important illnesses in directly causing death, it is a consistently below-average performer”.