The NHS spent £2.7billion settling medical negligence claims for poor care last year – nearly 10% more than the previous 12 months. Daily Mail
Note that: up 10% on last year. This is the consequence of not having an adequate health service, underfunded, understaffed and not able to provide proper, safe care. I really feel for NHS workers at the minute and have to say I am SO glad I changed my mind about being a dietician or GP and became a sort of natural GP instead!
It’s a false economy, of course. If we had an efficient and working NHS, they wouldn’t need to be paying out billions in compensation. As with healthcare always, this is round the wrong way. Although I did whoop yesterday when I was watching the news and a minister actually said we need to put much more emphasis on preventative care. Of course, it’s just words, but I do live in hope. If we prevented a lot of illness, we wouldn’t be overburdening the poor NHS and other healthcare workers and it wouldn’t need constantly propping up.
I also note that 41% of those claims were for midwifery or maternity care. Up from 38% the previous year. It must be a service stretched to breaking point. Just so sad.
The greater sadness to me is the power of big pharma. Certainly for my own journey. Topical steroids and in particular Protopic has ruined my skin and I am still healing. So many years of torment using something on my skin that gradually made my skin worse and worse, yet no diagnosis and no acknowledgement of this harm done to me. It’s negligence now on a massive scale to witness no change in prescribing of these terrifying creams. You are definitely taking the right approach and I thank you for it. I hope that one day the topical steroid withdrawal symptoms will cease and I can finally unpick what my real skin triggers are. I have a good idea, and so many things that help me calm inflammation.
The root to this problem is that if drugs can make you a customer for life that’s the main aim. They don’t want us to get better and that makes me sick.
Ah, yes, Ruth. It makes me mad and sick. I am sorry to hear it. Funnily enough (although not funny at all!), I had my first TSW patient the other day. I referred them to your site to start investigating and am working on an approach for it.
I think we too have to take responsibility here. Spending 27+ years as an ITU specialist it is unfair to point fingers. Yes it is beyond breaking point. However we have a society that has been programmed to be sick and to give their power away to others to make them well. We chose this body for this incarnation and we have a responsibility to keep that body well. If we lack the discernment and the love of self in order to take that responsibility then we can only blame ourselves. Our amazing NHS was never designed to take care of the multitude of chronic unremitting health conditions that arise from lack of care for the self. There is only one person who can heal you and that’s you. Others have tools that are helpful though none are a cure. It’s up to the individual to learn to trust their body’s inner wisdom and their own intuition. We treat our cars and other possessions better than we treat ourselves and our body temple.
Nicely put, Anne, absolutely right. We need to do more to take care of ourselves and not rely on others. Thankfully, if people are on our sites, they are usually doing that, or trying to learn how to take responsibility for their own health – the whole ethos of Purehealth – it’s the rest of society we need to convince methinks! A BIG education and awareness campaign!!