Problems At Hospital

[dilligaf]

If anyone is suffering from a health problem and still waiting a long time to see a specialist, may I offer to lay my hands on you or channel healing energy towards you. I don't need to meet you to channel energy. I am not a qualified medical practitioner and you should speak with your GP for advice in the first instance. I do not offer a replacement to standard medical treatment but research does show that positive energy can asssist with recovery or alleviate symptoms. I can also recommend herbs that might be helpful.

 

It would probably help more if your puppeteer popped you back in your box TBH.

[Bobbie Bobster]

If we're going to have a pool, can I have post #14?

[wrighty]

What might be an idea is if they would publicise an approximate waiting time for both routine and urgent referrals in every discipline. Then people would have an idea what to expect and could start shouting for an explanation when the time has passed. Just to say you are going to be seen and examined/treated at a certain time and then nothing happens and nothing is said is just not good enough in my opinion.

Who defines what's routine and what's urgent? For referrals to me, it's me. I often receive referrals marked 'urgent' that are nothing of the sort when considering the information in the referral in the context of all the other referrals I've received. I often receive letters asking me to give patient X some sort of priority - which I only do if the clinical features have changed in some way, or there is new information that justifies a higher priority.

 

I agree with your suggestion of publicising waiting times in each discipline, or something similar. I actually prefer numbers to times - being told that there are 50 people ahead of you on the list or whatever makes the reason for the 6 months wait more understandable, and that you're not just waiting for the sake of it. Patients will probably then be less likely to request a higher priority if they understand that by doing so they leapfrog the folk ahead of them on the list who are probably in just as much pain etc.

[WTF]

 

What might be an idea is if they would publicise an approximate waiting time for both routine and urgent referrals in every discipline. Then people would have an idea what to expect and could start shouting for an explanation when the time has passed. Just to say you are going to be seen and examined/treated at a certain time and then nothing happens and nothing is said is just not good enough in my opinion.

Who defines what's routine and what's urgent? For referrals to me, it's me. I often receive referrals marked 'urgent' that are nothing of the sort when considering the information in the referral in the context of all the other referrals I've received. I often receive letters asking me to give patient X some sort of priority - which I only do if the clinical features have changed in some way, or there is new information that justifies a higher priority.

 

I agree with your suggestion of publicising waiting times in each discipline, or something similar. I actually prefer numbers to times - being told that there are 50 people ahead of you on the list or whatever makes the reason for the 6 months wait more understandable, and that you're not just waiting for the sake of it. Patients will probably then be less likely to request a higher priority if they understand that by doing so they leapfrog the folk ahead of them on the list who are probably in just as much pain etc.

 

 

wonderful, and then the private patients jump the queue and effectively push you further down the list and delay your appointment.

[llap]

Whatever happened with that case of a nurse handing out leaflets to alternative healing stuff? Can't remember if it was a news item or just someone mkank on Manx shops page?

[Tempus Fugit]

http://www.itv.com/news/granada/update/2017-04-14/three-children-in-hospital-in-isle-of-man-after-taking-unknown-substance/

[Andy Onchan]

 

 

What might be an idea is if they would publicise an approximate waiting time for both routine and urgent referrals in every discipline. Then people would have an idea what to expect and could start shouting for an explanation when the time has passed. Just to say you are going to be seen and examined/treated at a certain time and then nothing happens and nothing is said is just not good enough in my opinion.

Who defines what's routine and what's urgent? For referrals to me, it's me. I often receive referrals marked 'urgent' that are nothing of the sort when considering the information in the referral in the context of all the other referrals I've received. I often receive letters asking me to give patient X some sort of priority - which I only do if the clinical features have changed in some way, or there is new information that justifies a higher priority.

 

I agree with your suggestion of publicising waiting times in each discipline, or something similar. I actually prefer numbers to times - being told that there are 50 people ahead of you on the list or whatever makes the reason for the 6 months wait more understandable, and that you're not just waiting for the sake of it. Patients will probably then be less likely to request a higher priority if they understand that by doing so they leapfrog the folk ahead of them on the list who are probably in just as much pain etc.

 

 

wonderful, and then the private patients jump the queue and effectively push you further down the list and delay your appointment.

 

 

All my appointments have been arranged in the evening after the surgeons/consultants have done their rounds. I've even attended on a Saturday morning.

 

There have been other people in the waiting area as well, which would suggest to me that it's common practice to hold appointments out of normal hours so that the consultants get the time to spend with NHS patients.