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Thursday, 9 June 2011

The BBC and which stories it covers and which it chooses not to

The BBC has recently been pushing hard to portray private nursing homes as dangerous and not worthy of comparison with the NHS which is the 'envy of the world'. Here's a story from the NHS that I doubt the BBC will cover:
'The ultimate NHS indignity: Body of hospital patient left to die in corridor is ignored for hours... before staff simply drag him away'
'Envy of the world', I don't think so.

If the NHS is the envy of the world then why do so few countries follow the same health care model. If I could choose where I fell ill, I would choose France, Spain or Italy before the UK. These are all countries where the hospitals are clean and well run, the doctors and nurses polite & efficient and where you feel that you, the patient, are the priority rather than it being meeting the latest target or fitting in with the health-workers schedule.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

No experience of Europe, but I would rather be admitted to hospital in Turkey, Malaysia or Gambia than the UK, and not just because of the nurses either !