Re: OT Health Care

LD wrote:
"David Nebenzahl" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4a0c871d$0$2715$822641b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 5/14/2009 1:31 PM LD spake thus:

"Larry Blanchard" <lblanch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:5MSdnYPBVehy35HXnZ2dnUVZ_uNi4p2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 09:08:40 +0000, LD wrote:

And last year in the UK they got the waiting Time for care of Critical
Cancer patients down to Six Months.

Cite please.

My bad. They got it down to Sixty Two Days. Of course, with some cancers you're dead in 62 days.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7894641.stm

Slightly misleading. First of all, we were talking about England, I thought, and this refers to Scotland.

*UK* What part of *UK* is Scotland?


In any case, it isn't a "62-day waiting period": the article says "The target, set in 2000, requires that 95% of patients begin treatment within 62 days of being urgently referred." This means, I'm assuming, that there is a *maximum* allowable time of 62 days until the patient is treated. Presumably, those with more urgent cancers may be treated sooner.

Or MAY NOT.

And, lest you trot into malformed uninformed notions ...

1. My sister lives in England.
2. I have 2 cousins living in England.
3. I have 2 cousins living in Scotland.
4. I have nieces and nephews living in England.
5. I have second cousins all over the UK.
6. I communicate with these people.
7. Their biggest gripe is the NHS.
8. My sister and her family lived in the US for five years.
9. I was Born in the UK.
10. I spent six months in a National Health Hospital.

Likewise ... married to a British subject at the time, I spent 18 months under NHS.

My oldest daughter is a British subject and lives in Sheffield with SIL and two small children, both of whom have been ill lately. She is NOT happy with the care her children are receiving under NHS (and "Collaborative GP", whatever the hell that is) and wondering why the hell we would want to follow suit.

Her continuing caution, having lived under both (US/UK) systems: "Do not change your health care system to one like ours, you will be sorry!"

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