Sly Saint
Senior Member (Voting Rights)
"After 18 months of Covid, award-winning journalist Matthew Syed travels the country asking some tough questions about the performance of our much-loved NHS"
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/clapped-out-is-the-nhs-broken-dispatches/on-demand/72600-001
I watched some of this last night and it was quite hard hitting and revealing.
There was one bit with a young person who after being repeatedly fobbed off and told she was a hypochondriac eventually got an MS diagnosis.
Contrary to the constant narrative of underfunding, although relevent, the documentary pointed out flaws in the way the money was being spent and also the culture of protecting the NHS reputation at all costs, often to the detriment of the patient.
They cited the Netherlands model as a more efficient, patient centred system, but the person (not sure if it was a minister) being interviewed said that to implement such changes in the NHS would be very difficult because of the hierarchical nature of the NHS.
(this is from memory and as I said I didn't watch it all)
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/clapped-out-is-the-nhs-broken-dispatches/on-demand/72600-001
I watched some of this last night and it was quite hard hitting and revealing.
There was one bit with a young person who after being repeatedly fobbed off and told she was a hypochondriac eventually got an MS diagnosis.
Contrary to the constant narrative of underfunding, although relevent, the documentary pointed out flaws in the way the money was being spent and also the culture of protecting the NHS reputation at all costs, often to the detriment of the patient.
They cited the Netherlands model as a more efficient, patient centred system, but the person (not sure if it was a minister) being interviewed said that to implement such changes in the NHS would be very difficult because of the hierarchical nature of the NHS.
(this is from memory and as I said I didn't watch it all)