Saturday, September 30, 2017

Single-Payer: NHS Staff Shortages Mean Patients Dying Alone

Image result for nhs failSingle-Payer: NHS Staff Shortages Mean Patients Dying Alone:
"Most of you have heard the Democrat party pushing that single-payer health care. 
They make it sound wonderful, even if nobody pushing it seems to understand basic math (see Jake Tapper Questions Bernie Sanders on Single Payer. He Can’t Answer and Uh Oh! Canadian Journalist Talks Healthcare. Admits Single-Payer Sucks). 
“Let’s be like every other country in Europe,” they say.
Patients are dying alone on hospital wards because staff do not have enough time to care for them, nurses say. The mounting pressure across the UK is also leading to medicines being given late and patients being left in pain.
Among the other problems highlighted were:
  • Medicines for sepsis, diabetes and Parkinson’s not being given on time
  • Patients being left in pain because nurses were too busy
  • Child patients going without food as staff had to prioritise treatment
  • Patients not being moved, putting them at risk of bed sores
  • Patients left in corridors because all the beds were full
  • Community staff complaining they were not able to do everything asked of them
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