6 County Assembly Elections - 5th May 2022

[Wildweasel74]

Previous we had 2 full time doctors, 1 part time, you could book a appointment within 3/4 days, and they saw you. Now they got 8 Doctors more than half 2/3 days a week. Only maybe 3 full time. Previous you could book a appointment within a few days, now you can't do this, that's not right.

[RedHand88]

Previous we had 2 full time doctors, 1 part time, you could book a appointment within 3/4 days, and they saw you. Now they got 8 Doctors more than half 2/3 days a week. Only maybe 3 full time. Previous you could book a appointment within a few days, now you can't do this, that's not right.

Why do you think that is the case? How would you fix it?

[Wildweasel74]

Back to the way it was. They way its currently set up, pushes more people to go to A&E to be seen for minor stuff putting more pressure on the Hospitals

[RedHand88]

Back to the way it was. They way its currently set up, pushes more people to go to A&E to be seen for minor stuff putting more pressure on the Hospitals

So waiting 6 weeks for an appointment? That's before the huge increase in demand.
Doctors will deal with less people in a day if they go back to the old way.

[Last Man]

If you are lucky enough to have a good medical insurance plan through your employer or perhaps can afford your own, you won't have any problem getting to see many of the same G.P.s who appear to be off limits to the ordinary Joe. The NHS in its current form is holed below the waterline and can no longer meet our needs in fact it has presided over a very concerning  decline in population health in the last 50 years.

[Armagh18]

Cause I haven't been fit to get a appointment in 2 weeks and still to get one, it's a total shit show. Ring every morning, booked out. They no excuse for keeping with the current set up.

Do you ever think it's booked out with people who are seeing the doctor?

Still nowhere near good enough is it? Which is the whole point.

What's the answer? Doctors are dealing with more people now in a day than before covid. A typical day is 15 in the morning and 15 in the afternoon, plus maybe 4 or 5 face to face late on. Before covid it was 12 and 12, than that was it.

Excessive waiting lists in hospitals has put an unprecedented amount of demand on primary care and they are doing the best they physically can, regardless of what Stephen Nolan says.

More gps, more staff in hospitals? (Long term, simplistic solution I know, but I'm not claiming to be the expert lol) Honestly wouldnt mind a £20 fee to stop people going to sit in a&e with feck all wrong with them.

[trueblue1234]

Cause I haven't been fit to get a appointment in 2 weeks and still to get one, it's a total shit show. Ring every morning, booked out. They no excuse for keeping with the current set up.

Do you ever think it's booked out with people who are seeing the doctor?

Still nowhere near good enough is it? Which is the whole point.

What's the answer? Doctors are dealing with more people now in a day than before covid. A typical day is 15 in the morning and 15 in the afternoon, plus maybe 4 or 5 face to face late on. Before covid it was 12 and 12, than that was it.

Excessive waiting lists in hospitals has put an unprecedented amount of demand on primary care and they are doing the best they physically can, regardless of what Stephen Nolan says.

More gps, more staff in hospitals? (Long term, simplistic solution I know, but I'm not claiming to be the expert lol) Honestly wouldnt mind a £20 fee to stop people going to sit in a&e with feck all wrong with them.

Plus prescriptions should be means tested. They should not be free.

[93-DY-SAM]

Disgraceful what this lady has had to go through combined with a massive payout courtesy of the taxpayer which could all have been avoided.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-61212237

Money spunked up the wall and once again no one will be held to account.

[trailer]

We need one health trust with regional care centres. If you have Cancer you go to the Cancer specialists hospital say Craigavon, For Ortho it is Altnagelvin say, For Neuro, the Royal etc. Having all services in every hospital is crazy. This means closing departments in certain hospitals. Families need to take on more responsibility and get patients discharged. If they can't go to a family then into a home and the family invoiced. Bed blocking in the health service is a problem.
More nurses need trained. we need to get more nurses into full time contracts and cut out the expensive agency workers. In the short term this means recruiting from abroad.
Some simple solutions but the CS is fighting this at every point. They need P45'd

[trileacman]

We need one health trust with regional care centres. If you have Cancer you go to the Cancer specialists hospital say Craigavon, For Ortho it is Altnagelvin say, For Neuro, the Royal etc. Having all services in every hospital is crazy. This means closing departments in certain hospitals. Families need to take on more responsibility and get patients discharged. If they can't go to a family then into a home and the family invoiced. Bed blocking in the health service is a problem.
More nurses need trained. we need to get more nurses into full time contracts and cut out the expensive agency workers. In the short term this means recruiting from abroad.
Some simple solutions but the CS is fighting this at every point. They need P45'd

All services aren't available in every hospitable. Good luck getting a neuro consultation or complicated ortho surgery in SWAH.

[trileacman]

We need one health trust with regional care centres. If you have Cancer you go to the Cancer specialists hospital say Craigavon, For Ortho it is Altnagelvin say, For Neuro, the Royal etc. Having all services in every hospital is crazy. This means closing departments in certain hospitals. Families need to take on more responsibility and get patients discharged. If they can't go to a family then into a home and the family invoiced. Bed blocking in the health service is a problem.
More nurses need trained. we need to get more nurses into full time contracts and cut out the expensive agency workers. In the short term this means recruiting from abroad.
Some simple solutions but the CS is fighting this at every point. They need P45'd

Also centralising cancer services given how common and debilitating it is across the population would be a f**king disaster. Sending the elderly and infirm from Fermanagh and West Tyrone the length of the province to receive basic healthcare is a cruel suggestion.

[Eire90]

Are they waiting to the friday after to start counting or will they start as soon as its over.

[RedHand88]

We need one health trust with regional care centres. If you have Cancer you go to the Cancer specialists hospital say Craigavon, For Ortho it is Altnagelvin say, For Neuro, the Royal etc. Having all services in every hospital is crazy. This means closing departments in certain hospitals. Families need to take on more responsibility and get patients discharged. If they can't go to a family then into a home and the family invoiced. Bed blocking in the health service is a problem.
More nurses need trained. we need to get more nurses into full time contracts and cut out the expensive agency workers. In the short term this means recruiting from abroad.
Some simple solutions but the CS is fighting this at every point. They need P45'd

All services aren't available in every hospitable. Good luck getting a neuro consultation or complicated ortho surgery in SWAH.

No but they're available in every Trust which is unnecessary and his point stands.

[trailer]

We need one health trust with regional care centres. If you have Cancer you go to the Cancer specialists hospital say Craigavon, For Ortho it is Altnagelvin say, For Neuro, the Royal etc. Having all services in every hospital is crazy. This means closing departments in certain hospitals. Families need to take on more responsibility and get patients discharged. If they can't go to a family then into a home and the family invoiced. Bed blocking in the health service is a problem.
More nurses need trained. we need to get more nurses into full time contracts and cut out the expensive agency workers. In the short term this means recruiting from abroad.
Some simple solutions but the CS is fighting this at every point. They need P45'd

Also centralising cancer services given how common and debilitating it is across the population would be a f**king disaster. Sending the elderly and infirm from Fermanagh and West Tyrone the length of the province to receive basic healthcare is a cruel suggestion.

It is not cruel. It will increase the chances of survival by cutting waiting times which will improve outcomes. I understand that it would be better to have all the treatments provided next door to where you live but that just isn't viable.
To clarify I meant having each service provided by every trust. 1 trust. Then specialists centres all across NI not centralised in Belfast. Sick ppl in Belfast might have to travel to Derry for specialist care and that is something we're all going to have to sign up to.

[johnnycool]

Is there less DUP posters about your areas than normal?

I didn't see any around my nearest, quaint little village which isn't as loyal as it was 10 years ago, but they'd normally have them up around the local PS which acts as a polling station but nada and I think I saw two for Weir in the staunch little village of Greyabbey and it would normally be festooned with them...

Wondering if the financial wheels are coming off the DUP!