Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Imagine that a family member becomes critically unwell. You anxiously accompany them to A&E and the opinion of the doctor is clear ? an emergency hospital admission is needed to avoid potentially devastating consequences. But unfortunately, says the doctor, the hospital happens to be full. And so are all the other local hospitals. So either your relative can take a trip to a private hospital in a town more than 200 miles away for their life-saving treatment, or you can take them home and have a go at nursing them yourself.
Surely if this ever happened, people would notice. But it does happen, every single day. It seems to be acceptable because the illnesses are psychiatric.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/23/mental-health-bed-cuts-ashamed-nhs
Surely if this ever happened, people would notice. But it does happen, every single day. It seems to be acceptable because the illnesses are psychiatric.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/oct/23/mental-health-bed-cuts-ashamed-nhs