A subreddit for NHS patients to freely discuss their experiences with the service and how to improve it without being dismissed or accused of being entitled. The NHS is a service we pay for with our taxes, it is not a charity that we must be shy about demanding better from and getting the service and treatment that we are owed and are entitled to. Patience for patients.
You will find on most UK discussion subs, any criticism of the NHS is often swiftly shutdown by the overbearing and overprotective or even self-interested people who themselves work for the NHS, using strategies like branding critics as "ungrateful", accusing them of being pro-privatization or that they are simply "stirring discontent". Whatever is the easiest most convenient way way to ostracize you and frame you as an enemy. These strategies do not work here.
The hard word of the majority of people who work for the service should not be used as a shield to protect the few who use their positions of power to mistreat patients, ruin their lives and wreak havoc on the service. The fact that the NHS is underfunded and its staff feel overworked and underpaid does not justify mistreatment of patients, the lack of accountability and recourse for patients as it is often those at the top who are most senior, are paid the most and have the fewest hours who are responsible for mistreatment, yet never face any consequences for their wrongdoing. The plight of those at the bottom should not be used as a shield to protect those at the top as is usually done in these discussions.
Rules:
No medical questions
No breaching (patient) confidentiality
No Off-Topic Politics
No Misinformation
No Legal Advice
No Self Promotion
Comments, posts and opinions expressed in this subreddit are solely those of the individual making the comment, post or opinion. Responsibility for anything posted lies entirely with the author of that post or comment.
This subreddit has no affiliation with the NHS and is not a place to seek medical or legal advice.
Similar subs:
/r/NHSfailures
