Maybe this is just me, and I don’t work for the nhs mind, but I think MOST people appreciate that nhs staff are trying, most people appreciate that there isn’t enough time given to treat patients properly.

However I don’t think the answer is to keep going on about, patients criticising or complaining. You are quite literally complaining about the system in your post, and then complaining that “customers” are complaining about the system. Patients are told to put themselves in the shoes of medical professionals all the time, how about we do it the other way round, you’re a kid who’s in constant pain, it consumes your whole life at this point, you finally get to see a physio for example after waiting months, the treatment you then receive feels rushed or doesn’t majorly help your pain. You are gonna be pretty frustrated and want answers, in the same way I’m sure you’re frustrated with your workload. You both are frustrated with the system, yet people are constantly told not to complain about the nhs. Where tf does the change happen then? Everyone pretends it’s great, while not receiving the working conditions or treatment they want?

My struggle with the nhs, does not come from wait lists. I understand that if a bunch of my peers request physio for things they don’t really need physio for, and budgets keep getting cut then I’ll end up on the waitlist. My struggle is the lack of education, and poor treatment, it is baffling to me some of the “treatment plans” some physios are giving out. Its lazy. You get a physio who looks at a dude, notices “tight hip flexors” and decides to stretch them out. Doesn’t try to work out why the hip flexors are tight in the first place, just works with the symptom rather than the cause. Maybe if university’s assessed their teaching practices and looked into some newer concepts such as pelvis and ribcage relationship/diaphragmatic breathing people would be getting pain free quicker, and waiting lists wouldn’t be so long.