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As previously mentioned my wife has just had a total left knee replacement, we chose to have it done in Wrightington Hospital. Private surgery is the only option these days providing you’re prepared to pay or have the right health care plan!

She’s been a registered nurse for over 40 years and had to retire over six months ago not because she’d tired of the job, it was because she couldn’t tolerate the pain any longer. She wanted to continue working but could no longer do so after waiting over 2 years on a list, we decided to pay privately, £12500 for the operation plus the extra associated costs for consultations in the U.K. and ferry costs and accommodation. Having the motorhome helped, but during the Christmas period ferry costs go up (just like the TT🙄).

Once you tell a specialist that you are going private the first thing his/her secretary will say is “should I take you off the waiting list then!”

All NHS or ‘Manx Care’ as called here is summarily withdrawn, after care, transport - everything is removed because you are no longer their concern and it suits them well financially.

Because I couldn’t visit her through Covid restrictions, I booked a ferry to pick her up on Boxing Day, 4 days after her surgery. The next available return sailing with a disabled cabin was an overnight sailing getting home early hours on the 30th December, 8 days after her surgery! Luckily we have the motorhome.

Got home ok on New Years Eve and both tested Covid positive. The only way this could have happened was a) the hospital, or b) my ferry trip over. The Steam Packet may not follow all ferry companies, but the advice given by the captain via tannoy was “In line with U.K. regulations, face coverings must be worn at all times”. However, he went on to say that staff would not be enforcing this. I saw many people removing face coverings after he said that! I’m convinced it’s how I contracted Covid and passed it on to my wife.

Looking at parallel posts, I’d be looking to use the tunnel to get away, far safer in terms of Covid transmission.

As for the comments about registered nurses being responsible for drug administration, it’s completely true. My wife was a Pediatric nurse for many years, when a doctor prescribed drugs, it was the nurses responsibility to calculate the correct dose based on size and weight! When a nurse makes a ‘drug error’ it’s a big issue, I mean very big! Doctors are not treated equally in that respect 🙄😳
 
Only last Thursday I had a total hip replacement courtesy of the NHS back out of hospital Sat morning. So the only option of paying or right health care plan is not strictly true. The NHS are using private hospitals to keep queues moving.
 
My father in law passed away in hospital last week, he'd been in and out for the last couple of months. Basically they'd patch him up and send him back home. This time round, in his last (phone) conversion with my wife, he said he hadn't been seen by a Dr and nothing had been done. He'd been in two days.
The only time she was allowed to visit him in hospital, he had already died.
 
Hopefully, someone will direct her to the correct app. Depends who told her to "Google it" (maybe a member of management with little understanding!) ..still takes time though which is not a commodity available on most wards. A drug round of twenty patients all needing different, sometimes unfamiliar drugs plus IVs to make up and administer can take an hour easily without being interrupted. Feel for her and the many in the same position.
BNF gives uses and contraindications.
 
Only last Thursday I had a total hip replacement courtesy of the NHS back out of hospital Sat morning. So the only option of paying or right health care plan is not strictly true. The NHS are using private hospitals to keep queues moving.
You had to stand in a queue to get a hip replacement, cant have been that bad, LOL.
 

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