Forums General chat NHS – will it survive? Reply To: NHS – will it survive? January 24, 2018 at 10:23 am #310 scarysue 3 Posts and I am ashamed of that @kaz Why, you did what you thought best at the time? I am a floating voter. I will not be tied to any particular party, I choose whoever I think is best at the time. I couldn’t believe my grandparents who used to vote for the Labour party because of what they had done 30/40 years previously – what they were doing at the time of voting was irrelevant to them. And OH’s grandmother voted for a party because her husband always had despite the fact he had been dead 20 years. The NHS has so many areas which it could improve because so much time is wasted due to their inefficiency. The communication between departments is abysmal. My father had a minor stroke a couple of months ago, he was told he had an appointment later that day for some tests, as it was 5 hours later he asked if they could go home (20 mins) and come back. That was fine so my parents went back home only to get a call from the hospital to ask where he was as they had got him booked in for the morning. He has also been given appointments and got to the hospital to find they didn’t have the appointment on record. He said they weren’t happy with him despite the fact he showed them the letter with the ‘appointment’ details. My experience with the hospital staff was fine – they were brilliant. Once again it was the administration and lack of communication which was the problem. This was exacerbated by the fact that only the consultant’s secretary would deal with his calls and she only worked Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning. So when I phoned up on Wednesday afternoon to find out where my promised results were I had to wait nearly a week to get them. That was one of the most worrying 6 days of my life. I hope the NHS does survive but it needs a huge shake up and I’m not sure any of the parties would be willing to do what needs doing.