health service

I have just spent a few weeks with some long term patients of the Welsh NHS who have conditions such as diabetes and arthritis and ones waiting for operations, I am a dissappointed how disillusioned a lot of them are with service and lack of care they receive really. One chap who is expecting a knee replacement received a letter telling him he would have to wait a bit longer for his new knee and then a question at the bottom asking if he still wanted the operation well I would have thought that was not down to him but to the people who are supposed to care for him he would have got some advice about whether to have the op or not and they would have advised due to the fact that they are were suppose to care for him to have it he was not through the option the have the operation just because he could think of anything better to do with his time.  

 It should have been his specialist who should have been asked about the situation it just shows a lack of compasion to me and it seems the health service is damaged in some way and needs a big repair.  I am not surprised Betsi Cadwalader Health Board in still in special measures after all these years its not working and something serious needs to be done so that people get what they deserve really not this shoddy excuse for a health service.  It is not advised to get ill in north Wales.  I am sure a lot of folk who work for the NHS in Wales really work hard but I think they are fighting against of tide of inadequacy I am not sure if this is due to poor handling from Cardff, that being this Welsh Assembly thing that is going on.

 I have also heard that a friend has been told that there is nothing they can do for her but this might not be true or not I guess.  I passed her place the other day on way to the physio to sort my frozen shoulder which I am not doing the exercise for so I guess this is my own fault.  I am suppose to go back and see a consultant about the other health problem I have but not heard anything yet.  I see to be living my life just waiting these days.

Maybe folks health will improve now the weather has improved it has been a long winter a long cold one and its about time for the break in that pattern it does not help if we don 't get no kind of summer I guess there is nothing I can do about the weather but complain

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