Monday 1 December 2008

The glorious state of British health care

Amazing. Kid gets hit with a brick and dies:

Tragically, Iyke went to two hospitals but his head was not scanned, the court heard.

He deteriorated and collapsed and died within hours of going to casualty for a third time two weeks after the attack.

Iyke's family were said to be angered by his lack of treatment at the second hospital, the North Middlesex, three days before his death on 29 February.

An expert said in a report he could have been saved with at least a 70 percent chance of survival.



Ah, the wonder that is the NHS ... no wonder everyone is trying to copy it.

Update: HOLY SHIT!!!

5 comments:

Hacked Off said...

http://therantingkingpenguin.blogspot.com/2008/12/waiting-lists-coming-down-fast.html

The Penguin

Nick von Mises said...

Holy shit?

If you double the money being pissed into the NHS, then you'd demand they showed some increases. Job well done, I say.

Does this mean the nurses might shut up for a while about being angels? I don't think they mean Angel of Death

Unknown said...

Hospitals don't put you on the waiting list until it is short enough for the tractor target. Thousands of patients are in limbo phoning repeatedly and trying online until the current ones have been cured or killed.

AntiCitizenOne said...

Stanislav coined it, but the National Death service is so apt.

Henry North London 2.0 said...

Frankly I wonder why they went to the North Mid

When I got beaten up and I was told in the Ambulance that I was being taken to the North Mid I pleaded with them to take me to the Whittington

The North Midd has a reputation for being the worst hospital in North London