@tryptameanie 984049 wrote:
Recently I tried to get referred back to the mental health team. Saw a nurse and 1 mention of drugs and that was it, basically told to fuck off and had a sneering nurse tell me that over the phone and when I complained (the nurse had already ran off to tell his boss) his boss was a total insensitive cunt. He sharp changed his tone when I asked for his bosses name, which he tried his damnedest to keep from me and egen when I got her name, he refused to give me her contact details, in the end he said he had her contact details but wasn’t giving me them. After thanking him for wasting my time and putting the phone down I googled his boss and emailed her. She was pretty pissed off and all of a sudden those fucking morons from earlier, concede someone needs to see me and now I have a worker coming in just over 2 weeks (he got hell for that when he rang) and he’s gonna get hell when he comes here.
The worst part of this is it is very likely that those nurses are all English and around the same age as ourselves; unfortunately the NHS is too large and complex to have enough resources to dip sample phone calls for service quality or to obtain valid evidence like call data records whilst also complying with privacy safeguards as they employ very few full time IT staff and contractors cannot be trusted. (NHS still use old proprietary systems which make call recording difficult and expensive)
I encounter many people in British healthcare who might be intelligent and qualified but clearly never really wanted to do the job in the first place and who have no real empathy for the patients – the ones who are genuinely seem to be fairly religious, of foreign ancestry or older than 40 (often all three).
it is very likely this lot are taking the opportunity to get their revenge on the generation who “partied whilst they studied and worked hard” and unfortunately they are a bit more subtle than the 1970s when the NHS mental health were as bad as 1970s/1980s cops (my uncle was one of the first NHS managers who dared to challenge this attitude).
one of the science unis here did a survey of political attitudes amongst middle class people in East England and found over half of them were openly prepared to state they felt that “European style” social democracy that Britain has tried to implement with the EU costs too much and they would rather have a more authoritarian government system like that of Malaysia, Singapore and some Middle Eastern countries whilst at the same time these nations are trying to move in the other direction.
