We applauded the people doing a gallant job
THERE are a lot of fantastic staff working within our National Health Service (NHS).
Indeed, instead of simply clapping their efforts during the lockdown, it is a pity that we can’t restore their salaries to the level they were back in 2010 when Cameron first became Prime Minister.
But while we should continue to appreciate the work of individual doctors, nurses and carers, that shouldn’t blind us to the failings that the NHS has.
To begin with, I believe that there should have been some kind of plan in place for any kind of emergency like that we’ve seen with the coronavirus.
Then it would have come as less of a shock, and we wouldn’t have seen the situation whereby many were left without important treatment simply because their ailment wasn’t Covid 19- related.
Now dentists in some parts of the country can do certain types of work, but only if it is done privately.
Which is wrong.
Already NHS dentistry was treated as a second-class part of the system, with patients having to pay even for a check up and costlier treatment running into hundreds of pounds.
Hardly therefore what Bevan would have wanted, and the reason why so many have bad teeth today. Oh, and as I know from my experience, have you ever tried to register with an NHS dentist? There has also been a national
outcry over the fact that visitors haven’t been allowed to see loved ones, with pregnant women in some hospitals not being allowed to have their partners present at pre-natal scans, nor even at the birth itself.
So really, what we applauded was not an institution but the people it employed doing a gallant job often in the most trying of circumstances.