Inside a Northern Ireland health and social care system in crisis
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- čas přidán 23. 01. 2024
- It's not just waiting times at A&E: Northern Ireland's entire health and social care system is in crisis - from general practices facing closure, to cancer diagnosis delays.
It's been almost two years since Northern Ireland's devolved government collapsed - and healthcare professionals warn that things will only get worse, if the political deadlock isn't resolved.
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If there was an ounce of sense in NI, no one would give the DUP a vote....
Sadly....
Remember this when you next vote. Make the tories pay for their greed and stupidity
Can't vote for Tory's in NI , DUP are the problem here.
NI will vote for anyone using the Union Jack 🇬🇧 🤣
😂😂😂@@Scotland2306
They should have gotten someone from the DUP on to explain themselves, they supported Brexit and they're the ones refusing to form a government out of sheer pettiness because they can't stomach having the title of Deputy First Minister even though both roles are identical. Unionist voters should also have a good think about that when they can't get any medical treatment.
Sickening. Selfish!!
The DUP aren't big on accountability.
Lol what trip you talk
@@grahamwicks9970 it's literally fact 🤣🤦♂️
D-on’t U-nderstand P-olitics
Brought to you by the Conservative party. The deterioration of our health and social care system over the past 14 years has been staggering and tragic. The system was already close to collapse and the strain of COVID, the idiocy of Brexit and further cuts have almost finished it off.
No doubt it’s only the fault of whatever and whoever you disagree with. Definitely has nothing to do with importing millions of useless mouths with feet.
Yet somebody else who has zero idea of what is TRULY going on around them.
@@bobjames6622 Which is what exactly? That the NHS has been catastrophically damaged under the current government is not in question.
@@ChrisErwood Thank you for so ably proving my point. You, of course, will not understand what my point is.
Those who have eyes to see, and ears to hear....
This problem is the result of decades of neglect and poor political policies. All parties share in the blame. And the migrant problem is going to make its worse.
I was in A&E in Craigavon Area Hospital for 8 hours waiting for a blood test result recently, there was an 84 year old lady sat beside me the whole time with a broken pelvis, I don't blame the staff at all as they are trying their best day in and day out, but it's absolutely unacceptable to have an elderly woman sitting for 8 hours in excruciating pain like that.
I was in the Royal A&E back in September and waited almost 48 hrs on a trolley before I got a bed.
The lady who passed away with her cancer not being treated is truly unacceptable that this is happening in the UK in 2024. Hearing Rishi Sunak saying waiting time for some cancer have been reduced and at the same time more people are dying from cancer when he number of death should normally fall.
NI has never hit a cancer target since records began, if you can you buy scans and private care. I’ve been treated in England and Republic of Ireland it’s just broken in NI
Well Sunak is a liar. You would think he could remember how many manifesto pledges he broke. I don't fully blame the DUP. They were duped into believing the UK government believed in the union and wanted a 'United Kingdom'. They clearly don't and have sold Northern Ireland down the swannie.
Only one thing will solve this crisis and that's fixing immigration. I won't say controlling as the number of immigrants in the country is already too high. My last visit to the GP took 3 weeks and four hundred calls to get through. When I attended, not one single person in the waiting room or corridors in and out were white. Says it all. Just look at the hundreds of millions the NHS spends each year on interpreters!
Time for the DUP party to go there holding Northern Ireland back and has done for a long time. We need a party that's not stuck in the past and is for the people and the country.
Cheers to the DUP then from everyone here in NI. Holding us ALL back
But ..but that $350 million pounds per week...........that big red bus, where did it go?
Can't access any money without a working government. We haven't had a Gov thanks to the DUP.
The staff being subjected to that kind of pressure everyday must be utterly exhausting. As much as I appreciate the NHS, it's broken and is in desperate need of an overhaul.
It is exhausting. The medical and nursing staff are caught in a constant battle where they’re trying to see patients quickly and safely against a backdrop of underfunding, staff shortages and lack of capacity. You’re either discharged home or you’ll be admitted, provided there are beds for you to go to. The public berate the healthcare staff and fail to realise that anger and frustration should be directed to senior hospital managers who don’t always have a healthcare background as well as the government who simply don’t care.
Sunak, Hunt and Buckland will all be gone after the general election as the British Electorate show them what they think of the Tories' last 13 years. That's one bubble that Buckland WILL be thinking about!
There trying to close down daisy Hill moving everything to Craigavon and it's already bursting at the seams this just proves whoever is making these decisions is far removed from reality
No. Save time surgeons not running about when they dont need to. You are dumb.
Noone cares how it's done. Get that assembly working or get out of government
People need the NHS so much they avoid understanding what is actually happening. The grief and pain is growing through the denial.
I have been to several hospitals in Europe and I have never experienced worse service than in England...
You are lucky to not need care in NI don’t get sick here
Come to Northern Ireland ours is worse. This article is about Northern Ireland. Not England
It seems clear to me that the British government is failing to run a health service in Northern Ireland, a long with many other services...
But they aren't running it (nor should they be) It's the assemblies responsibility, and we all know who's at fault there.
The nerve of the interviewer to tie the immigrant issue and the underfunding of the NHS, while ignoring the obvious link.
It's important that these people know they're suffering to improves the lives of billionaires. It's a noble sacrifice they're making
Speaking as an RGN myself its like this everywhere. There was a 165 patients in a and e last week. Its ridiculous. Something needs to change! People deserve better. Where's the dignity?!
This is the situation with NO junior doctor strikes!
They are obviously not working hard enough then.
I work in large US Emergency Department as a nurse and it not unusual to have 40 admitted patients stuck in the ED with no inpatient bed available and 60 patients waiting to be seen by the doctors. The healthcare staff is stretched to the brink and burnt out.
Health care systems across the western worls are collapsing, and is becoming more non existent for medically vulnerable people.
its almost like its planned
I THOUGHT BREXIT SAVE NHS 350 MILLIONS A WEEK? AYE
Too many people in the uk relative to homes, healthcare...sad reality
Southern Area Trust removed beds from Daisy hill, shut down A&E in Dungannon also meaning a loss of beds and wards, Closed Minor Injuries in armagh, moving more from Daisy hill to Craigavon. Spent 42 hours in corridor with Heart attack seeing a doctor once. The management of southern trust need to be held responsible just as much as the government. feel sorry for the hard working staff
It’s almost like you can invite millions into the country and for them not to pay tax’s and still think everything is going to be the same ..
Same thing in Canada you can sit in emergency for hours and hours to be seen then spend days in emergency waiting for a bed”upstairs “
Not surprising that the political issues take precedence over the lives and health of the general public. Politicians have always put their needs and wants above anyone else. They all need sacking. You'd do a lot better with a committee of 6 housewives and 6 working men, they'd have things sorted in 2 months and the public would support them 100%.
Remember u can wait up over 8 hrs ina/E.
Exactly the same in Australia’s public system!!!!
Nurses in Craigavon are brilliant, as are the other healthcare workers. It is the "government" that's a joke!
In December (it's apparently been like this since the pandemic), I was shocked to see people waiting in the corridors like a third world hospital. This entire country needs reform. MPs should take a MASSIVE paycut and give the money to those in the NHS, who actually deserve it. MPs are there to SERVE, not to be served.
UK is finished. Get over your pride and start dealing with it.
Praying for Ireland.😢
It’s mainly the North, it works better in the South
@@ItsWendieSadly, it really isn't better down here 😔
@@katharina... use the cross border scheme, my other half and I have spent thousands this past two years on routine scans and consultations. I’ve been treated in Dublin & Liverpool and wish we had access to cross border. Best of luck
@@ItsWendie Best wishes to you and your other half too.
This is happening over the UK as well. Look what's going on in Cornwall, I definitely wouldn't want to be old and sick down there!!
Northern Ireland is part of the UK. You mean to refer to Great Britain.
Old people suck down medical resources faster then anybody else.
They need to get rid of locum staff. They are at least double the price of NHS staff, they have no responsibility and really difficult to manage. Never mind the resentment and demoralised NHS staff.
Aging population crisis isn't going to help any of these problems in the next 10-20 years either
This is entirely the fault of the DUP.
Were are the brexit money?
Everywhere in Uk they have the same number of hospitals with less population, now the population is doubled with the same number of hospitals
Since 2021 UK have been welcomming hundreds of thousands of immigrant nurses and care workers from india and africa. and what is the outcome after 3 years? chaos, all time record waiting lists, record negligence payouts. Who will answer for this?
Your ancestors who pillaged those countries will answer for this.
Why don't you break the law like Rwanda? Delightful reporting.
I am from the Caribbean & this is very shocking to watch. You will more find this in a third world country .This is unacceptable & the government needs to fix it .
Sadly you are right, NI is scary I live here.
I was speaking to a woman in a&e in altnagelvin when I first arrived and I asked her how long have you been waiting and she told me I am sitting here nearly 24 hours in this Chair waiting on a mri scan it's not the hospital fault it's the dup for not letting the money being put into the Services because they want their own way again
I am happy living in Belfast but my aim is to leave because the NHS is non existent here.
Well you can’t blame the immigrants because they don’t queue up do they the Doctors pay them a visit at least ounce a week Allegedly of course.
It's time for reunification, now!
Well done government. Great job
There is no government in NI atm.
When you think about it, this is yet another great brexit benefit.
DUP is blocking the formation of the government because they are not happy about the brexit deal negotiated by the UK government which is the result of the brexit they supported.
Talk about shooting oneself in the foot.
But we can help Ukraine .. makes me sad to be British
The whole system is broken ,all mps dont care they and their families get free paid health care. They should have had their wages stopped, and the secretary of northern Ireland should not be holding back the money as a threat ,he's punishing the ordinary people. Direct rule from England should be brought back, even seeing a dr is like a lucky draw and people finding an NHS dentists is a hard find ,every dentist should be made to take so many NHS patients by law ,people are fed up trying to make ends meet, whilst immigrants are put up in hotels all their meals supplied free heat and electricity seen right away by healthcare whilst our own people born hear are treated like second class citizens, even your children getting onto the housing ex list are passed over to accommodate immigrants, im 73 and im ashamed of what northern Ireland has become, direct rule should be brought back now ,if need be put the border back, remove sea border and stop letting eu dictate to uk ,
I just been to a&e with my son. Spend 5 hours waiting to see a doctor. On our way out all beds empty stuff in the corner gossiping and waiting room full of sick kids…. I really don’t understand
This just bad management,
100% there are 7 seperate health trusts in the north!
Meanwhile the rich get richer the poor get poorer
Work??
dont blame it on no government or Brexit...the system been broken for a while
And the trophy for the most idiotic comment goes to....
Welcome to Britain.
People keep on saying waiting times are bad in the NHS now days,Was not much better years ago under the Labour party,Going back nearly 20 years ago,I was in so much worse pain ive felt in history,When I waiting for about 6 months to have my two top wisdom teeth taken out at the Hospital Dentist,About 6 Months of evil pain,How long do people wait now days,12 hours,Thats nothing how long I wait for when I really needed the NHS who was running the Country 20 odd years ago ???? Labour party,Not really much difference in it,Luckly to wait 12 hours,Try waiting for 6 months !!!!! thats more of longer waiting time
Where are all the Band 8s and 9s? Probably went home at 5pm not once seeing a patient...
Aren't band 8 and 9s managers, not patient facing nurses?
@@tomalexander4327 Exactly my point…Matrons, Heads of Nursing etc are all clinically skilled (nurses and doctors) yet when staffing is short they’re never there pitching in but are more than happy to reprimand Junior staff for not hitting targets, for wearing a lanyard in clinical areas etc. They forget where they come from very quickly. NHS has too many Chiefs!
Surely more immigration will help
Boris johnson: “let the virus rip”
Try A&E across the border in the “Republic” You will be waiting 36hrs. Sitting on a plastic chair.
The median wait time for a&e in the Republic is 11 hrs, it's 13 in NI.
Hospital waiting lists are also more than twice as long in the north!
HI COOKIE!!!!!
Good luck, Ireland. Such a moral country…
NI is under UK occupancy atm.
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Beautiful Video ❤️ I think the pandemic has taught people the importance of multiple sources of income, unfortunately having a job does not guarantee financial security. I really appreciate the transparency and giving people a fighting chance during these difficult times.
Thank the Tory Government and its polititions as well as Tony Blair who opened the door to for profit private companies to buy in.
Think again before you vote and ask those who want that vote if they will fight to reinstate a NHS to the puublic funded by the public as before the Tories took the NHS and us to the edge of breaking.
But our identity, flegs, themuns, no surrender. 😏😏
Things are sweet as cherry pie in the south 🤣
NI colonial project is finished.
Maybe not for A&E, but the worst operation waiting times in Europe are NI and ROI. Joining ROI just means we'll have less money for health and everything else.
Problem in NI that all decisions have to appease either of the sides. No common direction in decision making. A country with plenty of talent and not much future sadly.
Those who curse Israel will be cursed…….. all the best
Shout out to fat people, smokers and drinkers, adding pressure on the services
This isn’t the case in NI, it’s broken for 15 years now.
@@ItsWendie it's the case in most countries actually including NI unless nobody there smokes, drinks or is fat?
Until the people of northern Ireland stop voting for Sinn Feinn and the DUP, parties solely based on religious background, Northern Ireland has no chance of progressing or moving forward and this will keep happening.
If there not voting for Sinn Feinn and the DUP who are you suggesting they vote for, Northern Ireland has one heck of a history that goes back 100 plus years in regards to the breakup in 1922 of the six counties
@@Scouser89Liverpool22 it’s time to get over the past and move on. Like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. It’s 2024, not 1969
@@94leinad94unionists have 1690 on their calendars 🤣
This has more to do with the Torries then Sinn Fein. Healthcare is terrible inbthe entire UK because it is not funded well and nurses have seen a paycut of 15% since 2009.
The UUP and SDLP is obviously who we could vote for instead. SF got more successful because of endless UK concessions to try and get rid of the IRA, which failed, and the DUP got bigger in response. Now we're stuck with them until voters go back to UUP and SDLP. UK govt should legislate to solve health in NI unilaterally as it did with gay marriage and abortion.
Tories
How many migrants are in the mix?
Most in NI are transplants from Britain. A United Ireland is the only solution here.
Seeing mostly elderly here
Working in the hospital!!
The j@b is prevented from being mentioned. Comment got deleted for saying every elderly person I know who took the sticky pokey either kicked the bucket or got c@nc3r within 2 years.
The health service would literally collapse without migrant workers. Would you like them to go home and leave you and your loved ones to die horribly next time you are in need of medical attention?
The free market has a solution for this. In the US when my kids get injured and go to the hospital they get seen within an hour. You're going to pay the bill either way: out of pocket and insurance premiums in the US, or through sky high taxes in Europe. Nothing is free.
This is due to 15 years of austerity by the conservative government in the UK, muh free market isn’t the answer. 40 years of tax cuts for the rich/social program cuts in the U.S. and UK by right wing legislation has caused harm in both countries. Housing is unaffordable because the wealthy have sufficient funds to buy up entire neighborhoods.
Eisenhower, a true republican who believed in small government and high taxes/redistribution knew how to run a government. Thank god his philosophy is coming back in the US, Reaganism will die with the boomers and so will the existence of billionaires. The days of 98% sacrificing fair wages for the elites to get rich are soon to be over.
The American Health System is the very last thing we need in the UK.
How foolish of a response. The American healthcare system is a colossal failure. Sure your son might be seen in an hour, but suppose he needed surgery and the hospital sent in an anesthesiologist or even a surgeon who doesn’t accept your insurance? Guess what? You’re bankrupt. How many horror stories must you hear until you believe the reality of the situation? Or are you to stubborn, that it won’t sink in until it happens to you? Wait until your parents are thrust into a health crisis and watch everything they’ve worked their entire lives for, evaporate in less then a years time. In the last two years I’ve lost both my grandparents, 2 aunts, a uncle and 2 cousins. The medical bills were astronomical and my family had to step in and save the family farm that they all lived on and still had family members and minor children to think about. My parents did very well in life and even they are being stretched to their limits after the devastating past 2 years. I myself have multiple chronic illnesses, I only go to the hospital after I lose conciseness and someone else calls an ambulance. By the time I hit 30, I was nearing a million dollars in medical debt. I filled for bankruptcy and now 10 years later I’m even deeper in medical debt then before. I can’t have my name on anything, or the hospitals would just repossess or foreclose on anything I own. Please educate yourself on how bad our medical system really is. We aren’t even in the top 10 by any metric.
Dude, on so many international measures, the health care system is the US is ranked below most publicly funded programs in western Europe and Canada...ranked lower on access to care and health outcomes, but at a much higher cost.
Not only that~
America is MYSTERY BABYLON.
Thanks to samosas Premier minister
Foreigners flooding the hospitals.
Healthcare isn't free for foreigners, they have to be a resident and even then they have to pay a IHS surcharge of £1,035 per year. Because of inadequate funding to the HSC and NHS, doctors and nurses are doing their own brexit and moving to other countries. Thats why the hospitals are overcrowded. You can thank the conservative government for that.
Currently not the case in NI hospitals. They are filled with hate ridden planters.