More evidence, should you need it of #Tory defunding of the #NHS;

At the same time private #healthcare is trumpeting instant access to health professionals, waiting times on #NHS111 have reached nearly half an hour (on average) with nearly a fifth of callers just giving up;

so now the service the Tories pretended would help deal with capacity issues in the main #healthservice is also under staffed;

the wreckers continue to laugh all the way to their backers' bank!
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/10/tory-neglect-blamed-for-36m-abandoned-calls-to-nhs-111-in-england

@MeadHallBardPhantom as is staying at home if you feel ill: if work or schools actually let you

I still wear a mask in taxis and buses, in crowds, I will not pretend I have had "slips" & forgot.

COVID calls to the NHS are as common as ever.

Still having self righteous Trolls criticising me for keeping "stay at home stay safe" on my Facebook profile "cos COVIDS over!" #NHS111

Here until next year!

Send me your best jokes

#nhs111

My #hospital #doctor sister is still at work - she should've finished at 5. She has so many sick #patients she called in tears.

Her husband is on nights in a different hospital & me & my Mum have put their kids to bed.

What the fuck is going on?!

#NHS #NHS111 #nhscrisis #SOSNHS

@mammutsapiens

My #hospital #doctor sister is still at work - she should've finished at 5. She has so many sick #patients she called in tears.

Her husband is on nights in a different hospital & me & my Mum have put their kids to bed.

What the fuck is going on?!

#NHS #NHS111 #nhscrisis

RT @Khalsa_Aid@twitter.com

#NHS A&E SUPPORT 🚑

Tonight is the 7th night our volunteers are distributing free snacks/drinks to several A&E departments in & around London to patients & staff. This our way of helping our #NHSHeroes to get thru difficult period.

#NHS111 #KhalsaAid @julesbuddle@twitter.com @Katynurse27@twitter.com https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1608201097520242689

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Khalsa_Aid/status/1608201097520242689

After 3 days of no no food, constant vomiting & inability to keep down even water, my other half went to hospital today. We tried #NHS111 yesterday, Xmas day, but got no answer. Tried again this morning, still no answer after an hour queue. Called 999 & they assessed an ambulance was required but with a wait of more than 7 hours. Advise was to get a taxi to A&E but the nearest is 16 miles away. So £62 taxi ride later she waits an hour in A&E for triage then 4 hours for a doctor.

#NHSCrisis

Slightly troubling. #NHS111 recorded message redirecting people to "http://www.nhs.111.uk/" for documentary help. It doesn't exist (although miscreants could set it up), and will only cause confusion for people needing the service they are supposedly being directed to. #careless

A big Thank You to #WestonGeneralHospital A&E Department, #NHS and #NHS111, for treating and looking after me Tuesday. Especially Doctor Kim. 👍❤️😎

Wrote a thing about how and why a #DigitalHealth intervention (#NHS111 online) disappeared from view.
Might be of interest to fellow #sociologists, #UrgentCare researchers #HealthServicesResearch peeps, and fans of Susie Scott's 'Sociology of Nothing'.
Anyhow, it's open access here http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13591
(Poetry warning: Also contains, I think, first use of John Cooper Clarke poem quote in a sociology of health and illness paper.)

My wife’s been struggling with #COVID19 for 3 weeks now with a slight turn for the worse yesterday. #nhs111 were brilliant, a couple of Over phone diagnosis ended with an online prescription and a dash to the 24 hour pharmacy yesterday evening. Perhaps she’ll rest now as told.