I love the welfare state/I think the NHS is great

[kaberett]

... I really, really do.

But today, as on so many other occasions, I am left wondering how in hell anyone who isn't incredibly pushy and middle-class manages to wring anything out of them when it comes to long-term conditions. Just. Wow.

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[rmc28]

And sometimes even if they are middle-class and pushy. My mother, hardly a retiring and delicate flower, was put off and put off and put off getting her "urgent" hip replacement for nearly a year. Until my stepfather made a complaint and suddenly the appointment was made.

I am left with the impression the NHS doesn't value the health of older women nearly as much as they do the voices of men.