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Local NHS Feedback - Tell us your thoughts!

Hi all, Healthwatch Ealing would like to know about your experiences with local NHS services - including your GP, Ealing hospital or any other services you might access! This is in hope of passing on feedback anonymously to local Trusts and CCGs so they know how services are running and what needs to be improved. Feel free to reply here, or contact us directly [info@healthwatchealing.org.uk] - alternatively you can fill out this online form for feedback regarding specific services: https://healthwatchealing.org.uk/services/You can find out more about us here: https://healthwatchealing.org.uk/about-us/Best wishes for the new year!

Harveen Ubhi ● 2282d9 Comments

Which is also Mr Raymond's point, it's the gross wastage of NHS funds on all these self serving frivolities.

Rosco White ● 2274d

Well there is a tremendous amount of PR working to persuade us that "the NHS is safe in our hands", "We've put in more money than ever before''  "Nothing has changed", "Brexit is Brexit" created to give us all a false sense of security.

Philippa Bond ● 2274d

Philippa, you are right in everything you say, though not all of it is germane to what I am saying about Healthwatch, what I am questioning is the point of Healthwatch and that the money that is being spent on this country-wide organisation funded by the Department for Health out of the public purse could be better spent on clinical staff rather than snowflake marketeers taking straw polls. We know the NHS is falling apart we don't need an organisation dreamt up by some idiot in the Department of Health to not tell us that or whatever it is meant to tell us. Who knows? The German language has a great word in it that I really like: Selbsverstandlich (or "self-understood"). It is selbsverstandlich that the NHS is screwed, we should spend what money there is trying to fix it and to provide the services it needs to provide rather than spending the money on some kind of "market testing" organisation to test this idea at great expense across the whole of the U.K.

Mark Julian Raymond ● 2278d

https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/sites/healthwatch.co.uk/files/20191016%20People%27s%20experiences%20of%20patient%20transport%20Formatted%20final.pdfMark:  Have you been in touch with the charities eg Age UK?You are right there are not enough carers.  They are not paid well enough and don't have good enough work conditions like a lot of staff in the NHS.  Those family members who try and care and oversee care as well as work can become ill too as a result.  The GPs know this.  The GPs are becoming ill and few and far between as a result of the lack of money going into social care, supporting medical staff and growing patient lists. Many prefer to work part-time.  The NHS has been starved of funds for years.  The buildings are crumbling.  There are hundreds of vacancies and many European staff are returning home.  No point listening to the PR mantra "more money than ever before"  because there are more people and particularly older people with more chronic problems than ever before.Yes Rosco it is because of the cuts and because of ideology.Unless you have seen it first hand you won't understand what is happening - or rather isn't. No political party has the cojones to deal with it and they can't with our political system because they won't work together.  Each party is only interested in their own power.

Philippa Bond ● 2278d

And if you are merely commenting on the original topic and not alluding to my posting, apologies, I have COMPLETELY missed your point!    😂

Rosco White ● 2278d

Ms Ayres, if you think my posting was a negative against my local GP Surgery and/or the NHS, you have COMPLETELY missed my point.But then, that happens ALL the time on here, and I don't mean by you.  😁

Rosco White ● 2278d

Harveen,Money is needed to provided care and medicine and innoculation and care, what we do NOT need are more people like you using up these scant monies on some kind of snowflake-self-validation exercice to prove that things are okay when they are not. How many people are involved in your organisation and the NHS as a whole in this process of "straw polling" people to get some positive responses? Are we perhaps looking at efforts on the behalf of you and yout people to get some positive sound bytes for somewhint that is broken and needs serious help, are we looking at millions of pounds (or is it more across the country) as tons of snowflake marketeerss and NHS management desperately claw around looking for evidience to justify their salsries and prove that they are doing good when they are NOT. Spend the money that is apportioned on you and your organisation to provide promary care not marketing BS. Please do something useful and get out and be a carer, they earn a third of what you do and they DO SOME GOOD, THEY HELP PEOPLE, I view what your organisation does as "criminal", taking money that COULD be used on providing care, and spending on marketing"Independent", but funded by public monies,Healthwatch is funded by the Department of Health. The Department of Health pass this funding on to each local authority in the country, who then commission and fund the local Healthwatch for their area.https://www.ealingccg.nhs.uk/your-voice/healthwatch-ealing.aspxHealthwatch EalingEach local authority is covered by a Healthwatch, which is an independent organisation which uses the experiences that residents have of local health and social care to help shape local services.  Local Healthwatch organisations receive support and guidance from Healthwatch England, which operates at a national level. Healthwatch Ealing engages local people and ensures their voice is heard by influencing the planning, design and delivery of services, to improve quality, outcome and experience. It is a membership organisation and is open to anyone who is entitled to access health or adult social care services in Ealing.They advise the Health and Wellbeing board, Overview and Scrutiny Committees, Secretary of State for Health, Monitor, the NHS Commissioning Board and London Borough of Ealing about their findings and report to Department of Health and the Council every year. They encourage dialogue between local people using care and health services and policy makers, YADA, YADA, YADA

Mark Julian Raymond ● 2278d

I cannot fault my GP service at all or any NHS treatment I have had, especially these past 4 years

Barbara Ayres ● 2278d

How about Ealing Planning's disgraceful mass granting of Planning Permissions for numerous Towers without any commitment whatsoever for Doctor/Dentist Surgeries to be part of the development.  So I now have to wait up to two weeks and more to see my Cloister Road Doctor because of the uncontrolled growth of the new North Acton populace.And there's MORE Towers to come, with STILL no guaranteedGP/Dentist provision.Ealing Planning knows FA about "Town Planning".

Rosco White ● 2282d