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Yes my understanding is the same. When I was a junior doctor starting my hospital jobs we were shown a presentation highlighting the difference between the airline industry and the NHS in how mistakes are dealt with. Airlines have an open, honest, largely blame-free (where this is reasonable)...

Agreed we need a system like that here, and agreed no chance of getting it for the foreseeable future. But there's more to it: NHS resolution is "an arm’s length body of the Department of Health and Social Care" which deals with 1. claims management (basically patients suing NHS), 2...

Really to have a functioning, publicly funded health system this is how it has to be in my opinion. Good luck trying to tell the British public that, who would be having none of it. No politician would ever try it and I don't blame them - it would be political suicide. I do blame politicians for...

I'm sorry about your dad. Hope he makes a swift recovery.

Who decides what a person's medical need is? The person themselves or the health professional? At the moment in this country in a lot of cases it's the person (in my experience, I don't have data to prove it). So in these cases, really the NHS isn't trying to provide what a person needs, but...