NHS Thriving on Pain, and Suffering

Symptomatic people queued to get tested for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) amid the COVID-19 pandemic and shared their infections with healthy adults, and children.

Infections from some antibiotic-resistant pathogens known as superbugs have more than doubled in healthcare facilities in Europe, providing further evidence of the wider impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control report said reported cases of two highly drug-resistant pathogens increased in 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, then sharply jumped in 2021.

The surge stemmed from outbreaks in intensive care units of hospitals and in European Union countries where antimicrobial-resistant infections were already widespread, ECDC official Dominique Monnet told a news conference.

Data showed that in Europe last year, reported cases of the Acinetobacter bacteria group more than doubled compared with pre-pandemic annual numbers. Cases of another bacteria, Klebsiella pneumoniae, which is resistant to last-resort antibiotics, jumped by 31% in 2020 and by 20% in 2021.

The report did not include data on how many people died from the infections in 2020 and 2021. Experts say it can be challenging to definitively attribute the cause of death when patients were hospitalised for COVID-19, for example.

Some scientists link the rise in hospital-acquired superbug infections during the pandemic to wider antibiotic prescriptions to treat COVID-19 and other bacterial infections during long hospital stays.

The European report is consistent with a trend noted last year in the United States, where government data showed that U.S. deaths from drug-resistant infections jumped 15% in 2020. Drug resistance evolves through the misuse or overuse of antibiotics. Concerns about it are not new. Experts call superbug infections, including fungal pathogens, a silent pandemic that causes more than a million deaths annually but does not draw attendant focus or funding for research.

Experts warn that a pandemic of superbugs will dwarf Coronavirus in a decade if action isn't taken now. Superbugs infect more than three million already killed 700,000 per year and the UN has called them an existential threat. But new antibiotics aren't being developed because they aren't profitable. The healthcare business has other targets, weakening our resistance further. One superbug infection shows what we could face and how we might survive.?

When Tom started volunteering during a holiday in Egypt he thought it was food poisoning. CT scan showed an abscess in his gut nearly the size of a football. After being flown to Frankfurt, he started hallucinating and seeing hieroglyphs on the walls before falling into a coma. The doctor said it was the worst infection in the world, which had closed down hospitals in Germany.?

After all, antibiotics had failed. The doctors decided that surgically removing the infection was too risky, as if he got into his bloodstream, he would undergo septic shock and extreme immune response. Instead, the doctors tried removing the fluid by poking five drains into his abdomen. Tom was hallucinating that he'd been wandering the desert for years. When one of the drains slipped, it dumped the infection into his bloodstream, and he went into septic shock.?

The doctors don't have anything left, because these, antibiotics are now useless. Many procedures will become too dangerous. And neonatal sepsis, a common condition will become untreatable. But the antibiotics we need aren't coming because they aren't profitable. Developing one costs around $1.5 billion at the same time, and US agriculture, a major source of superbugs, receives $20 billion in annual subsidies.?

Factory farms use huge volumes of antibiotics breathing antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can spread to humans. We aren't just ignoring the next pandemic. We're heavily funding burgers are an essential public service, but health care requires profit. Antibiotics are typically only prescribed for a week or two. So they didn't make enough money. major drug companies have dropped out instead of developing more profitable drugs where prices can be increased. And the search for profit is crippling the healthcare systems we all need to deal with the threat in the US 1000s die each year from lack of insurance, while health company bosses earn huge salaries. One took a billion-dollar retirement package, and the NHS could soon be in their hands.?

The front line is in a stealthy global battle. It costs around $10,000 to give birth in the US, $20,000 in New York, and even those with health insurance pay around $4,000. Complicated births can cost far more. In the UK, it's a free service, and the maternal death rate is much lower. Medical bills are the top cause of bankruptcy in the US, and in most cases, people have health insurance but still lose their homes. It's not left versus right.?

The research found that satisfied patients were more likely to die because they weren't overprescribed. And physicians reported that unnecessary prescriptions and procedures would come in a poll 70% of physicians said it was more likely when profit was involved. Most Americans want universal health care, and the NHS in the UK is the most treasured institution. This is said to be the 2nd largest employer in the World, and 1 in 5 people living in the UK, are directly, or indirectly depend on the institution to earn their living. The NHS was born from the selfless act of World War Two and the sense of service to adults, and children, but is now said to be almost bankrupt.

THE PROBLEM

Antibiotics are typically prescribed for a week or two, so they didn't make enough money. Major drug companies have dropped out, instead developing more profitable drugs where prices can be increased. And the search for profit is crippling the healthcare systems that we'll need to deal with the threat in the US 1000s die each year from lack of insurance, while health company bosses earn huge salaries. One took a billion-dollar retirement package, and the NHS could soon be in their hands. The front line is in a stealthy global battle. It costs around $10,000 to give birth in the US, $20,000 in New York, and even those with health insurance pay around $4,000; complicated births can cost far more in the UK it's a free service, and the maternal death rate is much lower.?

Medical bills are the top cause of bankruptcy in the US and in most cases, people have health insurance but still lose their own. It's not left versus right. The research found that satisfied patients were more likely to die because they weren't prescribed. And physicians reported that unnecessary prescriptions and procedures were common. In a poll, 70% of physicians said it was more likely when profit was involved.

Most Americans want universal health care, and the NHS stands alongside firefighters as the UK's most treasured institution. But our most minor popular group has a plan for it. The NHS was born from the selfless act of World War Two and the sense of service to others. children no longer died needlessly, and the elderly stopped killing themselves to avoid burdening their families.

This new health service will be organized on a national scale as a public responsibility now suppose just suppose you fall off your back. Suppose your breaks kidnapped, you'll be carted off in an ambulance, which might cost a couple of quid and then you'd have to pay the hospital to the new health service would cover all these senior doctors ran medical departments and matrons ran wards, so admin costs were extremely low. But business banks and their friends in government began quietly privatizing what they could.?

First, NHS kitchens and cleaners were privatized, and without medical staff in charge of cleaning, hospital-caught infections rose, free optician and dental care were cut back, and fees were introduced. A huge number of managers was hired, taking over from medical experts and selling hospitals to private companies to be repurchased at several times the price 11 billion pounds was borrowed. With 88 billion pounds to be repaid. admin costs rose dramatically. But are still far lower than in the US. over 40 years. While the number of doctors in the US doubled, administrators, increased 30 times.?

One of the barriers to universal health care is the number of pointless admin jobs that would be lost. Those skills can sometimes be transferred. Fraud is rife in US healthcare. When health Corporation of America was investigated for overbidding the government by paying kickbacks to doctors and falsifying records, it paid over $2 billion to settle the case. A former health insurance executive describes how the treatment is denied to boost profits. Allowing the ones that are denied are the ones that constantly see the treatment always this month.?

America has the highest number of maternal deaths of any developed country. Regardless, the UK government hired us corporations to advise on running the NHS and to carry out operations at higher costs. But then terms of maternity care because crises in this treatment constantly. It can be cancer. It could be a liver transplant.

In the UK, high-risk patients are kept in hospitals, but in the US, profit demands the opposite. I do hear about this in terms of maternity care because crises happen very quickly, and they can be lethal. But in the United States, as soon as they're in and they're thought to be by the doctor to be at risk. The insurance rings up and says you've got to send this woman home.?

America has the highest number of maternal deaths of any developed country. Regardless, the UK government hired us corporations to advise on running the NHS and to carry out operations at higher costs.?

Don't you have a big but seriously, when one company took over cataract surgery for our hospital 50% of patients suffered complications, and many were left with impaired vision. Behind the scenes. The same companies helped write a 2012 health law abolishing the government's legal duty to provide health care. Over 200 parliamentarians with financial links to private health voted on the ACT.?

A former CEO of the world's largest private health insurance Corporation was put in charge of the NHS and a former boss of said teens UK subsidiary is now Expert Advisor for NHS transformation. The result of all the transformation so far is that emergency wait times have been the worst since records began. ambulance response times for heart attacks and strokes are taking three times longer than they should. It's not COVID. It's a pre-existing condition. Ambulances are queuing up with no hospital staff and patients to one person died from a heart attack after spending five hours in an ambulance outside of the hospital. 4519 deaths have been linked to long wait times over the past year. And those wait times are multiplying. A record 6 million people are on NHS waiting lists.?

There is half the number of hospital beds in the NHS compared to 30 years ago. And the UK has far fewer doctors and nurses in Germany or France. Brexit intensifies the problem with a 90% drop in the number of nurses from Europe and a shortage of nurses has been found to increase the rate of patient deaths. from all causes. There are 39,000 vacancies for nurses in England and the NHS is paying up to 7000 pounds for each vacant post to try to recruit more from countries like India and the Philippines. Those countries have shortage is often more severe and taking their nurses has devastating consequences.

COVID patients died despite new ventilators because there were no staff to operate the machines. NHS funding was historically low leading up to the pandemic after creating a crisis. Boris Johnson's government promised 50,000 more nurses during the election but later explained that he meant 31,000 new nurses and the funding announced points to far lower numbers the hardest problem is finding the nurses with exhaustion start earning less than they were 10 years ago.

The best staff make patient care compromised, and it's healthcare workers that break our hearts when we're offering care. That is not the best we can offer just because the resources we've been provided by the government are too short it breaks our heart that we take that home with us. The NHS has lost its top spot in International Healthcare rankings due to long waits and lack of investment. But the US remains by far the worst-rated system despite spending the most on camera. And many in the US have to queue up overnight, often to be turned away before reaching help.

They open the parking lot at midnight, three o'clock in the morning they begin handing out numbers to the individuals in the car. Pretty much everyone I've talked to has had a very similar situation in mind where they are insured. But the insurance doesn't cover certain services, a great little young guy who was a sixth grader in school, and he got a pair of glasses and he was just jubilant. He said well how long has it been since you've had a new bird? He says I haven't been able to read for the last three years. You know, we're better than that.

But in the UK, the next big step is approaching a new bill that will create 42 groups to manage to fund. Crucially, private providers will not be barred from these groups. These corporations will be given legal footing to take control of the budgets, in particular, the company UnitedHealth.

That's the same United Health that awarded its CEO a billion-dollar package 40,000 times the salary of a new UK nurse, but the sense of service to others still drives the NHS despite infamously difficult workloads. 21,000 people signed up to train as nurses in England this year 2000 More than last year many were inspired to join by our heroes during the pandemic.?

On the day the NHS was born. Its first patient, a 13-year-old girl, was told it was the most civilized step any country had ever taken. Six decades later, it's still a treasure but has made a mockery of my profession, by concealing the truth claiming the treatment offered is the best in the world. I feel sad to say, this is probably the worst institution that is thriving on inflicting pain, and suffering on the very people who are passionately doing all they can to "Save the NHS".?