BRITISH HOSPITALS

I'M ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6034988/Death-toll-from-hospital-bugs-hits-new-high.html

The following is the opening paragraph of the article refered to above, in the link.

Death toll from hospital bugs hits new high
More than 30,000 people have died after contracting the hospital infections MRSA and Clostridium difficile in just five years, official figures will show this week.

30,000 people! A full-scale war!

My sister had a heart attack, followed by a stent implant. She was sent home within a couple of days! My uncle had a similar experience a couple of months ago and suffered a massive heart attack the day after he was sent home! Both of them live in the South of England.

I live in Spain. I was admitted into hospital about a year ago with respiratory difficulties related to my heart problems. They replacd a stent within a couple of days and I felt like new. But, they kept me in hospital for nearly two weeks, most of the time under observation! I asked to be allowed to go home to play the final round of a chess tournament and they wouldn't hear of it!

What's happening back home? Have conditions really deteriorated so much since I last lived there? Can it be that the Spanish National Health Service is better than the British NHS? I'm approaching retirement and am having serious doubts about going back home....and not only because of the weather! For heaven's sake, is noone doing anything about this? We have the power to change governments and to reverse policies. Let's make full use of it. Bring back effective social policies. Reform and improve the NHS. Full, comprehensive social cover is perfectly compatible with some capitalist concepts. It is a right many have fought and died to secure and protect

Let's not retreat, but move forward in our traditional leading role of providers of what used to be refered to as the world's best welfare state.