I am supposed to receive my prescriptions which includes 2000mg Metformin, 750gm Venlafaxine (antidepressant) and others per day, at 9 or 10 in the morning weekly, I have been told that I now will not get it until 3-4pm missing out two doses of medication.
I was told last week they (Lloyd’s pharmacy) didn’t have it, I rang the surgery and was told I would have to wait 48 hours, the week before, they had it at 11am but I couldn’t go and pick it up until 4pm. I go through the same anxiety every single week and it is wearing me down on top of everything this government has done which has left me with nothing!!

#voteNHS There Is no alternative!

40 billion have they stolen from the nhs now they saying its the hospitals trust at fault hmmm

It’s the old, old blind spot in Tory ideology. They wants ‘small Government’, so anything that reduces the Government is, ipso facto, a good thing. They never pause to consider that one of the important roles of Government is anticipation and prevention of problems. Sure, it doesn’t always get it right, but better that than leaving it entirely to chance.

So, the Government decides to cut £5.5 million from the IT bill to make a saving. A cyber-attack hits the NHS, and the ultimate price of this could run into hundreds of millions through all the knock-on effects the security breaches could lead to, and the enormous panic and expense of trying to clean up the mess.

Now, I have to make clear that the problem of hospitals still using old versions of Windows does not appear to have its roots in the present Government; Windows XP systems should have all been replaced by around 2006, so the last Labour Government is guilty of serious oversights as well. But any chance there was of the NHS getting around to replacing the old Operating Systems subsequently went out of the window as soon as Austerity began. This is yet another demonstration of the Tory false economy.