PKB - oh no they don't!
GavinWraith (26) 1563 posts |
Every year I have an annual checkup for glaucoma at the Brighton Eye Hospital. This year with the letter of appointment came a letter with the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals’ logo at the top, saying
My immediate reaction is Oh no they don’t! . If I thought patients knew best I would go to the pub for advice, not to my doctor. I am shocked that an arm of the NHS should be recommending an organization whose very name is a mischievous populist falsehood. Lighten up I hear you say. But would you trust your data to a business that peddled such a crass plea? Or to one run by people who are unaware of how crass it is? Unless I am mistaken the marketroids who came up with PKB were motivated by The government is desperately offering shedloads of money to those who will digitize the NHS; the public is thick and easily cozened by flattery, however false. Do you think patients know best? |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
To quote Wikipedia: “The system has been trialled in the US.2 It is in use in 19 different languages at more than 60 hospitals throughout the UK, Australia, Ireland, Germany, Hong Kong, the USA and the Netherlands.” Well, that appears to be a whole 60 hospitals across 7 countries. It appeals to “marketdroids”. We have marketing people in our establishment ,because clearly we don’t get enough people being sick often enough to keep the clinical staff busy, alongside the “communications” people so essential to a modern hospital.
More like offering shedloads of money to their friends who cobble up barely functional “services” to the health and education market. |
Stuart Painting (5389) 712 posts |
I am put in mind of the Yes Minister episode “The Compassionate Society”… |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
Depends upon the context. If the oncologist listened to mom, she might well still be alive today. (beat) Mom, that is… ;-) |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
I think, also, this mantra is going to seriously irk doctors when repeated ad nauseum by patients that looked up their symptoms on the internet, got completely the wrong end of the stick, and now expect to be treated for some incurable rapidly fatal disease that they think they have.
You must have a much better class of pub than any I’ve ever been to. Football fixtures, darts, rather stupid people who were parts of unions trying to outmanoeuvre their bosses not realising that they were totally outmatched, drunk students doing pointless courses like “Media Studies”, old people talking at length about disgusting medical issues or “how things were better after the war”, and that one guy that props up the end of the bar, drinks endless amounts of beer, and never seems to need to go to the toilet … is about all I’ve ever encountered in pubs. And lousy badly cooked overpriced indescribable slurry that is trying to be whatever dish was trendy at the time – probably a chicken tikka that every Indian on the planet would fail to recognise as edible, never mind something supposedly from their own country. Edit: and I’ve lost count of how many stick an extra ‘i’ in Biryani to make it a four syllable word.
Look on the bright side. At least this time they’re pretending to ask you.
They voted for Brexit. I rest my case. |
Rick Murray (539) 13806 posts |
Hmm, this isn’t one of Cummings’ mates is it?
Just think how many extra nurses you could have if they didn’t take their over inflated salaires out of the budget…
Throughout? Google tells me that The Netherlands alone (not a big country) had 546 hospitals in 2017. As for America… https://blog.definitivehc.com/how-many-hospitals-are-in-the-us So, really, I think that’s extremely creative use of the word “throughout”. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
I believe the connection involves some bint called Dido (which I keep thinking might be missing a letter – but that would at least be useful)
Proper translation is “in the odd random location” 1 Flakier than anything Cadbury ever produced. |
David J. Ruck (33) 1629 posts |
Well at least you are signing up to (eventually) get an appointment. Our local GP surgery has decided that it is going to remain virtual even after covid, and you’ll never see another doctor again. They will phone you back eventually, and dispense gems such as “no I can’t check against your previous test results because I’m in somewhere-on-sea”. |
Steve Pampling (1551) 8155 posts |
One of the last items I worked on before being hit by a sequence of health problems1 was access for GP’s from home (via the local “PCT”, IT systems) to the results systems. 1 Covid plus a pain the * plus cataracts plus swollen joints. 2 If any GP in the area has wanted a paper copy in recent years then they have to print their own – saved the hospital thousands per week. 3 Things are so accessible (with security) we’ve had complaints from consultants that they had to journey back from somewhere obscure in the UK to have a laptop fix done so they could view patient x-ray/scan images – why couldn’t we go to them… |
Chris Evans (457) 1614 posts |
When I signed up for patientsknowbest.com at the end of last year I also thought it a stupid name. The site did prove very useful to keep track of all of my Hospital appointments for Prostate Cancer investigation. I’d get emails telling me of appointments 3 to 7 days before I’d get a paper copy in the post. Unfortunately my Radiotherapy was in Hampshire and either they aren’t signed up to patientsknowbest or the system isn’t seamless. n.b. The Radiotherapy seems to have worked as expected but it’ll be five years before they can be sure. |
John WILLIAMS (8368) 493 posts |
Good luck, Chris! I have a somewhat older friend who has had success! Wondering if I’m approaching this situation myself! I was amused when my wife was allocated a telephone physiotherapy appointment for her arthritis! |