Unfortunately, I have recently experienced the huge difficulties that our glorious NHS service in the United Kingdom is encountering.
Not the ones that it's encountering in the dental service, which I think almost everyone can agree is 'beyond on its knees', but in the medical service, where you would expect things to be slightly better, slightly safer, or slightly more detailed.
So, firstly, please don't shout at me because I know hundreds of thousands of people are doing magnificent work through the NHS, but in a system that is making it harder and harder for them to work, cope, and certainly excel.
But the examples of the things that I saw with my own eyes were just basic, bad, terrible care from people that didn't give a shit because the system allows this because society allows it. After all, we don't invest what we should, and we can't get a workforce of people who are prepared to be empathic, caring and helpful.
But the question then is, what are you prepared to do about it when it cracks?
The crack is coming, isn't it? It will drip, drip, drip and then crisis.
We will not reach our waiting list targets by 2029 because we will not have enough money because we live in a society of shareholder primacy, and all of the money that we should have had will be stripped out to shareholders, almost certainly in other countries and we'll be left with an underfunded system which just cannot cope and where people will then begin to realise, and we'll seek an alternative, and this will happen in dentistry too, or continue to happen more and more.
Will you be ready to harness this?
Will you be ready to interact with this?
It won't happen on a Monday at 2 p.m. It'll just happen over a period, which to us at the moment will seem long, but on the other side, it will seem to have happened very quickly.
Blog Post Number - 3856
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