Get your children health insurance before the Bojo Bonanza

Shocking photo shows Leeds four-year-old with suspected pneumonia forced to sleep on floor of Leeds General Infrimary due to lack of beds.

A photograph sent to the Yorkshire Evening Post shows Jack with an oxygen mask, lying on a pile of coats for comfort on the floor of the room.

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10 years of a fantastic ideological Tory tax cuts and faux austerity has really fooked the UK, at least be prepared for 5 more

but oh other people’s munny other people’s munny

News flash dick heads: you don’t deserve “your” money as much as the kid on the floor does. And if the law says it’s not yours it’s not yours anyway.

I actually think this story is a bit put on

he was waiting in a treatment room that only had chairs (this was not his overnight bed) and wanted to lie down

he was discharged the next day

not saying the NHS is good (it isn't and should be reformed entirely) just that this probably isn't a legitimate example of badness

There are some huge unresolved problems with the NHS and I despise Boris as much as anyone.

However, I think this belongs in the "Jeremy Corbyn not being able to find a seat on a train" category.

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Indeed Clergs. The whole "suspected pneumonia" thing is also bullshit. He had suspected pneumonia in the ambulance and when he was first admitted and put in a bed.

At the point they kicked him out of the bed and put him in a room which only had chairs I'm pretty sure they knew he just had the flu.

I'd love an NHS which had beds for all 4 year olds with the flu - but the fact that one of them couldn't have a bed for 4 hours on the busiest night the hospital had for 3.5 years isn't exactly damning to me.

The NHS has been pretty good every time I’ve used it, or anyone I know. When people say it needs “reform” they rarely specify what reform they think is required.

Must say this has all the trappings of the Corbyn on a train photo op.

Or what vertigo said, heh oops.

health insurance does not cover A&E.

Reminds me of when I were a lad and had pneumonia and the NHS would stick me in the back of an unheated van to drive me to another bit of the hospital for an X-ray. That hospital has been bulldozed and rebuilt so it's now a single building.

I don't think this thread has gone how Sumoking hoped it would.

Thing on wheels looks like one of those trolleys with drawers full of stuff. I initially wondered if it was a bed but in a bigger photo you can see the baskets of stuff in it.

Someone called an ambulance because their child had the fooking flu!

It's strange that clearly a badly run hospital and incompetence of the staff is somehow Boris' fault.

I'm surprised they haven't blamed it on FATCHA.

No one has any responsibility. I bet if an investigation happens, you'd find it's just the incompetence of the staff that did this.

Eventually, no matter how many beds there are, if more people come in than there are beds, the people need to go somewhere. Are people suggesting that we have hospitals with unlimited beds? If we have 500 beds, what happens when 501 people arrive? If we have 1000 beds, what happens when 1001 people arrive.

Blaming this on Boris is absurd.

Someone called an ambulance because their child had the fooking flu!

Children do die from the flu and we've got no idea if it was the parents who called for the ambulance or if that is a doctor / NHS direct / whatever recommendation.

Sorry we do now have an idea - post crossed with Abs.

When I had pneumonia the GP just told my parents to drive me hospital on the basis it would be faster and much less scary than riding a 1980's ambulance around country roads at speed.

Wobble seems to be misunderstanding the FM difference between a cold and flu (the latter is actually potentially pretty damn serious).

NHS direct ALWAYS tell you to go A&E!

wibble, you do know flu and Pneuomina and a flu are a tad different. As a chronic asthma sufferer, who has been admitted to A&E almost 20 times with sever episiodes/attacks, and also with Pneumonia I can tall you it is a tad different from flu m8

The NHS budget has NOT been cut, not since Tories came to power in 2010.

Boris + Tories + austerity cuts, yes Boris is blamed as he leads the Tories

So on this basis you blame Corbyn for all the anti semitism in Labour?

The NHS budget has NOT been cut, not since Tories came to power in 2010.

Please stop with these.... facts!

It’s just that everything else around the NHS like social services etc has been cut and the NHS is now trying to pick up stuff it isn’t resourced to it funded for.
That’s the austerity bonus innit.

he NHS is now trying to pick up stuff it isn’t resourced to it funded for.

Also trying to do a load of stuff that it really shouldn't.

If we consider how our population is ageing and the fact that social care has been cut, I think it's likely the NHS budget has been cut in real terms since 2010.

Pensions and other sorts of middle class welfare for older people have not.

And those old people with good pensions and assets should be contributing to the cost of their care in some manner.

oh, sorry for the Tory snowflakes who think it's the fault of a 4 year old whose GP has sent them to the hospital and the hospital who has decided they need an oxygen mask for.... err.... not just shooting this regional mouth to feed?

You really do need to be a self hating monster to even think about voting tory