In other news: water is wet. I think we all knew that Charles wouldn’t have to go through the same pains us common British folk do in regards to accessing healthcare. But nonetheless I think it’s important to continue to highlight these ever growing class divisions in the UK, such as those between people who can afford private healthcare and people who have to rely on our public services. People in positions of authority and power in our country do not understand the struggles of everyday British people.
My TL;DR:
Charles is already receiving expert care for his cancer within days of diagnosis. His speedy treatment should draw fresh attention to the long cancer treatment waiting times that most British people experience with the NHS.
The proportion of patients in England waiting less than 62 days from an urgent suspected cancer referral or consultant upgrade to their first definitive treatment for cancer is 65.2%.
Amid growing frustration at NHS waiting lists, record numbers of people are paying for private healthcare. Nearly 300,000 people in the UK have paid for chemotherapy in the last five years.
Survival rates for cancer in the UK lag behind those of other European countries for nine out of 10 of the most common types of the disease.
Researchers said cancer waiting times across the country were among the worst on record, too many cancers were diagnosed at a late stage, and access to treatment was unequal.
Buckingham Palace has not specified whether the king is receiving private healthcare or being treated on the National Health Service.
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This is all intentional. They can’t outright privatise the NHS without major outcry so they’ve made it unusable for as many as possible.
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” — Noam Chomsky.
Does anyone care about major outcries in UK anymore? What do they ever achieve?
People forget and move on after a couple weeks of anger
The Tories haven’t recovered in the polls since partygate and Truss, something has finally stuck.
They still need to get elected to carry out their plans.
Even the most zealous Tories I know are planning to vote against them this time.
Most of their voters aren’t rich people and they need to keep them on side.
It doesn’t matter how much money you have, if you’re a Tory voter you never think you have enough money. The fact you don’t have enough money is always the government’s fault mostly due to immigration either there’s too much of it, or not enough of it depending on your bank balance. Conservative voters only like the Tories come election time, the rest of the time they can’t stand them like the rest of us.
In my experience that isn’t true.
They think the Tories are doing good and if they mess something up labour would definitely have messed it up worse.
The ones I speak to genuinely support their policies even if they can’t name any when asked haha
I don’t know what you mean people are still very angry about all this, but we’re not going to have riots in the street over it. I kind of wish we would in a sort of way, but realistically simply voting the idiots out is probably the best way to deal with the problem.
Of course Labour have their own issues but I feel like their issues that might actually be fixable, whereas the Tories just don’t care.
My best wishes to the cancer. It must not be easy to contract a king.
A nasty malignant form of ancient evil ruthlessly attacking the poor cancer.
LMAO my comment saying that cancer got a king was deleted by mods because I guess you can’t say anything bad about the king here. Classic.
Through federation magic I can still see the comment.
It seems it wasn’t deleted from this community server, so I retract my comment!
It makes me happy that this community is ok with it, seems someone at lemmy.world didn’t like it and I’m still not used to have deletion messages from servers that I didn’t post in.
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LMAO I guess the king should feel free of harassment in case his eminence wants to visit Lemmy in between not doing anything and not doing anything at all.
A proper leader would ensure all of his subjects are treated before him. If he wishes to speed his own process he should fix the system, not circumvent or commandeer it.
He’s the monarch…. I’m … not surprised in the least.
Banish the monarchy if you want to complain.
It would be nice if you could abstain from paying a proportion of tax to the monarchy and making it opt-in to support it
Perhaps the waiting times for homeopathic treatment are a lot shorter?
Oh, maybe he’s is not being treated on the island meaning Britain, … but that other one where doctors regularly fly in.
I’d be more annoyed if a rich guy didn’t use private healthcare tbh.
If we banned private healthcare the rich would have an incentive to make socialised healthcare better.
Perhaps, but then you’d have a canada situation.
Of course he didn’t have to wait he’s probably going private, which other people could do too. This isn’t an issue of him being a king, and everything to do with him being rich.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Hundreds of thousands of cancer patients in the UK are being forced to pay for private treatment amid record NHS waiting times, according to data obtained by the Guardian.
Amid growing frustration at NHS waiting lists, record numbers of people are paying for private healthcare.
On Monday, the king spent the night at his Clarence House home near Buckingham Palace after beginning a series of outpatient treatments within days of his diagnosis.
The cancer was discovered when Charles stayed three nights last month in the London Clinic, an exclusive private hospital in Marylebone, where he underwent a corrective procedure for a benign enlarged prostate.
“It is vital that people come forward if they are concerned about cancer symptoms – getting checked early saves lives,” a spokesperson added.
On Tuesday 27 February, 8pm-9.15pm GMT, join Denis Campbell, Narda Ahmed, Siva Anandaciva and Greg Fell as they discuss what an alternative manifesto for health and social care could look like.
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