Just 38 per cent are happy with the service from family practices – with more unsatisfied than satisfied for the first time.
The approval rating for GP services plummeted during the pandemic, from 68 per cent in 2019 to the lowest level since polling began in 1983.
It's hardly suprising, given their woeful performance during covid...
The findings come from the 2021 British Social Attitudes survey, which also found public satisfaction with the NHS as a whole has fallen to the lowest level in a quarter of a century.
Ditto! But what about all that hero worship and clapping?
Dan Wellings, senior fellow at the King’s Fund, which analysed the results along with the Nuffield Trust think-tank, said the NHS enjoyed a ‘halo effect’ during the pandemic – with patients supportive but unsatisfied – but this fell away last year as other parts of society opened up.
In other words, the majority of people realised they'd been conned. And the ones we really should have been clapping were bin-men, plumbers, and Tesco shop workers.
Professor John Appleby, chief economist at the Nuffield Trust, described the results as ‘shocking’.
Really, prof..?
Professor Martin Marshall, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: ‘We are extremely disappointed and saddened by these findings, which reflect a service working under crippling staffing and resource pressures during the pandemic.’
Funny, you seemed to have enough doctors and nurses to perform Tik-Tok videos...
Professor Stephen Powis, national medical director of NHS England, said staff have worked ‘flat out’ treating 300,000 patients in hospital with Covid, administering vaccines and delivering routine care for millions of people.
And regularly popping up on Twitter, radio and the MSM to whine about 'Toree cutz' at the drop of an invitation, don't forget that takes time, too...
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The NHS, especially the GP side, is Not Fit For Purpose. It is no longer a service and is not treating injuries/illnesses adequately. The short hours and virtual contact practiced by most GPs make life very difficult for the majority of the population. As for the 'Covid' rules they still try to apply... (apparently just to make life difficult - or maybe just to boost their self-importance)
Maybe at last a sufficient number of people are finally waking up to the fact that the NHS is a bit rubbish. Of course we still have a problem with the ignorant thinking that it is a shortage of funds that is the problem. Having said that, I would have been one of those who would have put down that I was happy with my GP service. Our local surgery is one of the better ones.
Having no telly licence, not bought a newspaper for well over 30 years and instantly muting the radio soon as the news comes on i don't have any truck with the state broadasting services... however i forgot to mute the radio at the 10am news time for some 20 seconds today.
In those 20 seconds i was informed that cancer rates and deaths from cancer are set to rise because...are you ready for this...people were reluctant to attend, and the other cause was staff shortages.
So, it's your own fault cancer patient because you couldn't be bothered to attend apparently, even though no one would see you for anything until presumably they get a fee for signing your death cert?
You couldn't make this up.
Staff shortages? shirley not, weren't millions of sheep applauding these very people.
I had to phone home and make sure my Mrs didn't hear any of that without prior warning, wonder how far a Roberts DAB radio can fly before it smashes to pieces on the driveway, telly's safe only used for netflix.
I'm quite heartened by the massive drop in satisfaction with the NHS. It could show that Britons want a grown up debate about what sort of healthcare system is needed and an end to the worst of the deification of the NHS. I agree with Stonyground in that more and more Britons are starting to realise just what a crock of shit the NHS is.
There's a big difference between now and 1997 when satisfaction was this low and that is in 97 Blair could splurge money at the NHS to paper over the cracks that exist in this organisation and increase satisfaction without doing anything meaningful to reform the NHS. Now there's little in the way of 'not enough money' as an excuse for NHS failure. The NHS now has plenty of money it's just spending it badly and inappropriately.
I think that the trust that society as a whole had for the NHS and its employees is gone.
The whole Covid farce was the last straw. We were not trusted with the truth.
We were told that the service was stretched beyond the limit, yet the Nightingale things never saw one patient and stories and videos leaked out about empty hospitals.
Billions were wasted on wrong, unnecessary, or faulty kit. (Well, not really wasted because somebody did well out of it.)
The service is so dodgy that over £50 billion (5 with ten zeros after it) is set aside for malpractice claims.
£13 billion lost through theft. That's more than Matt Hancock earned, sorry, not earned - got, in a year!
You see it on documentaries. Meetings of a multitude of very well paid staff deciding that unfortunately an operation cannot be afforded.
If this was industry all that very expensive hardware would be used 24 hours a day. All round the year. With an annual maintenance.
Whatever the truth, the poor results will be blamed on the Tory government. When (if) a Labour government arrives, it will just throw yet more limitless money into this black hole and will then produce stats to show how much better it is. That government will eventually run out of other folks' money (it always does), being replaced by a Tory one and the whole cycle will start again.
Don't expect logic, value or performance, the NHS is the state religion, just have faith, brothers and sisters.
" It is no longer a service ..."
Was it ever, for the patients..?
"Of course we still have a problem with the ignorant thinking that it is a shortage of funds that is the problem. "
You could run a pipeline from the Treasury and empty the coffers, they'd still say that...
"You couldn't make this up."
These days, you never have to...
" It could show that Britons want a grown up debate about what sort of healthcare system is needed ..."
I'd hope so. But I fear it'll be forgotten when the next season of 'Strictly' debuts on the idiot-box...
"If this was industry all that very expensive hardware would be used 24 hours a day. All round the year. With an annual maintenance."
Spot on!
"Whatever the truth, the poor results will be blamed on the Tory government. "
And with some good reason. What have they done since they've been in power?
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