Another NHS horror story

A former NHS employee has described the hospital where her elderly father died as the worst she had encountered during her 30-year career, reports The Daily Mail.

James Bollen, 92, died last week after contracting three illnesses during a four-week stay at Weston General Hospital in Somerset.

Readers of this blog who live in the UK will presumably know that this is far from being an isolated case.  The NHS is increasingly being run for the benefit not of patients but of selfish staff.

While there are still many good NHS hospitals in the UK, I fear that the situation will continue to decline until we elect a government which will take a stand on ensuring good standards in all hospitals - but will that ever happen?