'There are people dying because they cannot get scans.' Singer RodStewart offers to fund scans for a number of patients stuck on long NHS waiting lists, after recently attending a private clinic which was 'empty'. NHSinCrisis: 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
Live reporting by Bhvishya Patel'I just want to do some good things': Rod Stewart offers to pay for patients to receive scans
"I would like to pay for 10 -20 scans. I don't know how this is going to work but hopefully some other people will follow," he says. "This NHS has to be rebuilt. It's around since 1947, it's got to be rebuilt with billions of billions of dollars. It's the only way we're going to get around it," he adds.Clive, from Essex, watched his arm turn black and blister as he struggled to get a doctor's appointment.
He added:"It's such a sad situation, but the fact is if we had caught this earlier I might not have had to go through that experience."The NHS is in crisis. Ambulance response times are the worst on record and most departments are struggling to cope with a surge in demand this winter. That includes most people's first port of call when they're feeling unwell, the GP surgery.
"After about six hours, I was moved to another part of A&E, which at this stage was absolutely overflowing with patients.""Honestly, it was dreadful. There weren't enough staff," she says. He says he went for a PSA test, which is a blood test to help detect prostate cancer, and then was immediately called by his GP after the results came back.
She says she had originally planned to go to a midwifery-led unit but during her pregnancy it shut down due to staffing issues. "But the lady who did end up coming in to do my stitches apologised profusely. It was no fault if her own. She was honest, which I appreciate. She just said, 'I'm really sorry'".He adds that if you look at international comparisons"we have fewer doctors, nurses, beds and diagnostic scanners" than most European countries.15:13:36Our next caller is Antony from Chessington, who waited nine hours for an ambulance after having a seizure two weeks ago.
"I'm satisfied with his plan of action... he appears to have a new sense and a new way of doing things. He should be given one year or two years to see what he does."
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