Have you, or do you know someone who has had similar experiences with the health service?

We have gone from a great country to a third world nation and I am ashamed.

Heartbroken for this lady - she and the UK public deserve better. The NHS has become utterly negligent.

My wife's Doctor fobbed her off for two years with misdiagnosis of her symptoms, it wasn't until we went private that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer. My wife lasted 10 months and passed away in April 2023, she was an NHS nurse for 40 years and was failed by the organisation she loved and served so professionally and compassionately. The NHS has failed my Wife and my family.

The NHS is an absolute disgrace.

Absolutely heartbreaking! This country is doomed.

Yet some say the Nhs is the envy of the world. Poor lady how disgusting what's happened to her.

But don't worry if she had come in a dinghy she would have been triaged on arrival and sent for an x ray within two days! That's the reality of what we are putting up with in this country! People need to rise up and put an end to this madness!

Heart goes out to that poor woman, I'm so angry this Country has become so broken and I don't think we have any politicians capable of fixing it.

They are helping people to die, rather than diagnosing and preventing people from dying, its all part of the plan. I hope those responsible for the shocking non treatment of this woman and the thousands of others who have had a similar experience are brought to justice 🙏

Our NHS is the envy of the world utter claptrap

Absolutely disgusting happening to many times

I hope she has faith, and it's justified! God take care of her.

I was devastated listening to this lpoor ladies terrible treatment what a brave dignified woman

And the left think right-wingers are heartless. Alex has a heart as big as Britain!

This is way more common than most would realise. Awful doesnt beginning to describe it.

Before covid my husband died from cancer. For 5/6 months at least he’d been treated for urine infection time after time & showed all signs of bladder cancer & lost 4 stone in weight. They even said it could be thyroid related & he had to wait 3 months for thyroid appointment. We all knew he was fading fast. He had a history of cancer, having had bowel cancer & kidney cancer in his 30’s. And with that history ,they kept treating him for urine infection. So sad how things are heading 😢

disgraceful treatment... in any other walk of life people would be held to account... but as this lady said it's just classed as one of these things....

Unfortunately, this dear lady isn't an isolated incident. I send all my love to her and her family at this time. Let the light shine on these people. I have a medical background but I am not a medical doc and I lost a friend on 3 August - 2 days after his birthday last year to lung cancer. He kept being told it was long covid, then it was a chest infection. I was asked to check him over, which I did - the red flags were blindingly obvious! I told him in no uncertain terms that he needed to go to A&E and needed an X-ray urgently which he did. He was also diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He had been in & out of the GP's office for 8 months! It's disgusting! I fight & refer my patients all the time with what we call 'red flags' - I shouldn't be doing this - this is the job of a GP!

My dad was unlucky enough to have an initial appointment in February 2020 just before Covid started. By the time he got his follow up appointment in September, it was too late. His relatively minor condition had become terminal. He died 7 months later.

Such a wonderful lady, and Alex reaction is so human.

This used to be a great country but sadly no more I feel angry for this lovely lady this is absolutely disgusting

My god, the UK is in such a bad state, and its the vulnerable that pay the highest price. The British deserve so much better than this. My parents, grand parents , great grand parents all fought for, in one way or another, in the protection of British human rights, people and sovereignty of England, and this is what England has become. This all comes down to atrocious leadership, priorities and at the end of the day the British. We need to stand up for and help each other get our country back, and protect, restore and re establish our country and its people

doctors supposed to take a oath i swear? its actually criminal

This is so, so heartbreaking ... My goodness ... 😢

Pfffff, it's horrible. My life has just dwindled by in agony due to the NHS unwilling to operate again. I was an extremely active, sporty person who had a severe accident that nearly killed me... had my last rights read to my comatose body and everything. Its been 15 years of me suffering every day of my life, NHS services are non existent for many, many people of this once great nation.

My heart absolutely goes out to her What a lady thoughts and prayers to you my love for how you handled yourself with that said news 🙏🙏🙏

My wife was also let down by the GP, fobbed off for months, and couldn't get an appointment, we went there in the end , and said we are not moving until she is seen, still didn't see the GP instead Sent us the hospital, sadly I lost my wife to cancer. Had she had been seen when she first phoned it would have been in the early stages. Have no faith in the GPs. So my sympathies are with this lady.

What a lovely lady. Don't know what to say.....ashamed of my country, our NHS, Doctors. My mother was also told she had chest infections, acid reflux, bronchitis etc for about 2 years ...before dying of lung cancer. This country is not the country I love anymore.

This is very upsetting. Yet we have people arriving in this country who get to see a dr or medical team as soon as they arrive, and apparently twice a week too! We're headed into a third world country, health isn't a priority for our government, only wokism and diversity is. Someone who identifies as a transgender is more likely to receive treatment within days yet someone with serious issues are left. Is age a contributing factor... I believe it is, they want to get rid of the old as we're a burden! The receptionists do not have a license to practice medicine and this needs to be addressed too. I wish this lady love and may she find herself on a beautiful path into her next journey.

Two billion being spent on migrants could go on NHS . Money is wasted however on things like diversity managers.

Heartbreaking what a incredible women.

What is so annoying about the NHS, I.M.H.O., the taxpayer pays for the service upfront, but, cannot receive nor demand it when needed ... my brother in law, on 2 occasions has been diagnosed with a life threatening issue, on one of these two occasions, according to the consultant, that would end his life within 24 hours, so convinced they even said he could receive his beloved dog at his bedside before he went. Over one year later he still breathes along with us all, yet, no worthwhile action can be issued against the guilty party, in the opinion of a local solicitor. Never in my 65 years has my faith in the N.H.S. been so low. P.S. what a wonderful and stoic woman that dear Irish lady seems.

Wish was in position to help this lady god bless her

I looked at the video of that barge in Portland with a medical room and a private doctor for illegal vermin, then you hear this heartbreaking story of that poor lady who has worked and paid into the system all her life and now has a terminal illness. I have no words. I think the lovely Alex's reaction says it all. God bless that lady, how badly she's been treated. 😢

This made me cry. I am devastated for this brave lady. Shame on the NHS for treating her and her son like this. There should be an enquiry and Heads should roll!!! 😢

We had a viable and working nation 40 years ago but it has been systematically taken apart by several vested interests and various factions.

My heart breaks listening to this brave woman . 🥺😪

The older you get, the more you've paid in, the less you're cared for. This country has gone to the dogs. The GP does only 2 days a week for NHS, the rest of the week is for 'private' patients. I guess he/she isn't in it just for the money?

My condolences to that lady and her family. Bitterly let down.

PLEASE BE AWARE - Your doctors surgery are recording your calls. They DO NOT notify you of this - it is buried within their privacy policy. They will use it against you if they need to. So sorry for this lady -

This is what happens when you stretch and stretch until its over stretched .These are lives not an elastic band that snaps its families .

This is happening in Canada too... Hugs to the caller Catherine for speaking out. Wishing her strength and love.

😢🍀😢🍀😢 My mama in 2020 passed from the same fate (6wks and she was gone) and they said she had allergies for over a year. God bless this dear woman.

NHS has been on the very bones of it's arse for years. AND why do we all now need a smartphone to function or be part of society ? Not everyone is tech savvy or have any interest in a smartphone - tablet or PC, Remember the days you called the Doctors surgery at ANY GIVEN TIME and THEY ANSWERED!

A real crying shame, somebody please explain why a doctor is allowed to do 3 days private work and only 2 days NHS, every working man and woman has paid for NHS care. Nothing is free, the NHS is a paid for service. Doctors should not be allowed to prioritise private over NHS.

The NHS don't care unfortunately people are dying but they would rather go on strike because of greed. They should be ashamed of themselves

What an amazing women ❤ God bless, I'm preying your you and your family x

So proud of this woman telling it like it is in the real world❤ love to her and her family❤

So how much we paying for those economic migrants...can someone remind me please... This country lost the logic and moral spine

My heart is aching for her😢

I worked in a hospital and the level of care for NHS patients has become absolutely abysmal, I've seen nurses standing around doing nothing while the NHS patients are buzzing for help Where does all the money go???

My Mother was treated like a nuisance for month after month after month by the GP & local NHS hospitals, instead of looking at her as a whole they treated separate "illnesses", her last admission to hospital she was in 2 weeks & died a long & painful death, heart failure, kidney failure & liver failure, there was no way back & we watched her leave us. We are traumatised for life, she deserved better.

My husband didnt smoke or drink and died of lung cancer ...he got it from imported cheap cement from europe..he was 76 and still working and the way he was treated at the hospital was criminal...all they cared about were their private patients. He never visted a dr or hospital in the 47 years we were married and they let him down when he needed them..

In Oxfordshire there is a 2 year wait for a routine gynaecologist referral and 6 months for urgent!! Absolutely disgusting!

See this is what the world is abandoning, good decent people like her yet also what more heartbreaking is her own immediate family was also too shafted too over their own health problems. And the way she said these things, is the result of self centered and selfish world has been made around good people like her and her family. Bless her and her entire family.

God bless that lady...... 💖♥️💖🇫🇷🇫🇷

My heart goes out to the lovely lady and her family.

My aunt went to her Drs 3 times in 6 months, bleeding when she had a poo...Dr dismissed it saying she had piles...she bled to death from stomach cancer! Couldn't get passed the front desk most of the time, unqualified staff doing triage for Drs who aren't on site anymore...who knows where they are.

My Mam, 78, has been on to doctors for 3 years with pains in her side, losing weight, and lost appetite, I have asked repeatedly for a scan for her, and she eventually got one in May, she's on palliative care now, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, cancer of her liver and a blood clot near her liver. I was a carer for 10 years, dementia and end of life so I knew something was wrong, I'm looking after my Mam at the end of her life now, I'm in bits typing this and I feel for this poor woman also as well as anyone else that has gone or is going through this right now. Our NHS is a fkg disgrace, with top bosses getting millions in bonuses and wages while we suffer, it should be stripped from the very top down, get rid of all these diversity, inclusion clowns that bend to these ideologies and get the matrons back on the wards. It also boils my blood that illegals coming here in boats get the treatments they need straight away and are free to them but paid for by us. I seriously hate this govt for what it has done to this country. Bless this lady, I feel your pain, you have been wronged so badly.

Yay! Lets all clap for the great work the NHS does!!!! N O T ! ! !

What a beautiful Irish lady. Given her life to the care of others and cast aside by the establishment. May God bless her and her family. How I detest the system of government and care of the elderly in this country. It's disgraceful, peoples lives in old age and now even middle age mean nothing.

They M**DERED my mum like this. She was meant to have a routine operation as an outpatient in April 2020. She had water retention that needed draining. The George Eliot in Nuneaton phoned her up two days into the scam and cancelled it. Her date came and went. In mid May 2020 she lost her balance from going dizzy and fell in the living room and bashed the back of her head on the TV cabinet. For a week, she had vertigo issues. She called herself an ambulance which took her to the same hospital. IT WAS EMPTY! They put her in ICU on day 1 and gave her a video link to my brother and I which showed the ICU to be less than half full with no rushing around. This was the 26th May 2020 at the height of the lies. Day 2 they moved mum to the Melly Ward - the ONLY ward in the entire hospital that was operational. My brother and I were given 30 mins each to "say our goodbyes" because they told us she wasn't going to make it. They STILL RFEFUSED TO OPERATE citing that the government had told them "nothing but C one NINEs". My brother refused to leave her side. I came and went multiple times per day, looking after mum's dogs and running my business. The hospital plied her with morphene and midazolam and left her to drown in her own body. at 2am on the 1st June 2020, she died. But it's ok because AT LEAST ALL THE MEDICAL TEAMS GOT TO DANCE ON TIKTOK AND GET CLAPPED ON A THURSDAY!!

I hear stories such as this everyday, lots of people suffering in silence.

I have been waiting 20 year for something and i have just have they just sent me to charity. as well as the rest. god Bless this wonderful women and Shame on the government (including the oppositions and civil services) and NHS

Thank goodness l live in South Africa, best healthcare ever. This poor woman.

What a brave humble woman! I myself have been waiting nr a year now to be referred to the E.n.t. Department in Sheffield. I can hardly hear, however listening to Catherine I'm one of the lucky ones it's just my hearing n not life threatening!!

My partner went to see our GP in January this year as she had lost a huge amount of weight very quickly and was sleeping all the time. The doctor sent her away with anti depressants. She died of cancer in May.

NHS is Finished My wife had the same problem

The tip of the iceberg. This has only just begun.

So sad and so wrong. Strong woman

I personally find this conversation extremely difficult. People like me were called "conspiracy theorists" when I pointed out that the NHS would never recover from lockdowns. & I'm inclined to have ZERO sympathy for lockdown pushers, who now experience NHS waiting lists. It is the logical consequence of your choices.

That brave lady is 100% correct I'm 60 and growing up you looked up to gp's as they were there 24/7 they did the job because they cared but that's long gone 😢 you can't get an appointment because half the time they are not there that's why I along with many go straight to A+E and everyone should do the same and then the government would have to do something about the diabolical state of the GP service

Bless her she's amazing, wow

As a retired nurse in the States this makes me so angry 😡 I also worry if we get national health we will have same issues. I’ve seen it when I was working in recovery room a lot of my patients came from Canada because they didn’t want to wait sometimes 2 years for their surgery. That is unacceptable . Prayers for the woman who called that she may have family surround her at this horrible time.

My late mother was also delayed cancer treatment because of the lockdowns. its vital to start treatment as soon as possible in stage 3. she had to wait months while it spread more. it looked like it had just pogressed to stage 3 when she got her first x-ray/ CT-scan. she lasted about 2.5 years after she found out. they started the treatment too late. she passed away only 3 weeks ago. my late step dad had cardiac arrest about 3 months after they found out and it took the ambulance 30 minutes to get to the house. he was gone before they showed up. its about 15 minute drive to the nearest hospital and it took them twice as long to show up.

My gynecology appointment has been delayed by my 6 months check up former cancer survivor, now adnormal cells have returned after a hysterectomy in 2007 been checked every year since then until it went to 6 monthly now it's delayed and counting to over a year excuse catching up on the back log by putting myself on the back log I will sue the NHS if my cancer returns from neglect

Heartbreaking 😔

Still the NHS nurses did do some lovely TikTok dance videos though. Even though they knew it was Bollocks.

Is the waiting time for treatment, the same for illegal imigrants too? Just wondering, as they seem to be put first for everything else.

Yeah, nationalized care has its problems. Here in the US, we don’t have that. It’s expensive to get care, but here in the US, you can get great care quickly.

My GP is still hiding from Covid. Appointments are by phone call, and the only time you are told to come to the surgery is to see a nurse. Patient files are not kept up to date, and I do know I am not alone on that one... He is quite happy to keep taking his rather large salary though?

A very similar story for someone dear to me, and she is much younger than this poor lady.

Socialized medicine is collapsing in 🇨🇦 as well. People die in emerg waiting to be seen. Diagnostic bloodwork or scans very hard to access. It’s a system run by bean counters, not doctors. However, if you want medical assistance in dying, Trudeau will be delighted to make that happen pronto. I’m guessing NHS is watching closely .

You have a good heart and a caring person Alex ❤

My father was diagnosed with the same disease as Katherine in late December 2018. We waited all through January 2019 for a hospital appointment with the Oncologist...no reply. February came & went..also with no reply, by the beginning of March we were becoming frantic & we contacted his GP who assured us that they would look in to it immediately...2 weeks later no reply. By then we were almost in to April & he had received no lung cancer treatment whatsoever, this time we physically visited both his GP surgery & the local hospital to demand an explanation. My dad received a letter from his GP approx. one week later apologising that his hospital referral had been found in the bottom of a drawer...it had never been sent. By the time the Oncologist assessed my dad the cancer had metastasized everywhere & he died in January 2020.

The same here New Zealand. Good bless that poor women ❤. May her son have better news

My heart goes out to this beautiful lady. How brave of her to go on air to highlight the huge cracks in the system, whilst not seeking any special treatment or compensation. My uncle recently passed. The incompetence of the GPs signing off his cause of death, which was subsequently challenged and proven to be incorrect and the service from the coroner's office, which has been placed on special measures due to the poor service, demonstrates where we are at with the entire system. It is so overstretched and for those at the very top of the tree, who have allowed our health system to get into this state, they should hold their heads in shame - but they won't. I pray for this lady that she doesn't suffer too much pain with the time that she has left. 😢

My heart goes out to her 😢

Our healthcare is heading backwards, how long before it's on a par with 3rd world healthcare ? I used to feel reassured following doctor appointments, I used to be confident I would get the best care possible. Now I feel dismissed, not listened to, uncared for and generally neglected. Not that i get to actually see a doctor very often, consultation, diagnosis and prescribing all done via a telephone call. I'm not alone in feeling this way, it seems to be the same for the majority of people I speak to. Bevan must be turning in his grave

We are the forgotten people.

After a year of illness i convinced my wife to change GP and surgery the new doctor after 2 weeks wasn't happy after a hospital appointment she had kidney cancer 10 weeks later she was gone follow your gut feeling.we where from Northern Ireland and just like that lady great full to England.

How many poor souls is this happening to

That's so disgusting and sad. That lady should sue the NHS to stop this from happening to others.

My wife in the last 6 years has fought through stage 4 bowel cancer, liver and lympnodes cancer she had to have half of her large bowel removed a stoma bag on her side then a stoma reversal and chemotherapy, then at the start of covid we were told her cancer had spread so she was then diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer in both lungs we treated her through diet and herbaly up until xmas when she contacted a chest infection that sent her cancer haywire, February 18th started chemo again and it has shrunk all 12 of her tumors we only got told 2 months ago that it was back in her liver and lympnodes in her shoulders but it is under control, however while all of this is going on my wife now coughs so much it makes her vomit it turns out that her left lung is collapsed... the oncology team passed us over to respiratory and they have done nothing, they would not even see my wife apparently they don't do that? also wouldn't tell us what was happening? this time after complaining we were told "they didn't want to scare us"? Bastards the lot of them my wife's currently losing 1kg per week as most of the food she eats she throws up it horrific im having to slowly watch my beautiful wife waste away infront of my eyes. She's lost 4 stone since starting chemotherapy again and at this rate bye the time someone has been bothered to help her she may be too weak and it may be too late, I've been in touch with a private hospital to get a second opinion nothing offered from Doncaster NHS we only got called back as I have lodged an official complaint as I believe that they are withholding medical treatment because her notes state she is palative care........ It's disgusting this is torture for us.......

Our NHS has collapsed am so sorry for this lady, it could happen to any of us.

Within weeks of having a positive result from a bowel cancer screening test I had a colon camera inserted which found a suspicious lesion. Within weeks of this I had MRI and CT scans which showed colon cancer. Very soon afterwards I was admitted to hospital where I underwent a 6 hours operation to remove it. 5 weeks later I have received the news that the operation was a complete success I am now cancer free. Still got a couple of months to go before I get rid of the Stoma bag and have the Stoma reversed but a small discomfort for the fantastic results. I can't praise our NHS highly enough.

This is brutal .brave soul to speak about this.take care.

The choice to stop processing cancer cases/checks during lockdown always was a disgraceful decision, there were other options. Lady is absolutely right, the people working in the NHS today do not care in the same way as they used to. She also hit on the main issue around waiting lists, yes they need to recruit more doctors (getting rid of half of the waste of space managers and using their wages would be a start) but also a huge number of doctors don't work full-time hours. They're doing private work on the side - for more money on top of their NHS pay. It would be interesting to know just how many GP's and hospital based docs are doing this. I bet banning this practice would also help. God bless that lady and her family.

All this can change with the MEDIA telling the TRUTH