“Sta diventando più duro”: gli ospedali non riescono a iniziare costantemente la chemio in tempo

Every service, every hit of infrastructure is failing. Government would really want to get its head out of its hole. And pointless paper pusher civil servants that cost money but contribute little need to be let go

After 4 years of waiting to see haematologist I had to go private…the state of health services here are shocking.

Well done on everyone who voted in FFG again. Amazing stuff 😊

>This KPI only captures new parenteral systemic therapy in a day ward setting – such as chemotherapy and immunotherapy – so does not include additional cycles of treatment

It’s almost 12 years to the day that I started chemo, over 2 months after diagnosis, a long time past the 15 workings days KPI. But my treatment would not have been measured against this KPI, the first chemo was as an inpatient for monitoring purposes and I was told this was normal practice, I met a few other patients at the time who had the same experience.

If this is still the case, the rates of treatment starting late are likely even higher.

I got so lucky with my diagnosis. I got a blood test on a Tuesday, diagnosed and a Wednesday with leukaemia, and started isolation treatment on the Thursday. Very fast but didn’t allow me to sit and panic on phone shit ive blood cancer.

I had to wait three months for a bone marrow transplant when I relapsed and over those months I slowly started to build anxiety. *The full body radiation is going to fuck up something else. The transplant is going to reject and kill you. You’ll get GVHD in your lungs and be fucked for the rest of your life*. All the risks they have to tell you about beforehand all swirled in my head and by Radiation Day 1 I’d worked myself up into a ball of nerves. So I can imagine how some people are given the big C talk and then being told “please hold!” Like the EBS Mortgage ad.

the govt here is taking all the upside of population growth in terms of more tax receipts etc, and not investing to deal with the added resources/capacity needed to cope with a larger population. it’s shocking. a new govt are needed.