Almost one in three patients in Scotland experience problems with their NHS care

Brit Patients Don’t Complain Because Nothing Can be Done

By Warner Todd Huston
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Ever get a speeding ticket? Have you looked at that ticket in your hand and for a brief second imagined that you’d go right down there to that court and dispute it? But, then you realize that there is simply nothing you can do. No judge or police officer will care what really happened. You realize that government won’t do a thing for you. So, you sigh and just send in a payment.

Now take that feeling of helplessness, that surety that government is a faceless, impersonal and uncaring beast and realize that it will be that cold monster giving you your healthcare if Obama gets his way. The Brits have already realized this and that is why almost one in three national healthcare patients that have problems with their service don’t bother to complain to government. After all, it’s government and there is nothing anyone can really do to help.


Almost one in three patients in Scotland experience problems with their NHS care, but it goes unrecorded because many believe nothing will be done.

A report commissioned by the Scottish Health Council highlighted poor communication and staff attitude as the most persistent problems, but found “significantâ€