Not rambling Pdoc ... sensible comment born of first-hand experience ... I respect you for saying it and I wish that more medics would say in public what they've said to me many many times in private.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not rambling Pdoc ... sensible comment born of first-hand experience ... I respect you for saying it and I wish that more medics would say in public what they've said to me many many times in private.
Completely agree Dove, well said doc. We may as well all keep quiet because nothing is going to change, when it was first started they never thought it would get so big as this.
I paid £220.00 for a private consultation, because NHS had, according to the GP, completely failed my son,
He took my son to the NHS hospital right opposite and demanded the operation was done before the day was out, of course, It was, but that’s how you have to fight for treatment here.
Im saying nothing more, I’ll get banned from the site if I do.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
If everyone keeps quiet, nothing changes. Politicians don't innovate; they react to public pressure. How else do you think we got abolition of the Corn Laws, abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, an NHS in the first place, social security.......?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
And we mustn't forget that the NHS is still doing amazing stuff under very difficult circumstances ... a friend posted this elsewhere today
"... Just over a year ago, I mentioned on here that my nephew was found to have necrolysing fasciitis and was in intensive care. This is a problem caused by bacteria that destroy flesh. There is no known treatment other than removal of the affected areas. Fortunately he was diagnosed early and it had only affected his lower leg. His leg was saved, but he needed months of treatment and skin grafts from his knee to his toes. Yesterday we heard that his surgeon had discharged him back to the care of his GP as he is considered to be cured. "
Remarkable work by remarkable people
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I worked in an NHS hospital and some savings could be made by reducing waste. I was forever switching off lights and radios in unoccupied rooms, and saw lights burning all weekend in areas which I knew were clinics or offices, only used on weekdays. Whenever I suggested fitting time switches I was told there was no money to pay for them. No-one in management seemed to grasp the concept of false economy. A lot of furniture such as w
Furniture such as chairs and examination couches were binned after about three years of use because the vinyl upholstery split. This is regarded as an infection risk because body fluids could soak into the upholstery. But the structural parts are metal or beechwood which would last donkey's years. No-one in authority has the savvy to commission a range of furniture with detachable cushions or to hire in-house upholsterers who could repair it.
The best scheme I've ever heard of for funding public services is to withdraw public money from the armed forces and spend it on homes, health, schools and pensions. If anyone wants to go to war, let them shake collecting tins in shopping centres.
Last year whilst visiting someone in our local hospital I walked past a man in a nice suit sticking decals of cars along a wall by the main lift. Wondering what he was doing I asked and his answer was the decals were pointing in the direction of the car park to act as signage to the said car park.
why I asked does the car park need more signage when you have to walk through it to get in the hospital. It is not hard to miss as there is a couple of hundred cars parked there And you can see it through the glass windows that line the corridors. But no doubt someone in a suit with control of a budget thought it would be a good use of funds.
To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.
SS - presumably they thought it would encourage more people to use the car park so they could earn more parking fees to to put toward the short fall in funding and pay all those managers.
Scroggin - I agree. Countries can't afford to have no deterrent and no defence. Even neutral Belgium has an army which gets experience by serving as peace keepers elsewhere. It learned its less in World War 2 when its neutral state did not deter the Germans from invading and occupying it as part of their campaign to occupy and rule all of mainland Europe and cut off the UK. Switzerland, also neutral, was only safe because the Nazis needed the private banking facilities for all their thievery.
Much better to make companies like Google and Amazon and Facebook and Starbucks pay proper taxes and also all those rich people who expatriate their money to avoid taxes. They also need t go after people like Philip Green who raid employee retirement funds. .
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
They estimate around Two-hundred & Five thousand million pounds 'should' be enough(!) to bring the Trident missile system up to date !
£205,000,000,000 !!!!(£205 billion) ; That's an obscene and criminal amount for a system that would never be used . Josusa 47 is right when advocating removal of funding for (maybe some) of the armed forces .
World peace could be achieved temporarily by placing the two lunatics currently achieving their zenith of idiocy (Trump & Kim Jong-un ) in a boxing ring , under strict instructions that only one gets out alive !
Far too much money wasted globally on weapons and their research .
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Not rambling Pdoc ... sensible comment born of first-hand experience ... I respect you for saying it and I wish that more medics would say in public what they've said to me many many times in private.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Completely agree Dove, well said doc. We may as well all keep quiet because nothing is going to change, when it was first started they never thought it would get so big as this.
I paid £220.00 for a private consultation, because NHS had, according to the GP, completely failed my son,
He took my son to the NHS hospital right opposite and demanded the operation was done before the day was out, of course, It was, but that’s how you have to fight for treatment here.
Im saying nothing more, I’ll get banned from the site if I do.
If everyone keeps quiet, nothing changes. Politicians don't innovate; they react to public pressure. How else do you think we got abolition of the Corn Laws, abolition of slavery, universal suffrage, an NHS in the first place, social security.......?
Hear! Hear! Obelixx
And we mustn't forget that the NHS is still doing amazing stuff under very difficult circumstances ... a friend posted this elsewhere today
"... Just over a year ago, I mentioned on here that my nephew was found to have necrolysing fasciitis and was in intensive care. This is a problem caused by bacteria that destroy flesh. There is no known treatment other than removal of the affected areas. Fortunately he was diagnosed early and it had only affected his lower leg. His leg was saved, but he needed months of treatment and skin grafts from his knee to his toes. Yesterday we heard that his surgeon had discharged him back to the care of his GP as he is considered to be cured.
"
Remarkable work by remarkable people
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I worked in an NHS hospital and some savings could be made by reducing waste. I was forever switching off lights and radios in unoccupied rooms, and saw lights burning all weekend in areas which I knew were clinics or offices, only used on weekdays. Whenever I suggested fitting time switches I was told there was no money to pay for them. No-one in management seemed to grasp the concept of false economy. A lot of furniture such as w
Sorry, pressed the wrong button in mid sentence.
Furniture such as chairs and examination couches were binned after about three years of use because the vinyl upholstery split. This is regarded as an infection risk because body fluids could soak into the upholstery. But the structural parts are metal or beechwood which would last donkey's years. No-one in authority has the savvy to commission a range of furniture with detachable cushions or to hire in-house upholsterers who could repair it.
The best scheme I've ever heard of for funding public services is to withdraw public money from the armed forces and spend it on homes, health, schools and pensions. If anyone wants to go to war, let them shake collecting tins in shopping centres.
Last year whilst visiting someone in our local hospital I walked past a man in a nice suit sticking decals of cars along a wall by the main lift. Wondering what he was doing I asked and his answer was the decals were pointing in the direction of the car park to act as signage to the said car park.
why I asked does the car park need more signage when you have to walk through it to get in the hospital. It is not hard to miss as there is a couple of hundred cars parked there And you can see it through the glass windows that line the corridors. But no doubt someone in a suit with control of a budget thought it would be a good use of funds.
SS - presumably they thought it would encourage more people to use the car park so they could earn more parking fees to to put toward the short fall in funding and pay all those managers.
Scroggin - I agree. Countries can't afford to have no deterrent and no defence. Even neutral Belgium has an army which gets experience by serving as peace keepers elsewhere. It learned its less in World War 2 when its neutral state did not deter the Germans from invading and occupying it as part of their campaign to occupy and rule all of mainland Europe and cut off the UK. Switzerland, also neutral, was only safe because the Nazis needed the private banking facilities for all their thievery.
Much better to make companies like Google and Amazon and Facebook and Starbucks pay proper taxes and also all those rich people who expatriate their money to avoid taxes. They also need t go after people like Philip Green who raid employee retirement funds. .
They estimate around Two-hundred & Five thousand million pounds 'should' be enough(!) to bring the Trident missile system up to date !
£205,000,000,000 !!!!(£205 billion) ; That's an obscene and criminal amount for a system that would never be used . Josusa 47 is right when advocating removal of funding for (maybe some) of the armed forces .
World peace could be achieved temporarily by placing the two lunatics currently achieving their zenith of idiocy (Trump & Kim Jong-un ) in a boxing ring , under strict instructions that only one gets out alive !
Far too much money wasted globally on weapons and their research .