The tsunami has dropped off the news very quickly. Bad
Novax Djokovic is being deported for lying on his visa application. Good.
Partygate is rumbling on, meanwhile the really important stuff like people scared to put the heating on, the horrendous state of the roads, and the dire state of the NHS for anyone who doesn't have Covid, is being ignored. I accompanied my husband to the doctors surgery for a blood test by the nurse. While we were there I overheard the receptionist triaging someone who had asked to see a doctor. After consulting the person doing the repeat prescriptions, she advised the person to go to A and E. No one else in the waiting room at 10am. Not a doctor in sight. Meanwhile A and E is bedlam. It's high time someone told the GP's to get back to work actually seeing patients.
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Government announcement will force broadcaster to close services and make further redundancies
Nadine Dorries is framing it as: "“This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.”
After rail, post office, Royal Mail, the national grid, power and water the BBC and NHS are all the Tories have left to sell. Everything turned over to foreign powers, multinationals and tech. companies.
The Tory party is nothing more than a gang of smash and grab hoodlums, robbing the public purse for their own gain.
BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Government announcement will force broadcaster to close services and make further redundancies
Nadine Dorries is framing it as: "“This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.”
After rail, post office, Royal Mail, the national grid, power and water the BBC and NHS are all the Tories have left to sell. Everything turned over to foreign powers, multinationals and tech. companies.
The Tory party is nothing more than a gang of smash and grab hoodlums, robbing the public purse for their own gain.
Before the usual bunch of BBC Naysayers jump on the bandwagon, I trust they'll tell us who THEY trust to give honest, impartial news?
Agree with you totally @fidgetbones - on all counts. Folk often complain about receptionists behaving like doctors when they aren't, but they shouldn't be getting put in that position.
I rarely go to a doctor, but my older daughter does, and she's pretty fed up with the one we're with. The experience my younger daughter has had isn't brilliant either. We looked at the reviews of the practice and even without the pandemic, they were pretty shocking. Time for a move I think. How is your hubby doing these days ?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Fairygirl. If you do decide to move, check their feedback first, if it’s better than yours also check they can take you, a lot of practices are not taking on anyone new.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I'll certainly do that @Lyn. I know it can be difficult because so many practices are overloaded. It also has to be on a bus route, or within walking distance for older daughter, as she doesn't drive. We moved so many times in the space of a few years, which made it more awkward, and now we've come full circle. Pity we couldn't go back to the original doc I had when I had my flat. They were very generous about allowing us to stay when we first moved here, even though we were well outside their 'range'. There's one fairly near which I think is good, so it'll depend on whether they'll take us all.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Making progress. Mainly due to me driving him to the gym or pool every day. Someone turned up to tick a box that we had sufficient grab rails around the house, and we had already sorted a wheelchair. The occasional physio by phone does sod all except tick some boxes, and the continued requests by us for neurophysio are falling on deaf ears. It's always someone elses department. Stroke consultant not seen since day admitted when he said it was the wrong sort of stroke (blood leaking due to sepsis, not clot or burst). ENT surgeon wants to remove the nasal polyp currently causing no bother, but the anaesthetist thinks one 5 hour operation (to replace an aortic valve damaged by the sepsis,) this year is quite enough. Even though his hip was the initial source of pain, and the PET scan showed inflammation there, no sign of anyone from orthopaedics. Power of attorney forms sent off in September, cheques cashed but no sign of them being stamped yet. ESA and PIP payments likewise. They apparently have to do an asessment, again probably by phone. Still getting the blue badge in 6 weeks was a big milestone, makes life easier. His doctor will apparently issue a new fitnote , even though he hasn't seen him for two years, he wouldn't come out the day before he collapsed and I called an ambulance. Good job we had some savings, or we'd be down the food bank.
Gosh @fidgetbones, what a litany of inefficiency, that's appalling. Your OH (and you) have been so unlucky in his treatment. NHS care is indeed a lottery I believe. Do hope it all gets better soon.
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BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Government announcement will force broadcaster to close services and make further redundancies
Nadine Dorries is framing it as: "“This licence fee announcement will be the last. The days of the elderly being threatened with prison sentences and bailiffs knocking on doors are over. Time now to discuss and debate new ways of funding, supporting and selling great British content.”
After rail, post office, Royal Mail, the national grid, power and water the BBC and NHS are all the Tories have left to sell. Everything turned over to foreign powers, multinationals and tech. companies.
The Tory party is nothing more than a gang of smash and grab hoodlums, robbing the public purse for their own gain.
Folk often complain about receptionists behaving like doctors when they aren't, but they shouldn't be getting put in that position.
I rarely go to a doctor, but my older daughter does, and she's pretty fed up with the one we're with. The experience my younger daughter has had isn't brilliant either. We looked at the reviews of the practice and even without the pandemic, they were pretty shocking. Time for a move I think.
How is your hubby doing these days ?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We moved so many times in the space of a few years, which made it more awkward, and now we've come full circle. Pity we couldn't go back to the original doc I had when I had my flat. They were very generous about allowing us to stay when we first moved here, even though we were well outside their 'range'. There's one fairly near which I think is good, so it'll depend on whether they'll take us all.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...