Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
it would be nice to have a face 2 face with a GP
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I agree Brian
Those days appear long gone
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,062
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Would you ever have considered a person on the front line in NHS not being vaccinated
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Hm, but back in the day:
https://www.itv.com/news/westcountry/2014-06-02/250-000-spent-on-southmeads-unreadable-clock. "Southmead Hospital have defended the sculpture, designed by artist Tobias Rehberger. Chief Executive Andrea Young says that the piece [a clock] cost a small proportion [£250,000] of the new hospital's arts budget..."
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
Keith Sansum1 wrote:I think the NHS is under pressure and will be for some time
I very close relative of mine who lives in West London collapsed yesterday afternoon at home with what appeared to be stroke.
Fortunately his next door neighbour is a medic who came round immediately and 'phoned for an ambulance, telling them the symptoms.
They waited for
over an hour before they 'gave up' loaded him in the back of a car and drove to Charing Cross hospital through busy traffic.
Charing Cross hospital absolutely chaotic and a wait of about an hour to see anyone.
CT scan/blood tests/ECG eventually given.
Diagnosis - was a mini-stroke (Transient ischaemic attack (TIA).
(Symptoms are the same as a stroke, but tend to only last between a few minutes and a few hours before disappearing completely).
Remember that advert?
'The faster you act the more of the person we save'.
Over an hour ambulance response ................................
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
That is a sad state the NHS is in .
But of course the pandemic hasnt helped .
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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News from Shrewsbury today.
Worth mentioning that the NHS pays around £3 BILLION A YEAR in clinical negligence claims - and keeps a fund of around £85 BILLION to pay off historic claims of medical negligence.
We really should be hiring more Diversity Managers
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
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Had a cancer scare in the Button household recently. Face-to-face meeting with GP last Tuesday, referrals to chest x-ray (walk-in clinic, Buckland last Thursday) and ENT internal exam (camera thingy up your nose and down your throat, WHH appointment last Saturday for today - face-to-face of course). Both results back today, WHH there and then (negatory, good buddy). Haven't been this happy since the face-to-face oncoming car on the A358 miraculously disappeared, leaving us alive (God alone knows how, we certainly don't) - and in desperate need of a fag!
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,053
Tweeter wanted. C£50,000 pa.
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
I am beginning to think the Captain has to much time on his hands when he keeps posting these kinds of comments.
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Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,053
Ideal candidate then!
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
Vote for Bob
I can see the campaign starting on this thread already
You have nailed this interview Bob
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Jan Higgins wrote:I am beginning to think the Captain has to much time on his hands when he keeps posting these kinds of comments.
I'm beginning to think that the NHS has too much money on its hands when they keep advertising these non-jobs?
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,868
Not too much money just badly used on grandiose ideas and dubious treatments that would not originally have been thought of as illness or trauma.
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ray hutstone- Registered: 1 Apr 2018
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The NHS has been starved of the money it needs for so long that it is now short of 100,000 staff. Have you any idea what percentage the salaries quoted represent as part of the total UK health expenditure, despite its reduction in recent years? Anything that can be done to attract and recruit new staff should be welcomed.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,915
I think that's. Correct , badly organised /managed
It does need urgent review
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