Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
NHS Director of Lived Experience ................. £110,000/£115,000
'we are seeking an interpersonally talented and strategic bridge-builder'!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12529821/NHS-creates-hundreds-diversity-inclusion-roles.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,817
These useless NHS bosses need to remember they are there to treat those who actually need medical help not cow tow to the minority with so many pointless jobs.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
Margate again!
'Shockingly, following the miscarriage in 2021, staff at the QEQM mistook part of Shelley’s placenta for the baby – and the deceased foetus was later found inside her trousers at home.'
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/mum-of-four-fat-shamed-by-hospital-staff-before-her-tragic-293497/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,817
The NHS could also save money by not sending Covid jab reminders through the post when they have already sent two emails and an appointment reminder phone call.
I have lost count of the number of letters I have had since the jabs first started, just shows how inefficient they are with our tax money.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
Should read talk to 'mental health professional or responsible adult'
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Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
Letter to the Economist:-
Sir,
Bagehot writes of governments leaving behind policies to stymie their successors and cites examples from both major parties over recent elections.
In 1975 Harold Wilson set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service to consider the "best use and management of the financial and manpower resources of the NHS", reporting In June 1979 (by which time his party was in opposition).
Over the past half century health provision has changed almost beyond recognition in both the potential for treatment and cost, and whilst almost all civilised countries have some sort of socialised health provision (the notable exception being the USA), no-one has chosen to follow our funding model.
As all politicians seem to wish to do 'something' about the NHS, might I suggest time is overdue for another Royal Commission to consider exactly what services we should expect 'our' NHS to provide for us as we continue into the 21st century and how we can expect to pay for them.
It would be a useful legacy for the future whichever party forms a government when it reports.
Sincerely
Captain Haddock
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
Sign me up! Thanks for taking the time to write. It's much appreciated.
Best,
Duncan Robinson
Political Editor and Bagehot columnist at The Economist
Apparently NOT such a stupid idea?
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
Keep clapping!
So much for the world-beating NHS! UK doesn't even rank in the top 20 for patient safety - and the US scores even lower
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12853763/NHS-UK-patient-safety-rank-scores-lower.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
Keep clapping!
A&E crisis at Kent’s hospitals as record number of patients endure 12-hour corridor waits
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/a-e-crisis-at-kent-s-war-zone-hospitals-worst-on-record-298595/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
CQC orders East Kent Hospitals Trust to make ‘immediate improvements’ following inspections at William Harvey Hospital and QEQM
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/ashford/news/crisis-hit-hospital-trust-must-make-immediate-improvements-298843/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
In 1999, the population was 58m with 1m NHS staff.
In 2023, the population is 68m with 1.8m NHS staff.
The population has risen 15% *but staff has risen 80%*.
A health service with country attached.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,817
The difference or trouble is we now need more staff to treat the medical issues that even a couple of years ago would have resulted in us dying or having life changing problems.
The problems that can arise are possibly due to inadequately trained medics. An example being a local GP who could not tell the difference between scarlet fever and heat rash even though it was obvious to the toddler's mother
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victor matcham- Registered: 5 Oct 2021
- Posts: 1,065
Yes in some quarters better training and more of it is needed and talking the English language needs to improve.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 436
Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,235
Yep our country is screwed! The sooner the majority realise it, then maybe we will have a chance to save some semblance of it. Sadly none of our main parties give a damn.
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Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 7,968
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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