Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Doncaster has a 6-month wait to see a cardiologist, 8 months for a rheumatology appointment & 4 months for a gastroenterology appointment.
"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: 438
I don’t dare comment for fear of Starmer and his gang throwing me in jail!
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,863
The sad and worrying side is they feel there is a need for this clinic.
Something men will never suffer, for them it is a case of just snip a bit of skin not loose whole life changing lumps of flesh and in some cases awful pain.
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Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 438
Jan, I’m not sure that was the point being made!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Jan Higgins wrote:The sad and worrying side is they feel there is a need for this clinic.
Precisely. Let's face it all 'cultures' are not equal and many should be condemned rather than 'celebrated'.
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/female-genital-mutilation#:~:text=Overview,organs%20for%20non%2Dmedical%20reasons.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,043
Jan Higgins wrote:
Something men will never suffer, for them it is a case of just snip a bit of skin.
A mother told a court how she thought part of her son’s body had ‘exploded’ after she paid a struck-off doctor to carry out a circumcisions on their dining room table.
https://courtnewsuk.co.uk/somali-woman-paid-a-struck-off-doctor-to-circumcise-her-15-year-old-son-on-her-dining-room-table/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/doctor-circumcision-trial-mohammad-siddiqui-b2615143.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: 8,043
THIS is England in the 21st Century.
Since the NHS began collecting FGM statistics in 2015, GP surgeries and NHS trusts have reported a total of
37,615 individual women and girls having FGM, and
102,155 attendances regarding the practice.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/19/nhs-reports-increase-in-female-genital-mutilation-cases"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: 438
Individuals and families who want to continue these “traditional “ practices should not be welcome in this country. They need to live in places where it is acceptable. It is medieval and barbaric. How much is the NHS spending on dealing with the results?
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Nurses in England have voted to reject the government's offer of a 5.5% pay rise, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said.
Members of the RCN rejected the deal by two-thirds in a record high turnout of around 145,000.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7819kmz98vo"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: 8,043
Press Release by the the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government 13 May 2024 :-
The government has funded 350 additional medical school places in England for the academic year 2025 to 2026
This is the next stage in delivering the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan commitment to double medical school places by 2031
The places have been allocated to medical schools across the country but targeted to address disparities in the distribution of places and support under-doctored areas
Answer to Parliamentary Question 14 October 2024:-
Question: Lee Anderson MP
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to lift the cap on the number of medical degree places. (6487)
Karin Smyth: Minister of State for Health (Secondary Care)
The Government does not currently plan to lift the cap on medical school places. We are committed to training the staff we need, including doctors, to ensure patients are cared for by the right professional, when and where they need it.
"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: 8,043
£22 billion 'not enough' for the NHS. What would be enough? £50 billion? £100 billion?
It will never end.
We need to have a serious debate around how we deliver healthcare in this country.
"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: 13,863
What the NHS needs, before it receives any more money, is someone at the top who knows what they are doing. Cut down on all the politically correct managers and go back to those who did the same job but without the fancy name.
Maybe get rid of GPs as we know them and have more local units for minor injuries and medical problems, with doctors available for every day problems. I thought that was roughly how the original plan for Buckland was supposed to work with day beds etc.
Larger area trauma units for really big problems staffed by those who at present are spread throughout the area.
I think London has already started to develop in a similar as above.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Countries which have a GDP lower than the budget of the NHS.
"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: 438
Am currently residing in the Chaucer hospital (courtesy of the NHS). Admitted this morning. Total knee replacement. Single room.
The pre operative consultation, operation and level of care has been exemplary. Incredibly well staffed and no one looks rushed off their feet, happy and attentive. Half hourly checks and regular supplies of tea - for visitors too. Physio has visited and I expect to be discharged tomorrow . This is how the service should run for the amount of money that is poured into the NHS. The question is - how do we make the private model work in the NHS?
Thank you Chaucer Hospital.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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Best wishes Arthur; fingers crossed for a quick recovery.
"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: 438
Thank you everyone for your good wishes. Just waiting for discharge.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Arthur wrote:Just waiting for discharge.
Yuk. Sounds messy.
Hopefully you will be out soon.
"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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"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
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Terry Nunn
- Location: London Road, Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 4,315
Arthur, I've had both knees replaced, one at the Spencer in QEQM and the other at K&C . Both service and facilities were identically excellent. I can't fault them.
When it was discovered that my PSA was high my prostate was speedily removed. After the GP procrastinated my skin cancer was seen to.
All in all I can't fault the EKHUNHS.
Terry
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
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Was discharged on Saturday afternoon and now at home recovering- this is my second knee surgery so I knew what to expect in terms of recovery. I too have been extremely fortunate with my treatment from Kent hospitals. Had bowel cancer in 2017 which was treated quickly and effectively. Feel very grateful.
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