Yeah, it’s the same here and getting worse
‘Trickle down Economics and privatisation are held as gods whilst anyone with a brain can see it’s soundly and roundly been debunked
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‘Trickle down Economics and privatisation are held as gods whilst anyone with a brain can see it’s soundly and roundly been debunked
As a youngster I couldn't fault our NHS, no appointments you all piled into a doctors waiting room, if it took 5 minutes or 25 they would see everyone. There was a cottage hospital you could walk to in minutes that could do most requirements, if you rang 999 an ambulance or what ever service you called would respond within minutes not days as in some cases now!
I think too much of the money going into the NHS goes on Quangos, top heavy management, paying for bad PFI building contracts agreed in the 1990s, external service contracts and expensive drug companies. So little of the money we pay in gets to front line services Doctors, Nurses, etc.
I think too much of the money going into the NHS goes on Quangos, top heavy management, paying for bad PFI building contracts agreed in the 1990s, external service contracts and expensive drug companies. So little of the money we pay in gets to front line services Doctors, Nurses, etc.
Exactly that and the debacle of all that unfit or just plain undelivered PPE and, according to the ONS, the bill for that was taken from the alleged extra money that the NHS was getting, and that didn’t cover it all so the service actually ended up with a shortfall of its existing budget!As a youngster I couldn't fault our NHS, no appointments you all piled into a doctors waiting room, if it took 5 minutes or 25 they would see everyone. There was a cottage hospital you could walk to in minutes that could do most requirements, if you rang 999 an ambulance or what ever service you called would respond within minutes not days as in some cases now!
I think too much of the money going into the NHS goes on Quangos, top heavy management, paying for bad PFI building contracts agreed in the 1990s, external service contracts and expensive drug companies. So little of the money we pay in gets to front line services Doctors, Nurses, etc.
Yup.
A recent report from the IRS(Internal Revenue) stated that the uncollected/unpaid taxes for 2022 were in the billions. The bulk was owed by the ultra wealthy and Fortune 500 companies. Folks in the middle like me have to make up the difference. The MAGAt faction that worships the Orange Palpatine doesn't get that they are being fleeced because of it.
you could double the budget of the NHS tomorrow and it would not help waiting times..... Why ? because massive increases in university costs, working conditions, poor pay deals means that the smartest and brightest don't want to be doctors anymore, and people who may make good nurses, need a degree and so cannot get onto a university course because of their school grades or family commitments. You can be much better off working in the city in finance or law rather than be a doctor, or you can go and work in Tesco for the same money as a nurse with non of the responsibility.
My first wife trained as an SRN in the 1970s and soon went on to become a Staff nurse etc. All from a Grammar school education, no idea what qualifications she got after that, but I am sure she did quite well without needing a University degree.
It was also possible for people with Secondary education to become SENs and competent nurses also at a lower salary.
There are many careers that can be quite rewarding without demanding Degrees, my personal thought is Tony Blair did a disservice to many people by pushing that line. It may be great in academia but not in hands on positions.
It was also possible for people with Secondary education to become SENs and competent nurses also at a lower salary.
There are many careers that can be quite rewarding without demanding Degrees, my personal thought is Tony Blair did a disservice to many people by pushing that line. It may be great in academia but not in hands on positions.
Yes, first wife was a psychiatric nurse, usual school qualifications…but then they paid you to better yourself so got a degree in psychology…she now works with everyone from mental health to drug n drink dependence and eating disorders etc etc.
My current wife has two degrees, one in archaeology (and one in teaching) which does actually relate to her job in the arts (as museums/history comes under that). However, most do not find openings in the ‘degree field’.
Whilst I was in the motor trade, (yes apprenticeships are very different now), they were on the job training and day release at college. In my mid thirties I started Uni and have a degree in economic and social history, yes I got a job in a museum (where I met my current missus) but it was cleaning the bogs and doing the internal post round (big local authority). But, and it’s a big BUT, my manager asked my if I wanted to be a trainer, did a course and the leisure dept senior H&S manger saw me and put me forward for the NEBOSH cert and then diploma. I then went on to become a Chartered Occupational Safety & Health professional, so that degree certainly set me up in work!
None of my routes are freely available now as funding, and staff, have been slashed to the bone.
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Look your old. They dont love dont want you ear. Even less than they did when of workforce age. I think they have removed the buget for health of older people. They want you to DIE!Down my way, by the time I actually got into a Doctors surgery for assessment, never mind being supplied a "Knee scooter" the chances are more likely that I have died of old age.
When I die prematurely from lack of treatment I shall come back and haints the ********
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I agree. Its all now pretty meaningless. Vastly over rated and certainly not worth it for a great deal of the subjects covered in a lot of cases. Who in their right mind would want to be saddled with the gigantic debt. I have one 'child' who paid it back after a couple of years, one who could do so after around 15 years after struggling with the debt and one for whom it is a giant millstone. I fear she regrets it. The low interest rates promised are a lie and the whole scheme is a big con for many. My older daughter is in a medical research job and her degree is a necessity and has been put to full use. Its no fun trying to pay back the debt and considering her role its a bit stupid imposing it in an area that is so key. Some degrees are good for the country helping us feed key technical industries, and some appear to be a total waste of time. Trouble is we are now so deep into elctronics-led lives and computer controlled everything those whose skills are in their hands and practical skills, are being even more undervalued as a result. Its part of the class driven Tory led socoety we are stuck with. We are going to need practical people much more if we are to overcome the serious challenges that seem to be on us as climate change really starts to affect life. Good as University education is it wont help provice people to pump flood water and work out how to overcome challenges. I did a degree many years ago, and didnt have to pay for it. Like many others I tried to apply what I learned to life and give back to society as some form of payment for what I gained. Had I been saddled with the level of debt young graduates face today the whole exercise would however have been a personal disaster. I would not do the same thing again for something that has had little value to me.
Where health is concerned, and many other services we need to stop cutting taxes and fund the services we need at a level that is acceptable to the majority The health service is still, just, a good thing, and its certainly something we need to fight to ertain. If funding isnt put back however collapse and implosion is not far away. Brexit has made funding problems and supply a very great deal worse in the short and mid term at least. here are no longer and answers it seems. Thwe current government has a great deal to answer for in my view.
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Yee Ha. An Aircast walking boot instead of a plaster cast.
I see the bone doc again next Tuesday. If things look good, I'm imprisoned in this thing for at least another month, followed by a few weeks of PT. If not...Surgery and more pins, plaster cast, followed again by the Aircast, followed by PT and I can kiss summer good bye.
I already have an Aircast from my foot surgery 8 years ago. Plans are afoot for a robot costume come Halloween.
I see the bone doc again next Tuesday. If things look good, I'm imprisoned in this thing for at least another month, followed by a few weeks of PT. If not...Surgery and more pins, plaster cast, followed again by the Aircast, followed by PT and I can kiss summer good bye.
I already have an Aircast from my foot surgery 8 years ago. Plans are afoot for a robot costume come Halloween.
I had one of those for a snapped Achilles tendon, first week in a proper cast, then the airboot, which you had to take one of the wedges out each week…god that thing stank after six weeks!Yee Ha. An Aircast walking boot instead of a plaster cast.
I see the bone doc again next Tuesday. If things look good, I'm imprisoned in this thing for at least another month, followed by a few weeks of PT. If not...Surgery and more pins, plaster cast, followed again by the Aircast, followed by PT and I can kiss summer good bye.
I already have an Aircast from my foot surgery 8 years ago. Plans are afoot for a robot costume come Halloween.
Diaper Don, Orange ShItgibbon, Orange Julius Seize Her, Donny Tinyhands,...Not one i've heard before but I love it
You should read James Fell at
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That's where I learn some of these.He's a Canadian author, a hoot, and an acquired taste. He has a best seller called, "On This Day In History, Sh!t Went Down" AKA "Sweary History".
He refers to the US as 'The Meth House To The South'.
The Panda Nut
Nutty about Pandas Infected by Panda virus and OPD
Ooh Aah Jim Lad. Pirates you be.Yee Ha. An Aircast walking boot instead of a plaster cast.
I see the bone doc again next Tuesday. If things look good, I'm imprisoned in this thing for at least another month, followed by a few weeks of PT. If not...Surgery and more pins, plaster cast, followed again by the Aircast, followed by PT and I can kiss summer good bye.
I already have an Aircast from my foot surgery 8 years ago. Plans are afoot for a robot costume come Halloween.
Love it I will have to check him out.
As for the foot, we call it a Moon boot here in the UK. maybe if you can get another one, you can dress as an astronaut for Halloween
Yes and no. In scotland the NHS pays for the course and gives the students a £500 a month bursary grant (not loan).
My daughter done phychiatric nursing at dundee uni. The problem parts come when the uni accomodation came in at £720 a month!! And becuase you get an NHS grant, no loans are available!
My wife has been a nurse for 30+ years too, pre-degree, it's an out of bounds topic usually because the treatment of nurses just annoys me, and she'll defend them. Things are changing and a lot of good nurses like my wife are starting to get really annoyed with the lazy nurses (there are a lot of wasters), and ultra expensive bank nurses that cant speak english and say they are not allowed to do most jobs expected of a nurse.
The Panda Nut
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I just thought. Ive only just burned our old dining table. But might just have one wooden leg left. I shall reserve it for you. (just in case as my old Nan used to say)
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I couldn't agree more about bank / agency rates. Why does anyone think thats a good idea, apart from balancing peak demands. They used it in the refuse industry. There was abject refusal to pay a living wage but they thought nothing about paying £17 an hour for agency staff en mass. What makes it worse is the agency staff dont see much if any of the money. Its just waste. Royal mail are at it too. People who should be made permanent kept on as temporary / supernumary, and agency staff used in bulk. They even have them in when there is no work to do at all. Any good manager tries to limit the use to an absolute minimum, then there is a benefit.
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We are all looking forward to seeing you fully kitted out. But hope your back up and running long before then. Ive just come in from an hours pottering in the garage. Im off to see poorly Aunt again tomorrow so though tyre pressures might be a good idea and some windscreen washer fluid. Noops 6 jets empty that tank in no time.Yee Ha. An Aircast walking boot instead of a plaster cast.
I see the bone doc again next Tuesday. If things look good, I'm imprisoned in this thing for at least another month, followed by a few weeks of PT. If not...Surgery and more pins, plaster cast, followed again by the Aircast, followed by PT and I can kiss summer good bye.
I already have an Aircast from my foot surgery 8 years ago. Plans are afoot for a robot costume come Halloween.
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Just had fun today trying unsuccessfully trying to free of a very seized piston in a sort of "winged wheel engine" followed up by a ride around on a running one in a ladies push bike. They are capable of around 20mph but with early 1950s worn stirrup brakes made for an interesting ride.
