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@fi You raise an interesting point there. Insurance Companies instruct you not to make any admission of liability in the event of an accident, so if you bump someone’s car in a car park, how do you word your owning up note?

It could be quite amusing, and maybe something along these lines?

” I regret that an incident occurred this afternoon in…[Read more]

TBH I am not surprised. If they had owned up, they would perhaps have to pay an excess (do you pay and excess on third party) and their insurance may go up £200 a yaer for the next 3 years, so it might cost them £1000.

They should own up, but I can see the huge disincentive not to

Agreed, people get way too precious over the appearance of their vehicles.

@red-1 That’s for the owner of the vehicle to decide.

Personally, I would pursue someone who was being obviously careless and incompetent or flippant about it for every single penny[1], but might let it go if it was obvious it was a genuine accident and they were…[Read more]

@red-1 @happyclappy I don’t care what my car looks like, but I can understand that some people do like expensive/shiny cars and want to keep them that way.

Agreed, people get way too precious over the appearance of their vehicles.

@red-1 Perhaps, but when you damage someone else’s property it’s up to them to let it go or not, so fess up.

I told them I didn’t care, and didn’t want to claim for the damage.

@alec Agreed, people get way too precious over the appearance of their vehicles.

I am more pissed off that the bar steward who did it didn’t have the honesty/courtesy to leave a note on my windscreen telling me what they had done and how to contact them, than the damage itself.

I get that. My first car (an old Mondeo) got keyed badly at Aberffraw on Anglesey years ago. The damage didn’t bother me, but the fact that someone,…[Read more]

On the 27th. Dec we had cause to call our GP’s surgery. Following consolation with one of the GPs we were advised to call for a paramedic, which we did. A fully kitted-out ambulance arrived and spent two hours with us. Nothing was too much trouble, the potential seriousness of the situation was accepted by the ambulance staff and the service,…[Read more]

I have troubled the NHS over the last 4 years and one more year to go. I have nothing but praise for them in the main, and due to the nature of my treatment (breast cancer) I had time to get to know one or two of the team that looked after me.

I remember being really shocked at the speed (7 days) I was processed at. I asked how I was being…[Read more]

We actually have a National Illness Service rather than a Health service – it most usually deals with ill people. Ill people tend to be either very quiet or quick to whinge. When I have considered myself ill enough to go to hospital – I couldn’t have cared less actually where I was treated, so I think we all hear far too much of trolly lying and…[Read more]

@elbie The NHS should not be given more money as it has consistently demonstrated that it does not provide a better service for it. The waste that I have seen at first hand in both community and acute services is eye watering and what made me angry is that the staff don’t even notice it any more. I confronted a surgical consultant as to why a…[Read more]

The NHS need more funding.

Some A&Es are setting up a GP type facility where the people who think it appropriate to attend with illness/injury that could be self treated are seen. Personally I think the 4 hour maximum wait should be abolished so the people cited in the previous sentence get pushed further and further down the queue. I am an ex NHS professional and have…[Read more]

@mary Perhaps my point was buried in my overly long post.

When I wrote “old age care” I meant specifically the kind that requires some kind of medical supervision and equipment, a care home, or whatever the term is at the moment.

When I wrote “not everybody requires care in old age” I also meant that some people are able to live in their own…[Read more]

@york you are talking about the kind of care that would have been provided by family and often still is. I don’t get the argument that the general tax payer should pay more tax so that the family can be off doing something else while preserving their inheritance. Do you see no responsibility on the part of a family which has the funds/time to look…[Read more]

I was born and grew up in the UK, have lived in several countries and seen how the health services work there as a user of those services. I also have a brother who is an anaesthetic technician in hostpital operating theatres in the UK, friends who are nurses and specialist nurses, are GPs or are specialist doctors in France and in the US, so I…[Read more]

It will be more bonkers as things go on as you have a generation of people coming up who have been unable to buy their own homes so don’t have that sort of equity either, and have had a much poorer deal on any pensions they have (no final salary set ups etc).

Hmmm….Our GP surgery seems to be quite well managed, appointments can be made for an emergency at short notice, some surgeries start early, others go on late, the close private hospital is used for X rays and some operations are carried out at private hospitals paid for by the NHS.

It is such a political hot potato that any sensible discussion…[Read more]

To be honest, even with the best will in the world, I don’t think it is going to be possible to maintain the NHS in its present form into the future.
It is inevitable that it will have to become at least part paid for by the end user directly.
Medicine is becoming more personalised and as a result, more costly. Many of the new drugs coming through…[Read more]