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July 9, 2018 at 4:27 pm #478

You need to talk Peter, you have made a start here, open up to your friends and family, be honest, you need their support, if there is no-one to talk to then a good GP and AA will certainly help.

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January 12, 2018 at 3:24 pm #422

(No defence of the government, just my tuppence)
There needs to be a better system in place to stop people presenting at a&e with minor ailments. If only those who genuinely needed a&e were there it might be a different story.

That being said, that means the whole system needs overhauled, being able to get a same day Gp appointment, seemless hospital to care discharges etc.

I’ve been thinking about his today, we use NHS 24 here ( same down south?). Clearly in an emergency you would call 999, but otherwise call NHS 24 and ask for advice, they may direct you to A&Ebut often not. If everyone done this before presenting, maybe the amount of non life threatening cases using up the precious time will reduce.

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December 30, 2017 at 2:47 pm #414

Hermes patchy round here too, delivered to the wrong house, my neighbour who was away and left the parcel in her drive.

I’m still waiting for a delivery from something I ordered on 21st December, I was assured I didn’t need to pay for next day delivery and first class would be fine. Supplier has been shut since lunchtime on the 23Rd until this Tuesday. Argh, it’s Christmas presents ffs! They will get several pieces of my mind come Tuesday!

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November 23, 2017 at 1:45 pm #296

Personally I’m of the opinion the constant fatigue is your body trying to tell you something. I would start off with a gentle walk and build up gradually from there as you feel comfortable – I’m no fitness expert but have a wealth of experience with fatigue sadly.

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November 23, 2017 at 1:42 pm #294

@kelly Interesting points, and you missed out the hugely significant and costly effects of booze upon the nation …….. but then the revenue derived from alcohol sales more than covers the caring costs to the nation I’d have thought.

I do though have some agreement with Goldenstar in that it’s wrong for us to wantonly or recklessly ignore what we know to carry serious risk and simply expect the State to pick us up when we fall.

I’ve never before considered the possibility that insurance companies should be responsible for the hospital care of those injured in car accidents, after all they pay compensation to those who are injured, so you make a valid point.

I’ve no problem with the NHS seeking out ways to share the costs, but we’re currently in a halfway house with ministers assuring us of the additional £millions which are being ploughed in, with the juxtaposition that the system is failing.

It’s my view and I suspect of others, that government needs to man-up, face the problems and look to ways of sharing the costs with those who use the system and have an adequate health insurance aspect to their policies.

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November 23, 2017 at 1:39 pm #292

@Red-1 I think you are totally right Goldenstar, but what politician is going to say it, even if they think it? When the NHS was brought into being the theory was that it would become less expensive as the population’s health would improve. Well no doubt the population’s health has improved, but for drug companines and so on, they have had a wonderful system of a guanteed market for their goods and services. And very wonderful a lot of them are. Having family members working for the NHS working on equipment that costs £milions but. ensures longer and better lives. Just everyday equipment is a vast, vast improvement on what was available in the 1950s and 1960s.

I wouldn’t call all NHS staff as angels either, however unpopular that may be. Doctors tend to be empire builders and some staff seem to regard the NHS’s first duty to employ and look after them, before patients and “the taxpayer.”
My family member at the NHS has some fairly hair-raising stories to tell. It is very, very difficult if there is an incompetent member of staff and she has come across some and wondered where they were trained. If there is any assessment they call out “stress” and leave work yet continue to be paid for months. Usually the problem can be resolved with more training, or moving sideways and rarely is anyone actually sacked, but it is all very costly and time consuming. As for employing Agency staff to fill posts – that costs an arm and a leg.

It has been said before, but it is true, that the NHS seems to have become the nation’s “religion” if you like. Everyone believes in it and everyone supports it and any hint of lessening the service and there is uproar.

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November 23, 2017 at 1:36 pm #289

I worked for the NHS for 27 years and the waste was incredible, paying over the odds for light bulbs and photo copier paper for instance.
Also departments were given an annual budget and if they didn’t spend that budget in the financial year they had the amount they had saved lopped off the next years budget. Therefore near the end of the financial year there was a race to see what they could buy to use the surplus cash whether it was needed or not :

Of course the answer would be to bump off all the population over 75, which would solve the bed blocking, housing crisis, and every other ill.