howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Captain Haddock
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:This should have been brought in ages ago.
It already is a statutory requirement. Here's result of an FOI to Lewishham Hospital:-
Unfortunately the Health Service 'don't want to act as Immigration Officers' so do bugger all about it.
(so what? I don't really want to act as a Police Officer but I'll certainly report a crime.)
Perhaps NHS trusts could give the task to their 'Equality and Diversity Lead'?
https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/141df24478507105bcfaad5bad35db21/?vac_ref=914414593#.WDLsbQKA8PU.twitter
Gizza job. I could do that (for £41,000 a year)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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What a load of waffle in that FOI request all that's required is for the receptionist to ask for photographic ID from the patient when he/she arrives for an appointment. Shops have no trouble doing this for the sales of restricted items.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Has anyone heard about the threat to Canterbury Hospital and A&E?
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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I thought the A & E at Canterbury closed a few years back.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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The baby unit did. Maybe the A&E too.
Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
Guest 1881- Registered: 16 Oct 2016
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Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
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"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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If that is healthcare spending by Government there is something wrong with those figures as they are dated 2008 before the USA brought in Medicare.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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howard mcsweeney1 wrote:If that is healthcare spending by Government there is something wrong with those figures as they are dated 2008 before the USA brought in Medicare.
No. Total spending on healthcare. 'Obamacare' (which is merely a tweak on Medicare) has not actually made a lot of difference to figures as % of GDP. Will see if I can find more up to date figures.
(Medicare has been around since 1966 - do wake up at the back Howard!)
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Ross Miller
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This is the link Cllr Watkins referred to on the Bye-election thread
https://www.kent.gov.uk/about-the-council/strategies-and-policies/adult-social-care-policies/transforming-health-and-social-care-in-kent-and-medway
The page contains all the links to the various parts of the draft report - it is the usual NHS/Government fare - designed to be understood by experts and insiders and broadly unintelligible to everyone else.
It looks like the intention is to create specialist acute hospitals with emergency surgical services centred at Ashford, Darent Valley, Medway Maritime, Tunbridge Wells & QEQM. So this means A&E services will be removed from Canterbury
If you manage to stay awake through the truly opaque language, painful platitudes, unachievable aspirations and turgid prose here is the link to the "consultation"/survey
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/KandMstphoward mcsweeney1 likes this
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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This is a much more palatable take on the situation but they are wrong in saying that A & E at Canterbury closed 20 years ago, it was approx 5 years ago.
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/question-mark-hangs-over-future-116256/Reginald Barrington
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Canterbury is already downgraded to minor injuries and acute care, so there will be no noticeable change. What it does mean is if you're an inpatient at Canterbury and your condition takes a turn for the worse they will have to transfer you for emergency surgery as they will only have an acute emergency surgical team.
If you have to pick a hospital for inpatient treatment it has to be William Harvey!
Arte et Marte
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Rather disturbing that trusts who are already in deficit are told to refer patients to private providers, sounds to me like a build up to businesses coming in and creaming off the lucrative bits.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/nhs-hospitals-use-private-sector-ease-potential-winter-crisis-leaked-memo-a7440646.htmlCaptain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Don't forget we're still paying £2 billion a year (
£3,700 a minute)over next 35 years to fund Labour's PFI hospitals! (All bar one of the hospital PFI deals were signed by Labour governments between 1997 and 2010.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/nhs/11748960/The-PFI-hospitals-costing-NHS-2bn-every-year.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
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Jan Higgins
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I could not fault the excellent care my son-in-law received when he was in Kent and Canterbury back in the early autumn, the ITU unit was absolutely brilliant and saved his life.
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Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Less than one weeks EU payments would bail out the local N H S.
