howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#2
tried the 111 service Friday evening,for heaith advice on hold for 10 minuits before giving up. must have been very busy for that to happen.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#3
This may go some way to explaining the situation Brian.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-41483322Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#4
thanks howard.
Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#5
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#6
This what happens when everyone is now expected to go to work, the result is nobody is available at home to look after the elderly even if they want to. If I was in this situation my family would have to take unpaid time off work to look after me.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/03/nhs-bosses-beg-families-look-hospital-patients-home-amid-soaring/?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#7
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#8
There is always a lot of alarmist stuff about the NHS especially around General Election time but I have every confidence it will still be around this time next week.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#9
On Meridian News tonight I saw a doctor who was a GP say that the hospital crisis was putting more pressure on GPs, he failed to mention that the difficulty in seeing a GP is also partly responsible for the pressure on the Emergency services.
Judith Roberts likes this
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#10
"I thought this was a children's hospital"
"It is. I'm from Calais"
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#11
Captain Haddock wrote:"I thought this was a children's hospital"
"It is. I'm from Calais"
Poorly executed attempted deflection results in crash.
What was that again about Corbyn and photo opportunities amid disasters? Is that a sign of boredom or 'emotional intelligence' on the Pry Mincer's face?
howard mcsweeney1 and Guest 1997 like this
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Guest 1997- Registered: 3 Mar 2017
- Posts: 148
#12
Emotional intelligence isn't a strong point amongst some posters on this board.
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#13
Go on. You have to admit you found it amusing.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#14
Captain Haddock wrote:Go on. You have to admit you found it amusing.
Not remotely amusing.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#15
howard mcsweeney1 likes this
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#16
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#17
He was doing so well until he got to paying for A&E!
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#18
The NHS is probably the most coveted and prized institution that Britain can boast of in the 21st century.
And in setting up their own health services no country in the world has set up the same model for funding. Go figure.
(BTW. NHS Digital stats show there were 3,000 more EU nationals working in the NHS in June 2017 than there were before the referendum result, an increase of 5.4%. That includes 470 more doctors.)
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#19
This article in the Telegraph goes a long way in explaining the extra pressures on the NHS.
The growing NHS crisis has been fuelled by the closure of almost 1,000 care homes housing more than 30,000 pensioners, research suggests. It comes as NHS figures show the worst Accident & Emergency crisis on record, amid a 37 per cent rise in the numbers stuck in hospital for want of social care, since 2010. Experts said hospitals were being overwhelmed by the spread of flu because they had almost no spare capacity to cope with surges in demand. A report by industry analysts shows that in the last decade, 929 care homes housing 31,201 pensioners have closed, at a time when the population is ageing rapidly.
The research from LaingBuisson show care homes going out of business at an ever increasing rate, with 224 care homes closed between March 2016 and March 2017, amounting to more than 2,000 beds. Meanwhile, the NHS data shows the number of beds used by those who are medically fit for discharge has risen by 37 per cent in seven years. The figures show that last November, 155,059 NHS “bed days” were taken by those who should have been discharged - compared with 113, 091 in the same month in 2010. Charities last night accused successive Governments of a “total failure of leadership” in failing to tackle Britain’s social care crisis, which a series of prime ministers have promised to address.
They said cuts in council funding meant care home providers and those providing care at home were withdrawing from the market, because it was no longer profitable. Meanwhile, councils were funding less care, leaving incrasing numbers of elderly and vulnerable people to fend for themselves, and more likely to end up in hospital, they said. Caroline Abrahams, Charity Director at Age UK said: "The fact that almost 1,000 care homes and 30,000 beds have gone in a decade at the same time as our population has been rapidly ageing demonstrates a total failure of leadership on the part of successive governments so far as social care is concerned.
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#20
I expect that the Secretary of State in the new, expanded and improved Department of Health and Social Care, one Jezza (Hunt, that is), will sort that problem sharpish. His experience in attempting to interest the Japanese in marmalade will prove invaluable.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
