Brian Dixon
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just flu and the unvaxed
Keith Sansum1
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Ah ok
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Further to #17.
Consultant seen in December.
Offered High Definition CT scan before Christmas.
Caught Covid so scan delayed until 29/12.
Consultant seen 13/01 and full analysis sent to self and GP 14/01.
Meanwhile in the NHS :-
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/six-million-nhs-waiting-list-covid-backlog-london-b976467.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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So you still use NHS then
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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Here's goes Bob again
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Button
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Here's goes Bob again
I expect his feeling is "here goes the NHS again". This position, however, is only for a year - so I'm puzzled by the salary having a range.
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Still bobs ok he's got his private medicine ?
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Jan Higgins
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Button wrote:I expect his feeling is "here goes the NHS again". This position, however, is only for a year - so I'm puzzled by the salary having a range.
I guess the range depends on experience in the sort of plans they have in mind. Any art plans that gets away from the bland hospital almost institutional feeling must have a beneficial effect on patients and staff.
As much as I hate the way the NHS needlessly waste money maybe some benefactor left money just for a project like this, anyway this is not money lost to Kent.
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'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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Keith Sansum1 wrote:Still bobs ok he's got his private medicine ?
Yup.
78p/day to cover self and partner - less than the price of a Wetherspoons coffee.
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Captain Haddock wrote:Yup.
78p/day to cover self and partner - less than the price of a Wetherspoons coffee.
I do not begrudge anyone having private healthcare if they can afford it but approx £23 a month is more than many on low income can afford when they already struggle with the choice between good food or power.
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From the Spectator.
My friend the frontline doctor says the main problem about getting the NHS back to normal as Covid lifts is ‘the now-embedded Covid culture of the management class at local level’. This can include GPs. One example the doctor gives is the case of a friend’s infant daughter whom the GP would not see indoors because she had had no PCR test. She was very unwell. Her father was told to take her to a freezing car park for a swab, and had to wait 48 hours for the result, while she became iller. She eventually saw the GP 72 hours after the appointment was first requested, by which time she was septic with severe tonsillitis that came close to obstructing her airway. As his friend said: ‘We are now in a world where if my daughter is ill I have to prove she is not ill before the doctor will see her.’
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Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting has revealed he is one of a million patients waiting for vital scans and tests after being diagnosed with cancer.
Wes Streeting, the Shadow Health Secretary, had been diagnosed with kidney cancer and had the organ removed last May but has still not had his six-month post-op scan to check if it was successful.
The scan was due last November.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/labour-mp-wes-streeting-among-26131826"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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But there has been a major pandemic
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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No. There has been a disproportionate, catastrophic response to a pandemic.
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Weird Granny Slater wrote:No. There has been a disproportionate, catastrophic response to a pandemic.
Far to much was done far to late or was an unnecessary waste of money. Were the Nightingale hospitals really worth the money, vital money that could have been spent on long term converting empty buildings into what used to be called convalescence homes.
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I have only just read the following about Ashford.
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I think there was good and bad in very strange times
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