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#71
General Discussion / Re: Why is the NHS failing ?
Last post by CHF - Yesterday at 10:21:00 AM
Too many chiefs and not enough indians. Plus, the NHS is a political football.
#72
The Chat Room / Re: Lets write a Limerick, one...
Last post by Scrumpy - Yesterday at 09:34:52 AM

I always heed what the warnings say
If there are none I think nay  :sad:
Warning ! Men At Work it states
Drinking tea with their mates
#73
General Discussion / Re: Wordle
Last post by Scrumpy - Yesterday at 09:21:58 AM
Wordle 1,779 4/6

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#74
General Discussion / Re: Wordle
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 09:11:52 AM
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#75
General Discussion / Re: Why is the NHS failing ?
Last post by GrannyMac - Yesterday at 07:31:53 AM
Your mum had dreadful treatment klondike. 

I think all the comments are valid.   Although I was happy with my surgery, I wasn't happy with the way I was dismissed at the start of my problems three years previously. An X-ray at the start would have meant no pointless physio that I couldn't do, and I could have thrown away my stick and been pain free much sooner.  The consultant surgeon agreed, I'm now on a patient pathway, if my other knee develops the same symptoms, I go directly to his team. Sensible. I'm in a city with two major hospitals, a separate children's hospital, and a specialist cancer hospital, there's also a central walk in GP service.  Probably better served than most, although it's patchy. The GP service was messed up by a certain T Blair, and it's got worse since Covid. 

My daughter is a nurse, at a pretty senior level, she's worked in many hospitals across the UK and abroad.  She feels the NHS won't last long in its present form.
#76
General Discussion / Re: Why is the NHS failing ?
Last post by Ashy - Yesterday at 07:15:49 AM
Something is wrong when sick people are informed by a highly technical system that the current wait in A&E is 17hours 25minutes. 

This is partly because there aren't enough GPs so for many this is how they have to see a doctor.

Partly because hospitals were rationalised in the 1970s and smaller hospitals have no A&E.

Partly because the NHS has not kept up with an expanding population.

Partly because nobody cares.

Partly because the government controls which drugs need a prescription.

It probably needs someone like Dr Beeching or Elon Musk to study it and make it work for the people who have to use it. 
#77
Other / Re: What’s on my easel today
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:06:32 AM
I remember making a picture from a grandsons hand prints for his mum. We used some big tubes of watercolour paint from a high street store.

I still don't know how to sort out the problem of a baby with blue hands going back to mum in an hour's time. They aren't still blue so mum must have worked it out.
#78
General Discussion / Re: Wordle
Last post by Ashy - Yesterday at 07:02:11 AM
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#79
The Chat Room / Re: Ironing
Last post by klondike - Yesterday at 07:00:03 AM
If it wasn't just you then I doubt the creases in the pillowcase would figure very high in their thoughts.  :grin:
#80
General Discussion / Re: Wordle
Last post by GrannyMac - Yesterday at 06:22:11 AM
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