Politics

[Sweep]

8 minutes ago, Cheese said:

It's been fucking nuts for years. You have to phone at a certain time, and spend hours waiting for an answer, then get an appointment weeks later? Any cunt with half a brain cell knows that's not how health works. It's early days, but common sense seems to be prevailing again.

it'll never catch on 😉

 

I'm certainly no fan of Labour, but credit where it's due, this lot (to me) seem to be doing a half decent job so far

[Not in Crawley]

18 minutes ago, Casino said:

What do you, as an adult, need sorting same day?

I get it if somebody is worried about kids

I always told my wife the surgery should do 2 til 10 mon-sat

She disagreed

 

My one in London offered late appointment slots for those commuting, that seemed to work well.

[Winchester White]

27 minutes ago, Casino said:

What do you, as an adult, need sorting same day?

I get it if somebody is worried about kids

I always told my wife the surgery should do 2 til 10 mon-sat

She disagreed

 

I haven't been to the doctor's for myself for quite some time, last one was with the youngest with abdominal pain, turned out he had appendicitis!

[Dimron]

I miss our village doctor... now retired, you could actually speak to him when walking in the street and he'll say "come in and I'll look at it for you" or something like that... he knew everyone, I was once chatting to him about gardening and he said "excuse me but there's Mrs so and so, she lost her husband 6 months ago, I need to go and chat with her and make sure she's getting out and doing okay"... he drove the local NHS management mad... I was once in his consulting room for over half an hour, bugger the ten minutes... he did it all the time, as his young replacement said... he was very old fashioned but his diagnosis was always spot on!

He saw his work as a calling and had practiced here since leaving the army.

 

[Not in Crawley]

Most GPs nowadays spit at you in the street I believe.

[royal white]

Where on earth are folk living? People getting excited about online appointments (pretty much the norm in most civilised places) and the forum clown believing that Drs are being spat on. 🤷🏻 

[Not in Crawley]

9 minutes ago, royal white said:

Where on earth are folk living? People getting excited about online appointments (pretty much the norm in most civilised places) and the forum clown believing that Drs are being spat on. 🤷🏻 

😁

[gonzo]

Who goes to the doctors anyway you soft fuckers.

Man up.

[Not in Crawley]

46 minutes ago, gonzo said:

Who goes to the doctors anyway you soft fuckers.

Man up.

Everyone who's their latr 40s - better to sort something out now than leave it

[Winchester White]

2 hours ago, royal white said:

Where on earth are folk living? People getting excited about online appointments (pretty much the norm in most civilised places) and the forum clown believing that Drs are being spat on. 🤷🏻 

You are such as clown on so many subjects yet pontificate on all.

[royal white]

13 minutes ago, Winchester White said:

You are such as clown on so many subjects yet pontificate on all.

Get to bad you silly old cat molestor. 

[mickbrown]

We can book online. But they turn it off once it get’s busy.
 

Which is fucking bollox. 

[jayjayoghani]

12 hours ago, Cheese said:

Hopefully thick cunts like this fella will be complaining that their GP's are too efficient soon. 🤦‍♂️

 

 

It's the near rage that gets me. Having to make two phone calls rather than one. 

[Bertie]

Quietly getting more stuff done.  This would obv be a biggie, and help take the wind out of Reform’s sails 🤞

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39vjnpxy1wo

[bolty58]

18 hours ago, Casino said:

I see Dodds has resigned

Principled resignations....i thought they eere consigned to history

Fwiw, i wouldnt have cut overseas aid, but

Needs must

Good fucking riddance.

Cut it further. Charity begins at home.

[Spider]

1 minute ago, bolty58 said:

Good fucking riddance.

Cut it further. Charity begins at home.

You been donating to the local kangaroo rescue centre old lad?

[Bertie]

3 minutes ago, bolty58 said:

Good fucking riddance.

Cut it further. Charity begins at home.

A shining beacon of humanity.

[royal white]

4 hours ago, Bertie said:

Quietly getting more stuff done.  This would obv be a biggie, and help take the wind out of Reform’s sails 🤞

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c39vjnpxy1wo

Just quietly doing the opposite to what they said they would do 🙄

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/02/27/migrant-hotels-home-office-figures-asylum-applications-rise/

[frank_spencer]

Can book online for ours for a routine appointment in a months time. Anything else more urgent it's ring at 8am and be on hold for bloody ages. TBF to ours you'll at least get a phone appointment which if needed will arrange an out of hours appointment in Bury TC medical center.

[kent_white]

The point is that in some GPs you can book online and at others you can't. 

So that's a health inequality - and we should be offering a similar service no matter which practice you're at. 

Much of the work in primary care is about improving unfair variations (like this one). 

[Lt. Aldo Raine]

🤦‍♂️

 

[Spider]

2 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

🤦‍♂️

 

Drill baby drill

[Dimron]

3 hours ago, Lt. Aldo Raine said:

🤦‍♂️

 

The really stark reality is the only way to economically produce electricity is by utilising nuclear technology, the "green" stuff is just add-ons and will never satisfy our expanding needs... we are much better and cleaner than in the post war 1950's and if we can get fusion producing more energy than it absorbs we really will be onto a winner.

Pre-election I thought Reeves was probably a good 'un but now I see she really is a wannabe chancing her arm without any real worldly experience... time is very close for her to say "thank you and good night"... she had a go but wasn't ready

[Dimron]

23 hours ago, gonzo said:

Who goes to the doctors anyway you soft fuckers.

Man up.

Wire brush and Dettol

[Nowack]

Not sure what's going on but watching Laura Kuensberg I thought Starmer was excellent but even more surprising so was Piers Morgan.