The NHS

[royal white]

3 minutes ago, L/H White said:

how's Bolton been the last week @kent_white

was unfortunately back in with the missus weekend, a&e was weirdly quiet, triaged, bloods, seen and moved within 3 hours, apparently the Friday was also very quiet 

 

Just been on the radio that ambulance waiting times have reduced and flu cases have dropped 

[Tonge moor green jacket]

30 minutes ago, royal white said:

Just been on the radio that ambulance waiting times have reduced and flu cases have dropped 

A rather interesting statistic published today- apparently there are more doctors and nurses employed in the NHS than ever before. 

Plenty of posts still open too. 

Yet demand still goes up.

Are we a nation of unhealthy fat cunts, addicts etc?

Population growing too fast to cope?

Bizarre.

[Cheese]

5 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

A rather interesting statistic published today- apparently there are more doctors and nurses employed in the NHS than ever before. 

Plenty of posts still open too. 

Yet demand still goes up.

Are we a nation of unhealthy fat cunts, addicts etc?

Population growing too fast to cope?

Bizarre.

Yet we are still a long way behind most other developed nations for doctors per citizen.

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/doctors_per_1000_people/

And our population growth isn't particularly fast.

https://www.worlddata.info/populationgrowth.php

[royal white]

43 minutes ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

A rather interesting statistic published today- apparently there are more doctors and nurses employed in the NHS than ever before. 

Plenty of posts still open too. 

Yet demand still goes up.

Are we a nation of unhealthy fat cunts, addicts etc?

Population growing too fast to cope?

Bizarre.

Some of the figures in there are bonkers 

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/the-nhs-workforce-in-numbers

Edited January 26, 2023 by royal white

[stevieb]

2 hours ago, royal white said:

Just been on the radio that ambulance waiting times have reduced and flu cases have dropped 

Excess deaths through the roof though. 

Easy come easy go 

[kent_white]

8 hours ago, L/H White said:

how's Bolton been the last week @kent_white

was unfortunately back in with the missus weekend, a&e was weirdly quiet, triaged, bloods, seen and moved within 3 hours, apparently the Friday was also very quiet 

 

I'm not sure mate - but I'm on holiday at the moment. But that's the way things shood be all the time. I hope your Mrs is alright.

[green genie]

8 hours ago, Tonge moor green jacket said:

A rather interesting statistic published today- apparently there are more doctors and nurses employed in the NHS than ever before. 

Plenty of posts still open too. 

Yet demand still goes up.

Are we a nation of unhealthy fat cunts, addicts etc?

Population growing too fast to cope?

Bizarre.

Too many people living too long.

Our bodies have a useful natural life span of 55ish yet ever more complicated science can keep us alive a lot longer.

[BobyBrno]

1 hour ago, kent_white said:

I'm not sure mate - but I'm on holiday at the moment. But that's the way things shood be all the time. I hope your Mrs is alright.

Thought you had a shit job😊

Its 5 o’clock somewhere. Happy Hour here. 👍

[Tonge moor green jacket]

4 hours ago, green genie said:

Too many people living too long.

Our bodies have a useful natural life span of 55ish yet ever more complicated science can keep us alive a lot longer.

Yes, although I wouldn't say living too long. More a case of needing to improve our systems for coping with more older folk.

Social care is the main one for me, it's slowing nhs performance as we know.

Ultimately, one way or another, people are going to have to pay more into such provision.

 

[gonzo]

5 hours ago, green genie said:

Too many people living too long.

Our bodies have a useful natural life span of 55ish yet ever more complicated science can keep us alive a lot longer.

My Dads diary is pretty much hospital and doctors visits. And hes not even that ill.

Blood tests yesterday, eye clinic today, Chorley hospital for back next week, hospice Wednesday, stroke clinic visits etc etc 

Millions exaclty same as him.

[Big E]

3 minutes ago, gonzo said:

My Dads diary is pretty much hospital and doctors visits. And hes not even that ill.

Blood tests yesterday, eye clinic today, Chorley hospital for back next week, hospice Wednesday, stroke clinic visits etc etc 

Millions exaclty same as him.

some shit excuses for why hes not going up them ladders

[Spider]

1 minute ago, gonzo said:

My Dads diary is pretty much hospital and doctors visits. And hes not even that ill.

Blood tests yesterday, eye clinic today, Chorley hospital for back next week, hospice Wednesday, stroke clinic visits etc etc 

Millions exaclty same as him.

My mums last few years alive were a daily routine of about 20 pills and being checked out by medical folk.

Most of the time I couldn’t fault them, sometimes it was a shitstorm but 99.9% of the people were amazing.

At one stage she was on a cancer drug that the NHS trust had to approve because it was still a new drug and cost a fortune - one doctor said each tablet cost about a grand but that wasn’t an exact figure.

I imagine the cost for the years of treatment had we been paying in America would have run into hundreds of thousands.

But it’s what we work all our lives for paying into the system, so all fair.

[green genie]

Maybe it’s just me but think if I got told live in agony shitting yourself on constant medication to gain few more years with a wrecked body I’d be on first plane to Thailand going out in blaze of hallucinogens and lady boys.

[royal white]

14 minutes ago, green genie said:

Maybe it’s just me but think if I got told live in agony shitting yourself on constant medication to gain few more years with a wrecked body I’d be on first plane to Thailand going out in blaze of hallucinogens and lady boys.

I was doing that at 21 

[Spider]

16 minutes ago, green genie said:

Maybe it’s just me but think if I got told live in agony shitting yourself on constant medication to gain few more years with a wrecked body I’d be on first plane to Thailand going out in blaze of hallucinogens and lady boys.

@kent_white is currently doing just that

[green genie]

14 minutes ago, royal white said:

I was doing that at 21 

Lympstone has that effect on people 

[royal white]

16 minutes ago, green genie said:

Lympstone has that effect on people 

😂😂 💯

[Zico]

2 hours ago, royal white said:

I was doing that at 21 

Shitting yourself?

[kent_white]

3 hours ago, Spider said:

@kent_white is currently doing just that

👀😛

[little whitt]

20 hours ago, stevieb said:

Excess deaths through the roof though. 

Easy come easy go 

Fuck the BIT COIN 

now is the time to get it the the 

Funeral Business 

[mickbrown]

Dad back in unfortunately.

Way better this time round. Loads of nurses about.

[globaldiver]

On 27/01/2023 at 20:02, mickbrown said:

Dad back in unfortunately.

Way better this time round. Loads of nurses about.

Fingers crossed

[globaldiver]

Good pension idea

https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/member-hub/your-options-flexible-retirement

[mickbrown]

3 hours ago, globaldiver said:

Fingers crossed

Thanks.

[bolton_blondie]

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/23291826.bolton-nhs-foundation-trust-introduce-pronoun-badges/

Nice waste of money