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Mate, there is not a lot we can do about it. My plan is to eat healthy, drink, and be as merry as I can. Once the family is all taken care of (I'll be a grand dad in November if all goes well, and I have to help out the boy; the missus is sorted) my work here will be done. I shall then do what I...

Yes but delaying morbidity is simply kicking the can down the road and shifting the age of the patient when they become a healtcare burden from their 50s to their 80s. Great for the individual as they live longer, but no cost saving to the NHS. Removing type 2 diabetics (for example) from the...

Actually....yes. Albeit enforceable rules and process with streamlined management by trained managers is what's needed, not more and more managers who spend most of their time managing other managers, and answering to their own managers. Otherwise I agree. Indeed, nobody should leave...

Here is another take. If we have better preventive services we will make things even less sustainable. Why? because people will live longer and the elderly are statistically sicker more often and with multiple complex medical conditions. To me we either flog it all off and make people insure...

Taking just one issue, having all my details taken down three times by different people, yet not seeing a medic for hours, when hospitalized with chest pains, is symptomatic of a shit show, not understandable attention to detail. When I was finally seen by a medic, he hadn't read any of the...

Yes. Blair was wrong wrong wrong with this. The state funding of religions was why I resigned from the party (not to rejoin till Steer Calmer took over). In hindsight I should have resigned over PPF. But at the time, it was easy to fall into line. At the time, of course, Blair was applauded for...

Lol! Cheers. I'm not sure I'm the best person to run anything. Sadly my autism lends me to suffer fools and foolishness poorly, and leadership seems better suited to those who can smile at liars and cheats and manipulate them as best they can without calling them out. That is not part of my...

No uproar from me. I may be a Labour party member but the only "-ist" I can rightly affiliate with is scientist. Whatever works, short of flogging off the NHS and creating an American style corrupt insurance model, or creating another rubric that is designed to destroy the NHS (which may be what...

Ironically I'm normally blighted with perpetual winter 'ear nose and throat' this time of year. None of that, but I can barely walk due to spine, hip and knee problems. If only there were a vaccine for all of that.... :wink:. And you, too, young man. :kiss:

I think I'd regard the Chinese as careless and unfortunate rather than deliberately trying to kill the world. Once they realized how much shit had hit the fan they swung the other way with lockdowns etc. One Chinese student I taught last semester had had 8 covid jabs and was made to get more...

Mate I'm not accusing anyone of lying. People do communicate false facts, though. I remember once it being reported on the BBC (so I thought O heard) that Battersea dogs home put down 100,000 dogs a year. The real figure is 1,200. And yet I repeated the false information for several years. I...

I am not clear what your views are about vaccination. Elsewhere you have slagged off the Chinese due to their use of lockdowns (instead of vaccination). The point about vaccinating the young is to reduce risk of spread to the old, not to prorect the young. And this clearly and unequivocally...

It's as perilously close to the truth as my arse is close to my elbow.

That sounds lovely. I am sure the Tories will be more than keen to give Kier a bell and arrange a chat - after the next general election when they have been booted out of power. As for labour, why would a labour government invite the tory shower into the planning room? The tories have nothing to...

You are mixing me up with another poster. I didn't say that. I am not sure what is new in Kier's 'plan'. Recently the NHS sent me to a private hospital for a scan so we are already using the private sector 'free at the point of use'. The problem with this is that it is not free, and the private...

I would just like to say that you are replying to the person who was replying to me, not no me.

As I have discovered, only a tiny part of the story. Anyway my ratio of dinner to hunger has fallen alarmingly and a remedy is necessary :thumbsup:

I asked myself: What has 2014 got to do with today? How was the question worded? How was the 65% calculated? I have now done a little research and your statements appear to be somewhat out of data. Here from the BMJ: doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.o942 "The results of the latest British...

The link is to data on the ratio of number of nurses to number of hospital beds. You realize it would be three times the value in Germany if there are three times more beds in Germany? Could perhaps the main reason for the long waiting lists in the UK and early discharge times be shortage of...

link to your data, please.