Levelling up, Barnsley..

Doctor's receptionists are a special breed, who don't know the meaning of Service as in National Health SERVICE

 

i was given a great bit of advice by my NHS dentist in Penistone, before I moved to town. Don’t deregister with them, cos you won’t find an NHS dentist in Barnsley. He was spot on. I actually called the dentist last Wednesday to book a check up, was seen the next morning and had a couple of fillings that afternoon. Okay, I spent the day going backwards and forwards to Penistone, but still pretty impressive.

 

I think the only service most of them did was when they joined the Hitler youth

 

They don't pick up the telephones until 8:00am at ours. I ring 1 microsecond after 8:00 and find myself 29th in the queue. I bet they are sat in their arses, eating cream buns and laughing at the phones going beserk.

 

Sounds about right and no different over here in West Yorkshire

 

I've got a slightly different take on bed blocking, not in all instances but some. I had an emergency op in January (tibeal plateau fracture and knee reconstruction) and a hospital stay that I was told would be around one week. I had a regime of pain relief and other medication. The clinicians and nurses were brilliant but the staff like OCC health/social workers were lazy and disinterested (it wasn't Barnsley btw). I also found that there was no proactive planning for my discharge. When the consultant said (7 days later) you can go home, then they started running round trying to get the meds together. No prescription until the pharmacy was shut. One night bed blocking. Next day, ambulance to take me home. No ambulance available as no risk assessment done as to how to get in my house. (Yorkshire ambulance service only do these on Mondays - why?? It was now wednesday). Day two bed blocking. Next day, a young clerk came to see me, she had been told to find three beds for orthopaedic surgery stays the hospital didn't have. I told her and she managed to pursuade YAS to do a risk assessment from photos which I rang my daughter to take. We couldn't email these as the files were too big and she was that desperate, she friended me in Facebook and I sent them via messenger. Finally got out at 1600 that day. The guy in the bed opposite also spent three more nights in hospital for the same reasons. I'd say this was a managerial failing. They need to start planning for discharge proactively so when the doc says you can go, all the planning is in place, not wait and then be reactive and waste time. If you cut nhs funding you'd cut services. If you increase funding without better management practices you aren't forced to achieve max effect. Btw mate, I'd be supportive of some form of industrial action by nurses, they've been treated very badly. Not sure what it would look like, but there must be something

 

More funding, but greater levels of privatisation and outsourcing too. That doesn't necessarily mean more money available for the NHS in and of itself, as the firm's undertaking the contacts have all got a cut to take.

 

I’m back into hospital the week before Christmas for the gallbladder removing. My company medical scheme pays out £100 per night you spend in an NHS hospital. So I’ll be the only patient in there trying to bed block myself. “Okay, the doctor says you can go home” “what, with my back?” etc…

 

How are you now, mate.?

 

plodding on. In between operations, in and out of hospital, the usual! I’ll drop you a text in a bit, as was going to text you later anyway, as I understand you’re leaving one crazy country for one even crazier?!?

 

Send a pm, Paul. Got a new number..

 

and the home sec sending most immigrants to labour area hotels Richmond council wanted an injunction to stop it -it failed

 

But the pandemic and war in Ukraine don't just affect Britain. There was a major devaluation of the pound immediately after the Brexit vote, which has produced large increases in import costs, including fuel prices. I remember getting €1.34 to the pound in 2016 before a trip to Germany just before the vote. The current tourist rate is in the region of €1.10. This is a direct consequence of the decision to leave the EU.

 

Tories levelling up Richmond again.

https://news.sky.com/story/rishi-su...l-levelling-up-fund-bidders-revealed-12789673

 

It is nice to see that the 60 people living on fair isle in Scotland have been given £27m for a new ferry to go next to its airport. Would have been cheaper to buy every resident a brand new speedboat.

 

Over £10 million will go on a new outdoor activity park in Barnsley, as well as revamping a youth centre in the town. This money will also be spent on a new music facility for young people and will help further develop Barnsley Civic arts centre.

So we do get a mention, but some way behind the underprivileged area of Richmondshire, represented by a certain MP! There looks to be a strong bias towards southern Tory-voting areas. Sunak is taking a big risk here. His 'red wall' MP's are likely to be far from happy as their areas do not appear to have been favoured. Bad local elections in May will likely trigger further Tory unrest and, I suspect a likely push from Boris and his chums. They will have to overcome the recent memory of how his premiership disintegrated, but will undoubtedly argue that he is the rightful defender of the majority he won in 2019. God help us!

 

He's not, he knows he has zero chance of winning the next general election. Might not even be tory leader by then.

 

here we have another deluded tory apologist, I suppose your next lie is that Gordon Brown caused all this years ago, and the last 13 years of austerity have got us back on track???????????

what does your village do for the idiot when you you go on holiday?

 

You forgot the other Elephant in the room (there is more than one)..... the disastrous short termism that was the PFI initiative saddled hospital trusts with billions of pounds in interest payments and some run until around 2050. That money just flows out of the NHS into the pockets of big business.

 

Fair point mate. PFI was never something that I ever supported (I was a Labour Party member at the time and that was one of the reasons I left). The Labour Party in Government should tackle this as a priority, settle the debts once and for all and allow the NHS to start afresh with a clean slate. If that has to be done by higher taxation, then so be it.