Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

The reason A@E is going to the wall is because like George says above a lot of people are having to wait up to 2 weeks to see their doctor.

You are

1. either cured

OR

2.dead

before you would see him.

So people divert and go to the A&E instead.

Do immigrants play a part in this? yes certainly if immigration numbers are going up it stands that your local GP has a far bigger patient list.

Should GPs work longer hours.......NO.

A tired doctor is a dangerous doctor.

Answer........given we cant kick legal immigrants out like tanker wants we need more doctors at GP surgerys.

PMs questions today ........Camoron 2 Milliband 8

Camoron has to realise he will get his chance (if hes still in office)in 2 years time to ask questions rather than answer them. On the odd question he does answer he uses dodgy statistics and outright lies.

Its time John Burko stopped his deflection tactics because as it stands now PMs questions is just a farce.

sticky - i'm not sure you're right about GPs not working longer ...... there was certainly a good argument for retaining the "old system" where junior docs and interns acquired a far greater knowledge and understanding - trade-off was some pretty horrific hours

it is also not so long ago that local surgeries were open at weekends, admittedly on skeleton (dead?) staff ...... that has now been scrapped (i think several years ago) with obvious consequences

there were also local (cottage) hospitals which have also pretty much disappeared, though i would accept that they were probably totally uneconomic

I marked at around Cameron 100 Miliband -10

Having GPs work longer and longer hours is not the answer.

I admit having ( a few as customers at the family accountancy business) they get away with murder with extra allowance for this that and the other but working longer no.

Like I said any tired doctor is a very dangerous doctor, would you want a junior doctor operating on you at say 3am when hed put in 120 hours already that week.

I know I wouldnt. Just takes a slip of the hand bud and your a goner, I liken it to a cricket batsman who has just scored a big innings and is mentaly tired.

Sooner rather than later hes going to make a mistake.

We need more doctors and a better service that more doctors would provide, and would cut back on A@E.

"... would you want a junior doctor operating on you at say 3am when hed put in 120 hours already that week"

I agree, Fishfinger.

I'd much prefer to have a pukka surgeon do the job.

junior doctors don't operate!

BRUSSELS | Wed Jun 5, 2013 11:45am BST

(Reuters) - Nearly two-thirds of French people think the European Union is headed in the wrong direction and more than half disapprove of President Francois Hollande's leadership, according to a widely-watched survey released on Wednesday.

The poll, conducted in six EU countries by Gallup, also found most Britons want to leave the European Union, a higher figure than in other recent surveys. That is likely to fuel demands for an early British referendum on EU membership.

But perhaps the most striking findings were those related to France, a founding EU member state that is experiencing increasing disillusionment over Europe amid slumping growth and rising unemployment since Hollande took office a year ago.

The survey showed opinions in France and Germany, the traditional twin motors of Europe, are diverging, undermining unity over where the continent is headed following three years of economic upheaval and social tension.

"The French-German axis that provided the largest basis for common European policy in the past is now weakening, reflecting the diverging mood in the two countries," Gallup's Anna Manchin wrote in an accompanying analysis.

The French are losing confidence in globalization and growing insecure in their position within Europe. Our findings reflect this turn in France away from the EU toward more pressing national problems."

The survey showed that the French are the least likely to say things are moving in the right direction in the EU (17 percent), while 62 percent say they are moving in the wrong direction, a figure that rises to 86 percent among those who say they disapprove of Hollande's leadership.

By comparison, in Britain, which is generally more euro-sceptical than France, 56 percent think the EU is moving in the wrong direction, a figure that rises to 82 percent among those who disapprove of Prime Minister David Cameron's policies.

Across all six countries surveyed - the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Britain and France, representing around half of the EU's 500 million population - most people felt things were going in the wrong direction.

In a question about Hollande's leadership on Europe, 51 percent of French said they disapproved, more even than those surveyed in Britain (45 percent) or in Germany (37 percent), where views were more positive on the Socialist president.

Asked about Germany's leadership in Europe, 54 percent of Germans approved as did 45 percent of French and 36 percent of Britons. Across all six countries, Chancellor Angela Merkel met with substantially more approval than disapproval.

For European leaders, perhaps the most worrying findings are the views on quitting the EU, a club that has grown from 6 members at its founding in the early 1950s to 27 now, and soon to be 28 once Croatia joins in July.

While surveys - including a poll by the Pew Research Center released last month - often show Britain is largely negative about Europe, Gallup's findings revealed an even deeper strain of antipathy towards the EU.

Asked how they would vote if a referendum were held next week on whether they should leave, 55 percent of Britons said they would vote "out" and only a quarter to stay in.

While that will be a concern for Cameron, who is worried by the steady climb of the anti-EU UKIP party in opinion polls, the findings in France and Germany will be even more disconcerting for advocates of deeper EU integration.

More than a third of French (34 percent) would vote to leave if asked, and nearly a third of Germans (31 percent) too.

With elections to the European Parliament taking place in May next year, concerns are growing that popular discontent with the EU after years of crisis will fuel anti-EU votes.

The survey did not collect opinion on voting intentions, but it did show an apparent increase in voter engagement. In the past, turnout has fallen at every European election since 1979, dropping to 43 percent at the last ballot in 2009.

But that could change: 73 percent of French said that if the elections were held next week, they would vote, a figure that falls to 69 percent among Germans and 68 percent in Britain - still far above usual voter turnout.

cynic
What do you think about the poll above?

They might not operate but carry out ancillary ops, just think if they handed over or injected the wrong drugs. Your still a goner.

ps, would someone please kindly remind hillary man/women both that i have it on filter. I keep noticing it posts immediatly after mine.

Its a long term ban aswel not like Hays 6 month.

http://www.cityam.com/article/more-reasons-be-cheerful-confidence-returns-uk

Must be doom and gloom in the Miliband camp as the economy improves.

Not at all.

They are looking forward to taking over an economy that slightly improves.

Latest Poll........today........

electionista‏@electionista8h
UK - YouGov/Sun poll: CON 30%, LAB 40%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 14%

Not for long!

Yesterdays Poll..........

electionista‏@electionista22h
UK - TNS BMRB poll: CON 24%, LAB 37%, LDEM 10%, UKIP 19%

http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/news-and-events/media-alert-ukip-support-double-the-size-of-liberal-democrats …

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Seems Hays has forgotten the Student Riots and the Summer Riots when the Tories were actualy in front in the polls.

That memory old lad of yours is getting worse and worse.

Don't forget that 19% support gets UKIP no seats.