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.

Tanker,
About visiting doctor. Is your surgery in London?
Your GPs might have 4000 patient each, so just receiving money and cashing in.

Your GPs might have 4000 patient each
is that fact - i.e. on a particular doctor's books - or just that there population divided by doctors = 4,000 each or is it just a press-guess?

UKIP is a massive threat to all partys, more so tory party tho because of right wing agenda.

Foolish person who just writes them off.

In small cities each doctor has 1500 to 2500. In london between 4000 to ... any number you could guess. I heard 8000 exist.

from where did you glean your so-called facts?
i don't necessarily doubt you, but asking nevertheless

sticky - i agree that it's real ostrich stuff to ignore ukip, however long or short-lived an influence it may prove to be ...... however, i am not entirely convinced that ukip will harm tories more than the others ...... at least tories have promised (yeah, yeah - politicians!) a referendum whereas no other party is willing even to consider same

when it comes to immigration, i don't see either labour or even lib/dems putting out any sort of statement regarding possible controls, though i think the tories are at least making the right sort of noises

what other populist "policies" does ukip have, as i don't think it has anything sensible on its books, or at least not that can be genuinely afforded or funded?

my post 3 weeks to see my doctor was correct till I said then I will go to hospital
then they asked me if it was important I then said I have not seen my doctor for over 17 years do you think I want to waste my time then was told I could seemy doctor the next day .now waiting to go to hospital .

I have told my doctor I will pay to see the specialist out of my own pocket
she said that is wrong and said I will get you in next week and she has .

gold ever one I talk to is going to vote UKIP they have had enough

No one he I talk to is going to vote UKIP. I suppose it is just as unreliable as a polling method.

Sorry to hear your not well Tanker and hope you will be okay - I agree one shouldn't have to pay but sometimes necessary, unfortunately. My friend has waited nearly 6 weeks now to see a skin cancer Specialist and can only get in on 10th June. I went mad as he isn't going to do anything even then so I have told her to suggest she will pay - we shall see, if it hasn't travelled anywhere else by then. GL anyway.

The decision by Ed Miliband and Ed Balls to reposition Labour's stance on benefits spending has been attacked by leading figures on the left of the party as "cheap politics", "dreadful" and a "disaster".

On Monday, Balls announced that a post-2015 Labour government would prevent the wealthiest pensioners from claiming winter fuel allowance. On Wednesday, the BBC revealed that Labour would not reverse the coalition's cuts to child benefit for the better off.

And, in a speech on Thursday, Miliband is expected to declare his support for a cap on so-called 'structural' benefit spending (that is, welfare payments that are not the direct result of rising unemployment) - a cap that was originally suggested by the Conservative chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne.

"To be honest, this is a disaster," says the general secretary of one of Britain's biggest trade unions. "And just at the moment that [Balls] was being proved right [on austerity]. It's crazy."

The trade union movement is "very concerned" about Labour's shift on universal benefits, the union leader tells HuffPost UK. The move is a result of "pressure from the Blairites," he says.

T-bonehead's story (as usual) doesn't quite hold together ..... if he had reported even to the doctor's receptionist (we all know what they can be like!) that his symptoms implied something serious, then assuredly he would have been seen immediately (that day) and/or told by the surgery/doctor to get himself straight down to the hospital

When do the stories ever hold together?

Haystack - 05 Jun 2013 14:48 - 25723 of 25752

I marked at around Cameron 100 Miliband -10



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I would think Rampton would find you a bed as an emergency, if one of your relatives will take you there.

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Manuel,

A doctor showed me photos of skin rashes which appear at A&E at a weekend when he was on duty.

Looked trivia until he told me :-

1) was a mild form of a type of sun burn

2) a form of Psoriasis

3) early Measles

4) Early Meningococcal septicaemia


The kids were brought in by worried parents.

One doctor thought them trivia and shouldn't have come to the A and E.

Lucky that a nurse told my friend who reviewed them and intervened in their management.

Can you tell the difference between trivial symptoms of early potential diseases?

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More than a 3 hour wait for an appointment for acute medical conditions in general practice is probably unwarranted and GPS should be forced to address the problem.

At the moment they are hiding behind a shower of different excuses.

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T-bonehead
(a) why should he not pay for private medical treatment? .... many people i know of middle-age+ reckon that insurance is too expensive, so opt to pay as and when necessary,. and clearly he has plenty of cash so to do .... (b) his moral objections for jumping the queue suddenly fell by the wayside when his doc or whoever pulled a few strings (oh dear!) .... (c) is more than happy to shout from the rooftops that all immigrants should be re-exported, but then has the gall to complain about the staff (many immigrant background), doctors (ditto) and having to wait ..... (c) seemingly has bugger all wrong with him, clogs up A+E unnecessarily and then complains about the waiting list etc .....

that guy is just so full of shit, and no, i feel no sympathy for him whatsoever ....

and indeed why should i when he is so full of bile and hate about anyone and everyone whose ancestors came to uk (legally!), even 100+ years ago

Oh! Dear, what a thread - not. We are all born and we all die that is a certainty. Maybe we all think differently but we are still human beings, what ever race or culture. I do feel that we should sometimes get better attention being British but we will not change that. People have major surgery these days and then are shipped out like a conveyor belt and have to rely on other persons to take them to walk in centres the following day to be seen to - why! that is the question?

Answer in a nut shell - because we are all now on a conveyor belt. Rightly or wrongly. Sent home with wrong equipmemt etc. and have to rely on other perons good judgement as to whether their limbs should be turning purple or not. Hope you all enjoy to continue good health. Those who had opperations yesterday and are allowed home the same day, I hope you have a speedy recovery.

Hi Light of my evening sad as I am, is listening to the birds giving me their evening Chorus. Much better than being in a hospital bed. Dawn Chorus at 4.30 a.m. what a pleasure. Winter so, so long.

cynic - 05 Jun 2013 20:27 - 25755 of 25757

T-bonehead
(a) why should he not pay for private medical treatment?........ends

Because hes paid into the system (NI) and should reap the benefits of the system.

Cyners just because you have the money doesnt mean you should leap frog those in front of you in the que, thats a selfish attitude especially if you are taking up beds on the private in NHS beds.

Both Education and Health should not be decided by privelidge.