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.

I don't even know what a prostrate is, much less actually having a problem.


Sounds iffy tho, people wanting to poke around with your bum an all, men get very gun-shy about stuff like that.

BBC 4 NOW The secrets of quantum physics.

It depends on which exercises!

Watch BB4 when football's on ITV, Oh please -):

I'm still wondering how Ferrari can take on Vettel, who isn't as fast these days as Ricciardo, and at £50m per year, whilst McClaren can't renew Jenson Button's contract when he is paid around £13m per year.

99% of F1 fans think Jenson should be given another contract by McClaren.

Strange the board should take this long to make their mind up. I wonder what it is, other than £money, that is making their decision on this so complicated?

It was only Arsenal (that was on Sky sports 5). To a Spurs fan that's not football.

EL

Formula One as a sport is finished, it's not credible anymore.

Who seriously give's a toss five minutes after the race who won?


The cars are simply absurd...economy runs with a F1 car costing millions of pounds lol ?


It was good while it lasted, but then Bernie & co landed.. and so it's good night.

germany and immigrants
it was mentioned on here yesterday about germany taking in so many immigrants and asylum seekers, the implication being as to how laudable that was

that as may be, but clearly the populace is not as enthusiastic with huge demonstrations against now being reported

any one who as heart problems like angina should be on gout tablets

allopurinol 300mg have been on them since 1985 now 67
report from the usa 2 years ago allopurinol is a wonder
I never get out of breath it pumps oxygen round the body

Could be put on the door of NO 10 or Tory Central Office

Hear the Tory government is lying once again and is SELLING OFF PARTS OF THE NHS.

Conservatives and Labour tied

Latest YouGov / The Sun results 9th December -

Con 32%, Lab 32%, LD 8%, UKIP 15%;

I thought that was the normal initiation for joining the Con hierarchy and party grandees.

Or was that other rituals like donations to party funds or expenses?

fred what are the tory scum selling now they have sold their souls to the devil

the cons know that they will not be in power so destroying the nhs before they are kicked out everthing they sell should taken back without profit to the swines who have bought .. vote labour get this scum out they eat and dance with the devil

damned if i remember which major enquiry - another on iraq perhaps? - which bambi was asked to attend about a week ago, but he decided he was "just too busy to do so"!

Why you can always trust the Tories!



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30397329



A third of NHS contracts awarded to private firms - report

Private firms 'win 70% of NHS bids'


A third of NHS contracts in England have been awarded to private sector providers since the service was reorganised in 2013, figures suggest.

The information comes from a Freedom of Information request made by the British Medical Journal.

Of 3,494 contracts awarded by 182 Clinical Commissioning Groups in England between April 2013 and August 2014, 33% went to the private sector.

The government says the data is misleading.

It's unclear how much the contracts were worth because the CCGS would not disclose this information citing commercial sensitivities.

A Department of Health spokesperson said: "Official NHS accounts show that use of the private sector amounts to only six pence in every pound the NHS spends, slowing the rate of increase to just one penny since May 2010.

"Charities, social enterprises and other providers of healthcare play an important role in the NHS, as they have done for many years."


Slow creep

The investigation looked at different types of contract to provide NHS clinical services, including those awarded to a single provider without an open tender, those awarded via a competitive tendering process, and those awarded to multiple providers under Any Qualified Provider - a government policy that opened up a wide range of community-based NHS services to different providers from outside the NHS.

Private sector providers were most successful at winning contracts awarded via competitive tender - 80 compared with 59 won by NHS providers.

NHS budget spent on commissioning private providers

YEAR AMOUNT (% OF NHS BUDGET)

2006/07 2.8 %
2007/08 3.4 %
2008/09 3.9 %
2009/10 4.4 %
2010/11 4.9 %
2011/12 5.3 %
2012/13 5.5 %
2013/14 6.1 %

Public money?


"It's unclear how much the contracts were worth because the CCGS would not disclose this information citing commercial sensitivities."

Am not a fan of Nick Clegg , but he outclassed Harriet Harman at PMQ