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 agree with the first part, but generally not with the last
that said, i had to throw a tantrum when i wanted a cholesterol test, merely as a check rather than because i had been instructed to do so
apparently i should have had a (total waste of time) doc's appt first

mind you, with modern accurate electronic stuff, certainly heart monitoring can be done at home by those who wish ..... i dare say other basic checks will also be possible in the near future too - eg are you pregnant?

Well, it looks like Dunky Smiff has done for George, Cameroon next?

What a shame we don't have an effective opposition party.

Vicky,

You are so short sighted that I enlarged the cartoon just for you!

As an example, I had an in-growing toe nail that was swollen and bleeding. I went to my doc who made an appointment for some weeks in the future at my local hospital. He also prescribed antibiotics for the swelling.
I went home, googled a chiropodist and saw him the following day. I didnt bother going to the chemist for the antibiotics.
When the appointment time came around some weeks later I decided to attend, as much out of courtesy, and to have the toe checked. I told the hospital doctor that I couldn't wait and had attended a private clininic. His advice was next time come straight to us and ignore the doctors appointment time.

Hays,

Still waiting to hear from you the spin from Con PHQ or No 10 on IDS and the split in the con party.

I thought you wrote that Osborne presented a "good budget"!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/12199111/John-Major-Voting-to-leave-will-poison-Europe-and-divide-West.html

By John Major10:00PM GMT 19 Mar 2016

This June, the UK will vote upon whether to leave or remain in the EU. This vote will be momentous. It will decide Britain’s place in the world for generations to come.

There are many positive reasons for membership.

When we joined the EU we were the “sick man” of Europe: today, as a result of our domestic reforms and membership of the European Single Market, we have the best performing economy in Europe.

Within the next 20 years – on present policies, and with continuing full access to the Single Market – the UK is likely to be the biggest economy in Europe.

And surely – in a global market drawing ever closer together – it is verging on the reckless for us to seek divorce from the world’s pre-eminent trading bloc?


On issues such as the environment, climate change, internet costs and consumer protection, the UK can best progress – or sometimes only progress – in unity with our fellow Europeans.

In an uncertain world the UK, as part of the EU, is better able to face up to the aggressive policies of hostile nations. We are safer, because the EU has brought together former enemies to face common perils. In the last thousand years of history, no previous generation has been so fortunate.
It would be sheer folly to put this all at risk.


Read on>

What utter nonsense from an ex pm and massive PRO-europhile sycophant, who called some of his fellow eurosceptics tory's, bast***d's...

The trade with the EU is falling, its stagnating...We run a deficit with the eu..They sell us billions more then we sell them, they need us more then we need them...500 million market place compared with 1.5 billion in the COMMONWEALTH and ++ the rest of the world.....

And ALL those climate change, environment, projects comes at a cost....Billions of pounds paid for the privilege of being a member...Higher energy cost..Most of the rules coming from Brussels....Massive loss of sovereignty and democracy....Open porous borders...50% under 25's unemployment in Southern europe, with civil unrest and abuses and rapes by immigrants....

Yes we should all think ourselves lucky....NOT!!

'NHS spent £181,000 treating just one illegal immigrant'

Leading cancer specialist claims migrants are putting "unsustainable" strain on NHS



By Telegraph reporters

4:12AM GMT 21 Mar 2016





A hospital spent £181,000 treating a single illegal immigrant, it was reported on Sunday night.


Details of the patient’s bill emerged amid claims that the NHS was failing to collect millions of pounds from foreign nationals using its services.


And a leading cancer specialist said no healthcare system could cope with the strain the NHS was put under by treating migrants, saying it was "absolutely unsustainable".


Portsmouth Hospitals Trust spent £181,000 treating just one illegal immigrant, according to The Sun.


Another patient, from Ghana, was reported to have been deported before a £42,000 bill was paid, leaving East and North Hertfordshire Trust to foot the bill.


It was claimed the Guy’s and St Thomas’s Trust in London wrote off £5.1 million treating patients from overseas, and unpaid bills cost Barts Health Trust £268,000.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, of St George’s, University of London, who stood in last year's General Election for the UK Independence Party, told The Sun: "What is the point of making all these terrible cuts to services when you’re not chasing the money you’re owed?"


"I know of very ill individuals who have arrived for treatment from other countries and gone straight into intensive care costing thousands of pounds a day. When I started in cancer treatment a course of drugs cost around £1,000. Now it’s £60,000 to £100,000.

"The cost is huge. No other healthcare system in the world could cope with it and the abuse of this system must be stopped."

In one notorious case, Homerton University Hospital, in east London, failed to chase up a bill of £145,000 it should have charged to a Nigerian woman who had quintuplets after travelling to Britain.

Bimbo Ayelabola, 37, underwent a complex caesarean section in 2011 but did not pay any of the cost of the operation and neo-natal care for her five babies.

The case followed claims by NHS whistleblowers that managers were instructing them to turn a blind eye to health tourists because it was "too much trouble" to chase them for money.

According to NHS estimates, only about 16 per cent of the cost of treating foreigners who travel to Britain to receive treatment is ever recouped

Oh dear, what a mess.



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/conservative/12199765/Its-no-wonder-real-Tories-are-tiring-of-David-Cameron-and-George-Osborne.html

As big as your head dear Freda .

Fred will foot the bill Chris ,he would want all illegal immigrants treated whatever the cost .

Makes me sick just goes on and on .

stan you are like the bottom of a babies pram all piss and broken biscuits
and in your case shit has well

TANK why are you going so easy on Stan ? your usually angry.

Don't be hard on Stan. All his mates are leaving.
BURNLEY has the largest proportion of empty homes in the country, new figures have revealed. It used to have a population of 80,000 - 90,000 but it is about 20,000 less now.

Crackpot.

Whats the saying , I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK !!

I can understand why some want: