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Internet is years ahead of the trend, as always. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMwOvPQtUUw
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Sep 17, 2020 11:08
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So just make sure, girls and boys, that when you are run over by a bus, reach for your phone to make an appointment before A&E can see you.... Triage by phone? What if you live miles from the hospital like anyone not living in a city? My nearest A&E is already 20km away! I'd be dead before I got there!
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Sep 17, 2020 11:08
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God I'm tuning into the BBC to see the new lockdown measures for the North East as I was planning to go see my partner who lives there and christ it's borderline unwatchable. How can people sit and hear someone say "The PM says if you want to mix in greater numbers around Christmas, you must follow the rules now".
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Sep 17, 2020 11:08
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Holy poo poo this is insane.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:10
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Holy poo poo You know, this country made its bed, and now it's going to die in it
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Sep 17, 2020 11:12
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Triage by phone? What if you live miles from the hospital like anyone not living in a city? Then you already wait hours for an ambulance anyway.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:13
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Oh dear me posted:Then you already wait hours for an ambulance anyway. Exactly! When I lived in London, I had heart attack symptoms - extreme pain in chest and left arm, heart jumping about like nobody's business. I called NHS Direct, they called me back 1.5 hours later! Then called me an ambulance. Anyway, turned out to be acute costochondritis which looks very similar to a heart attack but you need to get on a monitor for them to tell the difference. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 11:18 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Sep 17, 2020 11:14
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It's a good idea, because then we can have a scheme where with a small monthly additional subscription you can be seen without pre-booking. COVID is going to end up being the dream cover they've been waiting for to facilitate dismantling the NHS isn't it
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Sep 17, 2020 11:17
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peanut- posted:It's a good idea, because then we can have a scheme where with a small monthly additional subscription you can be seen without pre-booking. It will be a perk of various forms of insurance almost immediately, I would imagine. That's how they'll get it started.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:18
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peanut- posted:It's a good idea, because then we can have a scheme where with a small monthly additional subscription you can be seen without pre-booking. I wonder what priority all those patients in Private Hospitals who currently get dispatched to NHS A&E the second anything goes a bit wrong will be given?
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Sep 17, 2020 11:20
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haha I literally burst out cackling for real when I saw this, good jobpeanut- posted:COVID is going to end up being the dream cover they've been waiting for to facilitate dismantling the NHS isn't it
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Sep 17, 2020 11:23
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If you read the article it's basically just encouraging people to call 111 where possible to try and reduce the number of non-emergency attendances to A&E. If you are in a car crash the ambulance isn't going to be turned away because you didn't schedule it in advance and if you show up at the door in immediate need of assistance you aren't going to be bumped by someone with a runny nose who called ahead.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:24
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Sanford posted:It will be a perk of various forms of insurance almost immediately, I would imagine. That's how they'll get it started. I doubt it to be honest, ironically it's mostly the thing insurers really don't want to do. Private health insurance is built on the model of people not using it - so it typically covers treatment but not diagnosis. You have to go through the screen of an NHS GP or clinic to be referred for the private treatment. Getting privileged access to the diagnosis stage requires paying massively higher premiums.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:24
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big scary monsters posted:If you read the article it's basically just encouraging people to call 111 where possible to try and reduce the number of non-emergency attendances to A&E. If you are in a car crash the ambulance isn't going to be turned away because you didn't schedule it in advance and if you show up at the door in immediate need of assistance you aren't going to be bumped by someone with a runny nose who called ahead.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:27
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Heath Hospital in Cardiff has been doing this since the summer...
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Sep 17, 2020 11:35
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This is going to go super well. Specially with all the great integration between hospital systems, 111 systems and ambulance systems. And is just a massive technocratic gently caress around to try and fix the issue of ED attendances and wait times by making a queuing system. Rather than actually investing more money at all. It's not for stuff that isn't "blue lights on, start of an episode of Casualty" style stuff, more the "Burnt/cut your hand in the kitchen and it's a too bad for just home treatment". Still sucks And from what I know, they'll still see people, just give them a "you should have pre-booked" talking to. But of course it's just the first step in cracking down on ED visits. DroneRiff fucked around with this message at 11:39 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Sep 17, 2020 11:36
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https://twitter.com/itsrobertpaul/status/1306321114738626563
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Sep 17, 2020 11:38
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https://twitter.com/MichaelDugher/status/1306542775932981248 Tom Watson got bought off and is now a gambling lobbyist.
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Sep 17, 2020 11:48
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The purpose of the crackdown is to drive down people's confidence in the NHS. It's just another part of starving the beast
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Sep 17, 2020 11:49
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MichaelDugher/status/1306542775932981248 
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Sep 17, 2020 11:54
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MichaelDugher/status/1306542775932981248 loving trash man
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Sep 17, 2020 11:57
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kingturnip posted:The purpose of the crackdown is to drive down people's confidence in the NHS. Maybe tbh I think the beast might have been dead for a year or more at this point and we're just seeing the media and gov jiggle the corpse. Kinda like how the legal aid system is now completely utterly broken in a nightmarish way but everyone just goes "wow yeah that's bad" and mostly ignores it while pretending we have a functioning legal system the rest of the time Were just in the phase of normalising having a universal health service that doesn't work anymore
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Sep 17, 2020 12:02
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Lol https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1306334039557586944?s=19
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Sep 17, 2020 12:14
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Why do Americans insist on writing the word 'period' as an additional sentence when they have in fact already used the necessary punctuation to end the previous statement, thereby creating an ellipsis
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Sep 17, 2020 12:18
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Convex posted:Why do Americans insist on writing the word 'period' as an additional sentence when they have in fact already used the necessary punctuation to end the previous statement, thereby creating an ellipsis I dunno if PERIOD is more annoying than END OF. Probably more just by virtue of being very American
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Sep 17, 2020 12:20
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I bought a bird feeder and have questions: 1) put in the sun or shade? 2) out in the open or under/in a tree? Propped it on a fence post for now and the local tits are going mad for it.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:28
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i mean it's galling but he's a product of a culture that believes sending your kids to be abused and tortured at boarding schools "builds character". it's no wonder they have such a terrifying outlook.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:29
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sassassin posted:I bought a bird feeder and have questions: Out in the open, don't give cats a place to lurk. Sun also good, to help keep it clean and the seed drier.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:30
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sassassin posted:I bought a bird feeder and have questions: That’s pretty much your answer - if it has food on it, they’ll find it. Try and put it somewhere cats can’t get to it but otherwise “where you can see it best” is pretty much all you need.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:32
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TACD posted:Yea it's yet another thing where if you squint and take the most charitable view you can make an argument for it, but when it meets the real world it's going to end up with people needlessly suffering and possibly dying because they're deprioritised or unable to get properly 'preassessed' over the phone The alternative would I guess be to properly fund healthcare. Given that that's impossible...
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Sep 17, 2020 12:32
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Honestly, if anything changes Boris's mind it will be this. Unless he doesn't care (he doesn't) Unless he thinks Trump will be re-elected (he does) Unless he thinks this is a bluff (he does)
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Sep 17, 2020 12:35
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MichaelDugher/status/1306542775932981248 Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away And know when to run for deputy leader, stab everyone in the back, and collapse into a paid lobbyist position
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Sep 17, 2020 12:35
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/MichaelDugher/status/1306542775932981248 I'm sure hell be keeping them honest!! Reminds me of when a homeopathy company was trying to get me to take a well-paid science job with them, silly me I turned them down on principle, but I should have joined them where I could have done some good, while getting well compensated, like old TW (Trigger would be a good nickname I think) here...
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Sep 17, 2020 12:37
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Guavanaut posted:You've got to know when to hold 'em gently caress that's good. Pigfucker is entirely correct that austerity prepared britain for covid if you think in terms of of a tory: austerity killed off lots of vulnerable people who would have added to the covid death stats.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:42
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Oh dear me posted:Out in the open, don't give cats a place to lurk. Makes sense. Not many cats around here and it's got a cage to keep the rats and squirrels out.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:53
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StarkingBarfish posted:Pigfucker is entirely correct that austerity prepared britain for covid if you think in terms of of a tory: austerity killed off lots of vulnerable people who would have added to the covid death stats.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:55
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StarkingBarfish posted:gently caress that's good. When a Tory says "Britain" there's no silent "people of..." implied there.
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Sep 17, 2020 12:56
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And yet we still managed to gently caress up massively in terms of GDP loss.
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sassassin posted:Makes sense. Not many cats around here and it's got a cage to keep the rats and squirrels out. Rats will feast on the seeds the birds drop, and if the squirrels cannot get in - a big if - they will for example roll the feeder along the ground so that seeds fall out. Resign yourself to feeding rodents.
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