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Convex posted:ban all newspaper opinion columns imo. one boris was one too many E: 
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smellmycheese posted:Meanwhile in The Times… They can see a gp on the same day? Like we used to be able to here pre-Coalition? It's so loving shameless.
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Tomberforce posted:They can see a gp on the same day? Like we used to be able to here pre-Coalition? I learned that GPs have been set central targets for "virtual" consultations. As, you must not see x% of patients but do telephone calls with them instead.
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Nov 27, 2022 13:15
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Nov 27, 2022 13:18
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https://twitter.com/PublicPriestley/status/1596502613495025667 Long thread but really brings home the twisted Tory corruption over the time of COVID. Whoever the next incoming govt they MUST do a thorough investigation and lock some of these wretched Tories up (plus get money back and strip honours).
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I don't think I've seen my actual registered GP once, just a succession of practice nurses and locum paramedics. There's this idea that your GP 'knows' your history but I've literally never been able to book an appointment with mine with less than a 2 week wait, and since moving the one appointment I did book, he was off sick and got replaced.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I don't think I've seen my actual registered GP once, just a succession of practice nurses and locum paramedics. There's this idea that your GP 'knows' your history but I've literally never been able to book an appointment with mine with less than a 2 week wait, and since moving the one appointment I did book, he was off sick and got replaced. I think when they say 'knows' they mean read it on their system which is not always accurate. I was looking over my GP's shoulder one time when she was scrolling through and it said I hadn't turned up for a mammogram a couple of years earlier. (And if you don't they stop inviting you) but I had had to reschedule it for a few weeks later and had been so I took the letter in for them to scan to their records. Another time it said I hadn't had a smear test for 13 YEARS and that very year I had had 3! One day I might ask for the list of my GP visits and go through it.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Can confirm that the Irish health service is dogshit Yup. If you have health insurance you can claim back 50% of the 50 euros for each visit. Doubt it mentions that will happen for the UK.
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Tories love the idea of a two tier system at the mercy of your employer, so something like that but worse.
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It'll be Kier's Labour that kills the NHS, you can see Streeting eyeing it up like a turkey the week before xmas.
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JoylessJester posted:It'll be Kier's Labour that kills the NHS, you can see Streeting eyeing it up like a turkey the week before xmas. I hope they've got a camera on him when they call a hung parliament in 2024.
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JoylessJester posted:It'll be Kier's Labour that kills the NHS, you can see Streeting eyeing it up like a turkey the week before xmas.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I don't think I've seen my actual registered GP once, just a succession of practice nurses and locum paramedics. There's this idea that your GP 'knows' your history but I've literally never been able to book an appointment with mine with less than a 2 week wait, and since moving the one appointment I did book, he was off sick and got replaced. It used to be you had a named GP that you were supposed to go to and they would "know" you. Due to staffing pressures (sound familiar?) most practices now pool their patients. You have a named GP but that's just who's going to have to deal with the mess if and when it happens. In general no doctor us really going to "know" you and will rely on notes most of the time. Imagine having 2000 friends and knowing the details of all their summer holidays.
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I don't even have a named GP anymore, haven't for a few years. It's just given as the practice.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/fesshole/status/1596238553587060738
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happyhippy posted:Yup. If we loose the NHS then what's the loving point in NI staying linked to the UK. 
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I don't have a named GP anymore but a couple weeks ago I phoned my practice because I had chest pains and they saw me within two hours , then sent me to hospital where I had a whole bunch of tests done, and yeah sure there was a few hours of just sitting around the waiting room but I still got seen to and sorted in what I consider a timely manner given there were blood tests and EKGs and x-rays all being done. I'm not saying people don't have poo poo experiences, but like every experience I've ever had with the NHS in my entire life has always been really good. It's no wonder it's the one thing in this lovely country everyone can feel proud of.
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Drinkslinger posted:I hope I never, ever end up living on a street that has a neighbourhood WhatsApp chat Without that sort of community we will never, ever get a revolution however. Not specifically WhatsApp, but neighbours knowing each other and communicating regularly is, I think, absolutely essential.
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Nov 27, 2022 15:24
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Drinkslinger posted:I hope I never, ever end up living on a street that has a neighbourhood WhatsApp chat Moved house this year, previous owners offered to add us. I said no thanks.
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 The Financial loving Times posted:Barack Obama famously said “don’t do stupid stuff”. (Actually, he said something even stronger.) This is always good advice. It is particularly good advice for today’s UK. It would be wonderful if it could start doing sensible stuff. But one must keep one’s hopes in check. It should, however, surely be possible to stop doing really stupid stuff. Opinion section, granted, but also, lol. Antigravitas fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Nov 27, 2022 |
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Politicians are once again thinking the unthinkable: is it time to start releasing some leopards to eat poor people's faces? We’ve dug into how that might work by looking at Ireland🇮🇪, which has been releasing leopards for generations which have never eaten a non rich person's face.
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Drinkslinger posted:I hope I never, ever end up living on a street that has a neighbourhood WhatsApp chat I do and it's fine because the neighbours aren't racist mentallers
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Failed Imagineer posted:I do and it's fine because the neighbours aren't racist mentallers Check out this dude who hasn't been invited to the real group
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One thing I worry about is the longer the Tories keep driving public everything into the ground, the more unimaginable the scale of required improvement becomes, to take it from "brink of collapse" to "pretty good, actually" I was reading an article earlier about GPs which I now can't find because the Graun's website is as bad as their politics, but it mentioned some aspect being overloaded by a factor of 2. Which then reminded me of the class-size discussion from many threads ago, which I vaguely remember contained some "well actually" research that taking classes form 30+ to 22 kids didn't actually help that much... but that you'd need to go down to like 15 to see a big difference. Which a quick google shows is the smallest end of an OECD comparison chart (and coincidentally where I grew up, which I why I find 30 to be huge). Cf China nudging toward 40. How do you sell that in the UK today? You can't even finish the sentence "we need to double..." before people start yelling about magic money trees. Better things aren't possible. As terrible as Nullarbor were, 2010 would be a much less daunting starting point. Not sure what my point is, it just seems very insurmountable.
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Just Another Lurker posted:If we loose the NHS then what's the loving point in NI staying linked to the UK. come on now we still have the um uuummmmm the yella rear number plates
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crispix posted:come on now we still have the um Come now. There are ripe fruits ready for a good plucking. https://twitter.com/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/status/1596574187333644288
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Marmaduke! posted:Check out this dude who hasn't been invited to the real group Drinkslinger posted:I hope I never, ever end up living on a street that has a neighbourhood WhatsApp chat
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smellmycheese posted:Come now. There are ripe fruits ready for a good plucking. quote:I have little hope that this government will do anything much positive before the next general election, particularly in the midst of an energy and inflation crisis. But it is not too much to ask it to stop doing stupid things. So, do not consider regulatory changes unless they will clearly be for the better. Do not promise control over migration you cannot deliver. Do not stick to the option of divergence on food standards, which makes resolving the issue of Northern Ireland so intractable. But do try hard to preserve the ability of our scientists to co-operate closely with their European peers. And, not least, do stop the endless barking by the British bulldog. 
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smellmycheese posted:Come now. There are ripe fruits ready for a good plucking.  Me and the boys about to hit the sunlit uplands after having our ripe fruits plucked.
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Davey Boy Smith died years ago
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Boy I hope those metaphorical ripe fruits taste as good as the real ones we had to plough back in because nobody could come over to harvest them.
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Hello, Goddamnedtwisto passed away earlier this year. He was in his forties. On the forums he frequently shared his obscure knowledge of telecommunications, the cold war, and East London political/football/music history; to go with his unique voice and sense of humour. In real life, as well as his much-loved and shared dog and bikes, he had a family who miss him as do his friends from his involvement in the creative scene in London, which I don't think was as well-known here if at all. I remember how much he treasured his privacy - thus being slightly less detailed than one would expect - but thought people should know. I'm putting this message in a few of the subforums he regularly posted in. I knew him slightly in real life; the lockdowns unfortunately put us out of contact a bit; but from his obituaries it was clear he had extended a helping hand and wisdom to others as he had here over the years. Rest in peace mate.
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Sorry to hear that, he'll be missed here. Thanks for letting us know.
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Commiserations. I always found twisto's effort posts were always a joy to read; thank you for posting the news. To hear that he's passed is unfortunate & surprising.
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Nutapii posted:Hello, gently caress. We'd noticed he wasn't posting but had just hoped he'd gotten bored of the forums for a bit. Rest in Peace.
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rip twisto, its good to know finally but that really sucks 
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Ah jesus, I really was worried about that. He really was a fantastic poster, always with something interesting to share.
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Well loving hell, that's some poo poo news  My condolences to his family and friends, he seemed like a decent bloke.
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That powerfully sucks about twisto. As a mark of respect, we should all post the weirdest trivia about London or architecture we know. E: just in case anyone thinks I'm being glib, I'm not. He seemed like a genuinely lovely person with a deep knowledge of obscure london paraphernalia, and the thread is diminished by his absence.
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