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big scary monsters posted:Airports are weird. I don't think all that many people have a couple of beers with their croissant at half five in the morning even in Glasgow, but in the airport lounge today it seems to be the standard breakfast. Airports are magical, liminal areas that exist outside of local time and space, in which stuff like 'drinking at half five in the morning' is perfectly normal. That's why they're fun places to be.
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KKKlean Energy posted:If there's a big problem with missed appointments, then the best solution is a guilt-tripping program (my dentist uses this). It goes like this: the day before, ring up the patient and ask them if they are still intending to make the appointment, and ask them to let the care centre know if they're unable to make it. If they miss an appointment, ring them up and ask them why they missed it and why they didn't inform the care centre, whether they'd like a new appointment (chances are it's a yes) followed up with a polite request to not miss it this time or at least inform them if they can't. Guilt: tripped. This may work great for smaller departments or practices, but (for example) repeatedly calling the volume of people we book every day in the physio department I work at would be completely unrealistic. We get plenty of DNAs without contact, and it's almost certainly because their niggly lower back pain or whatever goes away a few weeks after they see the doctor, but we then just discharge them straight off. A lot of people get cross about that when they call up a month later and find they have to go back to the start of the waiting list, but it's the only way we can manage our vastly over-subscribed and under-staffed service (and even then it's still slowly falling apart under increasing referral numbers and staff cutbacks).
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May 7, 2014 13:46
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KKKlean Energy posted:Well even in a small department, the secretary is probably already over-worked. It's not a program that can be neatly slotted into existing work-schedules, it would almost certainly require additional staff or longer working hours. But I'm only suggesting it as an alternative to all the admin involved in issuing fines, chasing them up, processing the financials etc. If your place of work had to do one or the other, which is the most practical? Don't get me wrong, I absolutely wasn't arguing for charging which, you're right, would take up just as much or more time and also involve a lot more departments and hassle. If I had to choose between the two, I'd go with the calling the patient before, during and after the appointment thing, but it'd take (in my office, for instance) at least an extra ten office staff. Which we'll never, ever, ever get. Of course, I'd like to pick the third option, which is 'provide us with more staff and facilities, you bastards, and accept that there are always going to be DNAs and they're not our fault, also they give our overworked physios time to actually write notes', but I'd also like a solid gold telephone.
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May 7, 2014 14:37
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SybilVimes posted:Pretty sure that texting reminders for your appointments is a feature of System One, and while it's probably not as effective as a personal call, I bet it increases the number of people that attend - the only DNA I've done (assuming we discount ones where I call as soon as possible to say that I can't attend the appointment) was where I got the date wrong on a dietician appointment, so got the 'why aren't you here?' call from her at the time of the appointment. We don't have System One (we will soon, thank god) but we do have a text reminder service. It doesn't seem to have helped much. To be fair, in the area I work language barriers are often a problem, which probably contributes to the issue. If the only info you get is written instructions, by letter or text, in English, then there's more of a chance you'll forget or not understand. Also, looks like the Skull Cracker's robbed a Chelsea Building Society down my road. Exciting stuff. Lotta cop choppers about.
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May 7, 2014 15:31
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Saki posted:http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/08/ukip-billboard-poster-international-grey-paint Why should there be any irony in covering up fascist propaganda? 
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May 9, 2014 10:19
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Bozza posted:Nobody in the world is ever going to call it this, what the gently caress is this. The marketing folks don't give a gently caress if people say it or not, though. It'll be on every surface in the place, on every bit of documentation, every staff member will have to repeat it, and it'll work by sheer saturation. Adverts even work slightly better on people who think they're wise to them
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May 16, 2014 16:10
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EvilGenius posted:Multiculturalism is wonderful, and all Brits should be proud that their own culture is open enough and strong enough to absorb and merge ideas. Unfortunately people who believe this (and they do) don't consider it arrogance or chauvinism, they consider it straight up, unequivocal fact. I know several people who genuinely, 100% believe that Britain is and always has been the greatest culture in the world. They don't necessarily have anything against other cultures, but they at best pale in comparison. Past a certain point, I've no idea how to get through to them what an incredible coincidence it is that they just happened to have been born in The Greatest Nation of All Time.
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May 17, 2014 15:45
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BastardySkull posted:I know there are some Banks fans in here. I've put the work I did inspired by his Culture novels on to Redbubble. Proceeds will go to Safe Space, a charity helping survivors of sexual violence of which Banks was a patron. Your art's loving amazing, and when I move out (to a place that's a little more poster friendly) in a couple months either your picture of Sursamen or the GSV will definitely end up on the wall. EDIT: actually, Culture Drones is also pretty nice and minimalistic.
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May 17, 2014 19:51
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quote:'The richest people in Britain have had an astonishing year', says rich list compiler' http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/may/18/sunday-times-rich-list Hurray for neo-feudalism, may our owners one day trickle down their generosity upon us.
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May 18, 2014 09:37
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Horror.
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May 26, 2014 13:24
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Ddraig posted:With a bit of luck the only rivers of blood are going to be from Tories hanging from the loving lampposts and being beaten with chains. It won't be this, mate. It won't be this 
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May 26, 2014 17:13
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The future's bleak - the future's Blue.
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JFairfax posted:The house market in bristol is a bit loving nuts at the moment though. This is true. However, I think I've managed to score a room in a place in Montpelier for not insane prices, so that's cool. Also, moving to Bristol in September. Hell yes.
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