stand by let go forward , let go aft

[happy daze john in oz]

Rob mate just hang in there and never ever give up. You will be right by eight bells and coming down the Jacobs ladder with this ship you are on high on the seas. Hope there is a pilot boat waiting for you!

[Keith Tindell]

Well done Rob, keep at it, no gain without pain, as they say. Good to have you back posting again, regards kt

[Jim Brady]

Good Luck to better health Rob I hope you get the best of treatment which you deserve.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[robpage]

Now let's not get any of this wrong I am so pleased for what I am getting it is in the private sector and the NHS are paying they do this quite regularly with things like replacement hips and knees it's a little bit more unusual but they are paying s intensive course of private physiotherapy at the one of the top places in the country .

When I left home somewhere back in round 1966 we weren't great visitors to the doctors and all the time I spent at sea we were covered by the Greenwich

Because of the job I had they 25 years I spent in industry I had what we would call Bupa it wasn't exactly Bupa it was a similar insurance based scheme so therefore I never got in touch with the NHS so until two to three years ago the NHS hadn't spent more than what a broken leg cost in 1962

There is no difference in the quality of care and nursing available in the NHS or the private sector I must admit the private sector food is better and you invariably get a private room which can be a disadvantage particularly if you're a sociable person

What Dreams May a pain in the head of the founders of the Health Service back in 1949 I do not know what I always believed in the mantra that it was a service free at the point of delivery depended upon need and not the ability to pay somewhere in the past 66 years that has lost its way it is now a service that has everything you want but does not have the clinical staff to deliver it . Staffing on hospital wards is half of what he did in the private sector nurses spend time working at the job and don't do what I regard as a basic essential and that is to Nurse the patient . When I broke my leg in 1962 the chain of command was student nurse who got promoted to a nurse and if she didn't get married and became very good at her job she would be a sister and the top of all the sisters was the matron now that chain of command is still student , nurse , sister , matron ( band 7 ) followed by band 8 which has topped off with band 8A then band 8B then the director of nursing every successive government regardless of its political persuasion has tinkered where's the service and added band on band of management . It is a shame to look at our once proud NHS and realise it is terminally ill I just hope somebody will come to its rescue and cure it before we get to the funeral .

I have beat the system because I am a noisy aggressive arrogant git for each one of me there are 20 of the meek mild and silent and very little gets done to them . I don't feel too guilty because like the rest of the human race I'm also selfish and I'm looking at my interests but when I look at other people I do get very saddened to see what isn't done to help them but I think once you get past 60 and then passed 70 and then passed 80 you get less and less medical intervention .

I've heard the fine socialist words of The Pretenders the throne of Keir Hardie and none of them inspire me there are two things that I think this country needs . The first and most important is to fix the NHS followed by as we are now going to be an independent country reintroduce a Merchant Navy to our shore a British one you don't even have commonwealth crews we have cities full of commonwealth citizens

[Captain Kong]

Of the cost of running a hospital 20% goes on Management. Most of the Managers are ex supermarket managers who have no idea of the medical side, they Think they are good administrators. ??
Now that is a lot of money, from a hospital budget and does not help the patient one iota,
We also have a Minister of Health, Hunt, who has NO Medical training whatsoever.
So it is the blind leading the blind and causing chaos.
Cannot say too much of what is the cause of decreasing service as I do not want to embarrass the lad.
Brian

[robpage]

What causes an awful lot of the failure in the local NHS is Strongbow I think that the cider makers should be contributing 50% of the hospitals cost as they are causing 50% of the hospital's load . It isn't but they are hardened cider drinkers like your average man about the town in Weston-super-Mare it's because is the strongest thing they can get at the cheapest price and they like to spend their day not thinking too hard and putting the world to rights with their colleagues

It would be nice to see a good clinician as a minister of health who turned around and scrapped the top levels of management between executive level and the Old Matron level at Band 7 will it happen never be good politically it just won't

[Captain Kong]

The Cheap Cider on sale mostly in your area Rob and cheap Vodka from east Europe that is made up from Anti freeze is one of the biggest Bed Fillers in your local hospitals.
Brian