A hospital visit

[Keith at Tregenna]

Simple business practice, Governments need to stop spending incorrect monies.

Monies paid in for the likes of the NHS, Should be safeguarded. Pensions and simiar the same.

Governments see all cash as a central fund and spend all.

Any business must do better.

Eg: A lift / elevator has a life expectancy, a business rather than spend all monies, would put cash over the years into a sinking fund, this enables things to be done / fixed / repaired / renewed in the future, waste all the money today and not insure for a future, shows those in power are pretty much clueless business wise.

K.

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[Red Lead Ted]

Nhs 5th biggest employer not in england not in europe not in china not in asia but ted...... In the world .....5th biggest employer from taxpayers money.......in the world..... In this tiny country .......something wrong somewhere...cappy

Cappy something wrong alright the job dont pay enough and when you have a private company fining nursing staff for parking outside there permit threw no fault of there own, They could be saving yours or my life..................Afraid it doesn't add up my mate, Capitalism at its dirtiest work, Profit before common sense and to hell with the heroes who carry on devotedly Terry

[Keith at Tregenna]

Cappy something wrong alright the job dont pay enough and when you have a private company fining nursing staff for parking outside there permit threw no fault of there own, They could be saving yours or my life..................Afraid it doesn't add up my mate, Capitalism at its dirtiest work, Profit before common sense and to hell with the heroes who carry on devotedly Terry

They blame people living longer etc but, in realty they spent the money already.

Cash should have been invested in specific areas to guarantee what was promised.

Not subsidised bars etc in Westminster.

K.

[Red Lead Ted]

Kieth. Scenario.............. A professional fire fighter driving home after a 12 hour shift. He passes a house on fire and spots a young child trapped in an upstairs window, He pulls up jumps out of the car and dashes in and saves the child's life as he exits the burning house he spots a traffic warden sticking a ticket on his windscreen for stopping on double yellow lines, Would he pay the fine ?????????????? Like hell he would they would pin a medal on him, What is the difference between him and a nurse being kept at work after a rush in a trauma clinic ????????????? { BEWILDERED } Terry.

[Keith at Tregenna]

It is odd ? I have visited a fair few hospitals locally in Wales recently and parking seems to be free for 4 hours. Just means popping out and moving the car in a break ? I can imagine that may become difficult if in A and E etc but, they have a machine in my nearest hospital that you just punch in your reg to extend your stay. Staff permit parking is hard but not to difficult to sort.

Emergency Service staff if on duty and in an emergency should be allowed emergency parking, it is not rocket science ?

Keith.

[j.sabourn]

Should put any housewife in, she budgets and saves money for a rainy day to repair the lift. Me was crafty and live in a single story. No lift. But just used money to get the decorators in. Love watching other people work. This makes me a Tory, labour, or just plain lazy and unworkable. Cheers js

[happy daze john in oz]

Ted I can sympathise with your commenst and on the plight of the nurse.
But was the company finning her aware of who she was?
Not sticking upo for them but the media make a mountian ot of a mole hill with situations such as these.

The basic problem for UK, and to some extent here in Oz, not enough are goining into the service and in the UK you just have too many asking for service from the NHS.

No matter what you might think they are still one of the worlds finest and that will never change.

But until we can encourage more in, and it is not just the money, by maybe going back to the old system of training in hospital rather than at uni it will continue to decline.

I spent 14 years at uni watching the nursing situation gradually worsen, biggest drop out numbers of any course.

[cappy]

####ted no one wants to see a nurse fined for parking .....but the signs were there .....if someone parked inyour garden i am sure you would say oh good morning im ted .cup off tea dont come back tommorrow...the next day he is parked in your garden i think you would be a little more than upset.....surely the nurse must have thought this could go awry ...but 10000 quid she must be bloody stupid......parking is a problem for us all ......but to me she took a gamble and it went wrong ......it happens to us all .....you get back to your car a few minutes late and bingo quids out the window.......its part of todays world ....if you dont pay insurance on your house and it burns down ..does it mean if your a nurse you still get payed out but then who else a pensioner a teacher etc etc .....a sob story which the press make headlines of.....sorry but this is the real world to me....cappy

[Captain Kong]

Cappy something wrong alright the job dont pay enough and when you have a private company fining nursing staff for parking outside there permit threw no fault of there own, They could be saving yours or my life..................Afraid it doesn't add up my mate, Capitalism at its dirtiest work, Profit before common sense and to hell with the heroes who carry on devotedly Terry

Hi terry.
Nurses usually have a Badge for parking in hospital grounds, and it is NOT the fault of the NHS if a Nurse gets a Ticket from a fellow working class hero, a Mr Jobsworth. If Mr Jobsworth knew it was a Nurses car would he have still given her a ticket. ? So who do your blame?? The Nurse for not showing her badge or that working class Hero Mr Jobsworth.??
It sounds a funny story to me.
Brian.

[cappy]

##at a vindi meeting in harrogate years ago ..as we came out.....we were parked in a small car park opposite ..there he was sticking tickets on all our members cars about 35 or forty years old ...our old seamen were upset to say the least i told him the were elderly ex MN he said it was his job and that was it...... i proceeded with others to tell him what he was but to no avail... we had parked for years the car park was empty in the evening. we always put a couple of hours in the meters......we wrote to the council en masse but to no avail ..it is the law right or wrong cappy