Councils don’t pay VAT, well they do but then claim it back.
pre-thatcher you didn’t even need to make an appointment to see your GP.
Pre Thatcher, there wasn't the levels of mental health problems, of substance abuse, hypertension, obesity, T2D or other fun LT chronic disease issues there is now though.
I think pats should be able to see a clinician* in a decent time frame, I think they should have a prescription issued in reasonable time frame, and perhaps even see the same GP for their health issues. I also think that if you want that, then we also need to educate folks about food, and alcohol better and tax them more highly so that folks are dissuaded from abusing them , we should regulate what goes in food, and so on. Starting at the wrong end of the issue (by the time folks are sick enough to need a doctor) isn't gong to make these chronic diseases go away.
*not necessarily a GP
On the issue of private education I'm with grimep, I agree that it shouldn't be the preserve of the wealthy. Decent education should be a right, not a privilege.
So it's time that a privilege for a select few was abolished.
Even Labour Party right-wingers have struggled to justify private education in the past.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/hattersley-hits-at-private-schools-1575871.html
perhaps even see the same GP for their health issues
Sorry to disagree with you here, but not “perhaps”.
Continuity of care has been shown time and time again to be the best way to add value to healthcare systems. We lose that at our expense. It should be a fundamental of primary care, not a “nice to have”. And it is the opposite to what we currently are aiming for.
Pre Thatcher, there wasn’t the levels of mental health problems, of substance abuse, hypertension, obesity, T2D or other fun LT chronic disease issues there is now though.
That woman had a lot to answer for!
*not necessarily a GP
Again no. Needs to be a GP and that’s what we should be aiming for. GPs are equally or more cost effective than other professions and it goes back to continuity of care being the way that primary care adds value.
Based on the mental state of my GP wife and the heavily redacted post work debrief, I'm not sure why anyone does that job. Of the little she could tell me, this week was fairly harrowing even as a listener never mind being first hand.
The British public need their health sorting before it gets to the point of seeing a doctor.
This thread was a timely reminder to make sure I was registered to vote postally(?) and I have used the website to do that today. Amazingly, it was easy to use.
+1 to that. Took a bit of going around in circles to get the start point but once on it it was easy to both register as an overseas voter and apply for a postal vote even before the registration was confirmed. Just to make life easy for anyone else looking, the overseas voter start point is exactly the same as for a UK voter even though the election site seems to imply it is a different process
https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Sunaks election definitely has a watery theme
https://twitter.com/JAHeale/status/1793992596890497230?t=8dejidTO63QifaN9aYWaaA&s=19
On the issue of private education I’m with grimep, I agree that it shouldn’t be the preserve of the wealthy. Decent education should be a right, not a privilege.
So it’s time that a privilege for a select few was abolished.
I could not agree more!
I’ve worked in too many practices that rely on locum and agency GP to make up the sessions to think that its achievable with the work-force we have currently though.
It’s not. We need to retain GPs and for it to be possible to work at it full time, and that’ll cost a lot of money up front. But at the moment we’re applying short term solutions that are actually making things worse in the long run.
My issue with private education is that selective education seems to benefit those who are selected at the cost for those who are not.
However I only work three days a week
My GP only works one and a half days a week which adds a tad to his availability. But I value the continuity of care which you referred to and that stops me going elsewhere.
That plus the fact that we are of a similar age and can compare the perils of getting old.
Sunaks election definitely has a watery theme
Is Starmer actually arranging Rishis schedule?
its amazing really
Day0 A dead eyed Sunak u-turns & calls a GE in a torrential downpoor drowned out by D-Ream/Steve Bray
Day1 Sunak gets caught out taking staged qs from Tory councilors dressed as warehouse workers, fails to organise a footy chat in a brewery
Day2 (so far) Sunak has to ditch all his flagship policies (including Martyn's law, who's mum he'd promised way back on Day0 would pass b4 summer) CCHQ asks for 100 replacement MPs b4 bank holiday & Sunak tries a relaunch at the place they launched the Titanic
Day32 With the polls showing cons as the likely 5th party & most Tory MPs left on holiday, Outside Downing St , Sunak riding on the shoulders of a bare chested Gullis challenges Starmer to a joust live on TV each night for 6 consecutive nights
its amazing really
Day0 A dead eyed Sunak u-turns & calls a GE in a torrential downpoor drowned out by D-Ream/Steve Bray
Day1 Sunak gets caught out taking staged qs from Tory councilors dressed as warehouse workers, fails to organise a footy chat in a brewery
Day2 (so far) Sunak has to ditch all his flagship policies (including Martyn’s law, who’s mum he’d promised way back on Day0 would pass b4 summer) CCHQ asks for 100 replacement MPs b4 bank holiday & Sunak tries a relaunch at the place they launched the Titanic
Meanwhile Starmer doesn't make any news & people don't really know what he's about so on election day vote blue cos they've not seen Starmer in the news for the past 6 weeks.
Day32 With the polls showing cons as the likely 5th party & most Tory MPs left on holiday, Outside Downing St , Sunak riding on the shoulders of a bare chested Gullis challenges Starmer to a joust live on TV each night for 6 consecutive nights
I reckon Starmer'd win if it came to a kick-up - Sunak might be younger but he's got no balls, he'd cry if you hit him. I'm not saying Starmer's Muhammad "I'm hard" Bruce Lee but I reckon there's more to him.
Outside Downing St , Sunak riding on the shoulders of a bare chested Gullis challenges Starmer to a joust live on TV each night for 6 consecutive nights
This image made me chuckle far more than it should...
Meanwhile Starmer doesn’t make any news & people don’t really know what he’s about so on election day vote blue cos they’ve not seen Starmer in the news for the past 6 weeks.
The Venn diagram of who owns most of this lot and who's a Tory might be hard to spot because it's a decent circle.
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I thought Rishi Sunak sounded quite buoyant yesterday.
Well, he'll soon put that right.
Why in God's name would you visit Titanic Quarter https://t.co/jZTHWLgtzg
— James Heale (@JAHeale) May 24, 2024
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How does one post up twitter links now they've gone full x.com?
Ohhh FFS, I can't embed images.
Basically you can waste a few minutes of your life squinting a this trying to spot the Lefties in the Guardian and extrapolate from that why you never hear about the Labour party.
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Farage only ever one one seat, and look where that got us.
That's a really odd comparison. Farage's party contested and will contest seats across the country. In contrast, by all accounts, Corbyn is an excellent constituency MP and is standing as an independent.
I reckon Starmer’d win if it came to a kick-up – Sunak might be younger but he’s got no balls, he’d cry if you hit him. I’m not saying Starmer’s Muhammad “I’m hard” Bruce Lee but I reckon there’s more to him.
There's someone on here that claims Starmer is a secret football hooligan because he supports Arsenal and wore a Stone Island jacket once.
CCHQ has given local associations until tomorrow lunch time to submit nearly 100 candidates (assuming more Tory MPs dont quit)
this I thought was a genius idea from a Tory MP:
imagine, 100 Susan Halls!
Does Sunak really hate his party so much, he couldn't have timed this any better to maximise the chaos of MPs stepping down, bet his pushed a few more into going who were undecided.
The full description of the NI visit from the local press is even better
utterly shambolic
Have I Got News For You should be savage tonight.
But even spiiting image would have a hard time parodying this lot at the moment
the Prime Minister was having the time of his life, zipping up and down the water on an electric speedboat, under the watchful eyes of the [UK] national media...While the [UK] national media captured the Prime Minister's aquatic adventure, local [NI] reporters were prevented from filming the Prime Minister disembarking the boat and eventually frogmarched to the other side of the road by the Conservative Party's press team to a location where we could merely watch on through a fence.
To be fair, there's been a lot of concern recently about dodgy characters using small boats showing up on the island of Ireland.
So Rishi is pictured wearing a life vest in the Titanic Quarter...
There really is a Labour mole in the Tory party isn't there? 👍😂
Mrs Binners is absolutely convinced that it’s Ant and Dec running Sunaks election campaign from behind the scenes
I’m expecting a parcel to arrive sometime soonish, and my doorbell rang about an hour ago, so I rush to the door to find some youngster dishing out cards for the local Conservative candidate, first one I’ve seen in forever. He barely gets eight words out and I tell him “not a chance” and shut the door.
I’m actually quite shocked, it has the feeling that a rout is about to happen
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you! Well, not that shocked. In fact, not shocked at all, really. 🤔
I think ‘rout’ is going to be an understatement. Even my spellcheck does, it predicted those exact words!
Had the occasion to need the GP for myself this week for the first time in a while. Called receptionist at 8am. Had appointment at 09:20 same day and the meds dispensed by pharmacy by 10am.
Pleasantly surprised. Not sure if that was just luck or the Scottish surgeries are fairing better than down south
@scruff9252 just luck. In Largs people can try over 100x to get a phone call connected to reception and then might get an appointment the same day if it sounds serious enough. It's a shit show, especially after they removed the e-consult option which only worked from 9-5 anyway.
Ol' lil Rishi might have thought it was a surprise and it was a secret. Labour knew it was coming, and probably kept it secret that they knew too, and have hit the ground running here (two labour leaflets already).
