What the ? Work this one out

[jeffa]

GWS Tony

 

[slim63]

Put the covid on the back burner Tony...But blood clots and pneumonia!! You should be in hospital mate..

I know mate but i don't want to take up a valuable bed and all they can do is what they are doing now anyway

I got strong antibiotics which should clear up the pneumonia and a pile of needles to jab in my belly every night cant remember that the stuff is called but it breaks up any blood clot

Monday is a more detailed scan to see what they can find on my lungs if anything, they were going to do one using a trace dye but I refused that as from past experience it will make me extremely ill and i am nowhere near strong enough to put up with that at the moment

 

[derek kelly]

I’m with slim on this, I had pneumonia when I was about 12, I was in hospital with other sick patients (mainly adults) coughing & spluttering, even at that age I knew I’d recover better at home than lying down on a bed bored out of my skull

 

[Cougar377]

I know mate but i don't want to take up a valuable bed and all they can do is what they are doing now anyway

I got strong antibiotics which should clear up the pneumonia and a pile of needles to jab in my belly every night cant remember that the stuff is called but it breaks up any blood clot

Monday is a more detailed scan to see what they can find on my lungs if anything, they were going to do one using a trace dye but I refused that as from past experience it will make me extremely ill and i am nowhere near strong enough to put up with that at the moment

If your local hospital is anything like the one my other half works in then you're better off at home.
She's seeing a significant surge in Covid cases coming in. That in turn has had a knock on effect on the number of inpatients who are catching it during their stay.

 

[slim63]

If your local hospital is anything like the one my other half works in then you're better off at home.
She's seeing a significant surge in Covid cases coming in. That in turn has had a knock on effect on the number of inpatients who are catching it during their stay.

What they call my local hospital is Good Hope more commonly known as no hope i wont go there as people are treated like cattle, the level of care if you can call it that is atrocious (15 hours on a trolly without being seen last time i was there) its a catch all hospital for a huge swathe of the brummie outskirts and is a dirty decrepit shitehole

Given the choice most people will go to Burton or in fact anywhere except no hope but if its a 999 job thats where they want to take you, I refuse every time and so do many others

This time i went to the George Elliot in Nuneaton as was told there was more chance of being seen quickly there, and i was, they have been 100% brilliant so far

This place drives me mad to me honest we have no cop shop just what amounts to a pcso canteen tacked onto the side of a fire station miles out of town with no front desk and no cells and no staff, the hospital which could be put to good use only runs day surgeries and a walk in centre with no doctors just nurses, ambulance's now come from way out of town where as not so long ago they were centrally based, less of them too
And this is to "serve" the second largest population in Staffordshire but actually covers huge chunks of Warwickshire Derbyshire and Leicestershire as well

 

[andyBeaker]

What they call my local hospital is Good Hope more commonly known as no hope i wont go there as people are treated like cattle, the level of care if you can call it that is atrocious (15 hours on a trolly without being seen last time i was there) its a catch all hospital for a huge swathe of the brummie outskirts and is a dirty decrepit shitehole

Given the choice most people will go to Burton or in fact anywhere except no hope but if its a 999 job thats where they want to take you, I refuse every time and so do many others

This time i went to the George Elliot in Nuneaton as was told there was more chance of being seen quickly there, and i was, they have been 100% brilliant so far

This place drives me mad to me honest we have no cop shop just what amounts to a pcso canteen tacked onto the side of a fire station miles out of town with no front desk and no cells and no staff, the hospital which could be put to good use only runs day surgeries and a walk in centre with no doctors just nurses, ambulance's now come from way out of town where as not so long ago they were centrally based, less of them too
And this is to "serve" the second largest population in Staffordshire but actually covers huge chunks of Warwickshire Derbyshire and Leicestershire as well

Serious question - I have a reason for asking - why do you think there is a need for a police station with a front desk?

 

[Cougar377]

What they call my local hospital is Good Hope more commonly known as no hope i wont go there as people are treated like cattle, the level of care if you can call it that is atrocious (15 hours on a trolly without being seen last time i was there) its a catch all hospital for a huge swathe of the brummie outskirts and is a dirty decrepit shitehole

Given the choice most people will go to Burton or in fact anywhere except no hope but if its a 999 job thats where they want to take you, I refuse every time and so do many others

This time i went to the George Elliot in Nuneaton as was told there was more chance of being seen quickly there, and i was, they have been 100% brilliant so far

This place drives me mad to me honest we have no cop shop just what amounts to a pcso canteen tacked onto the side of a fire station miles out of town with no front desk and no cells and no staff, the hospital which could be put to good use only runs day surgeries and a walk in centre with no doctors just nurses, ambulance's now come from way out of town where as not so long ago they were centrally based, less of them too
And this is to "serve" the second largest population in Staffordshire but actually covers huge chunks of Warwickshire Derbyshire and Leicestershire as well

About 3 weeks ago SWMBO's hospital started using the corridors as overflow from the wards, as there's no empty beds.

She's refusing to treat patients in corridors because they can have no privacy or dignity while staff and Joe Public walk by and can hear every detail. Most of her patients are elderly, some have dementia, etc and they find it very distressing.

Part of the problem is the surge in Covid, but the majority of the time when they exceed capacity it's because elderly patients are bed blocking for various reasons.

 

[Duck n Dive]

In my opinion it's the culmination of years of mismanagement and deliberate obfuscation by Central government.

To make central government savings (or spend on pet projects) they've been systematically moving responsibility for services to local government without also moving sufficient funding to local government.

Community mental health support, care homes etc.

Not only have they moved responsibility for additional services, at the same time they've squeezed the central gov grant every year.

I don't believe it's accidental or unintended, they know exactly what they're doing.

As for covid, don't forget that Boris did not attend the Cobra meetings until forced.

 

[slim63]

Serious question - I have a reason for asking - why do you think there is a need for a police station with a front desk?

An easy point of access for reporting less serious crime, community concerns or proving you do actually have insurance, tax, mot despite what some 12 year old copper on a pda may think

Apart from all that it can be the public face of local policing now that the days of a copper on the beat are gone and they are only ever seen zipping past in a car (still applies if its a civvy running a desk too)