NHS

I had an appointment this morning at my hospital, like a good patient I arrived at 9am for my 9.15am appointment, I was moved to the clinic area after being weighed and my blood pressure taken, I then went to the waiting area, on sitting down it was 9.10am, I noticed that there were quite a few patients waiting, many more were to arrive and go as I sat and waited and waited, now as the clinic started at 9am, I asked myself how was it that I was still waiting at 9.40am, things seemed to be going on all round me but I did not move, finally a houseman called me in explaining that the consultant was unavailable this morning, so I finally went in at 9.50am and did not come out of the hospital till 10.20am, I know that is only an hour and a half but this lack of keeping to appointment times is irritating, if I am late they will not see me but they can keep you hanging around for as long as the want, it would have been different if I had been told they were sorry but no, so not a good patient experience, they need to change their mind set, things have changed patients are more aware of the service that they should expect, I only hope that they make their thoughts known to the NHS because if they don't it will never change.

NHS 111

I spent 2 hours sitting listening to the 111 promotion in Cambridgeshire, we were assured that all was in place there would be no major problems just minor ones that were just the expected glitches, but all would be well, on overwhelming of the A&E service, if you look at this part of the country and I am talking about North Cambridgeshire the A&E department has always been overwhelmed, the new hospital still has the same problems, not the hospitals fault I might add, but the inability of the old PCT to deflect non A&E patients attending, who have no need of the A&E services, there is a walk in centre but the previously vibrant building with much going on is now dead very little happening much of the previous occupants have departed!, I am told that the rental cost is too high so the ship has been deserted, it has only been open a short time and still as new so this s a bit of a shock to me, may be as it has been taken over by the NHS property's services has some thing to do with it, I well remember being shown round and thinking this is a great place, the patient experience will be good, good facilities, especially hot food tea and coffee, lifts that actually worked and a clean environment for everybody, but now so quiet, we have a very large Eastern European population they just can't accept that they do not need emergency treatment, I believe that many normally attend their hospital in their own country so it is not surprising that the do it here, I believe that we have to deflect them to the walk in centre or during surgery hours see a GP, but things are not that easy are they?, my family needed help one Saturday afternoon, as I was aware of 111 I rang it and the answer machine told me that call back was in 6 hours, but I stayed on the line, finally about 1 hour later they called an ambulance, we had to ring a further twice over one and a half hours finally to be told to ring 999, this after 25 Min's brought a fast response unit who was unable to really help as an ambulance was needed, this took a further half an hour, so I was not best amused by the service offered, but I hoped that it was just a glitch, but watching the news over the weekend the whole country seemed to be up the creek without a paddle, the A&E service was going to be overwhelmed but to day it seems that there were problems but not to the extent that was being expected, so its all OK, but just what will happen at the next holiday I dread to think!!.

Summer/ Syria

Well has it arrived?, lovely sunny day some light cloud at times but on the main a nice day, lovely to see all the kids out playing, mum's and dad's out on their bikes taking in the holiday air, it is really great to see, felt really good till I saw the TV news, Syria again!!, children killed by who ever, each side blaming the other, there were pictures but they were so horrific that they could not be shown, it matters not who did it, these are children, they trust adults, they are usually not frightened but here we have blatant killing of young children, I have to ask just what is the point of killing them?, does it make it a better news story?, will it keep the conflict at the forefront of news bulletins?, probably but it does not excuse the perpetrators of the crime they have committed, no doubt it will be unlikely that they will be caught, but they do not deserve the right to be called Human because they are not!, they are the scum of the earth, they have no rights in my eyes, they should be locked up for life never getting out into the World again, they should be made every day to look at the pictures of the death and destruction they are responsible for so that they never forget the torment they have caused to little children the future of Syria.

goverment again sorry

So I was right the only people that the government will listen to are the "hard working"!!!! no one else, not the elderly nor the disabled not the unemployed, just the people who are in work the lucky ones, so just what does the government  and labour think just what the public might do?, well it seems all three party's think that this is just a blip in the ocean next time no one will vote for UKIP, well if I was plotting election success I would be very careful they just might not be clowns or idiots, they might be a party of the future!, you have to laugh to see the Tory's Labour and the liberals talking down  the UKIP councillors, we will have to wait and see they just might be the people that this country needs, we don't need the Tory's nor Labour nor in fact the Liberal Democrats, I think that it is a racing certainty that the government will change hands at the next election!! so who will we get next?, I have my thoughts have you yours?.

elections

I have had a real good laugh, the Chair of the conservatives came on said it was nothing more than they expected, they understood the feelings of the people!!, I don't think so!!, he believes that the bad showing is down to the hard working people telling them something, well may be they did, but I would have thought that the elderly, unemployed and disabled were also telling them something, but of course the only people who matter to this mixed government are the very lucky ones who for the time being are employed, I say that because you are just as likely to find on Monday that you have joined the massive ranks of the unemployed, there are thousands who are desperate for work but  just can't get a job, it is not their fault, they try every which way to work to no avail, so what about them?, all of a sudden they are in the ranks of the lazy  unemployed they do not deserve to get benefit according to this bunch of idiots in Parliament, these are not people who have lived off the state for all their lives just some one who desperately wants to work but there is just nothing for them, so mister government minister just what does he / she do?, just how many are loosing their homes and worse still their families?, and who takes responsibility?, I have to say I am so pleased to say my working life is finished thank  God because I just do not know what I would do if  my family found themselves in the position some do to day, I just hope things do get better for them, but I have to say "there but the grace of God go I" some MP's ought to think about this as it will not be long before many are unemployed!!.  

Football

Just what is happening to football?, I remember when it was a nice enjoyable visit to a stadium, now it seems to be a joke, these footballers are in fact laughing at the paying crowd, what does it matter if the team wins or looses?, we have the cheats and cheats they are what ever way you look at it, they fall over in abstract agony only to get up and fight another day, when you see the replays you can see that some players  are not even touched go down like a bag of spuds, silly really, but there is so much money sloshing about in the premiere league that it is beyond belief, the players who can be on £200,000 a week this is not a real situation for us, so many people on the bread line in this country and these prima donnas bleeding football dry and laughing all the way to the bank and not giving a dam, so the supporter pays more every season and the players want more, the whole thing is a great big never ending con and the supporters are paying through the nose, I am glad that I got off the boat when I did!!. 

foxy knoxy

So the Italian's court system wants to retry her, she was found guilty and was sent to prison, but you are talking of a US citizen, what chance of this happening just about nil, she has written a book about it, and has the nerve to ask to see the Karcher family to tell them what their daughter said about them, as if they would want to know!, so she has also been on TV to claim her innocents, I am not convinced at all, she said she knows nothing about the murder and that she was not in the house at the time so if that is the case just how  was she found guilty?, it seems that the Italian legal people the press and the general public who I am sure followed the case intently, believe that she was guilty, so where are we now,  she will it seems be tried in her absence as it is very unlikely that she will be extradited, Italy holds the blame, knowing there would need to be a retrial  why on earth did they allow her to leave Italy in the first place, it is amazing just what money can buy, your ordinary person will not get away as they do not have money, if she had been found guilty in the US she would never have been released for the rest of her life! a set of double standards me thinks!!