The NHS

I see once again that a whistle-blower of the NHS finds that his old trust he was employed by have released his name to try and belittle his statements, how can that possibly be, how can a trust be allowed to vilify this man because he saw fit to speak up about patient safety in his hospital, so two of his colleagues were prescribing cancer treatments that were not needed at all, this could have put the patients at risk, I would have thought it did put them at risk, but why should the trust care, not to worry them till of course something goes wrong then its every one else's fault, so how is it that they know but do nothing? then take exception to a doctor who actually cares about patients safety, it seems that the trust boards have no respect for patient safety, the government has to step in and stop this mockery of patient care and safety, I have written to my MP about this and I hope some of you will to, be worried about patient safety it is top of my list.

Civil Aircraft Shot Down Over the Ukraine

I was watching the report on the air liner that was shot down over the Ukraine last year, it was shot down by a Russian Ground to air missile blowing up the front of the  cockpit killing the pilots immediately, three sets of people could have and for certain one did shot it down, the government of the Ukraine, I personally find this unlikely, the separatists  by Russia a good possibility, then the  Russian army, they are more likely to have committed this act, but the one thing for sure is that all we are ever going to know is that some one did it, but they do not have the courage of their convictions and have a big stone to hide under never to come out again.
 

The NHS

I see that the NHS has a black hole in its accounts of 930 Million plus, but still the chancellor persists with the mad idea that it can afford to offer a 7 day a week service, financially it is impossible and I find it difficult to accept that a man holding such a high rank of state as Chancellor  is not capable of doing the maths to work this out, not only that but the Ministry of Health is just as blind, so two ministers of state who do not have the slightest idea as to how this total mess is sorted out, that is if it can be, I am not in myself very optimistic at all, I remember that a certain MP submitted his paper on how to upgrade the NHS, I have to laugh as when it went through parliament he was removed from the health ministry, so not about to explain why he got it so wrong, he is still about but does not take responsibility for the cock up he has caused with our health.
Can we go on having a free service?, if not why not?, why do we spend so much money on overseas aid?, the cost of bombing in Syria and the air support we are involved in, we need to keep our military and not use them on conflicts that are nothing to do with us, we pay a fortune to the EU every month and get nothing near the amount back so why would we stay in, we as a country we need to start to look after our own people and stop trying to police the world, then maybe we would have enough money to keep the NHS solvent. 

The Middle East

How can Europe and NATO sit back and allow Russia to do just as she pleases in Syria, they are not there as they say to hit IS but to eradicate opposition forces against Assad, Assad has managed to destroy Syria bit by bit with no care to life be it young or old, male, female, of whatever nationality or Religion, no matter what they will die, now not only has he carried on with this carnage with a free hand he now has support of the Little Man of  Russia!, a man who has a fixation with telling the world one thing then doing exactly the opposite, how can a world leader get away with blatant lying about his actions to the world, one of his planes managed to invade Turkish air space, he says a mistake, Turkey says it was deliberate, I believe Turkey they have no reason to say that the venture by Russia in to their air space was anything other than deliberate.
One thing for sure is that if this niggling carries on sooner or later there will be a major incident, where Russia will again make a point of  gaining the high ground and blaming everyone else rather than itself, this is a dangerous situation, here we have a mad man running a very powerful Nation with  no need to worry about the west because he is well aware that they are all frightened to death by him and will do nothing at all to stop him, this can't carry on he needs to be  reined in before it is to late or is it to late already????.

The NHS

I keep seeing the government saying that a patient can see their doctor 8am till 8pm seven days a week !!!, that is an impossibility, no young just qualified doctor is going to sign a contract that says this, some people say that a GP has it all to easy!, I know mine works very hard is always understanding and is accessible, unless you a seriously ill why would you need to see your doctor on a Saturday or Sunday afternoon?, some say they are at work, but then I have to ask why do you expect your doctor to bend his working week to accommodate you, would it not be better that you select a GP that suits your needs rather than expect GP's to have to change their working week to suit you!!, reality says that we have a massive shortage of GP's young doctors do not want to do such a job,  I know of surgeries that are short of one if not more GP's with no hope of replacing the vacancy,  many are under so much pressure that they are retiring early to escape the system, and  I for one do not blame them at all, so in reality a shortage of doctors is a reality so how can they increase the work load on the ones that are left, to make things worse those that are close to retiring might just go even earlier then what??. I also notice that at one point it was thrown about that we should pay £10 a visit, well now some bright spark is suggesting  £30 a visit, the world has gone mad!!!.

The UK

I have to ask just what the demonstrators in Manchester really want, yes the NHS still needs more money but much can be saved by stopping fraud, it is surprising that many managers in the NHS have no clinical qualifications at all, so if you have a CEO who is clinical trained he/she does not have a hope in hell running the hospital, it has often been said to me that the staff working in a hospital resemble an upturned triangle, the clinical staff are out numbered by admin staff, why do we need so many admin staff?, I understand we need some, but so many it makes you spin, if you look  at the staffing requirements of a hospital, not counting the clinical departments there are many, many Business departments each having a compliment of staff, and of course a manager, it makes no sense at all, it is all well and good having targets for the hospital to meet, so when they don't meet  the set target the hospital unit becomes involved in trying to get back to the target, meaning other things go by the board, that is not acceptable situation to place hospitals in, not very often do you hear good things about a hospital and when you do the media loves it when they unintentionally fall below their usual standard the hospital and staff are pilloried and hung out to dry, who in their right mind would get involved in this mad house?, not me. 

So yes support the NHS but look at it in a manner that looks at the whole situation not just argue about pay levels, be realistic we need the NHS we do not need UNIONS to destroy it!!. 

Syria

I hate to go  about this conflict but I feel the need to have a go, what is it with Russia?, we lost good men supplying them with stores during the 2nd world war with the dreadful Artic
convoys , and all they have done ever since is slap us in the face, not only us but the majority of the world, how can one man be allowed to dictate his will on every one else, I am sure we are fed some disinformation by our spin doctors, but we can see on our  TV sets destruction virtually as it happens and I do not believe that it can really be spun at the time of transmission, what is seen  is disseminated by the person watching it, attacks are obvious they, I do not believe be staged managed, so where are we in all this?, well we have a despot dictator hanging on by a thread at one point but now has the backing of the little man in Russia, so the Russians are supporting a vile dictatorship that has been known to use poison gas on its own people, how is it possible to justify support for such a man?, the west is now deep in trouble, the air space that the west uses to bomb IS is now taken over by Russian aircraft a sure recipe for disaster, how long will it be before a mistake is made and someone's aircraft  is shot down, it is possible for it to happen just remember the Ukraine a civil aircraft but still blown out of the sky, the little man has the drop on the US, the UK and the rest of the world, not one leader is strong enough to say to him it is time to stop playing games and for him to direct his time to his own country he has enough problems at home to be bothered about before interfering in others