NHS Food

The NHS does not seem to want to look after the older patient, some have had to have a prescription for would you believe WATER, the very basic for life, the next thing being food, now I have to agree time is a problem here, how can they possibly spend so much time with the elderly who have to have constant help to eat, but help is what has to be given you can't just leave these patients to die because they have not eaten or had a drink, why should they worry? they have many other things to worry them i.e. paper work, the hospital could not exist with out their targets, it is not I believe the responsibility of the nursing staff to complete nonsensical paper work, it is their job to nurse patients need their help not see them sitting in the nurses station filling in forms, so they must look into just what they are into the job for!!!.
The problem with food in a hospital is that much of it is frozen food rather than fresh, as a time saver many have gone to cook and freeze, this food is produced by an off site company and then sent to the hospital and reheated, can that be good for you??  it is no  help at all and it has to be said that this type of food does nothing to aid recovery, the only way is to provide proper fresh cooked food with local veg and meat, not difficult but they seem to think that they are saving money but at what cost, I always thought it was for the NHS to make you well not worse!, so they have to start thinking about the well being of the patient not the hospital budget.

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NHS

This is getting a real pain in the bum, our illustrious Health Minister is playing games again with the NHS, for some reason this government has a downer on the NHS, placing impossible restrictions on it, this just might be the end of the NHS as we know it, it is remarkable that today's MP's seem to have a total disregard for the health of the Nation, why is it that they promote private companies to provide health services?, is it because many just might be directors of these companies? who knows not I, but some thing or one is up to no good, I would have thought and expected that any government who wants to play about with our health should go to the country and secure a mandate to behave in the manner that they are at the moment, they have no mandate for the plans that they are implementing now, so I have to say beware you might open your eyes when it's too late.

Living in England

I have to ask just what the hell this government doing to the elderly in this country, is it their intention to kill us all off to save money in pension payments?, maybe!, just heard that a pension is a benefit!!, no it isn't, we have paid into the pot for 50 years or more to receive this pension it has nothing to do with benefits, so on your bike Mr Cameron and you as well as Mr Clegg, age will come to you sooner than you think!, but of course why should you worry your future is well looked after you will not want for food, heat or any other pleasure in life, so it is us that have to worry, many of us on the bread line, either heating or eating not both, so we can vote you out, yes we can but just look at the alternative Ed the incompetent, or Ed Balls who can't add up but aspires to greatness as chancellor fat chance, so what can we do?, nothing we just have to hope and pray sooner or later hopefully sooner that these idiots will realise the pain they are inflicting on the elderly and the disabled as well.

Social Housing

I just am at a loss as to just what the government is actually up to, just who thought up this bedroom tax?, whatever is said all it is for is to remove elderly people from the home that they have lived in for 30 years or more, these are people that have never had the chance to buy, in their life time you went to work, married and went on the council waiting list for a council house, when you took this house you took it for life all rooms in the house included in the tenancy, so just where do they stand now? it seems that they will have to pay for any empty bedrooms, then comes a little problem one sleeps in one room the other in the second room because of sleep problems one or the other partner suffers from, but this is not acceptable, the wonderful officers who say that you are married so you only need one bedroom and no excuses as to why you might need two. So I say give it a rest let people live out their lives without any extra pressure, one thing is for sure many elderly people will fall ill over this and feel that they are being forced out of their life time homes, so who will benefit from this?, I will leave you to form your own opinions on this I am sure you will be thinking the same as me.

Food

Well so we have horse meat or should I say small traces of it in some process food, well bless my soul what a massive problem this is, on the scale of things happening in the World today it just does not matter, but it goes on and on, first Roumania then France then Ireland and all points North South East and West, it matters not who or how it happened it did, nothing can be done about it most of it was eaten and now the rest has been taken off the shelves so there it ends or it should do, I have said that processed food is not  good dietary food, pies are full of all sorts of things but to be sure very little meat at all that is why they are so cheap, so if you want to be sure you have to buy better food or face the consequences, with all this fuss over so little I just ask myself what is happening that is being kept from us i.e. hidden.

Most of the problems with processed food is that it has to be cheap that is the main criteria nothing to do with food value, children, hospital patients and prisons have that in common, they are trying to feed them as cheap as possible, and look at this more closely what do all these have in common?,  they do not have a voice to complain and when and if they manage it they are not listened to. 

Benefits

It seems that the government has at long last decided to look into the benefit claims of the immigrant population just might have a problem being allowed to claim benefit including child allowance that is going to Poland at the rate of £23 million a year, then we have legal aid, why should people who are not really welcome in this country be able to appeal and appeal at a massive cost to the tax payer, then comes the NHS how is it that immigrants who have not paid one penny into the system be allowed free care, when we go abroad we have to be insured to be able to pay for any treatment we might need but here we just let anyone who cares to attend is treated free, why are they not required to have insurance to cover the cost, in the world out side the UK if you cant pay you don't get treated so is it not time for us to get a grip of the situation, no more child benefit for children who do not even live in this country, and why should the cat lawyers make vast amount of money appealing lost cases who are not only costing us money for legal costs but the cost of housing these people in remand prison at a vast cost, and then we come to housing!, why are these people being allowed accommodation especially in London at a very large cost to the tax payer, it has to stop we as a country can not stand this we have now taken to removing benefit from UK nationals to make up the short fall, I have difficulty finding the rational here, we have to stand up and let MP's know just where we stand before its too late.

NHS and Education

I hate to say I told you so but I am afraid In did several times, the word care has to be put back into the NHS, the Francis report is damming of Mid Staffs Hospitals and rightly so but the fact that no staff whatsoever have been disciplined is a disgrace you can't work without responsibility, be it a CEO or a Porter all have a responsibility in the care of a patient, but  here we have a total disregard to care replaced by the desperate need to meet targets whatever the cost, so who will learn from this debacle?, hospital trusts probably not as they are now on a massive save money campaign, so who will be used as a saving why of course the patient, the patient who is lying in a bed who in a lot of cases can't complain because they are to ill to, so if you can't care or do not have the time to make a noise tell the management they are responsible they carry the can, but if you stay quiet you carry it do you want to?, I think not.

I supported a Head Teacher a couple of years ago, a great man in my eyes, a great teacher who I can't speak highly enough, he resigned from his post through no fault of his own who has now moved on, his school that he left was on a satisfactory rating by Ofsted is now inadequate really good for the children their education has slipped and all the governors and head can do is claim that the school is improving, the news on the street is not so rosy many parents have spoken to me saying that the school and the education it offers is rubbish their words not mine, what a sad situation for the children, one thing for sure the school will go on its merry way with the same inadequate teaching that it has now and sad to say had before, one really great bit of news the old head moving on has a new school that has progressed tremendously so much so that he has been voted teacher of the year in the town that the school is in, says a lot to me!!.