Remembering Nail Clippers

[Khandro]

Can anyone remember a post a few years ago where someone who worked in a hospital (Ratter ?) wrote of the wastage of nail-clippers which were used once and then discarded instead of being sterilized and re-used ?

[Old_Geezer]

No.

 

Did a search for "nailclippers" not bring anything up ?

[albaqwerty]

A "throw Away" World is the title of the thread, posted by Ratter15, well remembered, from 2014!! Scary memory lol

Cannot post like am sorry to say

[barry1010]

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1320014.html

[douglas9401]

I seem to remember this came about due to superbugs and the like that could survive sterilising.

I'll not take the chance with medical equipment that may have been used on a patient with AIDS or simply a run of the mill junkie, thanks all the same.

[naomi24]

I showed an NHS medical professional my bill from a private hospital which listed the charges for absolutely everything from protective gloves used by nurses to the number of paracetamol I'd been given.  She was horrified.  She hadn't realised the amount of waste that happens in the NHS.  She said she'd never thought about it.

[Khandro]

Thank you, and oh some of those posters now gone, bring back memories.

I ask because The Spectator, inspired by the Trump/Musk initiative on wasted public money, is launching a drive to draw attention to waste in the UK and asking for public support.

I like the sentiment in the Leading article:  ..."it was self-evident to them [politicians of the William Gladstone era] that those who spend their own money would always spend it more wisely than those who took other's money and spent it to please whom they may,"

There is along list of some ways our money is being spent, 

'thousands of pounds to an Irish Republican rap group whose name whose name celebrates punishment beatings and whose lyrics celebrate drug taking.

The list goes on with, 'lavishing cash on diversity, equity and inclusion training for builders, Porsches for Albanian prisons, e-bikes for welfare claimants and Teslas for lighthouse-keepers.

I think this might be a worthy cause.

 

[sandyRoe]

^ That list,  they're having a laugh, surely?

[Khandro]

sandy //^ That list,  they're having a laugh, surely?//

No unfortunately for UK taxpayers they are not, and there's lots more on here.

https://archive.ph/eddqV