My Good Old Mums Response To The Budget

[nicebloke1]

Just spoken to mum, bearing in mind she was born in the 20s, in 4 months time she will be 104 years young. What did she say? Its about time the purse strings were tightened. Keep on giving and you keep wanting alive. By giving no one learns to stand on their own to feet and sooner or later become useless. :0))

[Old_Geezer]

Many of us have been putting up with tight purse strings for some time. Wars and lockdowns don't come cheap. Last thing we need is to be hit further when already low.

[nicebloke1]

And if the labour government don't take action now OG we could sink even lower. The cons closed this country down during covid and gave billions away.  One of the biggest complaints I've seen of late on AB is the lack of health care within the NHS. So this government is trying to fix that problem, those same people are now complaining about them trying to fix it. What a ruddy joke. The new equipment this government is prepared to invest in for the NHS is going to see 40k more patients PER DAY. Ask yourself this question, did the cons have any such plan in the pipeline? No they didn't, neither did they have any plans to end the strikes within the NHS, they were more than happy to sit back and let people die, while they fought over who was going to become top dog in number 10. Slagging each other off in the process, fighting like little school kids.

[newmodarmy]

New equipment is unlikely to see anyone. It needs more trained staff the NHS hasn't got and more wards....and better organisation first.

[nicebloke1]

The new equipment now being bought require less staff to opperate. The whole idea of buying advanced equipment hence the increase turnover of patients. 

[newmodarmy]

Have you got some examples then of the new equipment and the resultant savings in the number of staff needed to operate them? 

[davebro3]

// The new equipment this government is prepared to invest in for the NHS is going to see 40k more patients PER DAY.//

On another thread - Labour voter = Delusional!

[naomi24]

What absolute nonsense you talk, nicebloke - and you've still not told us what your good old mum is on about.

[vulcan42]

How many machines will it take to see 40,000 more people a day and what exactly are they looking for?

[nicebloke1]

What an awful state you are getting into, it should really be the reverse with all the good news for the NHS.

[naomi24]

Nicebloke, don't you know what your good old mum is on about?

[nicebloke1]

A whole lot more than i know what your on about thats for sure. Keep calm all is well with the UK its now in safe hands of a working PM, not a clown.

[naomi24]

Why don't you tell us then?

[davebro3]

nice - you will let us know how much you inherit when your dear old mum pops her clogs won't you?

[nicebloke1]

Never have i come accross such negative folk, but I dare say if you follow the same dreary routine day in day out it well explains it.

[Deskdiary]

Not much to be positive about with this dreadful, financially illiterate, budget.

[vulcan42]

nicebloke, how many more of theses machines you refer to, will they need?

[Deskdiary]

I'm exaggerating to make a point, but the NHS could take the whole of the UK tax income and it still wouldn't be enough - some people think throwing money at the NHS is the panacea and it really is not. The NHS is adequately funded, it's the way the funding is used that's the problem.

 

As near as makes no difference the wage bill is split 50/50 between medical staff and non-medical staff, and that just nuts. Does a Trust really need a head of diversity on a hundred grand (plus the team below that person)? 

[nicebloke1]

And how would you know or not know if any of these problems are being looked at by the present government. Because they sure have not for many years. If you had seen only this week on tv, the NHS have a special fraud team working on all sortd of scams, ripping the NHS off for millions. There have been chemists, doctors and nurses involved with the scams, especially private contract nurses ( cant think of the proper term for the latter) but theres been false work sheets that have been presented for hours that have not been worked, aso false overtime sheets. Some are already serving time, plus the loss of their jobs.

[nicebloke1]

And by the way millions have been recovered and paid back to the NHS. ONe doctor was getting expensive drugs for free and selling them on.

[bednobs]

people who are already serving time for fraud are very unlikely to have been caught, prosecuted and sentenced since labour came to power