Pauline Cafferty .

[anneasquith]

condition has stabilised............. great news .

[ummmm]

Fingers crossed she will pull through.

[janbee]

Good news for the Cafferkey family

[anneasquith]

oops. Cafferkey .

[New Judge]

Yes good news.

Hopefully even better news would be that her plight deters any more trained medical people from the UK from setting forth to that region (though I doubt it will). They might then remain here and tend to some of the sick in this country.

[dannyk13]

So all the nurses here from other countries ahould go back home to attend to their fellow countrymen? Hate to think what would happen to the NHS if they did.

[youngmafbog]

Well maybe they should Danny

I have never approved of the NHS stealing staff from poor countries that can ill afford to retrain others for the NHS.

I couldn't agree more NJ. It wont be until one of them manages to spread it amongst the British public though that something may be done about it.

[LochNessMonster]

Got my tail crossed for her.

Brave lady !

[chaptazbru2]

Agree NJ.

[Pete65]

Yes, I sincerely hope she pulls through!

[Canary42]

Such a shame that this goodwill thread had to be invaded by the usual egocentric folk who can't see beyond the end of their nose.

I sincerely hope this brave lady gets well soon.

[New Judge]

There's nothing egocentric about my remarks, Canary.

I'm fortunate enough at the moment to not be in need of medical treatment. But I know plenty of people that are. Some of them are seriously ill and all have paid taxes and NI all their adult lives. Their treatment is being jeopardised because of "lack of resources" whilst people such as Ms Cafferty are absenting themselves from the UK (where they could help with the unprecedented demand currently facing the NHS). Furthermore MS McCafferty is placing a demand upon the NHS herself which could be readily avoided had she not imperiled herself.

Volunteering overseas is very laudable provided everything is hunky-dory at home. But it's not. People pay taxes in the expectation that when they need medical treatment it will be readily available. Yet only today a number of hospitals reported declaring emergencies because they were unable to meet demand. Such a sitation is not helped when trained medics take themselves off to disease ridden areas and return with a highly infectious life-threatening illness.

[237SJ]

NJ - if trained medics didn`t take themselves off to try to stem the flow of Ebola, it could well be the UK`s problem rather than West Africa`s.

[SirOracle]

How very caring of you New Judge.

The main reason for the decline in our NHS is due to the present government not funding it adequately.....it is not due to the lack of staff. There are many recently qualified nurses etc etc who are unable to obtain employment in the NHS,because of cut-backs.

[New Judge]

It already is the UK's problem. There is a case of it currently being treated in the Royal Free Hospital in north London and that is a direct result of a person returning to the UK from an infected area having gone there and deliberately mixed with infected people.

The NHS is not in crisis because of lack of funds. Funding has been ring fenced in real terms. It is in crisis because of a rising population which successive governments (not just this one) have encouraged without concomitant increases in the provision of public services. It also suffers from appalingly bad management, excessive waste and procedures which concentrate more on processes than outcomes (i.e. healing the sick).

[boxtops]

I wish Pauline well again, sincerely I do. I couldn't have done what she has volunteered to do.

[Psybbo]

Boxy, agreed, what courage she and all the others have.

[DTCwordfan]

fingers crossed now...........

[DTCwordfan]

and I don't believe how myopic and short-term a limited number of folk on here are. Like the French say, "Incroyable."

[murraymints]

..AND TOES......saay a wee Hail Mary for her tonight...xx

[SirOracle]

New Judge....You certainly lead the field here for pontification.

Such a pity that so often, your postings are a load of extreme right wing ,selfish rubbish.