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Pauline Cafferty .
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condition has stabilised............. great news .
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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.
16:20 Tue 06th Jan 2015
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.
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.
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).
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).
