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Tiz ok, you're not to know.
Besides, UK holidays aren't real holidays. Need sunshine for it to feel like a holiday.
Been overseas for work plenty, just not a holiday.
Reality in Hospitals right now
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Besides, UK holidays aren't real holidays. Need sunshine for it to feel like a holiday.
Been overseas for work plenty, just not a holiday.
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Whaaaat?
Some of our best times as a family have happened in Bude. Having said that, we did get lucky with the weather and our rented house was literally on Crooklets beach.
Many thanks, yeah it is a bit rubbish.
My wife was too upset to tell her dad, so I had the job. He was very sad to be to be told his wife wont be coming to see him + he wont be going home, but to a care home.
My mother in law in law has restricted lung capacity and is so scared she will get it.
We are going to look at a care home thats just a few hundred yards from MILs house, but if he goes there, she wont be able to visit and itll cost £6000 oer month.
Bl@@dy NHS are so dishonest about discharge and funding -the staff nurse and team were being so manipulative, they use lots of emotional blackmail and they asked questions about self funding which they should not have done.
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That absolutely awful news Notch. In that situation I’d be tempted to bed-block. Many years ago, my mother’s elderly neighbour was in a similar situation regarding a hospital wanting to send her husband home with dementia or something. She refused to take him and told them "He’s paid National insurance all his life, he's ill now look after him". She got her way but I doubt if that will work nowdays. If they want the bed, get them to test him. I hope it all works out for you all.
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I really hope that this is all contained sooner rather than later and they will be able to visit each other. It's just so sad that families are going to go through this.
Yeah, had the similar situation with MIL some years back at Whipps hospital, wanting the bed back. Can remember talking to the nurse, doctor, physio, the care worker from the council and all of them were cold, heartless and left my in-laws in tears. Absolutely no help whatsoever with somewhere to go, or any continuing health plan. Kicked her out next day. We luckily found a nursing home, but at our cost despite the in-laws having little savings. I did complain bitterly in writing, said they were breaking guidelines and then the council apologised and refunded us.
How come so expensive? I'd have thought half that amount for a proper, specialist dementia care home. We paid 2k a month in London for a dementia specialist care home 8 years ago.
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Quick, get the chairs and pina colada's out before it goes!!
Bude, around the corner from my dads and where I'd go if asked to get them pasties... Spent many a day walking the family dog on Widemouth Bay just down the road. It's pretty there but it's still the UK!
The thing I don't like about holidaying in the UK is the unreliable weather and it being dull as well as expensive. It's the same people, same food, same attitude, same style buildings... I like to experience continuing sunshine, different cultures, food etc. I really like it when you step out of the airport and get hit in the face with that lovely heat and different smells!!
Or snow, for the sliders among us.
The thing I don't like about holidaying in the UK is the unreliable weather and it being dull as well as expensive. It's the same people, same food, same attitude, same style buildings... I like to experience continuing sunshine, different cultures, food etc. I really like it when you step out of the airport and get hit in the face with that lovely heat and different smells!!
Absolutely agree, I don't go on holiday to have more of the same.
Thats why I thought the euro (currency) such a shame ; the charm of the drachma, peseta, lira and franc, all gone.....
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Very very Wise.As kids we borrowed a tent,hired a car and went off to Devon every summer.Scotland or Wales at Whit.....Used to think it was bloody marvellous .
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Shame on you!
I worked with a Pole a while ago. She took a week off work because her parents were coming over. I asked if they were coming for a holiday and she burst out laughing "what?" she said; "A holiday here? it's horrible!"
That shows what they think of us, and it also shows how people don't appreciate or perhaps simply don't know what we've got over here.
What is it that you think "we've got over here"?
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/21/nhs-junior-doctor-stay-at-home-coronavirus
"Now, we only swab people sick enough to come into hospital, which means we’ll have a falsely low number of confirmed cases. Meanwhile, the government continues to downgrade the quality of personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by NHS staff. Initially, we were wearing FFP3s, high-grade masks filtering out 99% of particles smaller than 0.6 microns, to see any patient with suspected Covid-19. Pretty quickly, demand exceeded supply. Suddenly, entire wards were set up purely for Covid-19 patients. On 11 March, we were informed there wasn’t sufficient evidence supporting the wearing of FFP3s. Instead, PHE advised “basic respiratory precautions”, like with flu. Now we are wearing the most basic surgical masks and a tissue-thin plastic apron to see entire wards of confirmed cases."
An ENT Consultant has died and another is in ICU.
The NHS will not be able to handle the cases as they rise.
"A tall order, given the NHS in England is short of 10,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses. "
"Now, we only swab people sick enough to come into hospital, which means we’ll have a falsely low number of confirmed cases. Meanwhile, the government continues to downgrade the quality of personal protective equipment (PPE) worn by NHS staff. Initially, we were wearing FFP3s, high-grade masks filtering out 99% of particles smaller than 0.6 microns, to see any patient with suspected Covid-19. Pretty quickly, demand exceeded supply. Suddenly, entire wards were set up purely for Covid-19 patients. On 11 March, we were informed there wasn’t sufficient evidence supporting the wearing of FFP3s. Instead, PHE advised “basic respiratory precautions”, like with flu. Now we are wearing the most basic surgical masks and a tissue-thin plastic apron to see entire wards of confirmed cases."
An ENT Consultant has died and another is in ICU.
The NHS will not be able to handle the cases as they rise.
"A tall order, given the NHS in England is short of 10,000 doctors and 40,000 nurses. "
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On the plus side - I just heard that the NHS has struck a deal with private hospitals - so a lot more beds and staff now available...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51989183
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An extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.
The agreement will see the private sector reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS.
The extra resources will also help the NHS deliver other urgent treatments.
In London, this includes more than 2,000 hospital beds and more than 250 operating theatres and critical beds.
The additional staff includes 10,000 nurses, more than 700 doctors and more than 8,000 other clinical staff, who will be joining the health service to help manage an expected surge in cases, said NHS England."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51989183
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An extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.
The agreement will see the private sector reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS.
The extra resources will also help the NHS deliver other urgent treatments.
In London, this includes more than 2,000 hospital beds and more than 250 operating theatres and critical beds.
The additional staff includes 10,000 nurses, more than 700 doctors and more than 8,000 other clinical staff, who will be joining the health service to help manage an expected surge in cases, said NHS England."
On the plus side - I just heard that the NHS has struck a deal with private hospitals - so a lot more beds and staff now available...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51989183
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An extra 8,000 hospital beds across England, nearly 1,200 ventilators and almost 20,000 fully qualified staff will be available from next week.
The agreement will see the private sector reallocate almost its entire national hospital capacity to the NHS.
The extra resources will also help the NHS deliver other urgent treatments.
In London, this includes more than 2,000 hospital beds and more than 250 operating theatres and critical beds.
The additional staff includes 10,000 nurses, more than 700 doctors and more than 8,000 other clinical staff, who will be joining the health service to help manage an expected surge in cases, said NHS England."
Yeah that Boris Johnson just keeps on keeping on, getting stuff done. What a guy.
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