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« Reply #26580 on: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 11:39:31 »

I think I've asked this before, but what's with the trend of stopping 10 feet from the traffic light line?

can only assume it's a recently taught thing
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« Reply #26581 on: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 16:49:47 »

I was sat at traffic lights for ten minutes the other week for that exact reason, the car at the front of the queue was so far away the sensors didn't know it was there, so the traffic lights just stayed red.
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« Reply #26582 on: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 19:22:37 »

People that exaggerate.
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« Reply #26583 on: Sunday, September 24, 2017, 21:17:05 »

NHS cuts,
We were worried about my little boys breathing so called 111 for advice. The call handler wanted to get an ambo out to us. We offered to drive to the hospital but they were adamant we waited for the paramedics. 30 minutes, still waiting, rang again and was told we were classed as an emergency and an ambo would be with us ASAP. Another 30 minutes pass and still nothing. By now my son was sleeping symptoms subsided. Rang 999 and told them not to bother with the ambo and if we feel the need, we’ll drive him in ourselves. I feel sorry for them, the call handler was so apologetic and said how short they are on paramedics. I dread to think what would it would have been like if my son was in a more critical situation.
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« Reply #26584 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 07:05:25 »

Just to add to the above. My wife ended up driving our son in last night and it took almost 2 hours to be assessed and then told it’s likely another 5-7 hours to be seen by a paediatrician. With the help of a nurse she made a judgement call to bring him home as there wasn’t even anywhere to sit, they were having to sit on the floor.
We’re going to see if we have better luck with the tots clinic this morning.
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« Reply #26585 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 07:54:47 »

Isn't there a child clinic at Moredon?
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« Reply #26586 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 08:10:41 »

That's awful Seb Sad hope your nipper is ok.

The NHS is close to full-on collapse through deliberate and malicious underfunding, at which point the Tories will bring in their mates who'll run it for profit. I fucking hate what they've done to this country, I cannot understand the people who just shrug their shoulders about it.
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« Reply #26587 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 08:19:07 »

Isn't there a child clinic at Moredon?
Yeah, that’s the hot tots but rang them up as soon as they opened and they have no appointment so available.
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« Reply #26588 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 08:21:06 »

That's awful Seb Sad hope your nipper is ok.

The NHS is close to full-on collapse through deliberate and malicious underfunding, at which point the Tories will bring in their mates who'll run it for profit. I fucking hate what they've done to this country, I cannot understand the people who just shrug their shoulders about it.
He’ll be ok, it’s just crazy to be told that we are being treated as an emergency then have to wait an hour for an ambo. We told them from the off it wasn’t necessary but they insisted.
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« Reply #26589 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 08:24:41 »

Hope all is ok Seb.

It is shocking that the nhs is like it is. The ambulance program currently on the Beeb is a brilliant watch.

The kids a&e up at the hospital is always short staffed. The amount of text incentives my mrs gets to work there is quite scary!
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« Reply #26590 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 08:53:23 »

Hope the bairn is OK, strangely living out in the sticks up here the only time we needed an ambulance for our little un it arrived dead quick and they were really helpful. although we did have a bizarre exchange with the paramedics along the lines of them saying 'you might want to take her into A&E', after a debate myself and the wife said to them 'Look we know that you cannot answer this, but our reading is that if you really thought she needed to go to A&E either she would be in the back of the ambulance now, or alternatively you would be telling us to drive her to A&E' He just smiled and we took her to the GP in the morning.

Although on another level I found a guy semi conscious with a head injury in a pool of blood on a country road in the summer, he had come off his bike and it took nearly 2.5 hours for an ambulance to attend, thankfully by then he had come round a bit and walked to the ambulance eventually.

As we didn't move him the road was blocked and it took the police nearly 2 hours to roll up, although they were brilliant when they did.

Public services are ever more fucked in this country.... plus as the country has become more and more litigious they are damned if they do and damned if they don't, hence our strange exchange above and then having to sign about 6 forms confirming that they had suggested A&E and we had reached dour own decision. 
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« Reply #26591 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 08:59:16 »

That's awful Seb Sad hope your nipper is ok.

The NHS is close to full-on collapse through deliberate and malicious underfunding, at which point the Tories will bring in their mates who'll run it for profit. I fucking hate what they've done to this country, I cannot understand the people who just shrug their shoulders about it.

A lot of people would like to return things the 1950's, when the UK still had global clout, the vestiges of Empire and a massive manufacturing industry. Further, a culturally heterogeneous society, with bobbies on the beat, delivering a firm slap to any miscreants, and Albert Pierrepoint doing for the worst offenders.

The NHS was very primitive, Swindon's hospital being the Victoria, built in the 19th Century, with matching facilities.
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« Reply #26592 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 09:51:14 »

A lot of people would like to return things the 1950's, when the UK still had global clout,


That's a bit harsh, did you not see the huge audience of global leaders hanging on Mrs Mays every word at the UN last week...


The NHS was very primitive, Swindon's hospital being the Victoria, built in the 19th Century, with matching facilities.

A lot of people point to the NHS having its origins in Swindon...
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« Reply #26593 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 10:11:50 »

Not being able to drink on wood street at the sausage and ale trail
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« Reply #26594 on: Monday, September 25, 2017, 10:57:03 »

That's a bit harsh, did you not see the huge audience of global leaders hanging on Mrs Mays every word at the UN last week...

A lot of people point to the NHS having its origins in Swindon...

New Swindon had the GWR Medical Fund Society up until 1947, when with some reservations it was handed over to the nascent NHS after its centenary. It had been established by Sir Daniel Gooch along with representatives of the workforce. Gooch noticed that the workers would chip in to help out, those poor unfortunates who lost limbs etc in the Works, and realised it could benefit the Company, if their contributions could be organised with the company helping out. Therefore a doctor was employed and given free housing in the village. Other problems were poor sanitation, with typhus and small pox rampant, with this in mind the Milton Road complex was built, to improve hygiene and cleanliness. Obviously as the numbers of workers increased so did the fund.

Socialists tend to regard this as the proto NHS, Tories as private healthcare. Which may explain why they're looking to sell Milton.Road to a developer for flats.
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