Taking the P155

[Troll]

We do. It's called Private Medical Insurance. The NHS is for the immigrants and under-classes only. Permie!

Exactly - and well done for highlighting a problem with a surge in immigrants from third world countries, with chronic third world illnesses putting an intolerable strain upon the NHS

[Flubster]

...putting an intolerable strain upon the NHS

Coped with by sub-contracting out procedures to the Private Sector. Everyone's a winner. And expect an NI hike at the next budget.

[Numptycorner]

We do. It's called Private Medical Insurance. The NHS is for the immigrants and under-classes only. Permie!

And who do you think trains those DRs you pillock!

[sasguru]

Exactly - and well done for highlighting a problem with a surge in immigrants from third world countries, with chronic third world illnesses putting an intolerable strain upon the NHS

But aren't they being treated and looked after mainly by immigrants from third world countries?

[Flubster]

And who do you think trains those DRs you pillock!

DRs - Disaster Recoverers?

They're all Indian/Pakistan imports, mate, so no loss to us....All our decent doctors go to the States...

[Troll]

But aren't they being treated and looked after mainly by immigrants from third world countries?

1st question to ask a consultant when using the NHS is "where did he or she qualify"

UK,Europe,N.America is OK

Australia or any other third world country and you should really walk away

*note in this context Europe refers to western European

[Joe Black]

There's a reasonably interesting brief analysis of gummint IT failure (including NHS's NPfIT) in The Times today, here:

The cycle of cover-ups and failure that costs us millions.

It includes an anecdote about the Criminal Records Bureau system.

Love the quote "In fact 80 per cent of applications for background checks were on paper, but the computer screens had not been designed for the keying in of paper forms.".

Joe in "just how many £m does it take to build an on-screen form" mode.