NHS: Bursting at the seams

[SueEllen]

Since Turkey has only met 1 of the 31 requirements to join the EU, and other countries can veto them joining like Germany (who have a lot of Turkish people) and France it is going to take a extremely long time before Turkey joins. In fact by the time Turkey is eligible to join the EU likely won't exist any more....

[DimPrawn]

NHS about to get a lot busier...

[vetran]

The STD nurse isn't officially a consultant you know. At 5pm their clientele are normally out spreading the love and infections. Try 10am on a Monday.

[SueEllen]

I had a hospital out-patients appointment with the consultant yesterday at 5pm. This is in an area big enough for 100 people at a guess with a dozen or so examination rooms. I got there just before, and there was nobody there. Not a soul. Just me, a receptionist and a very bored looking nurse. I waited around for a couple of minutes and saw the doctor pretty much on time.

Maybe all those immigrants I keep hearing about had gone somewhere else. Clearly we should take some money out of the NHS and give it to the EU.

If you were referred to the outpatients by a GP it's not surprising you didn't see anyone. GPs have deliberately cut the number of referrals they do to save costs. In some areas they won't refer people at all for things like a tonsillectomy. In some areas they actually get a bonus for not referring any of their patients for a procedure.

[original PM]

I had a hospital out-patients appointment with the consultant yesterday at 5pm. This is in an area big enough for 100 people at a guess with a dozen or so examination rooms. I got there just before, and there was nobody there. Not a soul. Just me, a receptionist and a very bored looking nurse. I waited around for a couple of minutes and saw the doctor pretty much on time.

Maybe all those immigrants I keep hearing about had gone somewhere else. Clearly we should take some money out of the NHS and give it to the EU.

Nope this is the reason why the Brexit voice are not really that bothered about reducing immigration - they just want control of it to ensure it does not become too big a burden on the infrastructure.

[VectraMan]

Yes I've been spending a lot of time travelling around rural Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, in quaint Cotswold villages where a small house costs £700K, and there's hardly a problem with immigrants...

Apparently 10% of the population are Polish in this area. And no it's not a quaint Cotswold village; they don't tend to have hospitals.

[Eirikur]

Which private hospital was this?

Nah immigrants like me go to private hospitals not the native ukipanians

[OwlHoot]

Yes I've been spending a lot of time travelling around rural Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, in quaint Cotswold villages where a small house costs £700K, and there's hardly a problem with immigrants...

I cut through there sometimes to reach the M5.

But some A road always seems to be closed for roadworks, and I'm diverted into Swindon, where I promptly get lost!

[DimPrawn]

Yes I've been spending a lot of time travelling around rural Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, in quaint Cotswold villages where a small house costs £700K, and there's hardly a problem with immigrants...

[GB9]

I assume you'll all be voting Tory at the next GE as the NHS policies are clearly working.

[shaunbhoy]

I had a hospital out-patients appointment with the consultant yesterday at 5pm. This is in an area big enough for 100 people at a guess with a dozen or so examination rooms. I got there just before, and there was nobody there. Not a soul. Just me, a receptionist and a very bored looking nurse. I waited around for a couple of minutes and saw the doctor pretty much on time.

Well ebola can have that sort of divisive effect.

[FatLazyContractor]

Which private hospital was this?

[VectraMan]

I had a hospital out-patients appointment with the consultant yesterday at 5pm. This is in an area big enough for 100 people at a guess with a dozen or so examination rooms. I got there just before, and there was nobody there. Not a soul. Just me, a receptionist and a very bored looking nurse. I waited around for a couple of minutes and saw the doctor pretty much on time.

Maybe all those immigrants I keep hearing about had gone somewhere else. Clearly we should take some money out of the NHS and give it to the EU.