South central ambulance service

[John Arton]

A quick Google search will show you that percentage wise there are almost as many non clinical staff working for the NHS as there are medical staff. The trust's that run our NHS are stuffed with high earning executives on six figure salaries. Up here the c.e.o. of our trust is c.e.o. of the adjoining trust so God knows how much he is being paid. In our local hospital we have a director of operations, he is not in charge of medical operations but is charged with such things as ground and building maintenance. As a director he obviously has to have an assistant director along with a P.A. (no such thing as a secretary for him, he is a director, not a manager). We also have a director of relevance. Don't ask me what he does though.
I think you get my drift though. The NHS needs a top to bottom overhaul to get rid of all the dead wood non medical staff, many on more money than highly trained and overworked nurses and doctors. Once you have got rid of all that waste, review or cease the massive PFI payments that trusts are required to pay for their New builds. I Reckon that doing all that it would be found that the present level of funding is more than adequate.
Rgds.
J.A.

[thomas michael]

A quick Google search will show you that percentage wise there are almost as many non clinical staff working for the NHS as there are medical staff. The trust's that run our NHS are stuffed with high earning executives on six figure salaries. Up here the c.e.o. of our trust is c.e.o. of the adjoining trust so God knows how much he is being paid. In our local hospital we have a director of operations, he is not in charge of medical operations but is charged with such things as ground and building maintenance. As a director he obviously has to have an assistant director along with a P.A. (no such thing as a secretary for him, he is a director, not a manager). We also have a director of relevance. Don't ask me what he does though.
I think you get my drift though. The NHS needs a top to bottom overhaul to get rid of all the dead wood non medical staff, many on more money than highly trained and overworked nurses and doctors. Once you have got rid of all that waste, review or cease the massive PFI payments that trusts are required to pay for their New builds. I Reckon that doing all that it would be found that the present level of funding is more than adequate.
Rgds.
J.A.

hi john arton
the top to bottom overhaul has already been carried out and was sanctioned by the labour party under blair and the labour party, the chaos that is called management these days was labour party policy for the nhs,
and now the conservatives are trying to dig through the mire with whatever their policies are, but apart from the management problems, you are forgetting that nearly five million immigrants are now using the system and this is without the third world countries population whom are flying in to get free free free free well everything from drugs for aids to kidney transplants,
but no one will admit that this extra burden is the reason why the national health service is imploding,no they would sooner state that we the general old aged population are sucking the breath out of our public systems,
Well why can we not have a poll of each town and city to find out how many immigrants are using these services then we would know for sure,( BUT the liberal party under vince cable is advocating higher taxes for the retired )
tom

[John Arton]

Thomas
Have to agree with you on the number of migrants that have entered the country in the last decades. These put an enormous strain on not only the health services but also education etc. In addition there are large numbers of health tourists coming from Africa and mid Eastern countries who are putting extra strain on our services, especially maternity and the likes of cancer treatments. In addition to their medical treatment there's also the requirement to provide them with translation services as most of them will claim they no speak English very well. Snoop on them and you may find that they speak English Very well.
Rgds
J.A.

[vic mcclymont]

Go abroad, need a doctor, first question, let's see your insurance, to much trouble over here.
Should be, enter UK, got medical insurance, no, make entrant pay fee which goes to NHS.
Spain charges a tax on holidaymakers, why can't the UK? It's not rocket science.
Vic

[Captain Kong]

the last two times I was in a hospital bed I was the only Englishman on the ward of ten patients,
all the rest came from the Khyber regions,
I went into the bathroom and there was human crap all over the toilet cistern and down over the seat and on the floor. it was disgusting,
They stood on the seat and did it.
I told the Staff and it was a regular thing, They do not understand what a toilet is.
I got out of there fast.
I feel sorry for the Nursing Staff.

[thomas michael]

the last two times I was in a hospital bed I was the only Englishman on the ward of ten patients,
all the rest came from the Khyber regions,
I went into the bathroom and there was human crap all over the toilet cistern and down over the seat and on the floor. it was disgusting,
They stood on the seat and did it.
I told the Staff and it was a regular thing, They do not understand what a toilet is.
I got out of there fast.
I feel sorry for the Nursing Staff.

hi capt kong
I will send you a recent news cutting showing how much human excrement was found by the health department in a fast food outlet, the owner never washed his hands and the entire hovel called his kitchen together with serving are was covered in human excrement,
tom

[vic mcclymont]

Same over here Thomas, regular occurrence in the papers.
Vic

[Captain Kong]

Hi Thomas,
It happens all the time here in Boltonistan, .......things found in Curries..........
....... Used condoms, cigarette ends, rat droppings, and so on..

Anyone who goes in a curry house, kibab shop, or an asian takeaway deserves all they get.

I have never been in one, will never go in one.
If I feel the need for a curry I would make my own at home, Never eat out.

[Rodney Mills]

I live in a small town in South Carolina. We have a fine modern hospital, but have a large attrition of good doctors. The government offers educational debt relief, the paying-off of medical student loans for service in rural areas. In other words, a doctor assumes a high debt while undertaking medical school. For a set period in a "hardship area'" say for three years, he has his education debt written down. This is all well and good, however there is a rapid turn over of doctors. Compounding this problem of ever changing doctors are the ones that do stick around are not the best. No doctor who graduates from a good medical school with high grades is going to stick around in Mud Puddle, South Carolina, when the bright lights and larger financial rewards beckon in major cities or large towns.

The odd time I had cause to visit the doctors while traveling overseas, it was much the same, if possible I stayed away from doctors in small towns.

A number of years ago I was involved, as a passenger, in a boating accident. My friend hit a submerged log. The boat, totally destroyed, came to a dead-stop. I didn't. I was thrown chest first against the arm of a bench-seat. The seat didn't move, but my ribs did. Five caved-in and a punctured lung. A couple of nearby fishermen helped me down into their smaller boat and transported me to a nearby dock. My friend had radioed for help on the coast guard emergency frequency, they had notified the emergency response team in my home town and an ambulance was awaiting me.

The ambulance ride was about a ten mile journey. They hooked me up with i.v. ports, and heart monitors and what-ever as it raced up the highway to town.
First class service.

I was in the hospital and under sedation for a couple of days. The doctors had inserted draining tubes into my chest and back. They were quite proud of the fact that their was no drainage coming from my chest.

My wife stayed by me part ways through the night and then left for a few hours. When she came back on the second morning, she met with the doctors who again informed her there was no drainage and the lung had re-inflated and all I would need was time to mend the ribs. She came into my room and near fell over when she glanced at the monitor over my bed. My blood pressure was dangerously low as was my heart beat. She yelled for a nurse and doctor. One of the nurses let it slip that they had turned off the beeper because, they were busy and it kept going! The doctor said "But there's no drainage." My wife, told them in no uncertain terms. "I want him transferred to the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Now.!"

This ambulance trip was by an Air Transport Ambulance (helicopter roughly an eighty mile journey).

I spent a week in intensive care and a further two weeks being treated for the infection that had set in my chest wall. Three of the ribs had caved-in and have never joined together.

The bad news was the hospital bill was seventy thousand plus and the chopper ride was roughly ten thousand. The good news was that it was paid for by my Medicare coverage (senior citizens government medical insurance for those over sixty-five) and what they did not cover my own medical coverage paid the balance. No question regarding the helicopter ambulance fee.

We moved all our doctors and medical needs to the bright lights of Charleston and the Medical University and couldn't be happier (medically wise).

[Captain Kong]

The Best Hospital I was in was The Queens Medical Centre in Honolulu, Hawaii, five years ago this week.
I went in the ER , they told me I had less than four days to live without treatment, The amazing part was the Doctor in ER and two Surgeons who both operated later, all knew my son and even had his phone Number and called him, they let me speak to him after they finished informing him on what they were going to do. cost $85,000, worth every cent. They saved my life. Good Insurance paid for it.
I left hospital on 14 February, Valentines Day, and Eight Nurses lined up and hugged and kissed me and gave me Valentine cards. which I still have.
I do have this effect on women.
Cheers
Brian