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It wouldn’t be the same capacity. It may well be the same consultant grade staff, but they will have worked their NHS contracted hours. So that is extra capacity. The NHS could “buy” additional consultant capacity by offering additional sessions. These days, however, consultants may well tell...

So you don’t maximise your potential income as a matter of choice, and then basically blame boomers for having everything handed to them on a plate (which they had probably worked very hard for). You can’t be very happy in reality else you wouldn’t need to be regularly having a go at boomers. I...

Doesn’t the UK government collect a percentage of employees salary and a Value equivalent to a percentage of that employees salary from the employer? Don’t they call that National Insurance? Ive not been employed for a while and some things are hard to remember, but if my recollection is...

How much could he have been expected to achieve at 13?

Of course the plebs should get decent healthcare. I'm a pleb and have had decent care ( and expensive care to boot) recently. Unfortunately it would appear that is not a universal experience. Something needs to change.

I think they would if the alternate was a long and painful wait for their child. If provided free. Pensioners would be denied access to this approach as they don’t have employers. Thank goodness they are all millionaires. If only they had contributed to healthcare provision through, I don’t...

Is ther much wrong with that if it ends up with better access for everybody.

I guess that depends whether the government of whatever day this approach is approved recognise that there would be a benefit worth more that the P11D potential.

Very true. For many years there has been talk about NHS developing more health promotion measures. People need to be encouraged to take some responsibility for their own health, but why should they when treatment is free at the point of need and some boomers will have funded development of the...

Do they now?

The private sector is really only interested in services with little or no ongoing commitment, so hip replacements yes - mental health services not so much. There were some areas where private suppliers, Circle and Virgin Health IIRRC, won contracts for services which ended up failing. For...

Some good news for you: ” For the 30 years up to 2011, the number of people dying in the UK was falling but that has changed as the people born during the boom in births following World War Two have grown old. Over the next decade, the number of deaths a year is expected to increase by 12%. “...

Wasnt responsibility for OOH services specifically excluded from the GP contract agreed with the Labour government of the time? My experience was that GPs were reluctant to any change if there wasn’t something in it for them. Things like electronic referral systems, changes to the cervical...

Another ref making dubious decisions and missing things.

https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/coventry-city-kai-andrews-motherwell-3112063 Sorry if already been posted.

Does paying train drivers more than airline pilots improve the network? It’s all just a load of bollocks spouted by people who are out of their depth.

SBA sell out? They travel in numbers.

Never made that mistake with Led Zeppelin, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Yes, Genesis