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This was from a senior consultant at the QE mate so I’ll take it as fact. That’s not to say many won’t choose to do agency/locum work for the extra cash as well, that’s their personal choice but hardly a plan to privatise the nhs - if individuals didn’t choose to do agency work they’d be no...

yeah this is a major issue and something needs to be done about it but ultimately these are workers deciding they’d rather do that to earn more and get greater fl I spoke to a senior consultant a couple of years ago and he said the reason many nurses at his hospital were going to temp agency...

Just saying to my mates, he’s never been a boxer to start with, now he looks gun shy as well which isn’t ideal when all you’ve got is a big swinging right hand

It’s not really the physical cost I’m bothered about, more the fact that 14-15m appointments are wasted and other people have missed out. Understand though in terms of docs playing catch up so the fines could be used for giving GPs extra to extend hours in evenings/weekend. I’d also consider...

Had a quick scan down that link. Strange that it says missed appointments were 7m, yet the attached also on nhs, says 15m (both 2019) NHS England » Missed GP appointments costing NHS millions Pretty sure we got it down to 14m this year though. Sounds like the US has only recently started...

I don’t think we’ll charge for appointments nor should we, but why on Earth we’ve never implemented a penalty system for missed GP or hospital appointments Ill never know. They say ‘administrative burden’ but let’s be honest if people knew they’d be charged £30-40 for not bothering to cancel it...

It’s a long time ago but googled the bond yields at the time of the financial crisis and they were low/normal so dont think we lost confidence of people buying government bonds. The government and BoE decided we needed QE/print to get liquidity into the banking system to stop it collapsing and...

Now now Fernando, that’s not quite true. Deficit spending is fine (we don’t have a choice !) as long as it’s helping the economy grow sufficiently. It’s especially ok if interest rates are low and you can maintain confidence of buyers of government bonds….or if you have to print/QE as long as...

Surely we can just all agree on the following; the nhs needs to change and improve a bit, the public need to take some personal responsibility for their own health (there’s no excuse on exercise and moderating some of the naughty stuff), the government needs to find a way of getting some...

I’ve got to admit, I am surprised Labour have committed to not increasing the main taxes during the course of the next Parliament. Not sure it’s necessary and could come back to bite them ps MMB makes some fair points about the NHS. I’m not getting involved in the wider debate (again) but if...

He’s played 80 games in the championship at the age of 22 for starters Come on shmmeee bit early to be downbeat…don’t even know if we’ve bid for him 😂

I’ve said they deserve more. My point is what’s the point of striking a week before the election when there’s almost certainly going to be a change of government ? If the reason for the strike is to try to get better pay and conditions why do you do it at a time when neither party can do...

It doesn’t reflect well on the government and people will have their opportunity to show their dissatisfaction in a few weeks. Surely if you’re the BMA you just wait to have a meeting/start negotiations with Labour after the election ? Would delaying it hurt their ‘cause’ and they could use...

Looking at ADMs thread and what a friend mentioned, I wonder if there’s more to the Abbott situation. Agree about Elphickie though, although I appreciate the ‘politics’ I still think it was just a very strange move all round

Parliaments on election footing, Labour are likely to win and havent got any control over the cash yet, so how on Earth is this justifiable ? I actually think junior doctors should get a bit more but all this is going to do is potentially cause more problems (or worse) for patients and the nhs...

Ps that doesn’t mean I’m not for spending more, especially on infrastructure etc. I just don’t follow the view that we can print and spend what we want with no consequences/repercussions

US is a different beast though and nobody can judge until a few years down the line. They have the benefit of being global reserve currency, amazing tech companies and natural resources. If we’d done what the US had our bond yields/borrowing costs would’ve gone through the roof. As I mentioned...

Agreed. It’s impossible to catch up sufficiently to significantly reduce prices in the short to medium term. Increasing housing stock will stabilise prices over time though Only thing that would drive prices down is a deep recession whereby unemployment increases significantly. None of us want...

Yeah, my concern is those that can borderline afford it will have to withdraw their kids. Hopefully schools will look at an internal bursary/assistance scheme to help these parents with the additional cost An alternative option could’ve been to say to schools that to retain charity status they...

All I thought of when you said that is Martha from Baby Reindeer