@UKLabour The thing with a long term illness is the unpredictability of when you feel well and when you don't. What employer will put up with someone ringing in sick often.
HMRC prosecuted just 11 wealthy individuals last year for tax evasion
There is currently £120 BN lost every year due to tax avoidance by the wealthy
Disabled people on benefits aren’t the reason the NHS is failing, why the roads & sewers fall apart
It’s parasites at the top
@JoMaloneLondon paid £8 for next day delivery, to receive message from @DHLGlobal to say they're not delivering today, don't sell next day delivery if you can't deliver it. 😡
I watched this video a hundred times now… and it still breaks my heart every time I watch it.
One day this child will grow up to be an adult and he will watch this video and ask: why did the world allow this to happen?
How are we going to answer?
I'm an A&E consultant and I'm tired after a weekend of nights.
But this am, I've handed over what I described as a "good department". This was said genuinely and with no hint of irony.
We provided great care and have very short waits to see an A&E doctor, but I'd forgotten how unacceptable it was to have 18 patients in the corridor, and elderly patients waiting over 2 days for a ward bed.
My lens of what is good and acceptable has been slowly warped by the slow & damaging effect of the working conditions of A&E departments up and down the country.
My biggest worry is that I'm starting to accept the unacceptable.
This is not about a lack of gp appointments, patients "abusing" the system or poor management - in fact we had excellent hospital management support, with patients boarding on each ward waiting there instead of A&E for a bed.
This is a simple case of patient demand being greater than what the overall health economy can cope with.
We have to either change the way we work, change demand via expectation management or increase resources.
If not, then the unacceptable becomes the norm and that's unacceptable.
Our patients and staff deserve better.