bridge too far

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New York

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George

Apart from his current MPship, he has only before been an MEP for the East Midlands prior to becoming MP.

and she's back.............. actress

I thought you were married :shock:

Guardian Instant Poll suggests Clegg won, followed by Brown with Cameron on 8.8%

He's a Sheffield MP

I like Nick Clegg's passion.

Remember, I said it was the consultants in the main that pushed for this. The very consultants that work in the private sector too.

Quite right - they don't. Many years ago, the sterile services department at the hospital I was working in, suffered a major power outage and began to run out of 'sets' (the prepacked trays made up for specific operations). The hospital worked on a Just in Time principle (like most production lines) and so began to run out of spares too. In a desperate effort to keep the theatres working, they rang round other hospitals. When it was suggested that they try some of the local private hospitals they were told that they couldn't do this because private hospitals don't have the required quality control procedures (CE marking) that NHS hospitals do, and they weren't allowed to take the risk that the sets in the private hospitals might not be of the required sterile standard.

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Did you know that, even now, some hospitals have some smoking rooms in Theatres for staff involved in surgery? At the insistence of some consultants, I should add.

They make you have horrible nightmares though I even dreamt about you Dune - I came off the tabs straight away.

Well, Dune, I don't know this lady's circumstances any more than you do. But maybe she was terminally ill? In which case, it's not the end of the world if she's allowed a smoke in her final days, is it? Her treatment wouldn't cost any more than if she no longer smoked, if she was terminally ill. Maybe we should have 3 strikes and you're out for sports-related injuries? Just as heartless. Oh - and if she was terminally ill - maybe the drip had morphine? To ease her pain?