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Not really its not particularly a party political point - the US healthcare system spends far more on admin than the NHS does. You do need accountability for use of resources, but the idea that the internal market was ever going to make an NHS that received 6% of GDP as good as one that recived 16% of GDP was always going to end in tears.

So to be clear - you think infection control is poor in hospitals - so you want the same people who tend wounds, give injections, have close contact with patients to be nipping off to clean the toilets, handle the soiled sharps and mops the floors when they have a spare 5 minutes? - then a quick rinse of the hands after clearing the **** away before setting up an epidural perhaps?

That is exactly it, bang on the money. We used to have a National Health Service - now with the advent of the internal market you have fragmented service units strangled by having to log and report every medical and surgical procedure carried out. Its a huge waste of time - brought in by.....

Fantastic - Dune's idea of cost saving is to employ an additional I grade nurse at £42,000pa (clinical specialist manager grade) to supervise them. Too many managers in the NHS, exactly what the Daily Mail likes to bang on about.

Its a fair point. The NHS is a massive consumer of resources, along with welfare benefits breathtakingly huge. Often the issues which people cite as inefficencies - such as waiting times - are actually down to the system running to 100% of capacity.

The NHS' main problem is that politians cant stop tinkering with it - major changes in structures on average every 18 months -regardless which party is in power. Britain spends less on healthcare than any other major European or other G8 nations. The idea that somehow you can constantly twiddle with it to get both improvements and cost reductions is not only wrong - it is the reverse of the truth.

What poor old Dune hasnt realised is that the public sector debt is only 60% of GDP - all the rest is privately borrowed money by individuals and companies - borrowed under a deregulated free market brought about by the Tories. Yes its clear companies borrowed too much and cant pbe trusted to do sensible things - perhaps they needed more government intervention. Dune is attacking the results of Tory policy. Poor, ignorant little Dune.

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Caught the ferry to France from there over the summer. After all the hype was amazed at how ordinary it is.

Maybe the cumulative effective of 20,000 posts of ****e and abuse has rattled him?

But you do allow his swear words and insults in his replies?

Are we? What would make you think that when all evidence points to the contrary? Seems to me to be pulling up the wrong poster, again.

Maybe we're going for the wrong Celtic player. James Forrest has been named one of the worlds top upcoming football talents by FIFA..... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16665918.stm

Sp what you're saying then is that an unamed player may sign anytime between tomorrow and a few months but that if it doesnt happen its because something unspecified cropped up.

Nah its not. West Ham struggled at home to beat a team near the bottom that have recently been soundly beaten by both Saints and leicester. Genuinely think Saints are the best team in the league by a margin.

In any other business it would take three months for an employee to move across the world. With Saints fans if it isnt all done inside two weeks, something has gone wrong and someone is to blame.

None of the teams this year are actually all that imo, not like last year.

If you take away the insulting, hysterical and wrong parts - its pretty brief....

Weather is crazy in Sussex too. Was around 14 degrees for most of December and still 12 degrees now in January, supposed the coldest month. Very little rain.

What are older men supposed to wear then? polyester leisure slacks?

Word for word what Fred Goodwin said just before the Bank of England stepped in to stop them from collapsing. So far the debt is £48billion and counting.

Saw her at the Brighton Centre about 1988 on the bill with some fabulous other blues and soul acts. She and the Five Blind Boys of Alabama sang as the walked through the crowd in the standing section of the audience. Great night.

Zero sympathy

Think the article will say they need a buyer by middle of next week otherwise will have to sell players. Need £700k at end of month.

Got a friend who moved to west coast of Scotland. Loves it except the incessant rain and gray drive him bananas