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Brilliant!! What a start to the tournament. Argentina and Germany embarrassed, and us smashing Iran. Nice.

What you're describing is an efficient way of working. My GP surgery do the same. I had a skin growth issue last year. E consult done in the evening. Call from a GP early next day. In to see another GP that day. Diagnosed, and minor surgery done in the GP practice by another GP at the practice the following week. Compare that to a phone call, waiting for a GP appointment, being referred to dermatology, them processing it, waiting for a hospital appointment, etc. Despite what some claim on here, it's entirely possible to trim the various layers of faff, delay and admin expense and have a more efficient system with more bang for our buck.

Yep. It'll take a special team to beat them. My pick for the winners.

You seem fixated on the politics, not the fix. I'm not interested on the blame game. There's waste in the NHS, and inefficiency. Let's agree to differ.

It's delusional to believe that our NHS cannot be made more efficient and cost effective. There's waste from top to bottom. I don't agree with this government on much, but they're on the money when they say that public services waste money and need to get their act together.

Bed blocking is a real issue. Ditto staffing. I've never suggested otherwise. Still nothing to do with waste. The NHS can save money where they're able to. Nobody can expect them to save money where they can't.

That's a long way to say that other countries are more inefficient than we are. It doesn't alter that we can trim waste and be more efficient.

My main point was that an attempt to address bureaucracy in the NHS is the tip of the iceberg, and that I anticipate private healthcare and the related insurance as boom industries. That's not an attack on the NHS from me, rather that an attack on the NHS from government is coming. Today's reports coming from Scotland suggests that we are on that path already. Those running and working within the NHS need to appreciate that there is no more money, and that they've gotta make savings and improve efficiency. You're not seriously suggesting that there is no slack in the system and that money can't be saved? I've worked in the civil service and the level of waste is a disgrace. People spend other people's money and don't give a monkeys. It's not the number of managers that matter, it's about having people and a system that does things efficiently.

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Packet

Wtf was that goalkeeper up to? 🤣

Love her honesty. Says what right minded people are thinking. Shearer not on the fence either.

The bureaucracy and waste is mental. Something like £25 in total cost for a pack of prescription paracetamol. Just give them away, don't have layers if people being paid to distribute them - i.e. a GP to sign off the script, admin staff to process, then the pharmacist, then pharmacy staff processing their claim to the NHS, then their staff doing their bit, etc. There's wholesale waste across the system, and it's structure.

You can't help your cause by cherry picking stats though. Nearly 44% of app votes cast were for the Tories, which was about 40% more than labour got. To dilute that to the electorate is at best disingenuous, and shows a disregard for our system. The fptp system is flawed, but the spread of the vote left the Tories with a massive majority, even if you choose to dilute their vote.

Whichever stat you pick, enough to leave us stuck with them.

I'm hoping that he gets that credit rating to 999, it will give me hope going into 2023. In other news, we've got a pack of chocolate hob nobs in the cupboard, but I'm not one to boast.

Not that simple. That won't change a thing until there is the possibility of a next time on brexit. On the domestic front, the masses voted for this Tory machine. Hopefully labour will make policy decisions which offer us a decent alternative.

Case in point. Absolutely pointless. Try having an opinion on issues, not people.

Fuck me, Mr Irony has woken up. Your only opinion seems to be that you're a fucking genius and that everyone else is a "thick cunt". If there was an award for the poster who makes the most pointless contributions, you'd be on the podium every time.

So 12 pages later we're at the point where people are still Saying it's shit, but have nothing to contribute on the way forward. Being kind to the posters who like a whinge, that's perhaps because we're fucked and there's no easy way out if the mess we're in.

Oxford

Yep, but none of that relates to people whining about how bad it is/a decision was etc but offering nothing in terms of what they see as a solution. On the NHS, an axe to the bureaucracy is the tip of the iceberg imo. I foresee private healthcare and health insurance as boom industries in the nearish future.

Ha!! Not on here mate! The brexiters that won't accept that it ain't gone well will tell you how great it is but give no examples of that greatness, and the various leavers only need to copy/paste one of their many posts from above. In the real world, I can't see either main political party sparking the debate, it'd take the mass media to do so.

City

What's done is done, and it hasn't gone well. I voted leave and rue the the day that I did. Naive doesn't come close. The issue now is how and when the serious discussion begins about rejoining.