Latest Moan From You and Me 2023

It was Chicken Licken and Turkey Lurkey when I was a five-year-old.

 

OK, so now if you call for an ambulance you will get a call back just to make sure you really need one.
All I can say is I hope the call back is a bit faster than it is with 111 as that can be literally hours.
I see category 2 calls come into this which contains heart attacks and strokes.

I guess it might help help solve the, ambulance waiting time problems as I'm guessing the waiting time will now start after you have had the call back.

Oh and you wont lose your place in the queue.
Not sure how that bit works.

There is even a suggestion that you might just get a call from a GP, that would be a novel idea bearing in mind half the time GPs cant cope as it is.

 

Sounds like a good method of (over)population control

 

Our GPs have "returned their contract to NHS Lothian". Now we are getting cover from a surgery several miles away. We have a surgery with no GPs.

 

I have been around our local hospital several times, and from what I see is people are calling for an ambulance, instead of a costly taxi, a lot of the "patients were what I would term walking wounded with minimum injuries CUT ARM / BROKEN TOE/ ETC

One lady who had a splint on her wrist, was waiting for an Ambulance to take her back home ?
she had been waiting around an hour, and was insisting a Nurse brought her a meal
The nurse went away and came back with a box of orange squash and missed meal prepack of sandwiches
Crazy /

 

@pete there might be a doggone good reason for making that call back..

Police respond to home after dog calls 911 and it wasn't McGruff - Barrie News

 

@shiney I too am always flabbergasted at the lack of communication skills demonstrated by businesses who are supposed to be in that very business!

 

A couple of years back now - conversation with my bank:

Me - "I'd like to go fully paperless - I don't receive paper statements for my current account - I don't need them. Can I stop paper statements for my credit card?"

Bank - "I'm afraid that we can't stop the paper statements."

Me - " Even if my balance is zero?"

Bank - "Even if your balance is zero - we can't stop the paper statements."

Me - "Well, thanks for letting me know, good bye."

I could hear the creaking as another tree was felled....

 

Good on you Steve:

The health secretary has ordered an urgent investigation into NHS guidelines given to staff that say they should initially treat all patients as gender neutral. Steve has "demanded answers" about a taxpayer-funded guide which advises doctors not to use the gender-specific pronouns "he" and "she" until a patient has confirmed how they identify.

Perhaps the money used to produce this guide could have been used to treat ill people and perhaps save lives instead.

 

Totally the opposite to most banks and building societies I deal with even the water company, they all want you to go paperless.
Which is fine until your broadband goes down or you PC gets a virus

 

Sounds good to me "mush", "geezer", "mate", or the over used, "you guys".