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kle4 said:
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It was a blow, but no-one really thinks a UK PM of any stripe can get anything meaningful from the EU bureaucrats, so it was more a symptom of his wider problem and in any case what everyone expected, whereas the other issues listed are things another leader could have done something about.
Then why did Cameron bother making such a fuss about it? He clearly thought he could make a stand and they pulled the rug from under him. Given he is trying to get the British people to believe he can have meaningful negotiations with Brussels on a whole raft of things it was a massive blow. The whole credibility of his EU referendum position was at stake and Brussels left it in tatters.
Whether he should have known better or not is a different matter.
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No-one - other than you (and a few others determined to twist this) has suggested making GPs work a 7 day week.
What is necessary and desirable is that patients have access to primary medical care at a local level at times that suit the needs of the patients.
People fall ill and require treatment 7 days a week. Our hospitals are not the appropriate place for many of them to go to get that treatment - so it must fall to the GPs to provide this necessary care.
It requires them to change their working hours and to be more flexible. It does not require them to work 7 days a week.
It is about living in the modern world.
And you, of course, know this - you just want to oppose it for the sake of opposing it.
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isam said
Stop telling me what I think. It is annoying and patronising.. and more to the point you are wrong about what I think
I am not particularly opposing it. Find where I said I did.
I don't see why weekends are all that different really
I only repeated what a GP interviewed on TV said, it wasn't my opinion, you just were so eager to argue you put words in my mouth, then argued against them
Maybe they should start off by making it 6 days a week?
But changing working hours rather than extending them assumes we have a load of doctors on the subs bench ready to fill in the gaps/extra hours, and the point the guy on TV made was that there aren't.
Also the Tescos comparsison, without having a go at Tesco workers, is rubbish, as Tescos is an unskilled job and extra hours are easy to recruit for.. I wouldn't want some disinterested student with a hangover as my Doctor, but I don't mind them on the till at Tescos
Criminal laws have their part but you don't win the battle of ideas just by locking people up.
I'm claiming a PB point for that.
The NASUWT teaching union has welcomed Nicky Morgan’s speech to the Tory conference.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2014/sep/30/tory-conference-2014-camerons-morning-intervews-politics-live-blog#block-542a8c4ee4b075386a8de193
I then cursed Mike for going on holiday.
Then looked closer it was Bill Cash, son of Bill Cash MP who had defected, and it was the DJ Doctor Fox who had been arrested.
That was a scary minute in my head.
The bit about "reducing workloads", or the entire speech?
Stop being disingenuous. The suggestion was that supermarkets operated surgeries with fully qualified medical staff that they employed, not students. My local Sainsburys has a pharmacy - why not a doctor too?
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Im not, I am sorry I thought people were talking about Supermarkets being open 24/7 so why not Doctors.
Sorry if I got wrong end of the stick
Stop assuming the worst of people all the time
http://press.conservatives.com/post/98799073410/theresa-may-speech-to-conservative-party-conference
May's speech may be good on this. Cameron has made some good speeches (including in opposition) but where's the follow-through? We're near the end of this government and these are plans for the next government, if they win.
Not many left that haven't been arrested, including Kid Jensen!
Also, I dislike naming one's children after oneself.
http://www.ippr.org/juncture/cameron-the-first-cut
"Not many left that haven't been arrested, including Kid Jensen! "
They haven't arrested David Jensen have they?
Once they get them, my entire childhood is basically ruined.
She's on a charm offensive I think, we'll see where it leads.
Local paper in Braintree has been running a poll of readers on whether or not Brooks Newmark should resign as an MP. 58% Yes, 42% No. No idea of how many votes or any other controls on the "poll".
40% of British people think the Conservatives would eliminate the deficit by 2020 – but only 17% think Labour would
See http://yougov.co.uk/news/2014/09/30/tories-twice-trusted-deficit/
The Cost of Living Crisis is where the action is at now. Who benefits from this so-called "recovery"?
Thank god labour has the answer...
Mike Reid - I've no idea, but he did wear some very flashy blue tinted specs. Is he still alive? I know the other Mike Read is kaput.
I loathed Kid Jensen.
It takes some doing to describe Oliver Letwin as an "Éminence grise".
Their “way forward” is to increase the gap for poorer families, so that it’s even more difficult for them.
isam said
Stop telling me what I think. It is annoying and patronising.. and more to the point you are wrong about what I think
I am not particularly opposing it. Find where I said I did.
I don't see why weekends are all that different really
I only repeated what a GP interviewed on TV said, it wasn't my opinion, you just were so eager to argue you put words in my mouth, then argued against them
Maybe they should start off by making it 6 days a week?
But changing working hours rather than extending them assumes we have a load of doctors on the subs bench ready to fill in the gaps/extra hours, and the point the guy on TV made was that there aren't.
Also the Tescos comparsison, without having a go at Tesco workers, is rubbish, as Tescos is an unskilled job and extra hours are easy to recruit for.. I wouldn't want some disinterested student with a hangover as my Doctor, but I don't mind them on the till at Tescos
Stop being disingenuous. The suggestion was that supermarkets operated surgeries with fully qualified medical staff that they employed, not students. My local Sainsburys has a pharmacy - why not a doctor too?
Limited number of doctors and trained staff available under the capitalist system equals higher wages and costs. We can, of course, import extra doctors into the UK and trained nurses and staff, but I thought that was a No No these days.
Then again, why, if I was a trained MD would I want to work my backside off in the UK when I could go to Australia, South Africa, Canada, etc, get a higher paid job, have restricted hours and a solid contract with better living standards? Why, if I was a newly graduated doctor, would I even want to go into GP work anyway?
Anyone taken their pet to a vet these days? £45 at least for a 15 minute visit, plus the cost of injections, pills and goodness knows what else. The last visit for standard boosters and health check cost £100.
We have, in the UK, got a misty eyed view of the NHS, Free at the point of Use. Except it is not "Free". If the government wants all these bells and whistles, 7/24 GP facilities, then someone is going to have to pay, and it is going to be you and me.
Iran's "Hanging Machine" to Execute Reyhaneh Jabbari
Also - anyone know a decent real ale pub in St Peter Port?
Finally - is @AndyJS around - have some Pirate Party candidates for him...
The NHS needs more money and the rolling back of the Lansley / Cameron privatisation agenda chaos, no doubt. It doesn't need precious cash diverted to electoral gimmicks.
All of them??
Ha ha - sounds about right - F-ing tories.
Sister: Iran Killed Nuclear Scientist for Refusing To Develop Nuke 12 Times Stronger than Hiroshima: Until now... http://bit.ly/1CEEx1S
If your argument is "well, we don't need to see OUR GP during the night or at weekends", then that's fine - we already have GP Out of Hours services everywhere in the country delivering that. Now, if you want these services taken back into traditional practices, fair enough, we can do that, but let's at least be on top of the brief enough to know that the mooted weekend GP service already exists.
"You know who's had it too easy for too long Dave? The working poor. I'll get 'em"
Option 1: you get access to a named GP in-hours, who will make care plans for you and co-ordinate your care, including in hospital and mental health services. However, you can't access walk-in clinics or centres unless your named GP refers you in (you can still go to A&E in an emergency). This would allow one person to manage your health fully, without duplicating costs. This would work well for people with overlapping chronic conditions or mental illness.
Option 2: you don't have a named GP or care planning, but you can access walk-in clinics at your convenience. This would be a good option for generally healthy people.
However, is there any reason why GP’s and other health professionals shouldn’t work on a four, five or whatever day basis. There’s no absolute requirment nowadays to have Sunday off. The big problem, it’s always seemed to me as one who worked most Saturdays and many Sundays thoughout his working life, is that there’s a lot of abuse for “not doing things with the family at weekends”.
Square that circle ...... maybe by ensuring that “weekend" working is normal and on a rota of some sort and Robert’s your mother’s brother!
@cathynewman: "I know what it's like" @JuliaGillard tells @Ed_Miliband to stick to his beliefs and ignore the insults
It was said at that time the market will do all sorts of things. Bugger all has happened. The Tories are happily borrowing circa £100 billion per year even now.
As long as Labour gives a reasonable time period , nothing will happen.
South Yorkshire Police said it was not investigating the incident.
Naturally!!!!
So ifwe get to choose someone who'll have authority to impose it on us, we're happier with THEM letting us eat just a few snacks more. Or take an extra break. Especially if, given a choice, we've chosen "the tougher one"
Because if we've got the tough one, we feel better inside - that we've been 'good' and self-denying where we should be - and if HE lets us eat a bit more and be less self-denying, it must be okay.
I'm flashing my cards.
You can all go home now.
I think it's a very well-balanced assessment.
But some Foxes misbehave...
So we might have to wait and see the full aftershocks of Labour's deficit landing right in the laps of the two Eds. Who are they going to clobber? And how loudly will those poor people squeal when they discover they've been conned into voting Labour (or indeed UKIP)?
Tomb of Suleyman Shah...worth looking up as it may be of significance shortly.
Apparently Peter Oborne hated him so much he campaigned for Labour in 2005, and now everyones calling him all the names under the sun...
http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Police-review-investigations-sexual-abuse/story-23015624-detail/story.html
Good to see a sound PCC in action. Are any other PCC's doing the same?
The Raf using a footie match for cover again? Cheeky bastards.
Then they rumbled it was pointless and left it. Now they act as if it was always the case
If a poll shows Reckless well in the lead in R&S no doubt the slime will be put back in the bucket for the next defector
But good to see an active review is being undertaken, better late than never.
It's a very good piece of work. it gets better Not sure I'd called it well-balanced, though. It's very sympathetic:
"Similarly, Cameron made a brave decision after the SNP’s 2011 Scottish parliament victory to grasp the nettle and hold a referendum on independence in September 2014. The decision was very much Cameron’s own and was an example of his decisive leadership; many prime ministers could have tried to avoid such a potentially disruptive poll."
What other Prime Minister could have avoided such a poll?
"Cameron possesses many of the qualities that a prime minister needs: he is intellectually very bright, hardworking (despite the media’s perception that he is ‘chillaxed’) and measured. He runs tight meetings, controls the agenda without alienating attenders, and sums up succinctly. He is a good – occasionally great – public speaker, with an exceptional ability to master a brief quickly and to speak off the cuff. He is quick and effective at processing papers in his boxes, which a PM needs to do if he is to cut through the torrent of work and gain the respect of his officials. On foreign policy, he proved to be gifted at forging relationships with overseas leaders, a skill he wasn’t known for previously."
That's somewhat generous.
"‘Cometh the hour, cometh the man’ might well be Cameron’s epitaph. The ‘hour’ was 2010–15; the man, David Cameron."
Hmm... I agree that the position, had Labour won, would have been dire indeed.
You do know most benefits go to those workers whose employers arent prepared to pay sufficient levels of wages. The taxpayer subsidising companies making millions or billions in profits really is a joke.
Of course most of our welfare state payments go to oldies.
The proportion of GP training places filled in certain parts of the UK has fallen as low as 62% in some areas, calling into serious doubt the Government’s plans to meet targets to increase the GP workforce.
The figures for the August 2014 intake - described by the GPC as ‘the worst ever’ - reveal that 2,564 of positions have been filled in England, representing 87% of those available, which is a decrease on the 2,764 positions filled in August 2013.