@runnymede 'The best way to neutralise Project Lie is the EFTA/EEA option, even if only as a first step.' Exactly, an excellent holding position.
Except it doesn't seem to be on offer. Nor is it a credible position (according to a Leaver on here). Other than that it's all systems go.
In case you have not noticed, the head of Govt, the PM, is not a LEAVER so nothing can be promised from LEAVE on this aspect until after June 23rd.
If Leave can't promise anything they could at least tell us what they actually want. Are we going to put a stop to immigration or are we going to sign up to EFFTA/EEA? You can't dither on the question for the next 2 months.
They return to our Gov the right to decide these things. We then vote for the Govt or not. You seem uncomfortable with the concept of power residing in the UK Govt.
Not at all I just want a straight answer about what Leave would like to do if hey win. Not a lot to ask really.
What would REMAIN like to happen to the EU if they win? The only difference is that LEAVE means the UK voters can influence the UK strongly if they win - but REMAIN still means that the UK voter can't influence the EU if they win.
The lengths that Leavers are going to to avoid answering a simple question (Stop immigration or join EFTA/EEA) is starting to get comical. You will have tied yourself in so many knots by June you won't know which way is up.
Nope. Some of us have been consistent in our views. You just don't seem to want to hear them.
Like some others, I'm concerned at the prospect of a Conservative Government, post-LEAVE, tearing up protection for workers but that's both the problem and the opportunity democracy provides.
It provides the opportunity for a future non-Conservative Government to put forward something better, something more relevant and something stronger as law. It would be a huge policy opportunity for non-Conservative parties in Britain after a LEAVE vote.
It's not unreasonable for me or any other voter to ask LEAVE what aspects (if any) of EU legislation they would keep. It seems foolish to assume all EU law is by definition bad law or are there areas where EU law is considered too weak or doesn't go far enough ?
What about taxation - VAT only exists because of the EU. Would LEAVE want to abolish VAT, change the rate (we wouldn't have to harmonise), change those items which are reduced or zero-rated ?
I think it is unfair to claim that VAT only exists because of the EU. Prior to the UK joining the EU we had luxury taxes on non essentials and I would expect that we would return to a sales tax at a similar level to that we currently have. The main difference in my mind would be that we would have more freedom to choose what we imposed that tax on. So we could take it off things like home energy, sanitary products and brown field development and put it on things like caravans and pasties.
I think that's absolutely right.
Longer-term - and I know this is slightly controversial - I would abolish VAT and income tax and move to consumption tax with a large tax-free element to make it non-regressive. This is something we could do outside the EU. Albeit something that would be politically a complete non-starter.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
That's rather stating the obvious, and has been the anticipated outcome for a week or so now.
Sam Wang of Princeton Electoral Consortium has Trump odds on to get to 1237. Nate seems to have him odds against.
Quite an important difference of opinion
Not sure about important. There are several differing opinions. It depends how you run the math. But the universal talking head view is that Trump'll likely be slightly short at Cleveland. Cruz has such a hugely superior ground game and can manipulate the rules and delegates much much better than Trump, who has proved to have feet of clay in this aspect. (hardly surprising - Cruz is an experienced and smart politician). He is hiring some good political operators to his campaign now, but should have done so 2 months ago.
Trump has to win something like 60% of remaining delegates to get to 1237. It remains to be seen if he can.
For example, in Pennsylvania the winner gets only 17 pledged delegates out of a total of 71 in several categories.
If you read the article, it could be written by any New Labour MP.
There will always be reasons to justify more spending on social welfare than provide tax relief to those bearing the heaviest tax burdens.
The truth is that the tax burden is simply too high and we divert and spend far too much on welfare at a great economic opportunity cost to the whole of society.
The Conservative solution is to get everyone into work, some type of work, as possible. It's good for them, pays them more money, and costs much less.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Is this crisis worse than the last one then? We never seem to be out of an NHS crisis, so it has no emotional impact on me.
If you read the article, it could be written by any New Labour MP.
There will always be reasons to justify more spending on social welfare than provide tax relief to those bearing the heaviest tax burdens.
The truth is that the tax burden is simply too high and we divert and spend far too much on welfare at a great economic opportunity cost to the whole of society.
The Conservative solution is to get everyone into work, some type of work, as possible. It's good for them, pays them more money, and costs much less.
Dan Poulter is also pretty soaking from looking at his record.
Like some others, I'm concerned at the prospect of a Conservative Government, post-LEAVE, tearing up protection for workers but that's both the problem and the opportunity democracy provides.
It provides the opportunity for a future non-Conservative Government to put forward something better, something more relevant and something stronger as law. It would be a huge policy opportunity for non-Conservative parties in Britain after a LEAVE vote.
It's not unreasonable for me or any other voter to ask LEAVE what aspects (if any) of EU legislation they would keep. It seems foolish to assume all EU law is by definition bad law or are there areas where EU law is considered too weak or doesn't go far enough ?
What about taxation - VAT only exists because of the EU. Would LEAVE want to abolish VAT, change the rate (we wouldn't have to harmonise), change those items which are reduced or zero-rated ?
I think it is unfair to claim that VAT only exists because of the EU. Prior to the UK joining the EU we had luxury taxes on non essentials and I would expect that we would return to a sales tax at a similar level to that we currently have. The main difference in my mind would be that we would have more freedom to choose what we imposed that tax on. So we could take it off things like home energy, sanitary products and brown field development and put it on things like caravans and pasties.
I think that's absolutely right.
Longer-term - and I know this is slightly controversial - I would abolish VAT and income tax and move to consumption tax with a large tax-free element to make it non-regressive. This is something we could do outside the EU. Albeit something that would be politically a complete non-starter.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
No it is just another Conservative Health Minister trying to destroy the NHS .The doctors unlike Hunt retain the trust of the majority of people in this country .
Labour leader embarrassed again as it emerges he filled out WRONG tax form – and still won’t publish details of his income from pensions Jeremy Corbyn has admitted failing to include income from two pensions on his tax return His office insists all tax due was paid through the PAYE system, but is refusing to give figures Also managed to enter details on the wrong pages of his return and ignore a section specifically for MPs
Like some others, I'm concerned at the prospect of a Conservative Government, post-LEAVE, tearing up protection for workers but that's both the problem and the opportunity democracy provides.
It provides the opportunity for a future non-Conservative Government to put forward something better, something more relevant and something stronger as law. It would be a huge policy opportunity for non-Conservative parties in Britain after a LEAVE vote.
It's not unreasonable for me or any other voter to ask LEAVE what aspects (if any) of EU legislation they would keep. It seems foolish to assume all EU law is by definition bad law or are there areas where EU law is considered too weak or doesn't go far enough ?
What about taxation - VAT only exists because of the EU. Would LEAVE want to abolish VAT, change the rate (we wouldn't have to harmonise), change those items which are reduced or zero-rated ?
I think it is unfair to claim that VAT only exists because of the EU. Prior to the UK joining the EU we had luxury taxes on non essentials and I would expect that we would return to a sales tax at a similar level to that we currently have. The main difference in my mind would be that we would have more freedom to choose what we imposed that tax on. So we could take it off things like home energy, sanitary products and brown field development and put it on things like caravans and pasties.
I think that's absolutely right.
Longer-term - and I know this is slightly controversial - I would abolish VAT and income tax and move to consumption tax with a large tax-free element to make it non-regressive. This is something we could do outside the EU. Albeit something that would be politically a complete non-starter.
Pre-VAT sales tax was 8-10%.
VAT is actually a very well designed tax, with low-levels of avoidance, and which has the admirable side effect of catching people who come to the UK. If we exited the EU, giving up the apparatus of VAT to replace it with a sales tax would not be sensible; we'd be better off keeping our existing system, and merely having - Mr Tyndall suggested - rather more control on levels.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
@runnymede 'The best way to neutralise Project Lie is the EFTA/EEA option, even if only as a first step.' Exactly, an excellent holding position.
Except it doesn't seem to be on offer. Nor is it a credible position (according to a Leaver on here). Other than that it's all systems go.
In case you have not noticed, the head of Govt, the PM, is not a LEAVER so nothing can be promised from LEAVE on this aspect until after June 23rd.
If Leave can't promise anything they could at least tell us what they actually want. Are we going to put a stop to immigration or are we going to sign up to EFFTA/EEA? You can't dither on the question for the next 2 months.
They return to our Gov the right to decide these things. We then vote for the Govt or not. You seem uncomfortable with the concept of power residing in the UK Govt.
Not at all I just want a straight answer about what Leave would like to do if hey win. Not a lot to ask really.
What would REMAIN like to happen to the EU if they win? The only difference is that LEAVE means the UK voters can influence the UK strongly if they win - but REMAIN still means that the UK voter can't influence the EU if they win.
The lengths that Leavers are going to to avoid answering a simple question (Stop immigration or join EFTA/EEA) is starting to get comical. You will have tied yourself in so many knots by June you won't know which way is up.
Nope. Some of us have been consistent in our views. You just don't seem to want to hear them.
With all due respect to your own importance could you enlighten me as to the official Leave answer to the question ?
Like some others, I'm concerned at the prospect of a Conservative Government, post-LEAVE, tearing up protection for workers but that's both the problem and the opportunity democracy provides.
It provides the opportunity for a future non-Conservative Government to put forward something better, something more relevant and something stronger as law. It would be a huge policy opportunity for non-Conservative parties in Britain after a LEAVE vote.
It's not unreasonable for me or any other voter to ask LEAVE what aspects (if any) of EU legislation they would keep. It seems foolish to assume all EU law is by definition bad law or are there areas where EU law is considered too weak or doesn't go far enough ?
What about taxation - VAT only exists because of the EU. Would LEAVE want to abolish VAT, change the rate (we wouldn't have to harmonise), change those items which are reduced or zero-rated ?
I think it is unfair to claim that VAT only exists because of the EU. Prior to the UK joining the EU we had luxury taxes on non essentials and I would expect that we would return to a sales tax at a similar level to that we currently have. The main difference in my mind would be that we would have more freedom to choose what we imposed that tax on. So we could take it off things like home energy, sanitary products and brown field development and put it on things like caravans and pasties.
I think that's absolutely right.
Longer-term - and I know this is slightly controversial - I would abolish VAT and income tax and move to consumption tax with a large tax-free element to make it non-regressive. This is something we could do outside the EU. Albeit something that would be politically a complete non-starter.
Pre-VAT sales tax was 8-10%.
VAT is actually a very well designed tax, with low-levels of avoidance, and which has the admirable side effect of catching people who come to the UK. If we exited the EU, giving up the apparatus of VAT to replace it with a sales tax would not be sensible; we'd be better off keeping our existing system, and merely having - Mr Tyndall suggested - rather more control on levels.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
No it is just another Conservative Health Minister trying to destroy the NHS .The doctors unlike Hunt retain the trust of the majority of people in this country .
Ah, another one who views the NHS as a religion, operating in the interests of the producer.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
Genuine question.
Lots
Prime reasons 1 Cuts to social care and 2 GP record levels of vacancies
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
Genuine question.
Lots
Prime reasons 1 Cuts to social care and 2 GP record levels of vacancies
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
No it is just another Conservative Health Minister trying to destroy the NHS .The doctors unlike Hunt retain the trust of the majority of people in this country .
Ah, another one who views the NHS as a religion, operating in the interests of the producer.
I do not view it as a religion but something that is vital to my personal health especially at the moment > I do not appreciate it that Hunt is playing politics with my health at this ( or any ) time .
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
No it is just another Conservative Health Minister trying to destroy the NHS .The doctors unlike Hunt retain the trust of the majority of people in this country .
Ah, another one who views the NHS as a religion, operating in the interests of the producer.
I do not view it as a religion but something that is vital to my personal health especially at the moment > I do not appreciate it that Hunt is playing politics with my health at this ( or any ) time .
Greedy doctors are playing politics with everyone's health. Producer interests over those of patients. That worries me.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
Genuine question.
Lots
Prime reasons 1 Cuts to social care and 2 GP record levels of vacancies
Answer the question please.
Lots is my answer.
The reasons are not brain surgeon stuff. Just beyond this Government
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
what are you worried about we;ll just ship a shedload in from Romania.
@runnymede 'The best way to neutralise Project Lie is the EFTA/EEA option, even if only as a first step.' Exactly, an excellent holding position.
Except it doesn't seem to be on offer. Nor is it a credible position (according to a Leaver on here). Other than that it's all systems go.
In case you have not noticed, the head of Govt, the PM, is not a LEAVER so nothing can be promised from LEAVE on this aspect until after June 23rd.
If Leave can't promise anything they could at least tell us what they actually want. Are we going to put a stop to immigration or are we going to sign up to EFFTA/EEA? You can't dither on the question for the next 2 months.
They return to our Gov the right to decide these things. We then vote for the Govt or not. You seem uncomfortable with the concept of power residing in the UK Govt.
Not at all I just want a straight answer about what Leave would like to do if hey win. Not a lot to ask really.
What would REMAIN like to happen to the EU if they win? The only difference is that LEAVE means the UK voters can influence the UK strongly if they win - but REMAIN still means that the UK voter can't influence the EU if they win.
The lengths that Leavers are going to to avoid answering a simple question (Stop immigration or join EFTA/EEA) is starting to get comical. You will have tied yourself in so many knots by June you won't know which way is up.
Nope. Some of us have been consistent in our views. You just don't seem to want to hear them.
With all due respect to your own importance could you enlighten me as to the official Leave answer to the question ?
The official Leave answer is that we control the answer. It will be up to us to determine through Parliamentary democracy, hence the slogan "Vote Leave Take Control".
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Good for Hunt for sticking to his guns. I hope he stays to the Autumn to see it through.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
No it is just another Conservative Health Minister trying to destroy the NHS .The doctors unlike Hunt retain the trust of the majority of people in this country .
Ah, another one who views the NHS as a religion, operating in the interests of the producer.
I do not view it as a religion but something that is vital to my personal health especially at the moment > I do not appreciate it that Hunt is playing politics with my health at this ( or any ) time .
Greedy doctors are playing politics with everyone's health. Producer interests over those of patients. That worries me.
You are living in a fantasy UK . What should worry you is why the Conservatives seem only able to select Health Secretaries who have a wish to destroy the NHS .
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Good for Hunt for sticking to his guns. I hope he stays to the Autumn to see it through.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
Discussing now on Fox, CNN is about to - Cruz needs to get about 88% of remaining delegates to get to 1237. That's not going to happen. So his strategy is to prevent Trump from getting 1237. After the first convention ballot his team can maneuver to vacuum up enough delegates to win. Cruz is excellent at this backroom stuff. Trump isn't.
Cruz is working hard to get some of the 54 uncommitted delegates in PA, where the winner only gets 17 committed delegates.
It is a little bizarre that the winning argument for the government is going to amount to them telling everyone that they are too incompetent to run the UK without the help of the EU, and for Labour it is that they are too incapable of getting elected to pass the same environmental, social and industrial laws as are passed by the EU, and for the Lib Dems is going to be, we don't actually need a UK government at all, we should all be run by the EU. Funny old world.
If we are going to pass all those laws and regulations, then surely it makes sense to stay in?
Leaveing only makes sense on this issue if the plan is to repeal some or all of the regulations, something that may make a single market an impossibility.
Bearing in mind the strong links between the right wing and the Leave campaign we can be fairly certain there is no intention to maintain the EUs social protections.
No you miss the point. Labour's argument for being in the EU is inter alia, it lets them see all sorts of laws passed in the UK that otherwise wouldn't be. But, parliament being sovereign, there are only two reason why those same law could not be passed by a UK parliament, and hence not be needed at the supranational level, a) because they can't get elected and b) because they don't have either the votes or the balls when they do get elected. Both appear to be in effect complaining about voters voting the wrong way.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
what are you worried about we;ll just ship a shedload in from Romania.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
what are you worried about we;ll just ship a shedload in from Romania.
@runnymede 'The best way to neutralise Project Lie is the EFTA/EEA option, even if only as a first step.' Exactly, an excellent holding position.
Except it doesn't seem to be on offer. Nor is it a credible position (according to a Leaver on here). Other than that it's all systems go.
In case you have not noticed, the head of Govt, the PM, is not a LEAVER so nothing can be promised from LEAVE on this aspect until after June 23rd.
If Leave can't promise anything they could at least tell us what they actually want. Are we going to put a stop to immigration or are we going to sign up to EFFTA/EEA? You can't dither on the question for the next 2 months.
Yes, they can, leave is about obtaining a divorce, not finding a new girlfriend.
'News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.'
If the Daily Mirror and Labour party say this it must be true.
Though with the much smaller budget increase the NHS was promised by Labour last year the system would have already collapsed
Discussing now on Fox, CNN is about to - Cruz needs to get about 88% of remaining delegates to get to 1237. That's not going to happen. So his strategy is to prevent Trump from getting 1237. After the first convention ballot his team can maneuver to vacuum up enough delegates to win. Cruz is excellent at this backroom stuff. Trump isn't.
Cruz is working hard to get some of the 54 uncommitted delegates in PA, where the winner only gets 17 committed delegates.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
I have seen the figures, and they do scare me.
Recruitment and retention are a major problem. Numbers of people applying for paeds and obstetrics are particularly bad, in large part because these posts are 75% female. The new contract discriminates agaist women in its own analysis.
I can patch together enough cover for my own department, I think, but have not yet been told how many unfilled slots we have. It is going to impact on non emergency services too. I also think that the goodwill will have disappeared and covering short-notice gaps will be very trying.
'News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.'
If the Daily Mirror and Labour party say this it must be true.
Though with the much smaller budget increase the NHS was promised by Labour last year the system would have already collapsed
I just got of the phone from Mrs Indigo (Snr) who has just been the lucky recipient of one of the £9m government brochures... she opined that is didn't tell her anything useful and she got more solid information out of the village newsletter, and wanted to know when she would receive some real figures to consider rather than warm words and flimflam
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
I have seen the figures, and they do scare me.
Recruitment and retention are a major problem. Numbers of people applying for paeds and obstetrics are particularly bad, in large part because these posts are 75% female. The new contract discriminates agaist women in its own analysis.
I can patch together enough cover for my own department, I think, but have not yet been told how many unfilled slots we have. It is going to impact on non emergency services too. I also think that the goodwill will have disappeared and covering short-notice gaps will be very trying.
Pulpstar and Casino genuinely think Hunt is doing a good job too.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
'News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.'
If the Daily Mirror and Labour party say this it must be true.
Though with the much smaller budget increase the NHS was promised by Labour last year the system would have already collapsed
As the massively inefficient and financially wasteful Lansley 'reforms' wouldn't have been enacted the NHS would have probably done more with less.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesmen and small businessmen, GP's always have something to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
'News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.'
If the Daily Mirror and Labour party say this it must be true.
Though with the much smaller budget increase the NHS was promised by Labour last year the system would have already collapsed
As the massively inefficient and financially wasteful Lansley 'reforms' wouldn't have been enacted the NHS would have probably done more with less.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesmen and small businessmen, GP's always have something to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oversubscibed degree in the UK and will remian soi as UK GPs are among the best paid in Europe,
I'm off on hols with my GP mate in about 4 weeks time, the only thing he ever seriously moans about is female GPs. He bitches that most of the female GPs want it as a part-time well paid job and that when they get pregnant it's left to the blokes in the practice to pick up the workload.
By chance two of my daughters best mates are now year 5 and it is their intention to become GPs as they want a part time post. I haven't the heart to tell him.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
I have seen the figures, and they do scare me.
Recruitment and retention are a major problem. Numbers of people applying for paeds and obstetrics are particularly bad, in large part because these posts are 75% female. The new contract discriminates agaist women in its own analysis.
I can patch together enough cover for my own department, I think, but have not yet been told how many unfilled slots we have. It is going to impact on non emergency services too. I also think that the goodwill will have disappeared and covering short-notice gaps will be very trying.
Pulpstar and Casino genuinely think Hunt is doing a good job too.
And they are 2 of the saner PB Tories FFS
I'll take that as a compliment.
I admire the way Hunt has stuck to his guns in delivering a manifesto pledge at a time when there is no more money for the NHS - cheaper 24/7 rostering is the only way, unless we all want to pay a lot mode tax
I don't admire just how long he's taken to do it, the poor PR and air war and awful Government salesmanship of the messaging
I like the fact Hunt has stuck to his guns, it's a big contrast to Boris in his TFL dealings. First whiff of gunpowder and he was hopping to Crow's tune.
'so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.'
Between 2000 & 2009 Doctor's pay rose by 48% & NHS productivity fell by 2%.
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News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesmen and small businessmen, GP's always have something to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oversubscibed degree in the UK and will remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as it once was. At the end of Foundation year 2 only 53% of UK graduates continue in postgraduate training as either specialists or GP's. This is down from 73% just 4 years ago. Some go into research, some the pharmaceutical industry. About 8% go abroad (largely unchanged over 4 years interestingly), but the biggest change is the number leaving the profession entirely. That is a worrying trend as doctors in research or abroad can potentially be tempted back, but those that have quit entirely are very hard to retrieve.
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so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as it once was. At the end of Foundation year 2 only 53% of UK graduates continue in postgraduate training as either specialists or GP's. This is down from 73% just 4 years ago. Some go into research, some the pharmaceutical industry. About 8% go abroad (largely unchanged over 4 years interestingly), but the biggest change is the number leaving the profession entirely. That is a worrying trend as doctors in research or abroad can potentially be tempted back, but those that have quit entirely are very hard to retrieve.
Still, I am sure Mr Hunt has a plan.
all you're saying is we don't train enough doctors.
That has been the case for about 20 years and as my GP mate gripes what's the point of training so many women when you need two to fill one GP post.
However look on the bright side with UK GPs being so well paid we can import loads from Poland at cheaper rates. And you'll vote to make sure we do.
@runnymede 'The best way to neutralise Project Lie is the EFTA/EEA option, even if only as a first step.' Exactly, an excellent holding position.
Except it doesn't seem to be on offer. Nor is it a credible position (according to a Leaver on here). Other than that it's all systems go.
In case you have not noticed, the head of Govt, the PM, is not a LEAVER so nothing can be promised from LEAVE on this aspect until after June 23rd.
If Leave can't promise anything they could at least tell us what they actually want. Are we going to put a stop to immigration or are we going to sign up to EFFTA/EEA? You can't dither on the question for the next 2 months.
They return to our Gov the right to decide these things. We then vote for the Govt or not. You seem uncomfortable with the concept of power residing in the UK Govt.
Not at all I just want a straight answer about what Leave would like to do if hey win. Not a lot to ask really.
What would REMAIN like to happen to the EU if they win? The only difference is that LEAVE means the UK voters can influence the UK strongly if they win - but REMAIN still means that the UK voter can't influence the EU if they win.
The lengths that Leavers are going to to avoid answering a simple question (Stop immigration or join EFTA/EEA) is starting to get comical. You will have tied yourself in so many knots by June you won't know which way is up.
Nope. Some of us have been consistent in our views. You just don't seem to want to hear them.
With all due respect to your own importance could you enlighten me as to the official Leave answer to the question ?
As I understand it the official Leave position is to negotiate an individual arrangement with the EU outside of EFTA. It is not a position I agree with personally but then I have never claimed to speak for the official campaign.
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so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as .
all you're saying is we don't train enough doctors.
That has been the case for about 20 years and as my GP mate gripes what's the point of training so many women when you need two to fill one GP post.
However look on the bright side with UK GPs being so well paid we can import loads from Poland at cheaper rates. And you'll vote to make sure we do.
I will do.
Though we don't get so many Polish applicants, mostly Greek and Romanian, in Medicine. One of the non-tarrif barriers that was removed by the EU is mutual recognition and standardisation of professional qualifications.
Non-EU doctors have many more hoops to jump through in getting their qualifications recognised (and very difficult to get postgraduate qualifications recognised at all), and visas are very tough to get. In practice non-EU recruitment has become a trickle.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
How many more potential customers are there in February 2016 than there was in April 2010?
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
The prevalence of part time female gp's is a major inefficiency compared to 20 years ago. The lack of continuity wastes resources and increases the risk of mistakes.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as .
all you're saying is we don't train enough doctors.
That has been the case for about 20 years and as my GP mate gripes what's the point of training so many women when you need two to fill one GP post.
However look on the bright side with UK GPs being so well paid we can import loads from Poland at cheaper rates. And you'll vote to make sure we do.
I will do.
Though we don't get so many Polish applicants, mostly Greek and Romanian, in Medicine. One of the non-tarrif barriers that was removed by the EU is mutual recognition and standardisation of professional qualifications.
Non-EU doctors have many more hoops to jump through in getting their qualifications recognised (and very difficult to get postgraduate qualifications recognised at all), and visas are very tough to get. In practice non-EU recruitment has become a trickle.
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so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as .
all you're saying is we don'e to make sure we do.
I will do.
Though we don't get so many Polish applicants, mostly Greek and Romanian, in Medicine. One of the non-tarrif barriers that was removed by the EU is mutual recognition and standardisation of professional qualifications.
Non-EU doctors have many more hoops to jump through in getting their qualifications recognised (and very difficult to get postgraduate qualifications recognised at all), and visas are very tough to get. In practice non-EU recruitment has become a trickle.
so once again instead of developing our own core skills we just ship em in and don't bother contributing to a better stronger society,
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as .
all .
I will do.
Though we don't get so many Polish applicants, mostly Greek and Romanian, in Medicine. One of the non-tarrif barriers that was removed by the EU is mutual recognition and standardisation of professional qualifications.
Non-EU doctors have many more hoops to jump through in getting their qualifications recognised (and very difficult to get postgraduate qualifications recognised at all), and visas are very tough to get. In practice non-EU recruitment has become a trickle.
You are denying the female problem?
No. Though Hunt seems to. In the DoH's own analysis the new contract discriminates against the 60% of UK graduates that are female.
Some can see a perfect storm coming, but not Mr Hunt. He has a plan I am sure.
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as .
all .
I will do.
Though we don't get so many Polish ae a trickle.
You are denying the female problem?
No. Though Hunt seems to. In the DoH's own analysis the new contract discriminates against the 60% of UK graduates that are female.
Some can see a perfect storm coming, but not Mr Hunt. He has a plan I am sure.
It's why we need to train more or = splutter = recruit more blokes
my mate's son also has gone in to medicine, when applyng he said his biggest disadvantage up in the Midlands was he wasn't an Asian female !
All you chaps with your fixation on Europe seem to have missed the biggest and most hopeful story of the day - the proposed remuneration package of the CEO of BP has been voted down and included in those rejecting it are big institutional investors.
Huzzah! I say and maybe this is the start of returning sanity to the corporate sector.
It's interesting but no more than that and would best be viewed in the context of BP performance over that last 24 months. You might compare BP to the compensation packages awarded to the senior management of the US majors and the (implicit and explicit) shareholder approval for the latter. The problem that BP faces is if they are not paying bonuses and their competitors are then real talent will walk. You may or may not be indifferent to this but unless we impose a global compensation approach (or perhaps a pan-EU one) then, to quote, sanity will not return.
just bollocks.
Thanks for the reasoning you (edit). [Still a moron level response but given the man in pub level of your posts no surprise].
All you chaps with your fixation on Europe seem to have missed the biggest and most hopeful story of the day - the proposed remuneration package of the CEO of BP has been voted down and included in those rejecting it are big institutional investors.
Huzzah! I say and maybe this is the start of returning sanity to the corporate sector.
It's interesting but no more than that and would best be viewed in the context of BP performance over that last 24 months. You might compare BP to the compensation packages awarded to the senior management of the US majors and the (implicit and explicit) shareholder approval for the latter. The problem that BP faces is if they are not paying bonuses and their competitors are then real talent will walk. You may or may not be indifferent to this but unless we impose a global compensation approach (or perhaps a pan-EU one) then, to quote, sanity will not return.
All you chaps with your fixation on Europe seem to have missed the biggest and most hopeful story of the day - the proposed remuneration package of the CEO of BP has been voted down and included in those rejecting it are big institutional investors.
Huzzah! I say and maybe this is the start of returning sanity to the corporate sector.
It's interesting but no more than that and would best be viewed in the context of BP performance over that last 24 months. You might compare BP to the compensation packages awarded to the senior management of the US majors and the (implicit and explicit) shareholder approval for the latter. The problem that BP faces is if they are not paying bonuses and their competitors are then real talent will walk. You may or may not be indifferent to this but unless we impose a global compensation approach (or perhaps a pan-EU one) then, to quote, sanity will not return.
just bollocks.
Thanks for the reasoning you (edit). [Still a moron level response but given the man in pub level of your posts no surprise].
you see I've dragged you down to my level and now I;m going to beat you on experience :-)
@runnymede 'The best way to neutralise Project Lie is the EFTA/EEA option, even if only as a first step.' Exactly, an excellent holding position.
Except it doesn't seem to be on offer. Nor is it a credible position (according to a Leaver on here). Other than that it's all systems go.
In case you have not noticed, the head of Govt, the PM, is not a LEAVER so nothing can be promised from LEAVE on this aspect until after June 23rd.
If Leave can't promise anything they could at least tell us what they actually want. Are we going to put a stop to immigration or are we going to sign up to EFFTA/EEA? You can't dither on the question for the next 2 months.
They return to our Gov the right to decide these things. We then vote for the Govt or not. You seem uncomfortable with the concept of power residing in the UK Govt.
Not at all I just want a straight answer about what Leave would like to do if hey win. Not a lot to ask really.
What would REMAIN like to happen to the EU if they win? The only difference is that LEAVE means the UK voters can influence the UK strongly if they win - but REMAIN still means that the UK voter can't influence the EU if they win.
The lengths that Leavers are going to to avoid answering a simple question (Stop immigration or join EFTA/EEA) is starting to get comical. You will have tied yourself in so many knots by June you won't know which way is up.
Nope. Some of us have been consistent in our views. You just don't seem to want to hear them.
With all due respect to your own importance could you enlighten me as to the official Leave answer to the question ?
The official Leave answer is that we control the answer. It will be up to us to determine through Parliamentary democracy, hence the slogan "Vote Leave Take Control".
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
6/14 posts unfilled and unfillable. It will be coming to a hospital near you in August....
Why in August? Are all the other doctors off to watch the Olympic Games?
The Junior contract imposition is the first Wednesday in August. That is the day that all new graduates start in their Foundation posts for 2 years, and all the Foundation graduates start in their Specialist or GP training posts. The interview rounds for these have been running for the last few months. Some programmes are filled, but the fill rate overall is down substantially, particularly in specialities like Psychiatry, Paediatrics, Obstetrics, Anaesthetics and core medicine. There will be major rota gaps even if people take up their offers, and if imposition is not withdrawn some may change their minds and decline the new terms and conditions.
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Watford is in denial.
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
what are you worried about we;ll just ship a shedload in from Romania.
Cheaper too - vote remain to save the NHS.
You are having a laugh if you think anyone is going to believe that the right wing of the Tory parterre going to save the NHS.
News UK News Hospitals A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began 17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016 BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.
Latest figures show 12.2% of patients waited longer than four hours in February - the highest monthly figure on record. In April 2010 was just 1.7%
Not content with ignoring the Hippocratic oath, are greedy docs on a go slow now?
All you chaps with your fixation on Europe seem to have missed the biggest and most hopeful story of the day - the proposed remuneration package of the CEO of BP has been voted down and included in those rejecting it are big institutional investors.
Huzzah! I say and maybe this is the start of returning sanity to the corporate sector.
It's interesting but no more than that and would best be viewed in the context of BP performance over that last 24 months. You might compare BP to the compensation packages awarded to the senior management of the US majors and the (implicit and explicit) shareholder approval for the latter. The problem that BP faces is if they are not paying bonuses and their competitors are then real talent will walk. You may or may not be indifferent to this but unless we impose a global compensation approach (or perhaps a pan-EU one) then, to quote, sanity will not return.
just bollocks.
Thanks for the reasoning you (edit). [Still a moron level response but given the man in pub level of your posts no surprise].
you see I've dragged you down to my level and now I;m going to beat you on experience :-)
so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.
That was 11 years ago (in a previous General Practice crisis) since then GP pay has declined about 20% in real terms, so getting back to what it was.
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I know lots of GPs and they always moan. It's just middle class special pleading. As for a 20% pay cut, the ones I know seem to be spending more than ever.
Sure, like farmers, tradesomething to moan about.
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
medicine is the most oll remian soi as UK GPs are
It is not so oversubscribed as .
all .
I will do.
Though we don't get so many Polish ae a trickle.
You are denying the female problem?
No. Though Hunt seems to. In the DoH's own analysis the new contract discriminates against the 60% of UK graduates that are female.
Some can see a perfect storm coming, but not Mr Hunt. He has a plan I am sure.
It's why we need to train more or = splutter = recruit more blokes
my mate's son also has gone in to medicine, when applyng he said his biggest disadvantage up in the Midlands was he wasn't an Asian female !
I love winding up our Deanery by suggesting quotas for white males from state schools (like myself) as we are significantly under-represented. Sometimes they think that I am teasing them!
All you chaps with your fixation on Europe seem to have missed the biggest and most hopeful story of the day - the proposed remuneration package of the CEO of BP has been voted down and included in those rejecting it are big institutional investors.
Huzzah! I say and maybe this is the start of returning sanity to the corporate sector.
It's interesting but no more than that and would best be viewed in the context of BP performance over that last 24 months. You might compare BP to the compensation packages awarded to the senior management of the US majors and the (implicit and explicit) shareholder approval for the latter. The problem that BP faces is if they are not paying bonuses and their competitors are then real talent will walk. You may or may not be indifferent to this but unless we impose a global compensation approach (or perhaps a pan-EU one) then, to quote, sanity will not return.
just bollocks.
Thanks for the reasoning you (edit). [Still a moron level response but given the man in pub level of your posts no surprise].
you see I've dragged you down to my level and now I;m going to beat you on experience :-)
PJ O'Rourke, 1995. Not.
Oh dear a chap who denigrates that great british invention - the pub - resorts to feeble americanisms.
All you chaps with your fixation on Europe seem to have missed the biggest and most hopeful story of the day - the proposed remuneration package of the CEO of BP has been voted down and included in those rejecting it are big institutional investors.
Huzzah! I say and maybe this is the start of returning sanity to the corporate sector.
It's interesting but no more than that and would best be viewed in the context of BP performance over that last 24 months. You might compare BP to the compensation packages awarded to the senior management of the US majors and the (implicit and explicit) shareholder approval for the latter. The problem that BP faces is if they are not paying bonuses and their competitors are then real talent will walk. You may or may not be indifferent to this but unless we impose a global compensation approach (or perhaps a pan-EU one) then, to quote, sanity will not return.
just bollocks.
Thanks for the reasoning you (edit). [Still a moron level response but given the man in pub level of your posts no surprise].
you see I've dragged you down to my level and now I;m going to beat you on experience :-)
PJ O'Rourke, 1995. Not.
I am up for a battle of wits. I will remove half mine so we can start even.
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Trump has to win something like 60% of remaining delegates to get to 1237. It remains to be seen if he can.
For example, in Pennsylvania the winner gets only 17 pledged delegates out of a total of 71 in several categories.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/elections/mc-pa-republican-delegates-presidential-race-20160326-story.html
There will always be reasons to justify more spending on social welfare than provide tax relief to those bearing the heaviest tax burdens.
The truth is that the tax burden is simply too high and we divert and spend far too much on welfare at a great economic opportunity cost to the whole of society.
The Conservative solution is to get everyone into work, some type of work, as possible. It's good for them, pays them more money, and costs much less.
(You should never get sick in August.)
A male Heidi Allen.
Have you ever considered standing for selection?
LAB: 34% (-)
CON: 31% (-2)
UKIP: 17% (+1)
LDEM: 8% (+2)
(via YouGov)
I missed it!!!
Labour leader embarrassed again as it emerges he filled out WRONG tax form – and still won’t publish details of his income from pensions
Jeremy Corbyn has admitted failing to include income from two pensions on his tax return
His office insists all tax due was paid through the PAYE system, but is refusing to give figures
Also managed to enter details on the wrong pages of his return and ignore a section specifically for MPs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3539446/Labour-leader-embarrassed-emerges-filled-WRONG-tax-form-won-t-publish-details-income-pensions.html#ixzz45pGAZt7S
The consumption tax I am thinking of would act like this http://www.forbes.com/sites/leonardburman/2012/06/04/a-progressive-consumption-tax/#10e7e472316d
Genuine question.
Round 1 recruitment figures show this August has record number of gaps by a mile.
Can anyone guess why?
I am not looking forward to firefight the crisis that Mr Hunt has created.
Prime reasons
1 Cuts to social care and
2 GP record levels of vacancies
Have you seen the national round 1 recruitment figures?
Really Scary I cant see Hunt surviving these unless round 2 shows some amazing recovery (which I doubt)
My wife is on her fourth attempt in the last fortnight to get an appointment booked due purely to NHS administrative cock-ups.
No private business would survive such consistent inefficiency.
The reasons are not brain surgeon stuff. Just beyond this Government
Cheaper too - vote remain to save the NHS.
Maybe he's worth a bet..
Hardly surprising is it?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35479749
And this audit of 100 million GP consultations shows the workload of GPs in terms of numbers of consultations up 16 % over a a 6 year period. Consultations went up both in terms of numbers of consultations per capita and also duration.
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)00620-6/abstract?utm_source=Facebook &utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=ofgp&sf23845310=1
so still a 7% productivity gap.
Cruz is working hard to get some of the 54 uncommitted delegates in PA, where the winner only gets 17 committed delegates.
'News UK News Hospitals
A&E crisis explodes under Jeremy Hunt as waiting times reach worst level since records began
17:19, 14 APR 2016 UPDATED 17:20, 14 APR 2016
BY JANE KIRBY , DAN BLOOM
A&E figures shame Jeremy Hunt
The NHS crisis under Jeremy Hunt is laid bare today after A&E waiting times reached their worst level since records began.'
If the Daily Mirror and Labour party say this it must be true.
Though with the much smaller budget increase the NHS was promised by Labour last year the system would have already collapsed
I'm half guessing Kasich, but he's unlikely
Recruitment and retention are a major problem. Numbers of people applying for paeds and obstetrics are particularly bad, in large part because these posts are 75% female. The new contract discriminates agaist women in its own analysis.
I can patch together enough cover for my own department, I think, but have not yet been told how many unfilled slots we have. It is going to impact on non emergency services too. I also think that the goodwill will have disappeared and covering short-notice gaps will be very trying.
I bet the Lab candidate in Killamarsh is shitting himself.
In fact is there even an election other than PCC?
We have no control over what other countries will and won't do, what deals we may or may not be able to do.
We will have as much control over post brexit effects as the man who lights the blue touch-paper and runs away...
We have no control over what other countries will and won't do, what deals we may or may not be able to do.
the same applies under QMV - or hadn't you realised that ?
And they are 2 of the saner PB Tories FFS
On the whole though it is not pay that my GP colleagues are unhappy with, it is the unsustainable workload.
I thought was only PCC in NE Derbyshire
13 hours 13 minutes 13 seconds
I'll vote no matter what
Its the voting with their feet, and the problems with recruitment and retention that show there is a real problem.
I'm off on hols with my GP mate in about 4 weeks time, the only thing he ever seriously moans about is female GPs. He bitches that most of the female GPs want it as a part-time well paid job and that when they get pregnant it's left to the blokes in the practice to pick up the workload.
By chance two of my daughters best mates are now year 5 and it is their intention to become GPs as they want a part time post. I haven't the heart to tell him.
I admire the way Hunt has stuck to his guns in delivering a manifesto pledge at a time when there is no more money for the NHS - cheaper 24/7 rostering is the only way, unless we all want to pay a lot mode tax
I don't admire just how long he's taken to do it, the poor PR and air war and awful Government salesmanship of the messaging
One of the big reasons he's unsuitable to be PM.
The prosecutor was scathing about Michele Fields, and said there was little chance of a conviction.
'so work load up 16% over 6 years yet in one year Blair gave them an average 23% pay rise..
so still a 7% productivity gap.'
Between 2000 & 2009 Doctor's pay rose by 48% & NHS productivity fell by 2%.
Strike all you like, doctors – technology will soon take away ...
www.telegraph.co.uk › News › NHS
12 Jan 2016 - Those conditions may well apply to junior doctors and the NHS so the ... Unless the NHS can increase its productivity and get more for every ...
Still, I am sure Mr Hunt has a plan.
That has been the case for about 20 years and as my GP mate gripes what's the point of training so many women when you need two to fill one GP post.
However look on the bright side with UK GPs being so well paid we can import loads from Poland at cheaper rates. And you'll vote to make sure we do.
Though we don't get so many Polish applicants, mostly Greek and Romanian, in Medicine. One of the non-tarrif barriers that was removed by the EU is mutual recognition and standardisation of professional qualifications.
Non-EU doctors have many more hoops to jump through in getting their qualifications recognised (and very difficult to get postgraduate qualifications recognised at all), and visas are very tough to get. In practice non-EU recruitment has become a trickle.
Some can see a perfect storm coming, but not Mr Hunt. He has a plan I am sure.
my mate's son also has gone in to medicine, when applyng he said his biggest disadvantage up in the Midlands was he wasn't an Asian female !
You are having a laugh if you think anyone is going to believe that the right wing of the Tory parterre going to save the NHS.
I do hope you're not like this with your clients.
http://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2016/04/daniel-hannan-the-referendum-campaign-has-begun-and-leave-has-the-positive-message.html