Usually because these are elderly patients living at home but in need of a care package (e.g. four home visits a day to get them up, feed them, put them to bed etc). Hotels don’t provide that normall… (View Post)

The question hangs on methodology though, surely? How is NHS productivity measured? How should NHS outcomes be measured? Conceivable you could say that a GP doing 5 appointments in the time he/she us… (View Post)

No one who is medically fit to leave hospital should be there. We have to sort social care so it doesn’t happen. Each hospital bed costs vast sums so needs to be free for those who need the care. (View Post)

The argument against this that the previous civil war had an obvious distinction, slavery (way of life), whereas a blue state will not be 100% democrat. So in this context Blue states doesn’t equate … (View Post)

Arguably much milder language, the female equivalent of pussy. (View Post)