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Post by rondetto on Dec 2, 2024 18:54:52 GMT
The surgery eventually rang me back today and said a prescription would be at our chemist to be picked up. My son in law popped there and was told they had to order the prescription and it wouldn't be there until Wednesday. Tomorrow it will be a week since I saw my doctor and he wrote out a prescription. Unfortunately the item he had on the script wasn't available so I had to ring the surgery to ask for an alterative. So If I get it on Wednesday I will have been waiting for over a week for medicine I needed and still need urgently.
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Post by waiting4atickle on Dec 2, 2024 21:09:21 GMT
That's terrible, Ron. I think the NHS long since ceased to be fit for purpose.
Just back from a long weekend in Dorset, via Langford Lakes on the way there and Stourhead on the way back. We were very lucky with the weather, although it was pretty grotty on Saturday evening when we were driving from Poole to Weymouth and there was a bit of irritating drizzly rain on the homeward leg this evening.
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Post by waiting4atickle on Dec 2, 2024 23:52:45 GMT
Sorry to hear that, Ron. I hope it clears up quickly. Went for a stroll by the Thames this afternoon, but not along the towpath - I'd have needed waders for that. All that west country water has found its way here. You may just be able to make out the river behind the trees that are reflected in the floodwater.  One of your arty farty photos? Excellent..a beautiful study of the reflection of trees in water... 10/10 👍 When I talk of arty farty photos I refer mainly to those taken using the illustration setting on my camera. It's not always a great success but every now and then the result is quite effective. Here's one taken in Weymouth harbour yesterday: not such a good one, but it will give you the idea -  |
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Post by rondetto on Dec 3, 2024 4:55:47 GMT
Morning all: Very frosty here this morning, not going out anyway. I still get up at 4am it's a life time habit. I will go back to bed for an hour soon.
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Post by marispiper on Dec 3, 2024 8:53:16 GMT
Well. Settings or no, the pics impress me Tickle 👍
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Post by waiting4atickle on Dec 3, 2024 8:54:05 GMT
Merry and bright here. Probably a bit chilly - I've not been outside so don't know for sure - but no frost.
I'm never up at 4am unless it's for an early morning Heathrow run - I suspect I may have that pleasure on Boxing Day.
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Post by althea on Dec 3, 2024 13:27:23 GMT
It's annoying isn't it Althea? Our pensions - whether they be state or private - we have no control over the tax due. The system is the same as PAYE. Of course you may have huge investments and an offshore account...😁 I don't have huge amounts squirreled away, maris. Even less now I've paid the taxman.  I console myself with knowing I have enough. At lunchtime, I sat in my warm kitchen eating my lunch, watching an old Mock The Week. Then I sat for a while with Leo on my lap for about half an hour watching another episode of MTW and I thought to myself - life is not so bad. It's dreadful that pensions are taxed, as when the money was earned it was taxed at that time. But even a generation ago, many old people had to live with relatives after they retired, not having enough to live on. My uncle Dan, retired from Shell at fifty and had his Shell pension for forty three years. I think the idea of pensions was before people began to live so long. It was never intended to be paid for, perhaps, forty years or more. |
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Post by althea on Dec 3, 2024 13:30:39 GMT
I'm sorry to hear about your wait for your prescription, Ron. It's not good enough.
The trouble is, that when you're ill, you're in no mood to cause a fuss to get the services you need.
I hope you get the A/Bs soon.
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Post by rondetto on Dec 3, 2024 14:31:18 GMT
True words Althea, my daughters are saying do this and do that. I don't have the energy at the moment to do anything.
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Post by marispiper on Dec 3, 2024 16:15:07 GMT
True words Althea, my daughters are saying do this and do that. I don't have the energy at the moment to do anything. Not surprising Ron. Very wise. If you don't feel like doing something, your body is telling you don't... |
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Post by rwthless on Dec 3, 2024 18:09:21 GMT
The Head of Healthwatch said at the meeting I was at today that the Department of Health had this idea that Pharmacists could give basic health advice. This worked for chain pharmacies but small family run businesses would have 2 people behind the counter. One to fill prescriptions and the other to sell the non medicinal stock that made the businesses viable. If the Pharmacist gave advice he couldn't make up prescriptions, and if the sales assistant gave advice, a customer would get tired of waiting and buy next door in Boots or Lloyds. Of course a small business can't stock everything that might be prescribed, so patients end up having to wait.
Remember the money we were paying to the EU that was going to be spent on the NHS? It takes about 7 years to train a GP, and young doctors go to work in Australia or Canada and are paid better and treated better generally. If they stay overseas, the effort of training them is wasted. Maybe they should work here for a while before leaving unless the recruiting country pays us a whacking premium for their loss. And all those 18 year olds who didn't make it into Medical School are also lost to the NHS. Not because they weren't good enough, but because there were only so many training places so the schools could pick and choose.
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Post by rondetto on Dec 4, 2024 5:07:23 GMT
Morning all: Another cold start to the day, not that I'm going anywhere today.
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Post by caliban on Dec 4, 2024 5:22:55 GMT
It's 4 degrees here in Glos. As Terry used to say, mustn't grumble.
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Post by rikiiboy on Dec 4, 2024 7:24:34 GMT
The Head of Healthwatch said at the meeting I was at today that the Department of Health had this idea that Pharmacists could give basic health advice. This worked for chain pharmacies but small family run businesses would have 2 people behind the counter. One to fill prescriptions and the other to sell the non medicinal stock that made the businesses viable. If the Pharmacist gave advice he couldn't make up prescriptions, and if the sales assistant gave advice, a customer would get tired of waiting and buy next door in Boots or Lloyds. Of course a small business can't stock everything that might be prescribed, so patients end up having to wait. Remember the money we were paying to the EU that was going to be spent on the NHS? It takes about 7 years to train a GP, and young doctors go to work in Australia or Canada and are paid better and treated better generally. If they stay overseas, the effort of training them is wasted. Maybe they should work here for a while before leaving unless the recruiting country pays us a whacking premium for their loss. And all those 18 year olds who didn't make it into Medical School are also lost to the NHS. Not because they weren't good enough, but because there were only so many training places so the schools could pick and choose. [Here's some recent news about LloydsPharmacy: Liquidation On January 31, 2024, LloydsPharmacy entered into liquidation after a year-long divestment campaign. The company owes £293 million to creditors, but only has £8.2 million in assets to pay them off.] |
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