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RB, that is horrific. Pancreatitis can be a nasty bastard and sounds like pretty much everything that could have gone wrong did. You must have needed a lot of strength - physical and mental to make it through that. Congrats on not dying, and good luck for the rest of the recovery! I still pop on her...

Doctors want the government to listen whilst inconveniencing patients and colleagues as little as possible. The end point here is an indefinite withdrawal of all junior doctor cover. Given that even a single day of emergency-care only striking from doctors was basically unprecedented we had to start...

Essentially. But more elective procedures & clinics being cancelled ultimately cost the government money and start causing organisational problems -- which given their refusal to negotiate is the only way this will be resolved. And don't worry - not offended (nor do I want you to try to not offe...

The same as when there are too many people for the junior doctors + normal (lower) numbers of consultants to handle. The total capacity of the emergency service will be the same as usual, just delivered by different people.

It will be non-junior doctor delivered emergency cover. The consultants and some non-training junior doctors will still be there to provide emergency care (which they will be more than capable of handling), but elective work will have to be cancelled to free them up to do so, thus increasing the imp...

Croissants are a breakfast item. Heathen.

Very nice Jez. I like.

If we want the NHS as we know it to survive then the solution is simple (if not easy). The NHS needs more money, social care needs more money, and the government has to stop using it as a political football and treating it's employees like crap. I don't know if the NHS would actually benefit from mo...

If BUPA can provide high quality care for what I pay them They can't, at least not to anywhere the extent the NHS does. Get really sick in most private hospitals? You'll be in an ambulance to your nearest NHS hospital pretty rapidly. Private healthcare in this country exists by skimming off profita...

A year ago I would have called the 'Conservatives are setting the NHS up for privatisation' people tinfoil hatters. Now I genuinely believe it (and I voted for the fuckers - never again). There is no explanation for their current diabolical mismanagement of the NHS other than setting it up to fail, ...

I like ImgBurn.

Not sure enough that I've bought or sold anything yet!

If you work as a (technical term incoming) "ward bitch" in a private hospital you apparently can apparently earn ~£42,000 to ~£65,000 , including accommodation. Better than what is available in the NHS. However, there will be no opportunities for training or career progression, and the job...

We spend less than most similar countries: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/health-at-glance-2015-london-event-how-the-uk-compares-151104092628-lva1-app6891/95/health-atglance2015londoneventhowtheukcompares-8-638.jpg?cb=1446629236 Whilst delivering excellent care: https://metrouk2.files.wordpress.com...

No - almost all the extra work done is currently unpaid and unrecognised. Obviously difficult to quantify, but I'd say on average doctors provide ~200 unpaid hours of work per year, which equates to somewhere between 160 million to half a billion pounds a year (depending on how you pay them) saved b...