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emerald21

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Apparently we will all be wearing capes this winter

Will we :eek:

Sorry to hear about your op Ladyshopper.

Happy Birthday PD.

Enterprise_1701C

TrulyMadly wrote: »

Apparently we will all be wearing capes this winter

I won't. I have a poncho and that is bad enough, a cape would drive me even further up the wall :eek:

zippydooda

coke worked great on my cc from today :j all cost £2 each on receipt

0.1 x ASDA Mushrooms by Weight per kg £0.26 £0.26
1 x ASDA British Semi Skimmed Milk 4 Pints (2.27L) £1.00 £1.00
3 x ASDA Chosen by You Cheese Sauce Mix (50g) £1.00 N/A
3 x ASDA White Cheese Topped Rolls (6) £1.50 N/A
2 x ASDA Carver Ham (250g) £5.00 £2.94
2 x ASDA Chosen by You Mature British Cheddar (450g) £5.00 £5.00
6 x Diet Coke (4x500ml) £23.88 £18.00
4 x Coca Cola Glass Bottles (6x330ml) £17.92 £17.96
2 x Lurpak Lighter Spreadable - Slightly Salted (500g) £5.00 £5.00
£12.92 apg

Savvybuyer

Eventually I'll catch up with the thread:rotfl::rotfl:.

Mildred1970

poppypopster wrote: »

Won my first £5 with the pizza voucher. Stocking up and the vouchers last till jan 2015.


But the pizzas are pretty rubbish.

I have no room in my freezers for rubbish pizza

I have considered getting them for the codes and swatting them...I suppose I could just hand them out in the car park

Or I might see if my neighbours want some :cool:

gocat

Happy Birthday PD :beer::j:j

TrulyMadly

bubbs wrote: »

Colman's Sauces 69p at Tesco - Apple, Mint, Tartare, Horseradish, Seafood
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/colman-s-sauces-69p-tesco-apple-mint-tartare-horseradish-seafood-2008217


These are all good a v t £1.38 v 69p:D

Thanks for this bubbs:)

lutzi1

karlie88 wrote: »

The problem is Nana, that there is a significant proportion of people who are not grateful.



You are right, we're very lucky to have the NHS.

I'm just going to inform you of the cruel/sad/disappointing stuff that I sometimes see. This may be a long post and I apologise in advance.

I go to work and I see 'ungrateful' people everyday. They 'whinge' about their care, long waiting times, uncomfortable beds, not enough pillows, operation delays, hospital food, delays in scans and several hundred other things. I see doctors, staff nurses, auxiliary nurses, sisters, porters, radiographers, bank nurses, locum doctors etc. get verbally abused (myself included) and sometimes physically abused. On one occasion, my colleague was strangled by a patient's relative after they had waited over 30 minutes for a doctor to attend them (not strangled to death, but to the extent where he couldn't breathe for about 10 seconds). I found him (by chance) on a set of stairs in the hospital; he was crying his eyes out.

People do not realise that from 5pm to 8am (15 hours of the day; Monday to Friday), the hospital is severely lacking in staff. Add to this the whole of Saturday and Sunday. People think that a hospital is a 24/7 working environment and it is, to some extent. But people don't realise that departments close down and that there are 'on-call teams' when doctors are on shift.

For example, pretty much all hospitals in the UK (big or small) have about 3 doctors on-call during the evenings/nights/weekends. A&E is the only department to be fully staffed 24/7. These 3 doctors on-call typically have to look after 300 - 500 inpatients (i.e those in beds and on wards). But what people don't realise is that Mr Jones on the Cardiology ward starts to have a heart attack at 11pm. At the same time, Mrs Campbell develops signs of stroke on Ward 12. Half an hour later, a nurse bleeps you to say that Mr Stokes is becoming more short of breath and is now coughing up blood. An hour later, Margaret on Ward 32 starts to vomit blood and is developing severe abdominal pain. 2 hours before you got a bleep but didn't have time to answer it, you get re-bleeped from the same number; turns out Betty had a fall from her bed and has now fractured her femur. You then get a call from the on-call radiologist to say someone's scan results weren't reviewed earlier in the day and that the patient's results show a severe pneumonia...are they on antibiotics? Nope. We are pushed to breaking point..and then you get abuse, jokes about being late on the seen, complaints of poor service, 'I called for you 2 hours ago', being strangled...the list goes on.

Even nursing staff are stretched (and that's every single hour of every week - they have so much 'mandatory' paperwork to fill in that they haven't got time to actually look after the patients). It's such a shame to see; they're job description says it all, they need to nurse patients. However, some big shot in the managerial side of the hospital decides to introduce new paperwork which takes an hour to complete. How are they supposed to look after their patients? Administer medication? Help feed them? Respond to their pain?

Granted, mistakes happen. We are only human. Some mistakes should never happen, but they do. But has anyone ever thought, why? Could it not be frustration within? Tiredness? Stretched resources? On average, every year one doctor is killed when driving home from a long shift. Verdict? Sleeping at the wheel.

I've lost count the number of journeys I've done driving home and not remembering a single thing about the drive home; almost sleeping with my eyes open.

Sorry about the above; this was not aimed at anyone in particular. Just my viewpoint/interesting facts about the hospital environment.

Needed to get that off my chest. :mad::o:rotfl::o:mad:

There's just a growing number of people who don't appreciate a thing that the NHS offers; 1st class healthcare.

:T

Thank you Karlie for this post, and I feel you and your (hard working ) colleagues' pain. I have every respect for people in the public sector, who work hard, who are professional and who try to deliver the best service they possibly can. I've been one as an acccountant in the past and I am one to a lesser extent now. Full respect to everyone who falls into that category. :A

The trouble is, I've seen it from the other side too too often, and I've also seen how it can be in another European county. Far too often over the years I've sat in doctor's surgeries and hospital clinics with timed appointments and seriously lost the will to live. If you're sitting there in a nice suit and complain eventually, you might get somewhere. If I or my husband had behaved so unprofessionally in out professional lives, we'd have been out on our ear. I've sat in so many A&E departments over the years where far too many staff apparently have nothing to do but chat. You sit waiting for an X ray and the staff go off on a coffee break and you can hear every word of their conversations through the wall. For goodness' sake, who else has had a coffee break in the last 20 years? I've sat in A&E at midnight on a Saturday night with a 7 year old daughter with a broken arm and literally NOBODY else in - no emergencies, nothing anywhere - and listened to the nurse who was supposed to be setting her arm chatting aimlessly for half an hour. When my huband eventually went out after a very long time to enquire politely who was going to sort our daughetr out so she could go to bed, said bint reluctantly tore herself away from her conversation and claimed sulkily that she was "just coming".

Last year my husband was admitted to A&E in a German hospital on a Saturday evening being very seriously ill. Within two hours, his bloods had been couriered 80 miles to the nearest specialist University hospital and the results sent back. If he'd been admitted to the average English A&E, I seriously wonder if he would still have been here with me today.

This is not just a "poke" at the NHS - I know that there are many hardworking and excellent people working there. My mother when she was dying had excellent care and I am very grateful for that. The trouble is that it is a lottery and for every professional hardworking person there is at least the same number who don't give a flying wotsit, and unless we stop pretending that all are equally excellent we will never get anything improved. Everyone who works in the NHS - and I exclude you naturally from this dear karlie - is not a saint. It is often very poorly managed and staffed by lazy and inadequate staff on slave wages, more's the pity.

Savvybuyer

mutley_muppet wrote: »

So sorry LadyShopper. xxx



Good luck Annieme. I hope you can find some information that will help with your health problems x



Yes I did know the Lynx was just a straight comparison. I wasn't expecting a glitch, just realised on my way home that I had an APG expiring today! :eek:
Feeling like a have a cold coming so just grabbed various veg and the Lynx for OH.

The chillies show as N/A against Mozzies.

I ate the chillies in a nice curry my OH made tonight, so although they cost me on my APG, I hope they did me some good!

Yes, I can't say that I've seen them in M.

If anyone (who isn't subject to N.Ireland data) has Birds Eye Crispy Chicken 2 pack on a womble, that is another one to watch vs M. TIA.

cjj_2

TrulyMadly wrote: »

I have a Leeds United Supporters badge:rotfl:

Excellent
Well done you my Ds1 & 2 will be pleased :T
xx