Daydream fund challenge part 4

alfie_1

I WAS going to say that if anyone is looking to enlarge a picture onto canvas type stuff, I know an amazing firm that has done some for me... not expensive at all.... a 24" x24" = £12 + £4pp that's mounted/fixed on a frame ready to hang


BUT im still speechless for choille and just hope poor mr C doesn't have to wait long !!

Fay

Oh god Choille how damn frustrating. They shouldn't be allowed to cancel at such short notice. Pity the government don't experience the rough end of their cut backs like the rest of us do.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Flipping heck choille that is awful,

Davesnave

That's a burgger, choille, it really is! :mad:

I can understand your stress levels, as we've been experiencing similar problems with DW's treatment, through what appears to be maladministration. Letters have gone to doctors, but apparently not been acted upon, or have perhaps just disappeared without trace...we know not which.

Yesterday she was told that because there was now no record of her in the system, she'd have to go to the back of the treatment queue again, but she held her ground and kept ringing round all the depts she'd had dealings with, finally convincing them that she was going to be a nuisance, I think! Anyway, they've said she won't now have to wait till new year, but it'll probably be filling-in for a cancellation at the last minute type of thing.

OK she can do that, but having been through investigational appointments since January, not to mention the pain since then, it's a bit rich when she has to chase through all the people she's seen, in order to get some acknowledgement that there's been a c0ck-up. As she said after half an afternoon on the phone, "I'm capable, I keep notes and I'm reasonably articulate, but God help anyone who isn't when they run into a problem with the NHS."

Davesnave

In other news, I spent the day going up to Bristol today in a very well-loaded van, before swearing a lot as we assembled pieces of IKEA furniture....otherwise known as sticks that fit together in obtuse ways and eventually resemble things like beds....if you are very patient, or maybe lucky enough have instructions! (These were all hand-me-downs.:()

Daughter2 is now very happily unpacking in her first proper home in Bradley Stoke, locally known as 'Sadly Broke.' Considering the rent she's paying for a box made of ticky-tacky, that's not so wide of the mark! :eek:

The van sounded a bit ill on the way home. I think one of us overdid it.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Morning all

Davesnave, it awful how DW had to go through all that. Just because there was a cook up with paperwork etc

Its just soooo sad that the NHS is under so much strain that the staff on the ground can't do their job properly..it must be so frustrating for them too. Really hope DW and choille OH gets things sorted soon..
And to think they want to take more migrants into our country... All our services and councils are at breaking point now... Fingers crossed the government see sense and start putting money into our services..

Hubby is making the most of this lovely weather by doing outside work on the house at the ranch...the last of the windows are being put in on Monday ( was booked for this Friday, but boglets are going to market)

I am starting to get back into the swing of listing on the bay, but practically everything needs washing etc, so a slow process when my big dryer hasn't been plumbed in yet, and just relying on an old washer/ dryer that was given to us, and the quick was takes approx 1.5 hours!!!! ( our old work washing machine was on its last legs) so I think I need to get a new washing machine..

alfie_1

morning all


gorgeous day again here albeit a nifty breeze !


CTC.. I know that in them there hills you maybe don't have marina's but... here they all have wash/dry facilities for the yackties and when they refurb they sell off the industrial washers and dryers ?
is it worth me asking our local ones ? usually free or cheeeep....
off to do a days graft now, catch yuse later

choille

CTC if it wasn't for migrants the NHS would have collapsed before now. I lot of very qualified doctors, nurses & theatre staff are employed here.

People are fleeing war torn countries that we had a hand in =people are dying in the backs of lorries trying to here with their kids.

This country is in such a state because of mal administration just like the NHS. If it had had the funding the bankers have had then it would still be in a mess. It's the managers......

Rant over.

So sorry Dave about DW. The thing is you just know there are thousands out there who don't like to speak up - you really have to shout now & if you don't it's the back of the Q that's if you can get on it in the 1st place.

Here they have a patients' review complaints place in the actual hospital who will deal with your complaints - just found this out, so I;m using them at the mo now after finding them on the hospital website.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

Choille I was trying g to say with the influx of more and more people the money allocated to the NHS isn't enough..and it isn't dished out properly...and not enough money going to the front line services..

Alfie... I bit the bullet and bought one .. Its a 9 kg one with a 15 min quick wash. Which is still for me to freshen up the musky smelling stuff lol, plus the drum is big enough to wash me blankets in.. I already have a 10 kg dryer, with a huge drum, which again is brill for the blankets...

Washing machine is being delivered on Tuesday..

lostinrates

Guys, sorry, this is not cut backs. I have been experiencing similar for years. Its one of the reasons I have been glad that so much of my treatment has been able to be in private sector. In fact, I would say in the last year or so, apart from at GP my treatment in NHS has been BETTER, more streamlined. I'm in an immensely lucky situation that I now have someone coming to my area to see me every couple of months. ( hospital is a long trip) and I actually support the decision now not to press ahead with my surgery, though it felt bad in the years waiting for the run up to it. There are immense flaws, of course, but its hard to criticise the NHs. It simply CANNOT fund everything its asked to and we cannot keep paying more when we need to also pay increasing housing costs etc. We simply cannot have our cakes and eat them too.

This notwithstanding, I am so sorry for what is going on, its horrific. I'm not surprised surgeon was cross, and now he is on side he will hopefully chase things through. .

Davesnave, Dw taking charge and pushing through a complaint system is really best solution.

Fwiw, we have found the only sensible way is keeping a file ourselves of letters, and what is said at each appointment. It might not get me what I want on the NHs, but it does mean I cannot be accused of lying as has happened. .