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Yesterday, Thursday, local councillor Martin Wrigley (Lib Dem) handed it to a full meeting of Devon County Council on behalf of local residents of Stockton Hill in the town. Read more... https://www.teignmouth-today.co.uk/news/petition-calls-for-parking-ban-on-danger-hill-567193
Do you have any local news, photos, views, letters that you think our local paper might be interested in publishing? Well, along with the established way of sending stuff in (email - news@middevonadvertiser.co.uk or by phoning 07534889370) you can now speak face to face with one of their reporters, Ellen Grindley, at Dawlish Town Hall. The paper plans on having a reporter there for several ...
I also know people who are keeping money to one side just in case they need a hip or knee replacement or some such similar operation and can get it done in a matter of weeks/months privately rather than wait years to have it done on the NHS. They wouldn't normally dream of going private (I know them well) but when you are in pain......... Privatisation of our health service by stealth perhaps? ...
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@burneside A friend of mine has had a lot of trouble with his ears/hearing and was told by his doctor to have his ears syringed. This he did, but had to PAY £70 for the privilage!!!
Happened to be in Exminster this lunchtime. Thought at first that I was hallucinating. Then realised I wasn't. Two, yes two, number 2 buses travelling towards Newton Abbot were travelling through immediately one behind the other! Did both leave Exeter bus station at around the same time?! I left Exminster in a car a little while later. One of the buses was whiling away time in a bus stop in ...
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and on the subject of NHS dental treatment..........anyone know of any local dentists taking on new NHS patients? I ask as it seems to me that they ain't taking them on anymore. Therefore private dental healthcare, or no dental healthcare at all, it is then.
No. But as that's not the first time I've heard such comments made by others over the past few months, it occurs to me that such a conclusion is being reached by others. If you are registered with an NHS dentist you have to pay towards your treatment. So why not with other forms of NHS health care?. Not advocating it btw just pointing out that in the NHS there are aspects of treatment ...
On the evidence of two old women doing their shopping you've concluded that the NHS is going to start charging for its services at the point of use?