Lynne
Anyone else heard about the car parking nonsense at Southmead? I know its some distance from here but I suspect that like me quite a few who live here have Bristol based relatives. Also, the burns unit and other specialised units that were based at Frenchay have now been relocated to Southmead so folks from down here may find themselves either as patient or visitor at Soutmead. Parking - ...
and if they are on minimum wages and with the added drain on those minimum wages of increased prices in fuel, energy, housing, food and the like they ain't exactly gonna have a lot left over to pay their private health insurance premiums are they?
and on this issue of the English taxpayers subsidising Wales, Scotland and N.I.. Have a read of this - it is part of an article published in The Guardian earlier this year. "...........A giant sucking sound can be heard in the UK today: the sound of public money and private wealth being sucked down south to London. The result is the emasculation not just of Scotland, but of Newcastle, ...
@ALLEMS - not all those who would use private medical care would have contributed to the pot. what about children? and what about those who could not afford the premiums? how would they access health/hospital care? Also let's not forget that the private sector's raison d'etre is to make a profit. So........why would the private sector be interested in taking on those with chronic medical ...
Would that be NHS England, NHS Wales, NHS Scotland or NHS N.Ireland you have in mind? Only ask as I believe who is liable to pay for prescription charges and who is not varies according to which country of the UK a person lives in. So ditto in the future for using other aspects of the NHS?
Slight tangent I know but here's something that I mull around my brain every now and again which I can see is a question relevant to this thread. Which is........ what is the difference between people paying into a public service (in this case the NHS via taxation) just in case they should need medical treatment and people paying into an insurance company just in case they should need ...
For what it is worth I have just e-mailed this to our MP. "I understand that Network Rail has now submitted its report to the Department for Transport concerning the viability or otherwise of alternative/additional rail routes running from Exeter into the further south west. Please can you tell me when the contents of this report will be made public".
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Terrible reception. Thought it was just me again (I posted about this bad reception back in Aprilish). Got someone in to 'do' the aerial etc but problem is now back as bad as ever (in fact worse on some occasions.) Now watch what I can get as opposed to what I'd like to watch. Anyone any solutions?
@Clive - i queried the report's absence on the last day of june. got told that a report will be going to the dept of transport the end of this week. that's all i know. (except that i had been told some weeks back, via grapevine, that nr were only going through the 'let's look at the alternative/additional options' scenario in order to keep lots of south west mps happy. financially these other ...
