"New" hospitals don't have patients because they're turning them away due to lack of nurses A third of doctors now don't have the correct PPE https://www.theguardian.com/society...t-to-treat-covid-19-patients-research-reveals
That's one way of looking at it ...... or it's, thankfully, not been needed because hospitals in the region are coping as new cases fall.
Actual deaths are ~2 times hospital deaths. The government outsourced the NHS 111 phone line to gas salespeople with just a couple of hours of training so told everyone to stay home and die. But the NHS is not collapsing so anyone sick should use them.
NHS 111 is an outsourced entity in itself. It's owned by Care UK. Not sure how the government can outsource a privately owned service.
They had a recent recruitment drive where they pulled in telemarketers who had been selling gas. Someone working there blew the whistle (breaking a NDA) that gas salepeople were telling people with symptoms to stay home because they could still breathe so shouldn't go to hospital. The government has put the interests of private companies ahead of public safety at every stage. Same thing with the testing centres which they gave to the contract to Deloitte despite no prior experience. NHS health lines run by gas companies and testing centres run by accountants. What could possibly go wrong.
I'm intrigued re this £60k pay out that staffs' dependants will get in event of death in frontline duties: I'm in a final salary scheme, and we get 4 x final salary in event of death in service (well our dependants, I mean). I'm presuming the NHS benefits are similar (trying to check with my daughter and my ex; @Tobes - does your daughter know?). What I'm asking is this on top of death-in-benefit service, or is this just a slight of hand trick like that they normally play on the armed services?
As with always with the Tories (and Blair's New Labour, to a lesser degree) - follow the money. It's like the old parable of the scorpion and the frog - they just can't help themselves; it's their nature, their DNA, the £ chromosome.
i assume it is on top since the other is part of your pension terms . Edit : mind you think x2 salary is more the norm .
think he manages to winds himself up quite enough all on his own . Isn't he now exiled to the Norwich board ?
