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Positive for the government alert! They’ve changed the bereavement scheme to include more NHS staff rather than just doctors and nurses.

The negative of course that they were dragged kicking and screaming to do it and it should have been that way in the first place and they’re going ahead with charging people £624 on a mediocre salary for the pleasure of trying to stop you and I dying.

Still though, take the positive where you can.
 
this visa charge
is it for everyone requiring a visa to work in the uk or just the pesky foreigners who want to work in the nhs
don't see the problem if everyone has to pay it
is it a new visa charge brought in by the tories
had never heard of it till this week
 
A new report from EU’s Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on the prevalence of Covid-19 in long term care facilities includes a useful comparison between European countries, which may surprise British commentators. The EU’s numbers show that the prevalence of deaths in UK care homes is comparatively lower as a percentage than in other European countries. Guido brings you the comparison:

  • Spain 66%
  • Norway 61% (including out of hospital settings)
  • Belgium 51%
  • Sweden 50%
  • France 50%
  • Germany 37%
  • UK 21%
 
A new report from EU’s Centre for Disease Prevention and Control on the prevalence of Covid-19 in long term care facilities includes a useful comparison between European countries, which may surprise British commentators. The EU’s numbers show that the prevalence of deaths in UK care homes is comparatively lower as a percentage than in other European countries. Guido brings you the comparison:

  • Spain 66%
  • Norway 61% (including out of hospital settings)
  • Belgium 51%
  • Sweden 50%
  • France 50%
  • Germany 37%
  • UK 21%

****ing Guido FFS. You’re marginally better than that. It’s an intentionally misleading stat and as our betters tell us daily the important stat is excess deaths. Our excess deaths are off the ****ing charts.
 
****ing Guido FFS. You’re marginally better than that. It’s an intentionally misleading stat and as our betters tell us daily the important stat is excess deaths. Our excess deaths are off the ****ing charts.
Calm down the info is correct mate.
 
this visa charge
is it for everyone requiring a visa to work in the uk or just the pesky foreigners who want to work in the nhs
don't see the problem if everyone has to pay it
is it a new visa charge brought in by the tories
had never heard of it till this week

Came in in 2015. The problem is firstly it’s a huge arbitrary amount to expect someone to pay to fill an industry we are painfully short in domestically. Does it really need to go up another 50%+? Seems desperately unfair on people already paying tax and NI. Hardly a perk of the job.
 
You could debate the point that it’s a misleading stat designed to delight idiots, but you won’t.
No it is fact from the EU. You were trying to be cocky re Guido and you fell flat on your face? Accept it mate. I was just posting the results, I wasn’t commenting on them.
 
No it is fact from the EU. You were trying to be cocky re Guido and you fell flat on your face? Accept it mate. I was just posting the results, I wasn’t commenting on them.

Yeah it wasn’t done with the intention of putting something positive out at all. You were just finishing that 20 page report and thought you’d share. Behave.
 
Yeah it wasn’t done with the intention of putting something positive out at all. You were just finishing that 20 page report and thought you’d share. Behave.
No I didn’t read the report I just checked that Guido was correct and it was. You need to accept the facts.