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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%
  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%

  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
How about training up our own, instead of poaching from other countries? Plenty of unemployed in the UK

And what do we do in the next six to seven years that it takes to train these doctors - assuming there's a plethora of the unemployed educated enough to be able to go to medical school?
 
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And what do we do in the next six to seven years that it takes to train these doctors - assuming there's a plethora of the unemployed educated enough to be able to go to medical school?
I remember being told by Boris not to worry about that, as there were plenty of people unemployed then.
There are even more unemployed now...

So won't be a problem
 
And what do we do in the next six to seven years that it takes to train these doctors - assuming there's a plethora of the unemployed educated enough to be able to go to medical school?

Pretty sure the bloke who waits for my pharmacy to open for his methadone with a G&T in a can every morning could be a surgeon with a bit of encouragement. Maybe a fast-track course.
 
And what do we do in the next six to seven years that it takes to train these doctors - assuming there's a plethora of the unemployed educated enough to be able to go to medical school?

Nurses and care workers shouldn't be a problem. if we want to pay doctors more, we need to introduce private/ insurance element Ito the health service, as they do in most other countries. The "free at the point of delivery" for all, doesn't have a future imo
 
Nurses and care workers shouldn't be a problem. if we want to pay doctors more, we need to introduce private/ insurance element Ito the health service, as they do in most other countries. The "free at the point of delivery" for all, doesn't have a future imo

It takes three years to train a nurse
 
Increase apprenticeships, pay more, introduce contributions to health service by public

And that'll speed up training? The NHS is being held together with a bit of blu-tak and sticky tape. The amount of nurses I know who have retired, and are then co-erced into returning is staggering
 
And that'll speed up training? The NHS is being held together with a bit of blu-tak and sticky tape. The amount of nurses I know who have retired, and are then co-erced into returning is staggering

Student nurses used to go straight onto wards. There are still apprentice nurses. Three year nursing degrees seem unnecessary to me. Mix practice and theory. Specialist studies can run alongside day to day nursing, say one day a week.
 
Student nurses used to go straight onto wards. There are still apprentice nurses. Three year nursing degrees seem unnecessary to me. Mix practice and theory. Specialist studies can run alongside day to day nursing, say one day a week.

Student nurses still go on wards and placements - my wife is a student mentor. And after three years, a lot of them are still quite raw and need monitoring for another year
 
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I'm so excited.
At last we know when the election is going to be.
At last, this pretty useless government will get ousted and we can finally get the Labour Party into power, meaning that.............





Oh wait........

**** all will change as there's hardly anything between the two of them and Starmer will change his mind about every pledge anyway.

Useless the lot of them.
 
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I'm so excited.
At last we know when the election is going to be.
At last, this pretty useless government will get ousted and we can finally get the Labour Party into power, meaning that.............





Oh wait........

**** all will change as there's hardly anything between the two of them and Starmer will change his mind about every pledge anyway.

Useless the lot of them.

It’ll be great because from July 5th you can crow every day about how they’ve not undone 14 years of corruption, incompetence and kicking cans down the road yet. It’ll be a right lark.
 
Doubt Sunak's decision will go down well with his MP's. If he doesn't get a plane off to Rwanda and do a deal with Reform by July 4, he's ****ed. Still, never mind, we've got flip- flop Starmer and his shadow cabinet of vegetables waiting in the wings.
 
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It’ll be great because from July 5th you can crow every day about how they’ve not undone 14 years of corruption, incompetence and kicking cans down the road yet. It’ll be a right lark.

And you'll be able to tell us how much better everything is over the next few years.



It won't be.
 
And you'll be able to tell us how much better everything is over the next few years.



It won't be.

It’s going to need two terms and even then some stuff is sadly irreparable thanks to your boys and girls. All those cans they’ve kicked down the road will have to be collected by Labour so that’ll be even less in the pot to sort out literally everything. Well done.