Concern for the Queen’s health.

[Milkfloat]

It seems that hospitals are cancelling operations and cancer care - it's just what she would have wanted.

 

[icowden]

It seems that hospitals are cancelling operations and cancer care - it's just what she would have wanted.

To be fair, I think it's a little more complex than that. Hospital staff are also entitled to the bank holiday whether you like it or not.

This means that fewer staff will be available on shift that day, thus non-urgent operations that were planned will have been delayed. The headline grabbing "cancer care" refers to non-urgent cancer care - i.e. routine follow up appointments where an additional week or two won't make a difference.

Yes, it doesn't help with the backlog, but I'm not sure that telling Nurses, Porters, receptionists etc that they can't have a bank holiday when everyone else can would go down terribly well, unless it was accompanied by the offer of double time payment for that day?

 

[Milkfloat]

To be fair, I think it's a little more complex than that. Hospital staff are also entitled to the bank holiday whether you like it or not.

This means that fewer staff will be available on shift that day, thus non-urgent operations that were planned will have been delayed. The headline grabbing "cancer care" refers to non-urgent cancer care - i.e. routine follow up appointments where an additional week or two won't make a difference.

Yes, it doesn't help with the backlog, but I'm not sure that telling Nurses, Porters, receptionists etc that they can't have a bank holiday when everyone else can would go down terribly well, unless it was accompanied by the offer of double time payment for that day?

Perhaps the problem could be that it is a bank holiday in the first place, as you know the backlog getting worse will affect patient outcomes, people will die.

 

[newfhouse]

To be fair, I think it's a little more complex than that

They’ve had seventy years to prepare for fact of this, if not the exact timing.

 

[Mugshot]

Any good offers available?

Only on very quiet ones at the moment 🍆

 

[BoldonLad]

To be fair, I think it's a little more complex than that. Hospital staff are also entitled to the bank holiday whether you like it or not.

This means that fewer staff will be available on shift that day, thus non-urgent operations that were planned will have been delayed. The headline grabbing "cancer care" refers to non-urgent cancer care - i.e. routine follow up appointments where an additional week or two won't make a difference.

Yes, it doesn't help with the backlog, but I'm not sure that telling Nurses, Porters, receptionists etc that they can't have a bank holiday when everyone else can would go down terribly well, unless it was accompanied by the offer of double time payment for that day?

OMG. EVERYBODY having a bank holiday, so, poor NHS staff have be off too. So, power stations closing down?; air traffic control closing down?; etc etc. with luck, TV staff will all get a day off too, and there will no coverage.

Let us hope none of our houses catch fire, if the fire brigade are all having a Bank Holiday too.

 

[theclaud]

And Centreparcs are closing too! No one will have access to their sub tropical paradise.

The replies are a bin fire. It's very enjoyable.


View: https://twitter.com/CenterParcsUK/status/1569630938614603777

 

[Deleted member 49]

Cost of living crisis for the caring King
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...urch-service-for-queen?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

 

[BoldonLad]

We have stayed in self-catering cottages in the UK owned by other people in the past, but these days I prefer hotels because I like a bit of luxury and no domestic chores. I did it when that was the only way we could afford holidays, but nowadays any sort of camping would be my idea of hell.

I have no issues with paying a lot more if necessary for self-catering, if higher local taxation helps resolve or reduce the problem of local people being priced out of accommodation in some towns/areas favoured by second home owners, whether those homes are let out commercially or just used by the owners.

Very noble of you.

You have had self-catering cottage holidays, when that was what you could afford, but, now, you can afford a "bit of luxury", sod those who are now in the situation you once were, and can only afford a Self-catering Cottage.

 

[Mugshot]

Seems fair to me, this is the chap arrested for having a blank piece of paper.


View: https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1569576866071068673?t=37HFp67cyKsl-nexJOVkrw&s=19

 

[winjim]

Jim consistently one of the good guys.

 

[Rusty Nails]

Very noble of you.

You have had self-catering cottage holidays, when that was what you could afford, but, now, you can afford a "bit of luxury", sod those who are now in the situation you once were, and can only afford a Self-catering Cottage.

That is not what I said. My second sentence, which you highlighted said we had camping holidays when that was all I could afford with the kids. Now as two adults we prefer comfy beds and do not like sleeping under canvas. YMMV. Seaside cottage holidays have always been quite expensive in holiday areas such and Devon, Pembrokeshire and Cornwall...probably as much as a holiday hotel when everything was taken into account.

Sorry not to have given you your gotcha moment.

 

[BoldonLad]

That is not what I said. My second sentence, which you highlighted said we had camping holidays when that was all I could afford with the kids. Now as two adults we prefer comfy beds and do not like sleeping under canvas. YMMV. Seaside cottage holidays have always been quite expensive in holiday areas such and Devon, Pembrokeshire and Cornwall...probably as much as a holiday hotel when everything was taken into account.

Sorry not to have given you your gotcha moment.

Well, that is not how it reads to me, perhaps you need some punctuation?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

. But apparently all funerals have been cancelled which I find very sad. Why would one dead person’s funeral be more important than another?

War on wake?

 

[Mugshot]

View: https://twitter.com/MascotSilence/status/1569785855786500100?t=0aAOOPglg6oLy2vntpfIWg&s=19