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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 14 Sep 19 5.22pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

I've had four identical letters today.
In four different envelopes 1st class.
3 sheets per letter.
Advising about an appointment date changing next month.
They could text me,email or send one letter.
Wtf is going on.
I'm sure I cant be the only one this happens to.
What a waste and then moan about a lack of funds.

 

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deleted user Flag 14 Sep 19 5.41pm

Half of their problems are due to being disorganised. I once had a doctor's appointment about a sprained ankle, to which I received a letter telling me to expect a call about a physio appointment. When they called though they informed me that I'd receive an appointment date by letter. But when the letter arrived it informed me that I needed to call them to book an appointment. Stuck in a loop! Maybe they make it convoluted so that people either get better, give up, or die of natural causes before anything can be done.

 

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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 14 Sep 19 6.10pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

As it is run like a business am I cynical in wondering if they have too much surplus and due to budgets they have to spend it to get the finance next year.

 

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View nickyf's Profile nickyf 15 Sep 19 9.24am Send a Private Message to nickyf Add nickyf as a friend

It's only skint because for years incompetent people have climbed the ranks and been in jobs they are not competent to, too many jobs for the boys culture over the years has been a massive problem.

 

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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 16 Sep 19 5.36pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

So today I got another letter the same.
My question has been answered.
No they're not skint; they are stupid and incompetent.

 

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jeeagles Flag 16 Sep 19 6.23pm

It's immune from criticism and frenzied headlines created every time change is suggested has made it politically suicidal to even attempt to make it more efficient.

Full of lazy bureaucrats with no competition or accountability.

Proper discussions are required about what essential services should be paid for on the NHS, and what should be paid for out of peoples pockets.

I'd rather a much lower tax regime and to have to pay for GP visits up front, which would create a much better service for everyone.

 

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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 16 Sep 19 7.31pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

and how many of their 'customers' cannot speak a single word of English ?

 


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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 16 Sep 19 8.16pm Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

and how many of their 'customers' cannot speak a single word of English ?

They dont need to as someone will read and write for them at our expense.
Although in certain situations I could act deaf!
Most can understand english.
Its us fools believing they cant or being told to believe they cant.

 

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View Stirlingsays's Profile Stirlingsays Flag 16 Sep 19 10.06pm Send a Private Message to Stirlingsays Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add Stirlingsays as a friend

It's the same with any system....if it can be abused or exploited it will be.

Essentially the fault lies with the people who devised the system.

If there is a way to exploit something it will be found....more so than before in a socially divided society....but it would still occur.

An incompetent bureaucrat is just another way of saying, 'bureaucrat'.....competent ones are minority finds.

Edited by Stirlingsays (16 Sep 2019 10.09pm)

 


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View HeathMan's Profile HeathMan Flag Purley 16 Sep 19 11.50pm Send a Private Message to HeathMan Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add HeathMan as a friend

Letters are a great way of focusing minds - an appointment time in a head or mobile can be more easily over-looked. They are now trying to fill appointment slots and a letter may be followed be a call. This helps them not to have specialist skills unused, and has perhaps helped Mayday (CUH) be awarded £12,700,000.00 for an overhaul of the Intensive Treatment Unit.

 

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View cryrst's Profile cryrst Flag The garden of England 17 Sep 19 6.11am Send a Private Message to cryrst Add cryrst as a friend

Originally posted by HeathMan

Letters are a great way of focusing minds - an appointment time in a head or mobile can be more easily over-looked. They are now trying to fill appointment slots and a letter may be followed be a call. This helps them not to have specialist skills unused, and has perhaps helped Mayday (CUH) be awarded £12,700,000.00 for an overhaul of the Intensive Treatment Unit.

Alternatively thinking about it,it could be the roll out of the penalty fine for not turning up for an appointment.
Say £100 is the figure.
5 letters to 25 people at 80p each.
Just one missed appointment pays that back.
Two and they're in profit.
teating the water maybe.

 

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View Midlands Eagle's Profile Midlands Eagle Flag 17 Sep 19 7.23am Send a Private Message to Midlands Eagle Add Midlands Eagle as a friend

Originally posted by jeeagles

It's immune from criticism and frenzied headlines created every time change is suggested has made it politically suicidal to even attempt to make it more efficient.

There was a TV program a year or so back when half a dozen past Health Ministers from both parties discussed the NHS and they all agreed that the biggest problem in getting anything changed or modernised were the doctors themselves who seemed to object to any and every suggestion as a matter of course

 

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