The chart seems to show the percentage of people on the waiting list who wait 12 hours or more.

The chart seems to show the percentage has gone from 150% 50 300%, how is that 3000 times higher?

If the number of people waiting when the figure was 150% was 150 the the base number is 100 ( 100 x 150% = 150 )

If the percentage goes to 300% then the number of people waiting is 300.( assuming the base number is same )

An increase from 150% to 300% is a doubling

If the number went up 3000 times per the post the number would be 300,000.

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

Both the elites of the boomer and Gen X (my generation) generations have been vampiric on their following generations....in the boomer's case in start contrast to previous generations to them.

The blame is multifactored...nihilism, feminism (destruction of the family) the general decline of social conservatism means that essentially the emergence of hyper individualism creates the present 'me, me, me' as the promoted focus rather than the future of your kin, your nation.

The planting trees metaphor should be how society runs and is age old wisdom for how the older should regard the emerging generation. It ensures societal decline doesn't result.

However, we are not led by those people.

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'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

And in the same period spending by the Dept. of Health and Soc. Security has risen by 39% in real terms. In 22/23 the department spent £182bn - a staggering £5000 million a day. It's as wasteful and inefficient as it's always been - like other publicly "run" activities. Thank heavens for the Thatcher denationalisation programme.

Labour's PFI scheme was an expensive disaster. Someone has to get hold of waste in the NHS, disjointed procurement and non essential positions like diversity being the place to start

Responsibility Deficit Disorder is a medical condition. Symptoms include inability to be corrected when wrong, false sense of superiority, desire to share personal info no else cares about, general hubris. It's a medical issue rather than pure arrogance.

I think one has to accept that we are travelling through a brief moment in history, and that most of what will happen to humanity, providing it survives, will occur after we are long gone.
Even those that leave a mark in their lifetime will never see the ultimate outcome of their contributions. Most of us will contribute our genes to the future, and perhaps with that, a tiny piece of who we were.

We can dabble in politics and curse those that misuse their power over us, but ultimately we need to enjoy our brief lives and embrace the little things. There really is nothing bigger.

Was Diane Abbot your math teacher?

This is simply not true. In the middle of Labours last period in charge my mum (RIP Mum) had a serious issue. She called me in the morning and I got her an ambulance at 7am. We were playing liverpool in the FACup and I had everyone's tickets. So my wife and daughter sat with her in A & E, I would take over when I got back.

Got back at 6.15pm. She still hadn't been seen and was on a trolley in the corridor. She was seen about 10.30PM and got a bed at 1am Sunday. Some 18 hours later.

She had an emergency op next morning. She was mistakenly amber stickered (see below). Even so I would have expected her to be seen much sooner that that.

A few years ago I was taken ill at work. Within 20 minutes of arriving at A & E I was seen and was on the emergency op wing awaiting an op within an hour.

Hospital A & E use a traffic light system, and have done so for many years. Red, Amber, Green. If you are green stickered expect a long wait.

Yes its bad now, very bad. But the idea that under labour everything was rosy is not true.

The other reason wait times have increased since labours last term are the number of health tourists we saw when we were still in the EU. Especially in London. And I used to work in Hospitals all over the south east. So I saw it with my own eyes and talked to NHS staff.

So the idea that its all down to the evil tories is BS