A ‘volunteer army’ is no substitute for the doctors and nurses the NHS needs
Hannah Jane Parkinson
Everything is a substitute. The question is not whether they, or it, are, or is. It’s are it or they a good one?
A ‘volunteer army’ is no substitute for the doctors and nurses the NHS needs
Hannah Jane Parkinson
Everything is a substitute. The question is not whether they, or it, are, or is. It’s are it or they a good one?
The NHS is unsustainable, there will NEVER be enough doctors or nurses.
The most useless substitute of all time, but still a substitute:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/nov/22/ali-dia-story-20-years-on-southampton-souness
Personally I’d feel far safer being cared for by a band of civilian volunteers than be abandoned to the ‘professionals’ of the NHS. The volunteers would certainly have more care for their patients than the pros who merely do as little as possible to justify their wages.
It’s futile arguing with religious sentiment.
DocBud
There’s a good rejoinder to that one but I take your point:
https://www.planetfootball.com/nostalgia/defence-ali-dia-pls-worst-player-even-worst-day/
As for the columnist – what is about the Guardian that they seem to have taken to employing journos that look like Aliens from a 70s SciFi Drama? This one looks nearly as bizarre as Rhiannon Lucy Coslett
It wouldn’t be a problem to have more doctors if the medical schools were forced to give up heir guild system of restricting places. We wouldn’t even have to let in any AAAB students, there’s plenty of AAAA applicants to get rejected who would quite happily be paid a little less to enter the career of their dreams
NHS: where people go to die.
Oblong, that’s what they say now. Once they get their place at the trough, their tune changes PDQ.
“Hannah Jane Parkinson is a Guardian columnist who writes on pop culture, music, tech, football, politics and mental health”
Is it too much to hope that one day Guardian columnists will also thinking about the subjects they write about?
Oblong – this x100!
The government, Universities and BMA/RC** work to limit the numbers on the basis of planning. Now they have had it bite them because the females are doing what females do and having kids -going part time and causing major shortages. If we just allowed the Med Schools to teach as much as they want (free market stylee) then we would see far less shortages
Hannah Jane Parkinson is a Guardian columnist who writes on pop culture, music, tech, football, politics and mental health
Jack of all trades, master of none? Now I could probably scare up a couple of thousand words on all of them, but football? “I Know Nothing”, Pop Culture – not since the 60s-70s. Tech I’m a bit more clued up about, and you need to be in that field to write knowledgeably & tease out the subtleties. Actually, thinking about it <lightbulb moment…>, that applies to all those fields. So has journalism progressed!