Indeed. Having working in it I saw entire teams disbanded that actually made no difference to the actual care being provided. It's monolith. Thanks for reading and commenting.
Socialist command and control organisation. The only way an institution employing so many people and so many bureaucrats is to go full Commie, a la CCP.
I was talking to a nurse at the RUH management. Senior, 20 years experience. Here are her exact words, which she spat out...
"Management? Dickheads with clipboards, who stop me working"
All you need to know, and thanks to Blair, that managerialism has infected the whole public sector and brought it to its knees.
Good article, Tom. Spot on. BTW, my wife stopped her "terminal" bone cancer by turning her back on the NHS and looking after herself. Long story, but it seems that going full carnivore some 18 months before the diagnosis (and post breast cancer, with the RUH making a total mess of that) stopped it in its tracks. We both eat that way now (only animal produce, cook only with the same) and this 72 year old feels like a 50 year old 😁
It seems that Victorian doctors had a cure for Diabetes mellitus. Beef and water. Some medicine has gone backwards, that's for sure.
That's fascinating to hear Jeremy. I used to be a social worker and hung around the A&E departments (not for fun!), an dit was staggering the amount of waste. Not to mention the bloody temperatures - the heating was seemingly on a spinal tap 11 at all times. With no windows to fling open. I'm delighted to hear about your wife. Such good news. And you've inspired me to visit a butcher today and buy some steak.
We're very lucky. Where we live in Somerset, grass fed beef is the norm. From our butcher, and from a local farm shop - we've know the farmer for 20 years or so, and their meat is beyond delicious. Neither of us get the slightest bored with our menu - which is generally
Bacon fried in proper lard (not homogenised, the farm shop sells it, and I have made it when they've run out.
A few slices of lamb's liver, flash fried when the bacon's done.
2 x black pudding (fresh, i.e. made with fresh pig's blood, so super moist) fried slowly in lots of butter - me only as my wife not a fan!
4 x scrambled eggs, cooked in lots if butter
When done, I pour the black pud butter on top, then a couple of knobs more butter
Lunch
2 x farm shop burgers, butter or tallow on top
Evening meal - a steak, usually sirloin or ribeye (we buy in bulk to make it cheaper); two if small one if not. Butter or tallow on top, and I often have a couple of fried eggs on top.
The move to corn/seed oil was a disaster. They are essentially an industrial waste products, and originally intended as fuel. That nonsense about margarine being better for you than butter is just that - nonsense! None of us eat enough animal fat, and women especially need to eat more - and it seems that it helps to make the menopause much easier.
And rather than making me fat, I lost 20lbs in 6 weeks - 14 stone 6'6", so not overweight, but now steady at c 12 stone 10 lbs. The fat lost was all visceral fat, and the muscle tone in my legs is extraordinary now - like a cross-country runner! I'm a very active 72 year old, who gardens dawn to dusk all summer, we have an energetic dog to walk, and I like to be active. I'd recommend anyone to try going full carnivore for a month, then see how they feel. If that's too much, Keto. The main things to dump are
1. Seed oils (highly inflammatory)
2. Carbs (which your body turns into sugar in the form of glucose)
And avoid eating fats with carbs at the same time - see the "Randle Cycle" for this. Both being energy sources, your body get confused when presented with both, and rather than burn them up, stores them as fat. Which is why the obesity epidemic has got worse and worse; most processed food is fat, sugar, carbs. A disaster.
Not needed and total waste of money and resources, I’d provide not a single interpreter either.
They could have stopped all this health tourism years ago by insisting health insurance documents are handed over with passports checks, no valid insurance no entry into the country would be my policy.
Nurses don’t need a degree and doctors should be trained for free and contracted to work for the NHS for a set amount of years as payback.
Anyone leaving before should be made to pay back the cost of training. You’d have a steady reliable flow of quality trained doctors and nurses coming through forever this way.
Also I’d introduce British sign language into the curriculum for all primary age children, this way within a couple of generations deaf people would able to go anywhere and communicate easily.
Thought this for a long time. If they can spend money on DEI staff rather than clinical staff, clearly they are hugely overfunded.
Not to add that every time we "invest" in the NHS, it gets worse. So we do it again. WTFF?
Indeed. Having working in it I saw entire teams disbanded that actually made no difference to the actual care being provided. It's monolith. Thanks for reading and commenting.
Socialist command and control organisation. The only way an institution employing so many people and so many bureaucrats is to go full Commie, a la CCP.
I was talking to a nurse at the RUH management. Senior, 20 years experience. Here are her exact words, which she spat out...
"Management? Dickheads with clipboards, who stop me working"
All you need to know, and thanks to Blair, that managerialism has infected the whole public sector and brought it to its knees.
Good article, Tom. Spot on. BTW, my wife stopped her "terminal" bone cancer by turning her back on the NHS and looking after herself. Long story, but it seems that going full carnivore some 18 months before the diagnosis (and post breast cancer, with the RUH making a total mess of that) stopped it in its tracks. We both eat that way now (only animal produce, cook only with the same) and this 72 year old feels like a 50 year old 😁
It seems that Victorian doctors had a cure for Diabetes mellitus. Beef and water. Some medicine has gone backwards, that's for sure.
That's fascinating to hear Jeremy. I used to be a social worker and hung around the A&E departments (not for fun!), an dit was staggering the amount of waste. Not to mention the bloody temperatures - the heating was seemingly on a spinal tap 11 at all times. With no windows to fling open. I'm delighted to hear about your wife. Such good news. And you've inspired me to visit a butcher today and buy some steak.
We're very lucky. Where we live in Somerset, grass fed beef is the norm. From our butcher, and from a local farm shop - we've know the farmer for 20 years or so, and their meat is beyond delicious. Neither of us get the slightest bored with our menu - which is generally
Bacon fried in proper lard (not homogenised, the farm shop sells it, and I have made it when they've run out.
A few slices of lamb's liver, flash fried when the bacon's done.
2 x black pudding (fresh, i.e. made with fresh pig's blood, so super moist) fried slowly in lots of butter - me only as my wife not a fan!
4 x scrambled eggs, cooked in lots if butter
When done, I pour the black pud butter on top, then a couple of knobs more butter
Lunch
2 x farm shop burgers, butter or tallow on top
Evening meal - a steak, usually sirloin or ribeye (we buy in bulk to make it cheaper); two if small one if not. Butter or tallow on top, and I often have a couple of fried eggs on top.
The move to corn/seed oil was a disaster. They are essentially an industrial waste products, and originally intended as fuel. That nonsense about margarine being better for you than butter is just that - nonsense! None of us eat enough animal fat, and women especially need to eat more - and it seems that it helps to make the menopause much easier.
And rather than making me fat, I lost 20lbs in 6 weeks - 14 stone 6'6", so not overweight, but now steady at c 12 stone 10 lbs. The fat lost was all visceral fat, and the muscle tone in my legs is extraordinary now - like a cross-country runner! I'm a very active 72 year old, who gardens dawn to dusk all summer, we have an energetic dog to walk, and I like to be active. I'd recommend anyone to try going full carnivore for a month, then see how they feel. If that's too much, Keto. The main things to dump are
1. Seed oils (highly inflammatory)
2. Carbs (which your body turns into sugar in the form of glucose)
3. Sugar!
And avoid eating fats with carbs at the same time - see the "Randle Cycle" for this. Both being energy sources, your body get confused when presented with both, and rather than burn them up, stores them as fat. Which is why the obesity epidemic has got worse and worse; most processed food is fat, sugar, carbs. A disaster.
Absolutely, butter is natural , goodness knows what half the ingredients in margarine are. Not that I've ever eaten it!
I’d start by getting rid of every single manager, for years they’ve introduced layer upon layer to protect themselves from any cuts in management.
The wages and pensions savings from just getting rid of them alone would fund at least several hospitals.
Absolutely. These clipboard people busily justifying their jobs that deep down they know are superfluous.
Not needed and total waste of money and resources, I’d provide not a single interpreter either.
They could have stopped all this health tourism years ago by insisting health insurance documents are handed over with passports checks, no valid insurance no entry into the country would be my policy.
Nurses don’t need a degree and doctors should be trained for free and contracted to work for the NHS for a set amount of years as payback.
Anyone leaving before should be made to pay back the cost of training. You’d have a steady reliable flow of quality trained doctors and nurses coming through forever this way.
Also I’d introduce British sign language into the curriculum for all primary age children, this way within a couple of generations deaf people would able to go anywhere and communicate easily.
So many nails hit on the head here. It's a bottomless pit that's getting wider as well as deeper.
Thank you Anne. It's so frustrating as the NHS is held in such high regard that it's irreproachable. Thank you for reading.
Great piece Tom. 👍
thank you Daniel. I really appreciate that coming from such an excellent writer yourself.
It’s well earned. You are doing some great work. 😀