Hospitals

[polygonum_on_google]

Not India, but Australia is where my partner's MRIs were sent for interpretation and review. Yes, this was an NHS service.

[michael adams]

All very interesting I'm sure. Although quite who you're seeking to impress with all this material isn't really clear. Because unfortunately, as with all the rest of your hand waving, it singularly fails to adress my original point. Which was -

If all this expensive equipment is to be used 24/7, as against 7 or 8 hours a day, as at present then -

will it not require three times as many doctors as at present, simply in order to generate all the necessary referrals ?

Perhaps you'd care to address this specific point ?

michael adams

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[Dave Plowman (News)]

Mate who is also on oxygen has just got one. And to be fair, he can't walk that far. So being able to park close to the door in a small supermarket means he can still do his own shopping.

Really can't see why someone who needs a wheelchair can't have one.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Do you understand anything about keeping records? I'd guess not if you think paper ones are going to be easier to store than digital.

[invalid]

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no it isn't, you don't understand either.

What do think the IN system used to handle millions of calls a day does if not transactions to a relational database system?

All none geographic calls go through the IN system in the UK.

Writing database code is easy, I have done that in the past when testing commercial machines for use in HLR and VLR systems. I used Informix 4GL and embedded SQL/C to program them. The only difference between commercial systems was that our systems had to be available for 99.997% of the time with no outage of more than 30 seconds including software updates.

You have no chance of understanding how to do that.

[invalid]

The same council department rushed mine through from application to delivery in about four days.

I have no idea what was wrong as they don't tell you.

[invalid]

He probably never heard of free form data base using blobbs.

I think he makes it up.

You can tell as he keeps saying I know nothing about computers yet I have already told him orders of magnitude more than most people know and I have only scratched the surface.

The old adage of I have forgotten more than he knows is probably true.

[Steve Walker]

Yes our GP practice managed to get a large chunk of my son's entries in my wife's record. It caused problems with repeat prescriptions and repeat appointments for ages. They can't just take it out either - patient records are a legal record and sections cannot be deleted. An amendment can be added, but that doesn't help when they don't read far enough to get to that!

SteveW

[alan_m]

I'm not necessarily blaming the staff but indicating that there are lots of admin inefficiencies seen at the local hospital that could be detrimental to patient care and will be costing the NHS much of their budget.

In my mothers case I think I've seen the best and worst of the administration process.

My mothers discharge from hospital was very good with a same day visit from a NHS funded (free) rehabilitation team and 5 weeks of home visits by members of the same team. This was seamlessly followed up automatically by a means tested social service home visit service and the district nurse visits every 3 to 4 days. This may have more to do with the local priority to avoid bed blocking at the local hospital where occupying a bed serves no useful medical purpose.

The admin within the hospital seems to be at a different (inefficient) level and as I've indicated before with the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.

[Steve Walker]

Blue badges have been issued to people with mental problems for decades (my wife used to help some people apply for them when she was a CPN). What has changed now is the guidance, as previously it was entirely up to councils whether they covered mental problems or not.

Other people may have non-visible problems of a different nature - a relative has an artifical leg. When he walks, you'd be hard pressed to tell, but he does need the extra width of a disabled space to open the door wide to get the space to swing out. With that extra space, anyone watching would simply see him swing round, stand up and walk away and think that there is no problem.

My wife has rheumatoid arthritis. She walks without aids, but often on returning to the car has to sit down straight away while I put the shopping in, because she is in such pain. In a normal space, she often can't get the door open wide enough to manouevre in due to painful joints and lack of support from badly weakened hands and so can't get in until I pull the car out of the space.

Hospitals are a different matter. There can be hundreds of people a day attending who have a disability that is far worse than many people with badges, but of a temporary nature - I have often thought that there should be short-term, temporary badges that can be issued by GPs and hospitals, instead of the long process of applying to the council and then being refused because the problem will have reduced by the time they could get a badge to you!

They are on the back to avoid breaching the badge-holder's privacy.

Most people will not abuse them. Even though entitled, we don't even use my wife's if she is having a good day or there is adequate parking available.

The problem for my wife can be that she is okay going into the shop or wherever, but struggling by the time that she comes out.

SteveW

[alan_m]

dogs cannot do MRI scans but catscan

I'll get my coat.......

[alan_m]

According to the notice on the parking payment machine my local hospital seems only to give a weekly parking concession/discount if visiting a terminally ill patient.

[alan_m]

In my local hospital parking for that time would be £3.10 In the road parking £2.10 for 2 hours (£2.80 for 4 hours)

[Steve Walker]

Then we wouldn't get all the items we'd gone for!

She's not and never has been one for shopping. She, like I, hates it and just wants to get in, get what she wants and get out.

The exceptions (for me) are computer, electronics and model railway shops - I can browse for ages there!

SteveW

[alan_m]

And judging by how sprightly many are using the disability spaces at the local supermarket(s) suggests that they don't actually need to park so close to the entrance and possibly don't need the badge at all.

[Steve Walker]

Many can move well, but need the extra space to fully open the car door when getting in or out. As long as they can do that, you often won't see them struggle.

SteveW

[Steve Walker]

It is worth asking still.

When I went into hospital for three days, my car remained in the car park.

When I went to pay, I didn't have enough change and only when I went to the security desk (they handled parking) to pay with notes, I was told that a heavily discounted rate applied, despite what the signs stated.

SteveW

[alan_m]

I have a blood test 2 to 3 times a year and even when going to department only specialising in taking blood the experience can range from being excellent and very quick to occasionally being a right PITA (pain in the arm) with some having difficulty finding a vein properly.

[alan_m]

My local hospital used to like that but for out patients it's by appointment only now. The telephone line to make appointment is always engaged but there is also a web based appointment allocation - always with the next available appointment being many days in the future and usually at the busy times for parking. If you are prepared to wait for a week or two then early morning or a limited number of evening appointment are available. Even with an appointment they may be running

30 minutes late.

[alan_m]

I get one needle for 3 samples