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Old 14th Mar 2004, 15:44
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...but check out the NHS for personnel per desk ratios. Visit your sick friend/relative in your local hospital and see how many nurses are stacked on the desk at the end of the ward, drinking tea, nattering and pointedly refusing to attend to their patients' needs. And the patients and their visitors are too meek to ask for help because 'I don't want to make a fuss'. Seven is the most I've seen, by the way....so far. NHS understaffed? My b*m! At least the excess RAF personnel get on with their work and the RAF gets well-serviced aircraft that function most of the time. But the NHS's patients....God help 'em.

This does not apply to A&E, whose staff earn every penny and deserve medals every time they turn up on shift, especially on weekend nights. Or to those TA medics in GW2 who appeared to do more work than the regulars.

Sorry about the irrelevant rant but it makes my blood boil - but I won't be seeking NHS help for that condition.
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