The countryside is awash with bugs, bees, wasps and butterflies of many shapes, colours, and sizes. The question is, is this increase due to the weather this year or because of the changes we and others have made to our farming practises. Whatever the reason, it is good to see all these creatures busily pollinating frantically as they search for fresh nectar or targeting prey.
Likewise, the bird population is also increasing. This joy to see them is tempered by the over population of rooks, crows and magpies which are attracted by the myriads of tiny garden birds such as sparrows, tits all kinds, swifts, and swallows on which they regularly dine.
It seems that memories are short when it comes to recalling the source of much of today’s troubles in the NHS. I think someone should remind the minister, Wes Streeting who is currently in charge and appears to be completely out of his depth. He is clearly ill informed and in denial but should understand just when the root of today’s many problems set in.
Between 1997 and 2007 almost 32,000 NHS hospital beds were cut. One year more than 40 per cent of maternity units turned away women in labour and some 60 local hospitals closed or lost their accident and emergency or maternity services. We should recall the many Save Our Hospital campaigns which sprang up across the country, including at the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath. All of this under Tony Blair’s watch, when he said he would transform the NHS. He certainly did that!
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During the same decade when the number of beds were cut, death rates from infections MRSA and Clostridium difficile rose five-fold. Investigations into the biggest C. diff outbreak in Britain, which killed 90 patients at hospitals run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust in 2005 and 2006, found that overcrowding amid pressure to meet hospital waiting targets, due to a lack of beds and doctors, was a factor behind the infection’s spread.
It takes ten to fourteen years to train a doctor. During the Blair years doctors were leaving the country in droves when they were told they were superfluous to requirements.
Today the NHS has set targets to reach net zero emissions from its own activities by 2040 – 10 years ahead of the national target. This ambition at a cost to the very patients who rely upon it to keep them healthy and in many cases alive.
As the NHS is once again in crises with more than 7m people stuck on waiting lists and financial pressures rising, this is clearly bonkers.
Hospitals, GP surgeries, suppliers of medicines and medical equipment are being told they must hit net zero by 2045, if they want to keep working for the health service.
By 2027 all NHS suppliers must report their emissions publicly. Instead of concentrating their efforts on improving waiting lists or the tens of thousands who wait more than three days in A&E each year, the government has decided to concentrate instead on achieving net zero for the NHS by 2040 and their suppliers by 2045. These targets will increase costs for most suppliers, which in turn will escalate costs for the NHS.
None of this will help the patients of staff. Neither will it have the slightest effect upon climate change, so why on earth have these ridiculous targets been imposed.
Can you imagine the outcry which would erupt if Bull Fighting was ever introduced in Great Britain. This is the season of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona from July 6th to 14th , and bullfights. Other bullfighting events and festivals take place throughout the year across Spain, such as Seville, Madrid, Valencia and Malaga.
The Spanish are clearly a blood thirsty nation, and it could be said this barbaric so-called sport, is their ‘heritage’. But surely the time has come to call a halt to this cruel spectacle.
While Spain doesn't have a direct equivalent of the RSPCA specifically focused on stopping bullfighting, there are animal welfare organizations and legal frameworks in place that address animal cruelty, though clearly not always effectively in the context of bullfighting. It is still legal in most parts of Spain, except for the Canary Islands and Catalonia, where it was banned but later overturned by the Constitutional Court. Perhaps our over eager animal rights activists could take a trip to Spain and do something useful over there.
Likewise, the bird population is also increasing. This joy to see them is tempered by the over population of rooks, crows and magpies which are attracted by the myriads of tiny garden birds such as sparrows, tits all kinds, swifts, and swallows on which they regularly dine.
It seems that memories are short when it comes to recalling the source of much of today’s troubles in the NHS. I think someone should remind the minister, Wes Streeting who is currently in charge and appears to be completely out of his depth. He is clearly ill informed and in denial but should understand just when the root of today’s many problems set in.
Between 1997 and 2007 almost 32,000 NHS hospital beds were cut. One year more than 40 per cent of maternity units turned away women in labour and some 60 local hospitals closed or lost their accident and emergency or maternity services. We should recall the many Save Our Hospital campaigns which sprang up across the country, including at the Princess Royal in Haywards Heath. All of this under Tony Blair’s watch, when he said he would transform the NHS. He certainly did that!
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During the same decade when the number of beds were cut, death rates from infections MRSA and Clostridium difficile rose five-fold. Investigations into the biggest C. diff outbreak in Britain, which killed 90 patients at hospitals run by Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells trust in 2005 and 2006, found that overcrowding amid pressure to meet hospital waiting targets, due to a lack of beds and doctors, was a factor behind the infection’s spread.
It takes ten to fourteen years to train a doctor. During the Blair years doctors were leaving the country in droves when they were told they were superfluous to requirements.
Today the NHS has set targets to reach net zero emissions from its own activities by 2040 – 10 years ahead of the national target. This ambition at a cost to the very patients who rely upon it to keep them healthy and in many cases alive.
As the NHS is once again in crises with more than 7m people stuck on waiting lists and financial pressures rising, this is clearly bonkers.
Hospitals, GP surgeries, suppliers of medicines and medical equipment are being told they must hit net zero by 2045, if they want to keep working for the health service.
By 2027 all NHS suppliers must report their emissions publicly. Instead of concentrating their efforts on improving waiting lists or the tens of thousands who wait more than three days in A&E each year, the government has decided to concentrate instead on achieving net zero for the NHS by 2040 and their suppliers by 2045. These targets will increase costs for most suppliers, which in turn will escalate costs for the NHS.
None of this will help the patients of staff. Neither will it have the slightest effect upon climate change, so why on earth have these ridiculous targets been imposed.
Can you imagine the outcry which would erupt if Bull Fighting was ever introduced in Great Britain. This is the season of the running of the bulls at the San Fermin festival in Pamplona from July 6th to 14th , and bullfights. Other bullfighting events and festivals take place throughout the year across Spain, such as Seville, Madrid, Valencia and Malaga.
The Spanish are clearly a blood thirsty nation, and it could be said this barbaric so-called sport, is their ‘heritage’. But surely the time has come to call a halt to this cruel spectacle.
While Spain doesn't have a direct equivalent of the RSPCA specifically focused on stopping bullfighting, there are animal welfare organizations and legal frameworks in place that address animal cruelty, though clearly not always effectively in the context of bullfighting. It is still legal in most parts of Spain, except for the Canary Islands and Catalonia, where it was banned but later overturned by the Constitutional Court. Perhaps our over eager animal rights activists could take a trip to Spain and do something useful over there.
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