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Topic History of: I'm really going to miss DOCTORS Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Carl
I'm not letting the government off the hook. I blame countless governments of all parties for opening the floodgates and letting all and sundry into our country.
That's the main problem. That's why it's almost impossible to get a doctors appointment, a school place for your children, lack of social housing etc etc.
We're only a small island. Enough is enough.
Wyot
Carl wrote: Exactly.
You're the one who took it off topic in the first place Carl
On topic: never watched it so adieu!x
Carl
Exactly.
robbiex
Lets get the thread back on topic. This is about the bbc series Doctors. I haven't watched much of it as I'm usually working during the day, but I know that it offered good opportunities for some excellent older actors to make a re-appearance like Angela Bruce "Only Fools and Horses", "Angels", Coronation Street") and Diane Keen ("Rings on your fingers", "the cuckoo waltz", "Here we go round the mulberry bush"), and many others. One of the few good things about Labour, and there aren't many under Starmer, is that they might be more generous to the great British Institution The BBC.
It all depends where you live. When the local population triples and you still have the same surgery with the same amount of doctors and nurses, how can they possibly provide the same services?
It doesnt matter who the people are, it is just numbers.
If the Government do not put additional funds in and expand GP practices and resources (with the tax raised from immigration) there will be capacity problems.
The real question is how can the resources be suddenly found for Nightingale hospitals or funding Ukraine, but never GP surgery expansion? In areas where populations have tripled, the resulting tax revenue must support local infrastructure.