Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[DaveReading]

For some reason totally unsupported by any evidence, you have decided there is a "plan" to sell off the NHS.

A Tory government selling off a state-owned resource?

Can't see that ever happening ...

 

[Oldhippy]

I stand completely by what I said.

For some reason totally unsupported by any evidence, you have decided there is a "plan" to sell off the NHS.

And you cite "constant cuts" as one reason, when there have actually been no cuts at all. In real terms, NHS core funding has RISEN in every one of the last 15 years except 2020/21 (and the total spend was a lot higher even in that year if you include COVID spending).

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget

These "cuts" are twaddle, and so is the idea that there is a "plan".

Admittedly, the needs of the NHS also rise faster than inflation, due to a combination of factors - new treatments, which are often expensive, and ageing population, so more people needing treatments, etc. And there will alays be a shortage of funds for some things.

One of the very reasons I left the NHS was because nearly everything is outsourced now and done for profit. The service in return from these private companies is all based on budget versus profit. The NHS is sadly having chunks sold off every which way.

 

[Juan Kog]

a nurse will be on 06:00 to 14:00, 14:00 to 22:00 & 22:00 to 06:00,

In my experience as a visitor to family or friends staying in hospital ( pre Covid when this was permitted). The ward nursing staff worked 12 hour shifts. I did confirm this when talking to a nurse .

 

[Oldhippy]

In my experience as a visitor to family or friends staying in hospital ( pre Covid when this was permitted). The ward nursing staff worked 12 hour shifts. I did confirm this when talking to a nurse .

I always did 12 hour shifts, it was normal, when short of staff which was also very regular it wasn't unusual to double that.

 

[matticus]

Why do pedants have to keep “correcting” everyone and tell us that gravity is a repulsive force?

Whoosh.

 

[Deleted User]

They don't leave any uncut bits in the cemetery for the wildlife, but they do leave the grass verges uncut as you leave/approach the cemetery. Which is quite dangerous IMO as you can't see traffic to your left/right too well as you leave.

How tall is the grass!

 

[Deleted User]

I could also walk out my flat and get run over by a bus, as they say. I have a waste bin in my kitchen, but I haven't seen one around it. Nope, they are just after those bananas.

Why ask if you've already made your mind up?

 

[Gillstay]

I stand completely by what I said.

For some reason totally unsupported by any evidence, you have decided there is a "plan" to sell off the NHS.

And you cite "constant cuts" as one reason, when there have actually been no cuts at all. In real terms, NHS core funding has RISEN in every one of the last 15 years except 2020/21 (and the total spend was a lot higher even in that year if you include COVID spending).

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget

These "cuts" are twaddle, and so is the idea that there is a "plan".

Admittedly, the needs of the NHS also rise faster than inflation, due to a combination of factors - new treatments, which are often expensive, and ageing population, so more people needing treatments, etc. And there will alays be a shortage of funds for some things.

Yes , they are selling off bits of the NHS. How people think it's okay to make money from child services is beyond me. Morally bankrupt.

 

[DRM]

I stand completely by what I said.

For some reason totally unsupported by any evidence, you have decided there is a "plan" to sell off the NHS.

And you cite "constant cuts" as one reason, when there have actually been no cuts at all. In real terms, NHS core funding has RISEN in every one of the last 15 years except 2020/21 (and the total spend was a lot higher even in that year if you include COVID spending).

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget

These "cuts" are twaddle, and so is the idea that there is a "plan".

Admittedly, the needs of the NHS also rise faster than inflation, due to a combination of factors - new treatments, which are often expensive, and ageing population, so more people needing treatments, etc. And there will alays be a shortage of funds for some things.

So why are small sections of the NHS being privatised then, ie site maintenance handed over to facilities management, real experience of this local hospital all maintenance staff tupe’d over to an FM conglomerate, all of them were most put out as they said working conditions would go down hill, guess what on the visit this year the majority of skilled people that keep the equipment running have left, private ambulance companies appearing, alongside the local NHS trust ambulance service, this is the tip of the iceberg and I’m certain some of our current & ex NHS staff can quote chapter and verse about the little bits that get privatised until there’s a whole huge lump of privatised NHS departments before we know it, and it’s been going on for ages
https://www.theguardian.com/society...talise-as-nhs-becomes-increasingly-privatised

 

[Accy cyclist]

I accidentally knocked a plastic bottle of vitamin c tablets off a kitchen surface yesterday. They fell less than 3 feet yet ended up 5 feet away and then only stopped when the bottle hit a cupboard and couldn't travel further. Why does an item that falls directly down, fall a certain distance, hit the ground, then travel almost twice as far (and could've gone further), if that ground is perfectly flat and doesn't have a downward slope? 🤔


Putting it simply, how can a right angle drop

generate enough energy to make the fallen item travel twice the distance, after hitting the ground? 🤔

 

[icowden]

Putting it simply, how can a right angle drop
generate enough energy to make the fallen item travel twice the distance, after hitting the ground? 🤔

So firstly, the distance. ALthough the bottle is only falling 3 feet (lets call it 1 metre and go metric), gravitational force causes it to accelerate. Gravity on Earth is 9.8m/sec (lets round to 10 for simplicity). So if your bottle took 1 second to hit the ground, it will be travelling at 10 metres per second at the point of impact.

Secondly the bottle isn't in all likelihood hitting the ground completely flat. If it did, then it wouldn't go anywhere but back up. What has probably happened is that the bottle hits the ground at an angle. Newtons third law states that for every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus the bottle hits the ground travelling at 10m/sec. The opposite reaction then imparts energy back to the bottle sending it on it's new trajectory based on the angle that the bottle hit the ground. It's then going to travel for around 8-10 meters on a flat surface (energy will be lost to friction as it rolls and bounces).

 

[winjim]

Instead of the bottle falling downwards, think of the floor moving upwards. Then a little bit of a bounce doesn't seem as much of a big deal. It's not one object falling, it's two objects colliding, just one's rather more massive than the other.

 

[cougie uk]

I stand completely by what I said.

For some reason totally unsupported by any evidence, you have decided there is a "plan" to sell off the NHS.

And you cite "constant cuts" as one reason, when there have actually been no cuts at all. In real terms, NHS core funding has RISEN in every one of the last 15 years except 2020/21 (and the total spend was a lot higher even in that year if you include COVID spending).

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget

These "cuts" are twaddle, and so is the idea that there is a "plan".

Admittedly, the needs of the NHS also rise faster than inflation, due to a combination of factors - new treatments, which are often expensive, and ageing population, so more people needing treatments, etc. And there will alays be a shortage of funds for some things.

The Tories are only in power to make money.
The NHS would make billions for a private owner.

It's not rocket science.

 

[Accy cyclist]

How tall is the grass!

About 16 inches.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

How tall is the grass!

4 metres