27 January - The end may be nigh
I didn’t
take any notes at Dave Putson’s meeting
because it might appear to be intimidating if I sat there scribbling away but I
wish I had done. Someone briefly explained who owned what in the NHS and if I
heard him correctly it led to the GP services in Thamesmead being owned by an
American company. I haven’t anything good to say about my NHS experiences over
the past three years, longer if I include looking after my late aunt. I have two potentially life threatening conditions
which require monitoring and neither have been done properly or even at all
since the Covid excuses first became available.
Dave himself dropped the name Doctor Bob Gill
into the conversation; not sure why but apparently a local GP. I Googled him and he can be found all over the place and I am unsure as to how I came to miss him
before. I even discovered he follows me on Twitter!
Yesterday evening I planned to watch a film which I had to specially import from
the USA but instead found myself glued to Doctor Gill’s feature length video on my biggest screen. I
had expected to dip in for a few minutes and drop it but it is very well
produced and interesting throughout. You may occasionally notice local
landmarks. It seeks to demonstrate how the NHS is being
lined up for Americanisation where things are not good unless you have pots of
money, and not always then.
It reminded me of my days working in International telephony. People would
complain that British services were not as good as they had found in the US of A.
Maybe true if they had been on a business trip to New York or holidayed in L.A.
but if you went to Hill Billy land there might be no service at all or at best
twelve people on a party line. The UK had a country wide universal system much the same everywhere.
I think I preferred the British way.
Note: I have yet to find a way to embed a YouTube video into
a Bonkers page such that its size varies to fit the window as is the BiB norm. YouTube appears to lack the flexibility.
Probably easiest to click on the video and watch it in a separate window.
There have been two Bexley Council Scrutiny meeting this week and I had allotted
time for reporting over the weekend. However I have been called out to remedy a
family tech problem so I will be listening to both meetings in the car and listen out for
bits that might be slightly interesting.