I blame my wife ^^ she told me
Many of these for profit hospitals also cater to wealthy overseas customers, travel issues might be causing a downturn in business too ^^
In April (i think) last year didnt the NHS effectively give the private sector a huge bailout?, in exchange they got some 7k beds ? All NHS specialist surgeons medical pros were told to drop their private commitments to help deal with the crisis.
I presume if they are still operating then this arrangement must have come to an end?
Many of her colleague NHS nurses moonlight in private hospitals doing night shifts during weekends, when some of the week day only day surgery units operate. She is not aware of any of her colleagues working there currently. Maybe thats because the number of cases have dramatically reduced and the work they do is being picked up by local staff.
I'll dig further, but I know it was a touchy subject as several of the surgeons were not redeployed into the local hospitals, this could mean they are still raking in the cash doing private work.
Just found this -
Who benefits from the NHS’s bailout of private hospitals? — Centre for Health and the Public Interest
The government’s recent deal with private hospitals , who will provide their beds and staff to help the NHS cope with coronavirus, has been framed as a significant boost for the NHS. Whilst the NHS will benefit from an 8% (7,956) increase in available beds (although only 160 of these are for inchpi.org.uk
D'oh.
Several EU countries tried to secure the AZ vaccine early last year but the EU took central control of it and spent 2 months fucking about. They have dropped the ball big fucking time and I feel for the people not getting the vaccine quick enough.And we approved it significantly earlier than the EU, which still hasnt approved it for use yet. This is quite typical of the EU, they missed the boat, got wrapped up in bureaucracy tried to delay the vaccine rollout to show a united front and made a right hash of it. Now its a case of bat and ball and going home.
I voted remain, but after political stunts like this and others I'm starting to have a rethink.
I'm sure if the political dick waving turned nasty and they did actually block (Something that only Jeremy Vine and his listeners seem to think has happened already). then I would be somewhat surprised if we didnt do a tit for tat and block the exports of the Oxford/Astrazenica one to the EU.
The EU head office is looking a tad daft right now, late to the party seems to be a bit of an understatement.
This is aside from the fact Germany ignored the EU and went out to procure its own vaccines for Germany only deal off their own backs.
Commission silent as Germany buys own vaccines
The European Commission refused to comment on whether a bilateral deal between Germany and BioNTech for 30 million additional vaccines is a breach of EU collective purchase agreements - which forbid member states from negotiating separate deals.euobserver.com
And we approved it significantly earlier than the EU, which still hasnt approved it for use yet. This is quite typical of the EU, they missed the boat, got wrapped up in bureaucracy tried to delay the vaccine rollout to show a united front and made a right hash of it. Now its a case of bat and ball and going home.
I voted remain, but after political stunts like this and others I'm starting to have a rethink.
I'm sure if the political dick waving turned nasty and they did actually block (Something that only Jeremy Vine and his listeners seem to think has happened already). then I would be somewhat surprised if we didnt do a tit for tat and block the exports of the Oxford/Astrazenica one to the EU.
The EU head office is looking a tad daft right now, late to the party seems to be a bit of an understatement.
This is aside from the fact Germany ignored the EU and went out to procure its own vaccines for Germany only deal off their own backs.
Commission silent as Germany buys own vaccines
The European Commission refused to comment on whether a bilateral deal between Germany and BioNTech for 30 million additional vaccines is a breach of EU collective purchase agreements - which forbid member states from negotiating separate deals.
Correct, Pfizer comes from a plant in Belgium. If the EU stops exports it will only affect the Pfizer vaccine but we may be able to secure deliveries from the US. The UK AZ vaccine is produced solely in the UK, only the initial batch was made in the EU and that was well short of the initial number of doses to be delivered.
You see whitty explaining it?20,000 deaths would be a success.
Covid deaths: 'Hard to compute sorrow' of 100,000 milestone - PM
Boris Johnson says he takes "full responsibility" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.www.bbc.co.uk
So does this mean BoJo is going to resign?
I mean - if you look at deaths per million population out of these 157 countries the UK comes third.
THIRD.
German bombing of the UK during WW2 didn't kill this many people. The fucker should (potentially literally) fall on his sword.
Was wondering if our local Tory apologist would hit me with a facepalm and then whitter some irrelevancies.
All hail The Gover
20,000 deaths would be a success.
Covid deaths: 'Hard to compute sorrow' of 100,000 milestone - PM
Boris Johnson says he takes "full responsibility" for the UK government's response to the pandemic.www.bbc.co.uk
So does this mean BoJo is going to resign?
I mean - if you look at deaths per million population out of these 157 countries the UK comes third.
THIRD.
German bombing of the UK during WW2 didn't kill this many people. The fucker should (potentially literally) fall on his sword.
100,000 dead. Third worst record on the planet.