yngwies Cat 7:35 Wed Oct 12
UK Blood Stocks running low
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-63229980.amp
Piece of piss. Lie on the bed, roll your sleeve up, ( keep your nob in though) and stare at the ceiling for a bit. Nice bit of time out and you've potentially saved a life. :-)
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Mike Oxsaw
1:17 Fri Oct 14
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A senior diversity and inclusion advisor will more often than not have an administrative support team around them to churn out reports and type up/send out "advice"; almost a whole department, in fact.
Get shot of the whole lot and use the money to employ people who actually interact with the patients (customers/end-users,/however the fuck you need to label them).
The patients are the senior stakeholders in the NHS - they pay for it via their taxes, it's not government money; the treasury just divvy it out.
Somehow, the administrative arm of the NHS seems to have positioned itself as senior stakeholder, when it's sole role should be to support the front line staff in doing their assigned tasks.
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On The Ball
12:20 Fri Oct 14
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Yes and no - while the inclusion person earns £46k, there'll only be one at a Trust, whereas there are countless phlebotomists.
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Mike Oxsaw
11:00 Fri Oct 14
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It's not that the NHS doesn't get enough money - it probably does if it's spent wisely driven by customer (not staff) needs.
However, all this diversity & equality bollocksy box-ticking does is give people the power to magic new "absolutely necessary" posts out of thin air for as many of their mates/cousins as they can get away with.
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Lee Trundle
10:51 Fri Oct 14
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£20k a year is a bit shit when you consider a senior diversity and inclusion advisor for the NHS is on £46k a year.
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On The Ball
10:41 Fri Oct 14
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Mike Oxsaw 8:53 Thu Oct 13
It'll be the terrible pay for phlebotomists.
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charleston SC
11:08 Thu Oct 13
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I’ve been giving blood regularly. Told to go to mercure hotel for first time last week. I asked the nurse if the hotel donated their space like we do our blood but she said hotel charges.
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Lily Hammer
9:04 Thu Oct 13
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Don’t forget the 100k health and care workers who lost their jobs because they wouldn’t get jabbed. That quite possibly has an effect on the numbers of available staff as well.
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Mike Oxsaw
8:53 Thu Oct 13
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I would be almost certain that the lack of staff to take blood is down to the NHS prioritising putting in place a management and administration team & structure over employing people to actually do the work.
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Admiral Lard
8:39 Thu Oct 13
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I have given on 3 occasions in the last 18 months. However, I recently tried to give and the team were so short of staff they were turning people away. This happened on 2 consecutive days.
Once you give blood you cannot give again for at least 3 months to build up your iron levels.
Government cuts and a lack of competent staff is to blame
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Mike Oxsaw
8:21 Thu Oct 13
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Yeah, take a well deserved bow, gents for rallying to the call. Very West Ham.
Now just watch them, in typical government/NHS fashion, send out the wrong message and tell people not to bother donating any more as their stocks are back to normal.
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yngwies Cat
8:10 Thu Oct 13
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Well done for trying gents
I wouldn't be around today,if it wasn't for the work they do.
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mashed in maryland
8:10 Thu Oct 13
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I was trying to be optimistic 😪
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yngwies Cat
8:08 Thu Oct 13
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Yea, they are really short staffed and having to turn people away.
Which is a bit crap.
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mashed in maryland
7:56 Thu Oct 13
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Just went to book an appointment and been placed in a QUEUE.
They're doing this because apparently they're overrun with people trying to donate.
This can only be a positive. So this should make everyone happy
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On The Ball
12:08 Thu Oct 13
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There can. But well done summing up your understanding for us.
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Northern Sold
12:05 Thu Oct 13
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I used to give blood up until the early 2000’s… and then they found out I had a blood transfusion back in 1984…. I imagine all to do with bad Aids and all that… so they said… no unclean cunt and I said Ok and took my business elsewhere…
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Lee Trundle
12:00 Thu Oct 13
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On The Ball 11:08 Thu Oct 13
"The problem isn't the lack of forthcoming donations, it's the lack of the criminally underpaid phlebotomists"
Can't we use all those people who happily volunteered to jab people with the covid vaccine? I mean, there can't be too much difference between injecting someone with an experimental drug, and extracting blood from them, surely?
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Charoo
11:57 Thu Oct 13
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All the local appointments are taken, I can’t get in any in my area. I have to go Westfield which is a bit of a ball ache, the process there also isn’t very quick.
I still need to go do again soon, but I’d do the 4 times per year if it was convenient.
I think there are health benefits for the person giving the blood and you’re helping someone to possibly live. It’s a good thing to do.
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billywhitehorse
11:48 Thu Oct 13
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Mike
The area's downward spiral didn't really start until the 1980's. It's horrible now due to the change in council housing policy.
The area had character and was a real community until then. It was very similar to the East End. The people were almost all 'slum clearance ' from London.
My family were rescued from the slums of Covent Garden, Tottenham Court Road and Marylebone. Thanks for saving us!
All my friends' families had the same background originating in the West End or around St Pancras.
Plenty of villains but next to no crime in our area as it wasn't the done thing and could start a circle of retaliation. In the 60's it was the country's top area for bank robbers. The Daily Mirror produced a 2 page story on Britain's own Little Chicago.
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bruuuno
11:34 Thu Oct 13
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I know a couple of people who have tried to give blood several times in recent months and it’s been a right pita, they keep getting sent home for various reasons so the process isn’t exactly straightforward
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On The Ball
11:08 Thu Oct 13
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The problem isn't the lack of forthcoming donations, it's the lack of the criminally underpaid phlebotomists (band 2 in the NHS, I believe) who take the blood.
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