Yeah but they are still the head honcho for a given section of railway. What they say goes.
In an emergency situation they are the person you call, even before emergency services.
Iām aware, but in the context of the timetable, train delays and connections they are working under a predetermined set of instructions.
With that being said, they do err more than the other staff mentioned, but the failures of the railway lie much higher up the food chain.
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100% yes. Iād be looking at the actual contract and how itās managed myself. If a service provider can continually provide a poor service without penalty then the contract is useless.
Too often Iāve seen contracts given to a contractor where there are real concerns about the quality of their work, but the price could not be ignored.
And when a contract does start to struggle it becomes incredibly difficult to turn it round in my experience.
This man sees a problem and offers a solution
What a guy*ā¦
*Twat
FFS
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More beds needs more staff, the manager would lose his job as thereās not the money for him and the 10 more nurses his wages would easily be able to pay!
Been visiting the wife twice daily since Wednesday.
Amazing job by the nurses and doctors, but they are so hard pushed and have limited resourcesā¦
Old bloke on the ward waited in a corridor for 17 hours before a bed was available.
Luckily he got home after test results came back, but it horrifies me to think that couldāve been my missus sitting in a corridor for hours with a burst appendix.
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This looks like another case of Tories trying to micromanage rather than make policy decisions. Are there any of them who have worked at a senior level in an organisation? I donāt mean fund managers or partners at a legal firm, but someone high up in a complex organisation.
The country seems to be hit by disaster after disaster which are rooted in poor decisions over a decade in the making.
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The last 30+ years successive conservative led governments have been pushing for a reduction of beds as they saw it as over capacity.
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Ah John Redwood. A particularly special character. A minister with the mental fortitude of a goldfish and the subtlety of a bull in a china shop.
But at least he knows the words to your favourite song.
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Yep, health needs more tax dollars.
There is a problem with governments of all persuasions that they will not take emergency planning seriously as they do not perceive there as being anything in it for them politically. They need to put tax revenue into contingency measures that will likely only be needed when they are out of office.
Over capacity is required to deal with specific risks (I was at a meeting in 2002 where bio-terrorism was discussed). On a per bed basis they wonāt be utilised to the same extent but the upside is that the overall health service is much more efficient. From an expenditure point of view the extra cost is pulled back by lower sickness benefit payments. Unfortunately, that requires joined up thinking.
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Agreed.
I pay plenty though
Agree with your thoughts but I would argue that they arenāt even getting the basic minimum requirement right let alone contingency for emergency issues such as a pandemic.
And itās the same all over. Local Authorities canāt even fulfill their basic legal minimum requirements for things such as highway maintenance.
There is gross failure everywhere you look and the government will have you believe itās the people that are delivering these services that are at fault. Everyone canāt be that bad all at the same time right?
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Haha. I specifically meant that the NHS needs another 20 billion pounds of Dane funding. Fair enough?
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She may be right on the substance of Brexit, but sheās blind to the politics to it. I may be wrong, but Brexit has become such a shibboleth to many that trying to go back on it would be seen as nothing but betrayal.
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By some. It would be a huge relief to many others.
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Iām not denying that. Iām just skeptical that it can be touched politically, especially with what passes for the media.
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So this Rwanda flights malarkey was deemed lawful yesterday apparently.
I suppose the concept of making it harder for traffickers to tout their business as attractive is encouraging.
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If, as polls suggest, only 32% think it was a good idea, it might be time for politicians to change their tune.