Could this possibly be seen as a hint of good news?

[tyelaw47]

Plenty of vacancies in the NHS!!

[OhSusana]

You are hitting new lows today HIC on this thread and on others. I hit the report button on one of your comments only to find that someone had beat me to it.. Grrrrrr..

Shame on you Trev (+ 1 other). I'll bear that in mind next time you PM me asking for help, like you did a few months back.

Which reminds me -
My husband hopefully will take delivery of a piano - thanks to your help - next week. And - after your discussion with the shop owner, he now answers emails the same day! Not after two months. So progress is being made!

So if you hear strains of Mozart, or Beethoven, or Chopin drifting over Kato Paphos during the next few weeks, you know who's playing. And who is to blame. (Hic, of course. ))
Conservative Party Conference coming up? So what music will he be playing? His favourite piece is undoubtedly the Chopin Bb minor sonata.
Which movement for May? mmm...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56blt-FJuOs

Listen, if you can, to the sublime Db major section, after 2.5 mins. Almost like a vision of paradise. Peace?
The last movement is a killer.

[OhSusana]

Pleased to have been of help. Must have been around a year ago, right?

Maybe longer. Had to be brought in. Things can move slowly here; as you know. ))

[Jim B]

No I don't agree, there are jobs out there if you really need, or indeed want to work, but you also have to be flexible and maybe travel, but there are those who will not.

Jobs were hard to come by when I let school, being a baby boomer, (not caused by Brexit), but I and my fiends all found one, 'seek and ye shall find'.

Jackie

Maybe if you're looking for a job as a Clerk or a Shop Assistant but for many professions, jobs are thin on the ground, many of my colleagues who were laid off from several major projects after the fall in the price of oil are still sat at home after over a year out of work. All are willing to work anywhere but the jobs are not available.
There maybe vacancies in the NHS as tyelawe stated but we all know the reason for that don't we?
Jim

[tyelaw47]

Oh dear Jim B why do you feel the need to qualify? There are many jobs available in the NHS full stop.

[Jim B]

I'm not qualifying anything, just pointing out a fact that due to a fall in applications from EU citizens there are a substantial amount of openings available though unfortunately in the UK we lack the people with the required qualifications. Of course they can always lower the standards like they're proposing to do with food.
I remember a number of years ago I was in India working and a friend pointed out an advertisement in the Times of India which said :"Study to be a Doctor and be able to practice in the UK within 12 months"; I'm sure they will fit in to the post Brexit utopia.

Jim

[Jim B]

The below article is from the Oxford Mail relating to severe staff shortages in Oxford Hospitals; there are jobs available according to an earlier post but there are not enough people with the qualifications to fill them and who would want to move to a country where foreigners are not welcome.
Jim

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16909 ... ref=twtrec

[Firefly]

I don't see any mention of qualifications in that article Jim, but it does mention that they cannot say how many of the vacancies is a direct result of Brexit.

Jackie

[Jim B]

Hi Jackie
Only writing the obvious, if enough qualified people were available in the UK the NHS wouldn't have to go abroad to recruit. The article does refer to EU citizens returning to their home countries.

Jim

[Jim B]

For tyelawe

Toyota Future investment in the case of no Brexit Deal.
Jim


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45715029

[Jimgward]

I am seeing the NHS prime targets failing at a local level and from friends own experiences in different areas. Longer waiting times, shortages of GPs and more. We are frankly struggling to resource the NHS, whether as a result of Brexit or not, it's becoming critical.

Add to that the time bomb of social care, that's going to become potentially a larger concern....

One of the biggest concerns of Hospitals is "Bed Blocking" - where patients cannot be discharged as facilities to look after them outside the hospital isn't there. NHS England imposed a 5% levy that hospitals should put into the community to enable earlier discharges and fewer admissions. This should fund 'reablement' services to look after patients safely in their own home until capable again. A very sensible idea. However, CEOs don't like losing funding, They get paid per filled bed and emptying them isn't financially beneficial - despite it being clinically correct. The worst place to be is a hospital bed - unless receiving urgent care.

Councils haven't enough money to fund social care. Community healthcare is underfunded. It costs £3,500 a week to keep someone in a hospital bed + the cost of treatment. A residential home averages £900 and councils average payment to domiciliary care is £13 in the north and slightly higher in the south - which has to pay a living wage of £8.45 outside London + training, uniforms, equipment, travel costs, travel time, management, overheads etc.

No domiciliary company makes money from publicly funded care allowances. In fact, they run at a loss. Only private payments allow them to keep in business. Add in the increasing regulatory demands and we have a time bomb waiting to blow.

[Firefly]

Jimgward

Not often that we agree, but on this point we do.

My friend has been forced through circumstances to put her husband into a care home. She looked at live in carers, £750.00 per week, they had to have a bedroom, be fed by her, obviously the use of her electricity, and probably internet also. Then she looked at a local care home, a very good one I might add. £650.00 per week, he has his own room with bathroom, he has three meals a day, the electricity is included for his TV lights, heating etc. It is clean and in a wonderful rural area, his room looks out over a lake and gardens. The carers are very attentive, and he is always clean and tidy. No contest then.

The elderly are an easy target if they have savings and or own a property, the rape of the old, when they are the ones who have contributed most in taxes during their working life, personally I think it stinks.


Until the government put more money where it's needed, not given to India and China, nothing will change, we the people of Britain need it.

Jackie

Jackie