Random Irritations

[venger]

good luck finding another. dentistry in this country is a joke at the minute

No dentist within 15 miles of Cambridge accepting new nhs patients and only one or two offering a waiting list.

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

They are going private because “of a chronic lack of investment in nhs dentistry by successive governments “ and they are inviting all nhs patients to go private

..plus what dentists get reimbursed for treatments for NHS patients is relative peanuts and doesn't go anywhere near what is a realistic cost of private treatment - in fact NHS reimbursement barely covers costs. Got this from a dentist explaining costs to me.

 

[Hobbit]

I was commuting from Bristol to Surrey at the time...we hadn't yet moved though my job had moved to Farnborough. I had a late morning start so left Bristol later than normal. I can recall very clearly driving along the M4 listening to the news come in with tears rolling down my cheeks...I had to slow right down. I knew Dunblane quite well having driving through it many times when heading up north from Glasgow, and most impacting - our children were 1 and 4 at the time.

ETA - just taken the opportunity to read a little about what happened to reflect - and yes - the memory still causes tears - I had no idea that it would - but it has.

It shook me. We’ve lit a candle every year for 30 years and will continue to do so.

 

[clubchamp98]

You get more than one hit if someone has a weapon. One hit back might not be enough to stop him. If a person is that unhinged they've attacked you with a weapon, how can you be sure they'll not try again unless they're out cold? It'll be a great court case though.

I've got zero time for Barton and have said he should've been jailed for longer in the past for some of his antics but this incident is curious.

It looks like the so called victim started the trouble, went back to his car to get tooled up, tried to attack Barton and then got battered. He's then grassed everyone up which isn't a good look, especially in Liverpool....

Yes .

As you say “ you need to stop him getting up.”

I’m no fan of Barton but he’s being found “guilty “here by the press because of past behaviour.

The other guy had the weapon what’s he supposed to do.
Maybe he went over the top but most people who carry weapons deserve what they get imo.
Would we feel the same if it was Barton in hospital?

I know Huyton & Prescot GC has cctv in the car park so shouldn’t to to hard to see what’s gone on.

Just a note the press caused mayhem in the local area for several days blocking the road that the course is on and affecting the motorway M58 traffic

 

[Neilds]

Feedback requests!

Book tickets online - email requesting feedback.
Order goods online - email requesting feedback. Or multiple ones from the vendor and the delivery company
Order a meal in a restaurant on an app - email requesting feedback.
Give blood - email requesting feedback. Yes, really.

And if you give a poor review, does anyone get in touch to find out what the problem was? Or ask how they can put them right? Do they heck! What is the point of asking for feedback when they just seem to ignore it?

 

[The Squirrel]

..plus what dentists get reimbursed for treatments for NHS patients is relative peanuts and doesn't go anywhere near what is a realistic cost of private treatment - in fact NHS reimbursement barely covers costs. Got this from a dentist explaining costs to me.

Dentists should all do more NHS work!

Except......

The NHS total dental budget is capped by the government both at the total level and for every individual surgery. A dentist cannot just choose to do more NHS work even if they want to (which, to be fair, most don't want, as the terms are so bad) - every single NHS dentist's budget is capped at a maximum. Do more NHS work than your allocation and you still pay all the costs of building, equipping and running the practice yourself but receive no payment at all. So you go bankrupt.

The government can choose to increase that budget and commision more dentistry if they wish of course. Have they?

If anyone wants to put this into numbers:

In 2000 the whole NHS budget was about £55bn and within that the spend on dentistry in was £3bn.
In 2025 the whole NHS budget had increased to £205bn.
If dentistry had simply retained its share of the overall NHS budget then the NHS would now be spending £11bn on it.
The NHS spend on dentistry in 2025 was .............. £3bn.

So 0% increase in 25 years before inflation. Remember what inflation has done in that time (with inflation, costs have gone up roughly 116% in that time)
Imagine what hospital services, GPs or any other area would be like if they had only 40% of the budget (in real terms) that they had in 2000.....

The government (of all political parties) wants to remove high street dentistry from the NHS in order to save money but doesn't want to be honest about that fact as it is a massive vote loser. So they are slowly starving it to death instead.

 

[Patster1969]

All above I can agree with.

But truth is when I posted about what the club was doing about ‘automated’ booking I thought it was incontrovertibly a good thing - after all is ‘tee booking problems’ not a recurring issue looking for a solution on here and at quite possibly every club around the country.

My club is addressing the ‘automated’ booking issue, not by introducing new technology or changing the established booking procedure - but by simply making it ‘against club rules’ to use automated technologies. So behavioural rather than technical or process. But hey. How deluded and naïve was I to think such thoughts…Happy Tuesday to all…

Personally, I think it's a great idea knowing what a bun fight it is trying to get Saturday morning tee times when they open 10 days before, particularly as at least 20% of them will cancel the night before
The club also seems to do nothing about stopping it, so it's good that a club is trying to help the members out

 

[Sid Rixon IV]

Last night my wife and I saw "The Ballad of Johnny and June" in a theatre in the city - a musical tribute through from their meeting and eventual passing within months of each other
Thoroughly enjoyed it.
My wife is not really "into" Cash but declared she enjoyed it when we got home.
Tonight she's out with friends and, after obviously talking about it with them, rang me.
"Hello love, just remind me, who was it we saw last night?"