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?"

 

[cliveb]

[lots of interesting stuff about how NHS dentistry is being starved of funds]

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.

Back in history one of the major causes of death was infection from bad teeth. So ignoring the nation's dental health could come back and bite them (pun unintended)

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

Back in history one of the major causes of death was infection from bad teeth. So ignoring the nation's dental health could come back and bite them (pun unintended)

Not to mention poor dental hygiene and gum disease is a major contributor to heart disease an issue proven by both British Heart Foundation and UK dental studies. So by not funding they’re definitely causing extra strain elsewhere in the system.

 

[irip]

I went to go out Thursday night and as I started the car I heard a big bang.
Front tyre had blown but being dark I couldn’t see a lot.
So got up yesterday and had a look and one of the coils from the front suspension has snapped and popped the tyre.
I have been saying for years that as soon as something goes on the car I would replace it so rather than getting the coils/suspension fixed I have scrapped the car. (I have had it 10 years and it was old when I got it).

Having a little look yesterday for a new car and the wife decided she doesn’t like her car much so could she have the nice new car and I have hers?

So now she is looking for a new car and I get hers.

Not sure quite what’s happened there

 

[The Squirrel]

Back in history one of the major causes of death was infection from bad teeth. So ignoring the nation's dental health could come back and bite them (pun unintended)

Not to mention poor dental hygiene and gum disease is a major contributor to heart disease an issue proven by both British Heart Foundation and UK dental studies. So by not funding they’re definitely causing extra strain elsewhere in the system.

For those of you with military connections - teeth really can change the fate of nations:
Teeth were actually the great debilitator of the WW1 Tommy in the trenches and a huge cause of putting soldiers out of action. Ultra-high sugar diet and little dental care in that era. Look closely at any photo of British soldiers in WW1 and you'll generally see their teeth are in a terrible condition.
The very first training course for dental hygienists was actually developed by the RAF as a response to the huge loss of flying hours from desperately needed pilots due to advanced gum disease and dental sepsis.

How dental hygienists got off to a flying start - BDJ Team

Michael Wheeler, past president of the British Society of Dental Hygienists and Therapists, outlines the controversial history of the role of the dental hygienist and describes why they have good cause to celebrate their profession in 2018.

www.nature.com

 

[Imurg]

I went to go out Thursday night and as I started the car I heard a big bang.
Front tyre had blown but being dark I couldn’t see a lot.
So got up yesterday and had a look and one of the coils from the front suspension has snapped and popped the tyre.
I have been saying for years that as soon as something goes on the car I would replace it so rather than getting the coils/suspension fixed I have scrapped the car. (I have had it 10 years and it was old when I got it).

Having a little look yesterday for a new car and the wife decided she doesn’t like her car much so could she have the nice new car and I have hers?

So now she is looking for a new car and I get hers.

Not sure quite what’s happened there

You've been "Wifed"....

 

[clubchamp98]

I went to go out Thursday night and as I started the car I heard a big bang.
Front tyre had blown but being dark I couldn’t see a lot.
So got up yesterday and had a look and one of the coils from the front suspension has snapped and popped the tyre.
I have been saying for years that as soon as something goes on the car I would replace it so rather than getting the coils/suspension fixed I have scrapped the car. (I have had it 10 years and it was old when I got it).

Having a little look yesterday for a new car and the wife decided she doesn’t like her car much so could she have the nice new car and I have hers?

So now she is looking for a new car and I get hers.

Not sure quite what’s happened there

Just say “no”

 

[irip]

Just say “no”

You make it sound like it was a question.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Not to mention poor dental hygiene and gum disease is a major contributor to heart disease an issue proven by both British Heart Foundation and UK dental studies. So by not funding they’re definitely causing extra strain elsewhere in the system.

It's a classic accounting trick. Save money in one area, shout at the other area that is impacted for their increase in problems. They have no interest in finding the real cause of the problem and resolving that

 

[Lucifer MorningStar]

For those of you with military connections - teeth really can change the fate of nations:
Teeth were actually the great debilitator of the WW1 Tommy in the trenches and a huge cause of putting soldiers out of action. Ultra-high sugar diet and little dental care in that era. Look closely at any photo of British soldiers in WW1 and you'll generally see their teeth are in a terrible condition.
The very first training course for dental hygienists was actually developed by the RAF as a response to the huge loss of flying hours from desperately needed pilots due to advanced gum disease and dental sepsis.

How dental hygienists got off to a flying start - BDJ Team

Michael Wheeler, past president of the British Society of Dental Hygienists and Therapists, outlines the controversial history of the role of the dental hygienist and describes why they have good cause to celebrate their profession in 2018.

www.nature.com

Don’t I know it ! Since I’ve been in which is literally forever now, I had at least 3 check ups a year, 6 monthly hygienist visits and the. Have to have another annual assessment to declare me dentally fit. For someone that hates the dentist it feels like a lot

 

[NearHull]

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?

Last week we rated our online taxi booking as a ‘1’ because of the very poor driving. The company came back to me the next day asking to provide comments. I wrote up a paragraph of the experience. The Taxi company came back and asked if they could use my comments to take the matter further.

 

[Tashyboy]

So last night I went to aN RBL pit appeal thankyou night. Behind the bat is my nephews wife. I asked how he is. Not good. For years he avoided going to a dentist. He had a fear of them. Last Year he had the rematch teeth in his mouth removed. His smell
Of bad breath could knock out a horse.
He got fitted for dentures. All done privately. Cost £5-6K. They don’t fit as he hardly has any gums or jaw bone. Implants are a Massive gamble and he’s looking at £15K.
Suffice to say he has no teeth has confidence going out and is suffering from depression. As much as I can point the finger at him for no going to the dentist coz he had a fear of them. My sister should have found a way to get him there as a kid.
I cannot see a happy ending for him.

 

[Tashyboy]

So me last post, I was waiting in the Turkish barbers to make myself look beautiful for Missis T as we are having are out for a meal tonight. This guy is in there. There’s probably thousands like him, strutting around ( his 4 or 5 year old was having his hair cut) talking so everyone can hear him. So he says to the guy cutting my hair. “ you have lost loads of weight, you look well, how long have you been dieting”. The guy cutting my hair says “25 days, I have 5 left to do”. Mr Loud says “that diet looks fantastic, you will have to give me details of it”. My Barber says “ you do not eat for 12 hours or longer during the day”. Mr Loud says “that diet shove it as I have to eat”. And he walks off. I quietly says to the Barber “Would your diet be called Ramadan”. He smiled and nodded.
Some folk are as thick as mince