What have you done today thread?

[Skub]

Busted wrist. Very fine break line that they were surprised to pick up on an x-ray. He's still in there waiting for some sort of cast apparently. He hasn't slept due to being in there last night as he was kept in for obs. Fucked if I know why they didn't x-ray him last night. They sent him home at 7 this morning still in pain with his wrist, so I took him back up around 12:45 and he has been stuck there since!?!?

Unfortunately it's not just the wrist which is broken. The entire mismanaged NHS is broken.

[Horse]

Are you on their mailing list? They recently sent a summary of new changes.

Who's mailing list?

Ah, good point. St John.

To be fair, I'd forgotten that I've also had training from Red Cross and South Central Ambo

If I remember, I'll dig out a link to the summary

I prefer Another One Bites The Dust

... Accompanied by the warning "Don't sing along!"

[Fruity]

I feel like its lazy policing to hit targets and probably used as a revenue stream although I don't know the financial stats of that.

Dumfries and Galloway are bad for it as well, Durham and Northumberland less so.

But that said, I’m not sure there’s many countries that haven’t taken advantage of the ease of revenue generation from speeding.

Durham has procured several more camera vans over the last few months. They used to have only one.only


Cameras are a blunt instrument but with the continuing national decline of RPU staff numbers and fleets, speed enforcement is intended (I suppose) to hammer down K/SI numbers in the absence of other means of enforcement.

[Bigyin]

Durham has procured several more camera vans over the last few months. They used to have only one.only


Cameras are a blunt instrument but with the continuing national decline of RPU staff numbers and fleets, speed enforcement is intended (I suppose) to hammer down K/SI numbers in the absence of other means of enforcement.

Ta, i will remember to look out for camera vans, not RPU coppers in unmarked cars next time i am up there

[Yambo]

Cameras are a blunt instrument but with the continuing national decline of RPU staff numbers and fleets, speed enforcement is intended (I suppose) to hammer down K/SI numbers in the absence of other means of enforcement.

Trying to convince people of that is a lost cause.

If they were placed at or near locations with an accident history, the public were never really aware of that history* so the cameras were simply there to generate revenue.

*Whitebirk roundabout (Junction 6 of the M65) was the worst accident hot spot in Lancashire for 10 years but when some remedial work was done on it to slow traffic down and reduce that accident rate, locals were telling the press and TV reporters that the accident rate was a load of nonsense, because they had never seen an accident there.

[Taipan]

Busted wrist. Very fine break line that they were surprised to pick up on an x-ray. He's still in there waiting for some sort of cast apparently. He hasn't slept due to being in there last night as he was kept in for obs. Fucked if I know why they didn't x-ray him last night. They sent him home at 7 this morning still in pain with his wrist, so I took him back up around 12:45 and he has been stuck there since!?!?

Unfortunately it's not just the wrist which is broken. The entire mismanaged NHS is broken.

Aye. An 85 year old disabled man left in various corridor for over 9 hours with no food or drink given. He was so weak by the time I got him home he could barely walk and not even stand up unaided. He got stuck on the bog and i had to help him off there and clean up and then get him undressed for bed. I think the embarrassment nearly killed him. Will organise carers today and get hold of (presumably) occupational therapy for a temporary bed and commode downstairs.

[Silly Car]

Durham has procured several more camera vans over the last few months. They used to have only one.only


Cameras are a blunt instrument but with the continuing national decline of RPU staff numbers and fleets, speed enforcement is intended (I suppose) to hammer down K/SI numbers in the absence of other means of enforcement.

Ta, i will remember to look out for camera vans, not RPU coppers in unmarked cars next time i am up there

Let us know the date and I’m sure Fruity can have a word to ensure they are available to give you a warm welcome / keep you out

[Mussels]

Busted wrist. Very fine break line that they were surprised to pick up on an x-ray. He's still in there waiting for some sort of cast apparently. He hasn't slept due to being in there last night as he was kept in for obs. Fucked if I know why they didn't x-ray him last night. They sent him home at 7 this morning still in pain with his wrist, so I took him back up around 12:45 and he has been stuck there since!?!?

Unfortunately it's not just the wrist which is broken. The entire mismanaged NHS is broken.

Aye. An 85 year old disabled man left in various corridor for over 9 hours with no food or drink given. He was so weak by the time I got him home he could barely walk and not even stand up unaided. He got stuck on the bog and i had to help him off there and clean up and then get him undressed for bed. I think the embarrassment nearly killed him. Will organise carers today and get hold of (presumably) occupational therapy for a temporary bed and commode downstairs.

This is what is being done for my mother in law at the moment, she had a bad experience with very uncaring nurses in hospital recently so now family are caring for her at home now with regular visits from carers and district nurses. She managed to get a decent care package but it was a bit like getting blood from a stone, fortunately my wife trained as a nurse and used to run sheltered housing so she knows who to talk to and what to ask for but she's had to chase and follow most things up herself. The GP put some equipment orders through to the wrong people who just ignored it because they had no idea what it was about, the pharmacy couldn't get the order right because they had a flood etc
If you don't know what to expect or if you trust people then it is easy to fall through the cracks.
Then there was getting my MiL to agree, she refused all of this at first. I brought the first bed down because she won't tell me to f off, then a commode appeared in the room and now they are thankful for it all.
If you want to know who to contact for anything in particular then I can ask, might save you some time. Some stuff we just got from Amazon because if it looks less nasty then it's more likely to be accepted.

[636mick]

Massive respect to you blokes who do all this, I never really got the chance to look after either of my parents due to illnesses that took them quickly. Not sure if I could cope with, and manage what you do and have done.
Mick

[Taipan]

Came round and found him on the floor. He doesn’t know how long he’s been there. Rang his Doctors but the queue system is full and not taking calls. Rang 111 and hit the same story and the message also said try online. So irang 999. Ambo is here now and suspect dehydration? Looks like they’re going to leave him here, but he can’t even get himself on and off a chair of toilet?!!

[Horse]

Are you on their mailing list? They recently sent a summary of new changes.

Who's mailing list?

Ah, good point. St John.

To be fair, I'd forgotten that I've also had training from Red Cross and South Central Ambo

If I remember, I'll dig out a link to the summar

Link on this page, to download document

https://www.sja.org.uk/course-informati ... m_content=

[Skub]

Remember to take care of yourself too,TP.

[Taipan]

Remember to take care of yourself too,TP.

Cheesr Bud. I'm okay, just a tad frustrated by it all, although not as much as my warmongering Sister who is talking to PALS right now and saying the reason he's back in is because of how he was treated and i had better not happen again etc!

I'd explained to the Paramedics why they'd been called and they were fine with it, adding that most of the peopel in A&E didn't need to be there and wouldn't be if GPs returned to normal face to face services instead of just referring. They really were not happy bunnies!

[gremlin]

Got up this morning, full of beans, and thought I'd spend a constructive hour sorting out a couple of bits with Barclays and Nationwide, get my pension portal set up, get a car insurance renewal sorted...

Three hours later I've spent the most of the time listening to hold music, being told I haven't passed security questions, etc. etc...


I may as well have pointed my todger into the wind and emptied my bladder for all the fucking headway I've made.

[Yorick]

Got up this morning, full of beans, and thought I'd spend a constructive hour sorting out a couple of bits with Barclays and Nationwide, get my pension portal set up, get a car insurance renewal sorted...

Three hours later I've spent the most of the time listening to hold music, being told I haven't passed security questions, etc. etc...


I may as well have pointed my todger into the wind and emptied my bladder for all the fucking headway I've made.

Nowadays you can do stuff online.

Join the 20th century daddio

[slowsider]

Got up this morning, full of beans, and thought I'd spend a constructive hour sorting out a couple of bits with Barclays and Nationwide, get my pension portal set up, get a car insurance renewal sorted...

Three hours later I've spent the most of the time listening to hold music, being told I haven't passed security questions, etc. etc...


I may as well have pointed my todger into the wind and emptied my bladder for all the fucking headway I've made.

Nowadays you can do stuff online.

Join the 20th century daddio

Except when you cant. I needed a PIN reminder - doing it online required a pass number which I couldn't find, so to request that I was redirected to a screen which required some detail off a card-reader.... which I needed the original PIN to extract. So off to 20 mins on hold with some elevator jazz to listen to..

[Mr. Dazzle]

The best one is when you need them to post a log in code

How to make the Internet as slow as possible.

[Noggin]

Got up this morning, full of beans, and thought I'd spend a constructive hour sorting out a couple of bits with Barclays and Nationwide, get my pension portal set up, get a car insurance renewal sorted...

Three hours later I've spent the most of the time listening to hold music, being told I haven't passed security questions, etc. etc...


I may as well have pointed my todger into the wind and emptied my bladder for all the fucking headway I've made.

Nowadays you can do stuff online.

Join the 20th century daddio

Not with HMRC I couldn't - THEY have my date of birth incorrect on their system. Despite me sending, by recorded delivery, the required information/copies of documents to change my date of birth to be correct. They haven't


Because I made the incorrect assumption that they would have changed the DOB, I didn't pass the security questions last time I called

[gremlin]

Nowadays you can do stuff online.

Join the 20th century daddio

If only it were that easy....

I've found a few statements whilst having a clear out, one for Nationwide and one for ING Direct (remember them?). Pretty sure they're all closed down and at zero but worth checking. Two hours of talking on the Barclays app (they took over ING in the UK) only to be told to ring their specialist team, who couldn't help either. Put me onto a site that finds lost accounts.

Nationwide told me to piss off as I didn't answer the security questions correctly. Went to the local branch only to find it's now a hairdressers and has been for years, thinking about it.

Car insurance should have been a piece of piss, but their chat function was fucking mind bendingly slow as the operator went through every question. Painful. All that for less than a tenner off the premium.

I've decided that the Cosmic Joker has decreed that today I shall have the Midas touch in reverse, in that everything I touch turns to shit....

[ogri]

Posted my 'pcr' test, should have the results within 48hrs.
Pretty sure that with all the sweatiniess and rough coughing that i have had it since saturday.
Took the m-in-law, who lives with us and is positive, seven days to infect me .
Another ten days isolating and annoying people on the internet!