www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/09/15/therese-coffey-tells-nhs-staff-stop-using-oxford-comma/
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Give me strength, the NHS is on its knees and Therese Coffey issues this.....
DevaleraSpawnOfSatan · 15/09/2022 12:15
Lovesplasticstraws · 15/09/2022 17:00
It saves time in the long run. Minister sets out their drafting preferences. Civil Servants use it when drafting correspondence for said Minister to sign. Standard practice and avoids things being returned for redrafting.
JauntyJinty · 15/09/2022 12:58
She does, but while we're on a thread about punctuation pendantry - why did you put Chemistry in inverted commas as if you don't think it's a real thing?! 😂
GreenLunchBox · 15/09/2022 12:49
Does she really have a PhD in 'chemistry'? That seems... unlikely
Clavinova · 15/09/2022 20:33
Worriedaboutethics
vote for these brexiteer tories and this is what you get
The Times today have reminded readers of Labour's Liam Byrne;
Liam Byrne, a minister under Gordon Brown, issued a notorious 11-page guide called “working with Liam Byrne”
2008
If Mariah Carey's minions at times find the singer's diva demands trying, they might spare a thought for the aides of the cabinet minister, Liam Byrne.
www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/nov/17/liam-byrne-minister-diva-news
No surprise that Liam Byrne was recently suspended from the Commons for bullying a former employee.
ClumpingBambooIsALie · 15/09/2022 12:44
I don't know your role, but not even in phrases like "In meeting today, Nurse Specialist X, Dr Y, Mum and Dad, and patient"? Or would you make the effort to rephrase just to avoid an Oxford comma?
Bestcatmum · 15/09/2022 12:40
I work in the NHS and have never used the Oxford comma. I would never use a comma before 'and'.
I presume this is for official documents rather than writing patient notes and so on. I'm sure it doesn't affect most of us.
I've seen some shockers in the notes though that always make me laugh such as pussy instead of purulent. His penis was pussy was one of them, we all fell about laughing.
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JackandSam · 15/09/2022 21:06
Usually it's present at meeting: Dr x (cardiology). Dr y (pediatric nephrology). Sally (mum). Bob (step- father). Sarah (OT). No real need for the ands or comma's. NHS notes are generally only full sentences when they'll be sent to the patient! Often read like a telegram used to and with lots of short hand and acronyms.
ClumpingBambooIsALie · 15/09/2022 12:44
I don't know your role, but not even in phrases like "In meeting today, Nurse Specialist X, Dr Y, Mum and Dad, and patient"? Or would you make the effort to rephrase just to avoid an Oxford comma?
Bestcatmum · 15/09/2022 12:40
I work in the NHS and have never used the Oxford comma. I would never use a comma before 'and'.
I presume this is for official documents rather than writing patient notes and so on. I'm sure it doesn't affect most of us.
I've seen some shockers in the notes though that always make me laugh such as pussy instead of purulent. His penis was pussy was one of them, we all fell about laughing.
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