The state of the NHS laid bare in one video... Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, West Yorkshire

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Video posted outside Pinderfields General Hospital a couple of hours ago. No capacity in resus areas, no trollies to offload patients from ambulances. Which in turn means people in the community waiting hours and hours for emergency 999 calls.

People say health care professionals went into the job knowing what they was getting into.. not one nurse I know (or Dr or paramedic or HCA) went into their job knowing this would be their reality. This is why people are leaving, why people are striking. Its not just about pay, its about working conditions. Pay does play a part admittedly, the pay doesn't marry up with the level of responsibility, the level of stress, the level of upset caused by knowing you're going home after knowing not one patient has had your absolute best all day.. because its impossible to achieve.

This is the reality of the NHS 💔

@izimbra, your last post was complete drivel. If you are worried about being fat, eat less. I was treating you seriosly.

I think it would be very revealing if we could access a freedom of information - eg: how much money is generated from the 12% NI annually (where this goes, salaries, running hospitals etc) - also how much of this is spent on NHS and how much for benefits system etc.

Why do you think most overweight people, despite being desperate to lose weight and repeated efforts to lose weight, fail to lose significant amounts, and if they do lose weight, fail to keep it off?

BTW - you refer to my post as 'drivel' - it's what the evidence shows from obesity research.

I don't know why people fail at losing weight. It's clearly a cocktail of factors, including diet, a sedentary lifestyle, stress, living in areas where ready access to healthy food shopping can't be taken for granted, inadequate cooking facilities for families in precarious accommodation, amongst many, many others.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/unexpected-clues-emerge-about-why-diets-fail/#:~:text=Research%20suggests%20that%20roughly%2080,they%20lose%20within%20two%20years. My understanding is that there are complex metabolic factors at play that militate against the attainment and maintenance of weight loss. This article explores some of them.