Guilt Free Railing 19

[WouldBeGood]

Rail away!

No judgment, no resilience wankery.

Equal opportunity railing 😃

Could this be the last thread..?!

A huge part of the issue is council nurseries effectly having to double their capacity.

The model they operated two lots of kids each doing 3hr sessions a day worked. Two lots of kids doing 6hrs per day means a really early start and late finish.
They don't have the capacity to have one lot of.kids effectively doing school hours..

But even with school hours how many people can find a job working 9.30 - 2.30?

I think there’s a statement on Tuesday as to whether the muzzles can come off. Because they’re such a great job of stopping the spread now

Seen a local coffee morning around here due to happen next Saturday has been cancelled due to…you guessed it risk of covid! 🙄
Honestly folk will be using that as an excuse for the next 10 years.

Surely common sense if you want to to run a stall at the coffee morning do so and likewise if you’ve at to go along then you are choosing that ‘risk’ it’s just ridiculous now it really is

Railing about the NHS again.

I started HRT in January, given 12 weeks supply and then told to come back. After consideration I think it's helped, but that a slightly higher dose will be needed. Paid £7.50 at the chemist to have my blood pressure taken. Called last Monday, spoke to reception, explained the situation, she said I didn't need to speak to the doctor, she'd note the blood pressure, put through the request for the new prescription and that the GP would only call if there was an issue. No call. But no prescription waiting for me at chemist either.

So now I am number 14 in the call queue waiting to speak to them AGAIN because something has gone wrong. Wonder how many of the other 14 people in the call queue are trying to resolve something which should have been sorted first time round?

That’s rubbish @CharityShopChic.

It feels like things are very bad with GPs, and no sensible system for appointments, even telephone appointments, in many of them.

My student DC1 is registered at GP in her university city. She can only communicate with the health centre online. No other way!
For anyone not online there is one hour slot a day where you can ring up and someone will fill out the online form for you. It then gets triaged by clinician.

This means there is a lot of toing and froing as questions are asked backwards and forwards by email. 2 weeks later and she still hasn't got a prescription sorted out 🤷🏼‍♀️

Fortunately there is an emergency phone line

@patritus our GPs is pretty much online only now they did however get a huge backlash (elderly population in town) so had to backtrack and put the telephone option back for some but it tells you for over a minute you should be doing it online like your dd1 though it gets traiged. It also was never supposed to be for children but now is if older then 6 months which is a pain!
Worst thing about it though is depending on symptom algorithm it tells you to call 999 🙄 so you end up lying about symptoms just to get past the bloody form to submit it!

I didn't believe her @Scottishskifun when she first told me there is no phone number so I looked up their website.
Sure enough, only phone number is for medical emergencies which she's obviously not going to use for a missing prescription!

100 percent agree dinoteeth the model is no longer about what's best for kids, it's about maximising parental economic contribution. 3 hours a day for 3-5 in term time is spot on for school prep, I'm unsure why council nurseries seem to be aping private sector provision, not how things usually go. Mine were so done in after 9-10 hours at nursery that's such a long day for the under 5s.

And our GP is exactly the opposite - phone is the ONLY way of getting through to them. Hence 14 people in the queue on a Monday morning. The website mentions a Patient Access online system which you can use to access repeat prescriptions etc, but in order to access it, you need a PIN number, and to get the PIN, you have to go to the surgery so they can print it off for you. Efficient.

And after waiting in the queue for 30 minutes, transpires they'd sent my prescription to the wrong chemist. Sigh. All good now but you really don't want to leave a menopausal woman without her patches.

I'm railing today about the census reminder I received in the post. Addressed to my house so not your generic flyer. I posted it at 9am on the day after census day, so the Monday morning. This is such a waste of money. So did anyone else who ordered a paper copy get this reminder? I see it's dated the 21st March BTW.

I'm unsure why council nurseries seem to be aping private sector provision, not how things usually go

Scot Gov said all kids would get 30 hours hours (22 all year round), so they needed to get the councils to up their provision.

The initial 15 hours was about preschool education, 30 hours is about childcare and helping working parents.

I've heard a tale of a kid being in council nursery afternoon sessions ending at 6.00.
Meanwhile the mum was complaining it was too late and kid was really tired at the end of it.

Agree and the childcare aspect being shoved onto the preschool education bit.

I'd rather we had more choice to choose childcare that's appropriate for the 30 hours.

Private nurseries will provide more choice in how you use the hours. Which is really good, mine offered either full days or half days.

So.. place your bets!

Will she ditch the masks tomorrow?

Will our extra long isolation end?

Or extra careful…??

I think there's increasing pressure to ditch masks as it becomes ever more apparent they have negligible effect on spread, but she's tied her own hands a bit by linking masks to infection rates two weeks ago. She can hardly state then that they have to stay because infection rates are high, only to ditch them two weeks later when levels are even higher!

So unfortunately, unless they can pull a favourable figure from somewhere that indicates pressure on hospitals is easing or cases are peaking I think it'll be more 'caution'. It'll all become moot in a few weeks anyway when testing ends, so I'm trying to hang on to that as some kind of end point. In the mean time masks seem to be effectively optional now anyway!

@LizzieMacQueen

I'm railing today about the census reminder I received in the post. Addressed to my house so not your generic flyer. I posted it at 9am on the day after census day, so the Monday morning. This is such a waste of money. So did anyone else who ordered a paper copy get this reminder? I see it's dated the 21st March BTW.

Yes - I did too! Dated 21st, when census day was the 20th. So unless you were 100% sure no-one was going to die or spend the night somewhere else, you'd have been wrong to fill it in (or at least submit it) before the 20th.

I posted it on my way out on the Sunday morning (and took a photo of me doing so, as I couldn't get to the PO to get a proof of postage). So, really, it's hardly a huge surprise they hadn't received it or processed it by the 21st, is it?! Indeed, what an absolute waste of money...

I'm beginning to be very grateful for our GPs tbh. They're not perfect by any means, but at least you stand a chance of being able to speak to someone, communicate what you need prescription-wise and so on, and even see a doctor every now and again (though I'm sure getting a prescription, having it sent to the right pharmacy, and it being there when you go to pick it up is a bit of a black art. It sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't and I have no idea what I do differently...). Some of your stories sound like a black comedy, honestly.

Im going for keeping the masks would because I am famously shit at predicting these things, so if I predict bleakness it may actually end up with a total dropping of everything...

Let’s hope your cunning plan works @ResilienceWanker!

On another note, does anyone know if you can get proof of vaccination for a 13 year old?

I predict staying masks too because I'm also usually wrong!

@WouldBeGood I think you have to download vaccine status for kids from the nhs website or call the helpline for them to post it.

I think she'll want to keep masks. You know just as a precaution.

I predict masks will stay as there is no way she will release us when school holidays are on will she as more mixing than normal

I’m wearing mine less and less especially after just having had covid feels like even less point

I’m triple jagged and had covid so they can fuck off with masks as far as I’m concerned

I think they will stay but not in the way they are. It will be just because you can doesn't mean you should bullshit again. Covid sense mind.

I'm railing about the fact I went out on Friday night and now I'm old as shit I'm in my bed at this time 3 days later 😂 between covid and the ageing process I can't handle it anymore

I was listening to latest covid update by Prof Tim Spectre of the Zoe app.
He's always very keen on caution, covid hasn't gone away etc.
Doesn't agree with the reckless Boris.

Even he was saying it will interesting to see what SG do about masks now as it's clear they're not making any difference in Scotland!

WouldBeGood You and me both!