Quote Originally Posted by pauli007001 View Post
The NHS dictates to the individual trusts who they may purchase stock from( its called Government controlled healthcare ) so even if the trust found such a supplier the government would not allow the transactions to go ahead(unless the manufacturer/ supplier had greased all the right palms in Government........)!!!!
False, I should know, I work for the NHS these days. The ONLY dictate is that all medical equipment used in the treatment of patients is standardised and sourced via NHS Logistics, this includes bed linen, medical dressings, wipes etc etc etc. Bars of soap are not supplied by NHS logistics, they are bought by the purchasing department of the respective NHS Trust.

I would very strongly urge you not to argue that point Pauli as I clearly know what you do not and on this I will not tolerate bull and crap from you. The NHS is not in a good state, but this is not only down to the NHS, it is down to how the Government force it to manage itself and how the public respond. My Trust wanted to build a complete new hospital at a cost of £750 million. They did all the legwork and gave a business case to centralise their staff, currently spread in about 20 buildings off site, and to provide better, more efficient and thus effective services. In order to do this they needed to compulsory purchase enough land out near the local international airport....the application for the CP order was refused because some local residents complained that the sound of sirens might wake them at night and disturb wild life. Green Campaigners also objected as some of the land required was home to foxes and badgers.

As a result, the Trust is forced to spend a very large sum of money on maintenance, I do know this figure as it is my job, but I will not disclose it here, all I will say is that the figure runs into 8 figures as a result of the existing buildings being a mix that date from the 1930's, 1950's, 1980's etc etc. These building have been allowed, before the creation of the Trust, to rot because there was never the money for maintenance. As a result of people give a more of a toss about some foxes and some badgers, and possibly a good nights sleep, people now suffer a second rate service despite the best efforts of the medical staff.

So please Pauli, take your bilious crap and shove you lies, half truths and paranoid fantasies and shove them up your back passage.

If you actually live in the states, which personally I am not convinced of, then please stay there.

Quote Originally Posted by Pauli the bull****ter
Second i said thet Americans(your use of the racist epiteth "Yank" is noted as evidence of your hate) worked longer hours than those in the UK(specifically the UK but also the rest of the EUSSR) and your graph shows this to be a fact.In the US the motivation of the workers is higher than most other nations, productivity is higher and hoyrs put in to get the job done is also higher.You forget that i have seen the difference between the UK and the USA on a personal note, you read it in a book or on a blog, is the virtual world now more realistic than the actual world?
Yet more of your bilious crap Pauli, totally inaccurate. The average working week in Europe is 37.5hrs, but the majority actually work an average of 34. In the UK the average working week is 40 hours, but the average worker completes almost 49 hours.

Here is a quote from the US Bureau of Labor and Statistics

Working (by Employed Persons) in 2008

--Employed persons worked an average of 7.6 hours on the days that they
worked. They worked longer on weekdays than on weekend days--7.9 ver-
sus 5.6 hours. (See table 4.)

--On the days that they worked, employed men worked about 0.9 hour (52
minutes) more than employed women. This difference partly reflects
women's greater likelihood of working part time. However, even among
full-time workers (those usually working 35 hours or more per week),
men worked longer than women--8.3 versus 7.7 hours. (See table 4.)
Now each of the US states records their data separately, so I calculated the average hours worked by US workers across the entire contiguous 48 States...the average, including overtime, is 42.7 hours per week.

So please now supply the information where you reckon the British are lazy and work less hours...as your post indicates.