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Forum: General Chat 08-09-2015, 17:00
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

I love your analogy.....and yes they would be on the B ark.....most definitely.
Forum: General Chat 08-09-2015, 12:31
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

I don't know how many there are right now.....but there were too many in my day Neil.
Forum: General Chat 05-09-2015, 18:25
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

No, the stats back this up.....well survival is classed as living for five years after diagnosis.....it does not mean a normal three score years and ten lifetime.
Don't get me wrong there are some...
Forum: General Chat 05-09-2015, 18:13
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Like foreign aid, the money is spent on the wrong things.....IVF for same sex couples ( very non PC)......paying for locum doctors.
Paying for expensive agency nurses(bad planning) paying hospital...
Forum: General Chat 05-09-2015, 18:06
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Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

The adverts tell us that for the first time more people survive Cancer now than die from it, but from my experience of the disease,the living with it is sometimes a poisoned chalice.
And sometimes...
Forum: General Chat 05-09-2015, 17:48
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

You are right, they are a drop in the ocean. Much more worrying is the cut in the number of drugs that are used to treat cancer patients.
I know that there is a finite amount of money available, but...
Forum: General Chat 05-09-2015, 16:48
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Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

These personal health budgets were brought in by Lord Darzi.....a labour politician.....who also was in favour of privatisation in the NHS.
I think that it was in 2008 that he put forward the idea...
Forum: General Chat 19-08-2015, 14:29
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Most people I know who have given up have tried the NHS cessation service, but have in the end managed to give by using the e cigs which they themselves have funded.
I never started smoking so I...
Forum: General Chat 19-08-2015, 13:56
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

have you got evidence of that? Or is it just supposition?
I think the NHS puts tenders out for items that they purchase......I know that hospitals do this.
Forum: General Chat 19-08-2015, 11:21
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

The NHS already offers patches and other items to help smokers give up cigarettes...so this is yet another non story...it is just a different tack to helping smokers quit their habit.
Forum: General Chat 19-08-2015, 09:22
Replies: 454
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

well Jason, I suggest that as you do not know how hard it is to stick to this type of diet...you should go away and research all the things that wheat finds its way into......you will find that many...
Forum: General Chat 19-08-2015, 06:35
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

If you read the Daily Telegraph article right to the end, you will see that there is a correction to this story.
The NHS do not spend £116 million on gluten free dietary supplements.....that is the...
Forum: General Chat 18-08-2015, 15:28
Replies: 454
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

It is still the case that gluten free foods are much more expensive than the non gluten free ones...this is for bread which is a basic staple.
Many other processed foods also contain hidden...
Forum: General Chat 17-08-2015, 19:32
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Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

These people have a genuine need...they are not bleeding the NHS dry.
If someone is getting enough of the flour to set up a cake business then that is the fault of the prescriber and I am pretty...
Forum: General Chat 17-08-2015, 17:35
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Margaret, there is a huge difference between your choice to avoid the foods that cause your IBS to flare up and coeliac disease.
And yes it is possible to substitute other foods, but it is not an...
Forum: General Chat 17-08-2015, 13:46
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

This story is a non starter. People who have coeliac disease who require these prescriptions rarely eat junk food.....because most junk food is not gluten free.
An occasional treat of a donut, a...
Forum: General Chat 12-05-2015, 19:06
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

I don't go many places where I sit next to folk......on the bus I am with my other half.....I sit with him.
I would not go into places frequented by these people.
I don't go out much...That is one...
Forum: General Chat 12-05-2015, 18:02
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Those who live like this do not want to have to get up and out to earn a living.
They (the producers would have us believe) prefer to live off the earnings of others....or steal to get by....that...
Forum: General Chat 12-05-2015, 17:29
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

This is toxic TV.
It is not entertainment.
It is like taking a trip to Bedlam to watch the inmates.
I won't be watching it...It is cheap TV which hopes to set people against each other.
The...
Forum: General Chat 09-03-2015, 12:18
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Neil, of course it has...but that would not be anywhere near as sensationalist as being able to blame government policy.
no-one seems to want to take any responsibility for their action, their...
Forum: General Chat 15-02-2015, 13:22
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Bankers are not in the business to be philanthropic, they are in the business of making a profit.......I have already said my piece on people who use perfectly legal tax avoidance schemes....and that...
Forum: General Chat 15-02-2015, 13:06
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Nowhere did I say it was justified.
There are many unequal situations in life.......the tax avoidance issue which has been bandied about recently is one of them... Red Ed says if elected he will...
Forum: General Chat 15-02-2015, 12:40
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

But they are not reliant on benefits and really have no understanding of those who are on benefits.
Your definition of benefits in this instance(and context) is skewed.
Politicians can well afford...
Forum: General Chat 15-02-2015, 11:32
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

no they aren't on benefits.....they do not have to justify their expenses, they do not have to go before a medical board to be assessed, they do not have to attend job centre.meetings.
They both...
Forum: General Chat 15-02-2015, 10:03
Replies: 454
Views: 10,707
Re: BENEFITS hmmmm

Are those two on benefits then?
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