Just got my letter from a 12 year old in Russia who claims on behalf of the NHS that I should go online and book mine. It can't be genuine because they weren't asking for any money or bank details...
And as for the NHS? Well overpaid and underworked if you ask me....
I really don't know where the knocks come from apart from when there is a huge cock-up when it is fully justified as in the almighty review at Salford Royal following my mum's on-ward treatment following brialliant emergency tratment and a wonderful life-saving operation.
I was born just before the NHS came into being. They saved my life when I was about 2 years old and had an enormous abcess on a gland in my throat. They didn't kill me when they took my tonsils out at 12, although one young lad in my batch didn't make it through the folowing night. They saved my knee joint following my only mototcycle accident at 16. They have been there every time I needed them down the following 58 years and I have no idea how they do it. Or why really!
The young lady who took blood etc. prior to me seeing the consultant with my knackered wrists last January said her sister (sibling, not senior) earned more that her stacking shelves at the Morrisons supermarket over the road from Hereford General where she worked. No training, no qualifications, no responsibilities, no unpaid overtime and also no desire to get shit on by one and all at every turn.
Heros every last one. But they still won't get a pay a rise.
PS The 12 year old in Russia came through, both appointments booked at Boots and it only cost me £2,345. Each...