Thread by @TurtonsOther

It’s Saturday, it’s poorly written, it’s #NHSthisweek:

The health secretary hailed Microsoft Excel with the cells shaded in a threatening red colour as “great technology”

Meanwhile, here at BAM! we too devised a new way of using technology to see the state of the health service in your region

As a result of Ipswich’s new technology, Jeremy Hunt was able to accurately display just how understaffed the whole of East Anglia really is.

Which apparently is something to be really proud of.

I mean he’s basically trolling us isn’t he? Hailing understaffed wards as a success? He sure does know how to trigger the masses.

Meanwhile over in #FOAMed world, end tidal co2 monitoring is leaving us, as new anaesthesiologists faff about with ultrasound trying to see which tube the tube is in.

And remember, if you think that finding solutions to problems that already had solutions is a waste a time/a giant vanity project, then YOU are the problem and not the people peddling this nonsense

Meanwhile the NHA narrowly lost an election to see who’ll be the treasurer of the Boston Historical Battlefield Recreation and Warhammer Society.

In Westminster, Boris tried to distract us by announcing a bridge from the UK to France, so that nursing staff now have an even easier way of getting the hell of out here once Brexit takes hold.

Elsewhere, the BMA continue to exist, though Christ knows how.

And in the Bentley-Smythe 100k follower challenge (now officially called “100 grand of BS” the follower count this week rose by 5.
We are now just 99274 followers away from me getting a blue tick and a permanent spot on Russia Today.

99275....

99276...

99277....bugger...

And that’s the #NHSthisweek. There might be a guardian article comparing the NHS to Custer’s Last Stand, but I haven’t read it.

Oh, and some people got really uptight about whether or not medical students should do the thing they’ve trained to do for 5 years during winter pressures. There was probably tears.

Also neatly forgetting that student nurses have been used as free service provision during the last few years and no one batted an eyelid

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