The NHS

I seem conflicting stories, I’m not sure what to believe any more.

NHS trust pays off its £35m debt

This story says that Suffolk’s NHS trust has managed to pay off a MASSIVE debt and can now look at investing 17 million pounds.

Yet I hear from people I talk to the the hospitals are disgusting places with blood spots under the beds in wards, people having to be sent home from Casualty and massive staffing shortages.

Both of these can not be true. I have been to the Hospital in the BBC report, it is a good size I’m sure 17 million pounds is a drop in the ocean for it’s operating expenses, but still it shows that they have sufficient collateral to provide services.

So which is it, are the people whineing about the health service expecting to much, complaining at odd problem here or there, or are hospitals really underfunded and in need of help and this is just a lucky payoff?

Exercise

20 minutes, 3 times a week.

Isn’t that the buzz phrase for getting in shape?  Well I decided to give it a try.  I have high blood pressure and cholesterol sot the doctor has given me a range of pills, but I HATE pills.

I am not a sedentary person but I could do more to exercise so I dragged out the treadmill again, 20 minutes at 3.2MPH is making me sweat, I think that is a good thing though, hopefully after a month or two of this I will have dropped a few pounds and my BP might be down.

Has anyone else actually lost weight with this little exercise or am I just deluding myself?

The one problem I foresee with the treadmill is no upper body work out.  I will get that from Kayaking but the start of the season is going to be rough,  I’ll just have to grit my teeth and get through it.