Princess of Wales

Stupid post.

Forelock tugging? Reverence?
Purlease, you must try harder.

Save your annoyance for the Governments which all fail to support the NHS.

Goldieoldie15
Unpleasant and untrue.

^ Save your annoyance for the Governments which all fail to support the NHS^

Well put Callistemon21

Agree

People can be in hospital for weeks, months!

What is this assertion that patients are discharged in days.

It all depends on what the problem is!

Baffling, it really is.

People can be in hospital for weeks, months!
Yes.

What is this assertion that patients are discharged in days.

Lucky them!

Given that Catherine would have access to any amount of medical and/or domestic support at home I'd think being kept in hospital for 10-14 days is because it's medically necessary. Like most other women she left hospital within hours of giving birth to her babies. Unlike most other women she had to stand on the steps for photographers to take their pictures, thank goodness I never had to be that presentable! I don't think it's at all feasible for her to be treated on an ordinary NHS ward, just imagine the security issues. If any of our illustrious politicians of whichever party needed medical aid, do we really think they'd join the long waiting list then be housed on a general ward rather than a private side room?

RosiesMaw - love your picture!
Rosie51 - ‘medically necessary’ - yes.

I thought it was well known that knee surgery is more complex than hip surgery and needs a longer stay in hospital.

Elrel

RosiesMaw - love your picture!
Rosie51 - ‘medically necessary’ - yes.

I thought it was well known that knee surgery is more complex than hip surgery and needs a longer stay in hospital.

You're absolutely correct Elrel knee surgery requires a longer stay in hospital than hip surgery. Hip surgery patients are encouraged to be mobile much quicker after surgery than knee surgery patients. It's comparing apples and pineapples!

Goldieoldie15

Oh dear. All this outpouring of royal reverence and forelock tugging ? A bit nauseating. She’ll be fine she can afford the best care. Let’s concentrate our minds on those who are very I’ll yet cannot access rightfully theirs healthcare.

Strangely enough I’m able to concentrate my mind on more than one thing at a time. Apart from which you don’t get to tell me who or what to think about.

Nobody these days is forelock tugging or speaking with reference when discussing the RF. People are perhaps genuinely concerned or just curious as to the POW's medical condition. Bowing and curtseying is not obligatory these days, a quick handshake will be perfectly adequate. The tax payer does not pay for the RF's medical care, not do they pay for their children's school fees. In fact the tax payer funds far less that most people think.

FoghornLeghorn

Goldieoldie15

Oh dear. All this outpouring of royal reverence and forelock tugging ? A bit nauseating. She’ll be fine she can afford the best care. Let’s concentrate our minds on those who are very I’ll yet cannot access rightfully theirs healthcare.

Strangely enough I’m able to concentrate my mind on more than one thing at a time. Apart from which you don’t get to tell me who or what to think about.

I can multi-task too. 😃

A moving photo RosiesMaw

It is a lovely photo ❤️

These thread always end up going round and round in circles basically bashing those who choose to pay for their own health care
I would not comment on how you dress what car you drive or where you go on holiday. Basically how you spend your own money
I chose to pay for two new hips ( at time NHS waiting time in our area three years ) Rather than struggle out on my crutches to sit on my mobility scooter to sit and look at a new car which I was unable to drive and reliant on family Virtually total lack of independence
Instead I can drive my six year old mini and walk about six miles
Independence and it feels fantastic
May I ask which option some of you would choose ❓❓❓❓❓

I too would pay

Same as you - but wait for those saying it’s ok for you, I exist on 50p a week and can’t put the heating on (regardless of the money the government has given them). Wait for those who aren’t old enough to qualify for heating payments to jump in. . Anyone who has any money over and above a very basic income is usually castigated here.

My irreverent theory on the exceedingly long stay in hospital is, that it is to allow the PoW a quick getaway while all the press gather round waiting for her to leave in a week's time, waving on the steps. No way!
Perhaps she's already at home looking forward to tonight's Dancing on Ice. ⛸️

Yes GSM but they would not be in a position to buy designer cloths and go on world cruises
As I am sure many others of us have been in dire straights when interest rates were 17. 1/2 % in the eighties
Correct me if I am wrong and I know you will but has there been a thread knocking people who go on holiday
Or those who buy designer clothes

Gwyllt

Yes GSM but they would not be in a position to buy designer cloths and go on world cruises
As I am sure many others of us have been in dire straights when interest rates were 17. 1/2 % in the eighties
Correct me if I am wrong and I know you will but has there been a thread knocking people who go on holiday
Or those who buy designer clothes

Eternally Gwyllt! Equally threads extolling the excellence of cycling or walking everywhere, never setting foot on fossil fuel transport and only shopping for clothes at charity shops full of clothes that other people have paid full price for or not buying any food that requires fossil fuel transport to get here (apart from bananas).

Oh yes Gwyllt, it’s verboten to have any money, regardless of how hard up you might have been in the past and how you’ve worked to gather some savings.

Germanshepherdsmum

Same as you - but wait for those saying it’s ok for you, I exist on 50p a week and can’t put the heating on (regardless of the money the government has given them). Wait for those who aren’t old enough to qualify for heating payments to jump in. . Anyone who has any money over and above a very basic income is usually castigated here.

I'm budgeting for new knees so I'm existing on 45p per week while I save up.

Mollygo
Are you talking about holiday when you mention walking or cycling or general day to day living ?
I envy you if you live somewhere where all your needs can be caterrd for within such a close radius that you can walk or cycle. And no home delivery ! The shortest route to the nearest small town is about one snd a half miles It is a busy A road for much of the way there is no footpath and in places the verge is narrow and cut once a year l. Just imagine long wet grass with the spray from passing cars and Lorrie’s
Don’t get me started on the quality of charity shops. They just ain’t what they used to be

Callistemon
Sarcasm …… as the saying goes

I very much doubt that POW will be in hospital for 10-14 days- that timescale has most likely been given to allow for any potential problems which then wouldn't need to be explained. Should she be discharged in 7 days or so, which is what I expect, then everyone's a winner and hasn't she made a wonderful recovery! It's the same as saying you'll get a job done in 5 days - take 8 and you're not great at what you do, take 5 and you're a hero so always quote for 8!

Gwyllt
Are you talking about holiday when you mention walking or cycling or general day to day living ?
I simply mentioned all the claims I’ve read on GN. I do cycle and walk, but for pleasure.
Save your envy for someone else. I live at the top of a very long steep hill and town is 3-4 miles away up and down a series of hills. I used to walk down the hill to the shops at the bottom, but carrying milk, vegetables etc is too much now.