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NHS bill climbs higher after sudden spell in hospital
Courier columnist Colin Campbell wondered about the cost but praised the care as he favourably compared Raigmore Hospital, where he had a recent five-day stay, to “a top-class hotel where you're attended to round the clock by people who not only serve and care for you but who also have the expertise and equipment to save your life.”
“My stay at Raigmore in May was the opposite! I was admitted with sepsis (second time). Meals were served on paper plates, complete with wooden disposable cutlery. It was impossible to eat some of the meals served. A baked potato was not able to be eaten, because the wooden cutlery was totally inadequate. While the nursing was great, the food was dreadful. The use of paper plates and disposable cutlery is obviously not meeting their ‘sustainable green’ targets. I was in for a week, and had paper plates and wooden cutlery the whole time.” - Sheila Johnston, Inverness
“Thanks for the kind words Colin. The staff there are great, I hear patients say it all the time.” - Dave Maciver
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Weather-dependent power is a non-starter in the UK
Fact: it is not the price of gas or Putin that is making the UK the most expensive for electricity in the world, causing fuel poverty and destroying our manufacturing industries and losing thousands of jobs.
Reality: it is the cost of insane over-deployment of volatile weather-dependent electricity that needs mind blowing amounts of environment-vandalising infrastructure to transport the power.
Tip: stocking up on a candles and investing in a generator is a really sensible thing to do.
Observation: there could be a huge resurgence in the production of whale oil candles thanks to the offshore wind industry - because of expected power cuts caused by their intermittent and unreliable production and as a by-product of their marine destruction.
Green really is the New Black-out.
Lyndsey Ward
Communities B4 Power Companies
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