SLOGAN COMPETITION

Patricia Hewitt the Health Secretary of the UK has been quoted in the Press as saying: -

a) “Closing NHS beds is a sign of success”

b) “NHS losses are good news”

We await with avid interest any dogmatic pronouncements that those at the DHSS may like to regale us with, and that would surmount Patricia’s cloud nine sound bites.

We would be delighted to publish them, who knows, we might even run to a prize.
Over to you.

The Save Money Now and Pay later Brigade
Podiatrist Department.

Not content with trying to close wards, beds and getting the outgoing Minister a vote of no confidence from the hospital clinicians, a little bird has been twittering in our ear that the DHSS might be contemplating a reduction in the complement of our Podiatry Staff and services.

This again to save monies, as this would mean that people would have to go privately to get their feet done at their own expense.

I hope my little bird is totally wrong and has got the wrong end of the stick.

If however they have not, once again please do not even contemplate it, as people who can’t afford to go privately would find themselves with feet problems that will eventually cost the DHSS massive monies in complications in the future.

Who thinks of all these supposedly cost saving schemes?

For God’s sakes are we here to look after our own Manx people or not?

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The Last Laugh

An old couple died at the same time and went to heaven.

At the Pearly Gates St Peter who was waiting for them said “Please go with the Angel Gabriel who will show you to your quarters”.

The Angel Gabriel took them under each arm and flew them to a beautiful mansion sumptuously furnished, surrounded by extensive gardens with manicured lawns, swimming pool, mini golf and tennis courts.

He said unto them, “This will be your home for eternity. The fridge is full, but as it empties or you need anything else just ring and a servant will bring it to you. I shall return tomorrow to see what else you may require and that everything is going well with you”.

When Gabriel left, the old man became extremely angry and agitated.

“What’s the matter dear?” his wife asked.

“What’s the matter? You and your bleeding dieticians,

Do you realise woman, that if we hadn’t been taking your stupid Omega 3 pills, your Garlic pills, all your idiotic diets and the five portions of fruit and veg a day, we would have been here twenty years ago”.

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