At the other end of the scale you have cases like doctor shipman, who are exceptionally rare, whilst exceptionally frightening, the GMC, who are tried with regulatin GP’s around the country do a cracking job, cracking down on lax GP’s

you send them a complaint and they look into the case, they come back to you with the findings, its all gloriously english.

The problem that i see is wehn doctors are temping, the number of Dr Sings in this country it must be exeedingly hard to track these chaps down.

Food for thought if you are part of the GMC, and even more food for thought if your life ambition happens to becoming a doctor of death.

This worrys me, that means that if you are unfortunate enought to be hospitalised the same time the junior doctors begin work, you are MORE LIKELY TO DIE.

rather distubing, but then understandable. A salesman learing to sell a product will not sell as much as an experienced purveyor of the goods.

An boy learning to kick the ball for the first time is unlikely to score a hat trick for his local side.

these are simple facts of life. Junior doctors i salute you. and if its your first shift on the ward, pease let me know, i’ll get the life insurance up to date..

“While we have already been working together in a range of areas, we felt the time was now right to formalise our relationship with the formation of the joint UTU/INTO Board.”

A spokesman said today.

“The two unions representing the majority of Northern Ireland teachers in primary and post-primary sector, are pooling their resources to offer an even better service locally to Northern Ireland teachers.”

The governments response is to  state that significant steps have been taken in recent years to yeduce the strain on School nurses and also state that it is moving forward in increasing the numbers of nurses in schools.

The nurses themselves are under increasing pressures to deal with the social care side of the job as opposed to the actual physical health of the children involved.

Janet Davies of the RCN says

“Overburdened school nurses are looking after too many pupils and it is children who are being disadvantaged.

“This report demonstrates that delivering this pledge would mean making as much progress in the next year as we have seen in the last four.”

Well, we all manage.

What do people mean when they say that they’ll manage? They mean that they don’t really know what they’re doing, but that they’ll blunder through somehow; that they’ll somehow escape from a situation unscathed, barely succeeding in the face of their own ignorance and general incompetence. Management isn’t about triumph – it’s about getting away with things.

So why not go on a management training course? Learn how to muddle by more effectively. Learn how to muddle through a wider variety of situations.

On a management training course, you’ll learn skills such as retaining positivity in the face of relentless bank holiday traffic. ‘How are we going to cope with this?’ someone will ask. ‘Oh, we’ll manage,’ you reply.

You’ll also learn about having only one car, where before you had two. You’ll learn to manage through the use of public transport, cadged lifts and insanely complicated plans involving depositing the car somewhere and the other person picking it up later on their way back from such and such a place.

Finally, you’ll learn how to take part in complex activities with entirely inappropriate equipment. You’ll surf with your glasses on. You’ll rock climb with your dad’s harness from the 1970s. You’ll camp with only a quarter of the tent pegs.

In short: you’ll manage.

If you need a dentist sooner than that, maybe look for one who is operating privately. See if you can smell the wealth. There will probably be some sort of massive car outside their practice, but you’ll have to be alert. They probably only work for about an hour a day and they don’t actually care about your wellbeing. They care about taking your money and spending it on petrol.

Firstly, when looking for a house, they’ll be sending you information about bedsits in Ashton-under-Lyne, even though you’re looking for a semi-detached house in the countryside. Then, when you’ve bought a house, they’ll be in touch daily to tell you that a mystery person is interested in houses (any house) in your area and would you like to sell.

So if you do decide to haul a lawyer off the street, how do you identify them? It’s quite easy. Look for shifty eyes, furtively looking around. Grasp those people by the hand and if that hand is greasy, they are either a lawyer or a paedo.

I’d suggest the following places.

• A comic book shop
• The computer game section of the supermarket

Unfortunately, with the advent of the internet, nerds frequently opt to purchase their comics and computer games online so that they can remain in their bedrooms working on their sickly pallor.

However, there is one event to which all nerds and therefore all IT professionals are irresistably drawn: a ‘bi-mon sci-fi con’ – a bi-monthly science fiction convention.

Not all nurses are necessarily suitable for all of these purposes. The majority will probably try and do something about your leg injury. Many will be willing to work for you. Very few will be up for the last one. Also, you might like to think twice about that particular reason for requiring a nurse. Nurses are rarely as you imagine them and frequently male.