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alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There was a recent twitter teacup about tiny baby > prescribed meds after video consultation. > Dangerous Well, yes, of course dangerous if the wrong meds or treatment were prescribed. However, it could just as well have been human error after a non video consultation, couldn't it? Doctors are making mistakes every day - they're only human (no joke intended) - with in some cases devastating consequences. I think it's easy to criticise a new way of doing things which is not necessarily worse, and may well be better overall, than the old way of doing things. The issue about existing GP surgeries becoming under resourced is a separate one about funding, which surely could be sorted out. ETA: Things change. Not always for the worse. Though it often seems like that these days.

Depending on what they are, I doubt I they will die in four weeks at this time of year! ETA: More plants die from overwatering than underwatering!

Given the potential real advantages of this to many people, I think it would be a pity if some solution wasn't found. The "two tier" thing is a bit emotive. It is reasonable not to use this service for things it couldn't easily handle, surely? I thought AI was already being used to give the GPs information before the phone consultation? I know some older people who won't bank online and won't shop online. I personally won't use a banking app on my mobile. But that doesn't mean I don't think those services shouldn't be available to others. I know it's not quite the same thing. But I'm a bit confused. Nobody is suggesting that people should pay for this service outside the NHS, are they? I clearly need to find out more about the implications. I'll do some research!

That Horizon programme was riveting, thanks so much Ian. Good luck I had just enough time to watch it before they took it off iPlayer! Lots of issues raised obviously, but overall I thought the speed with which the AI is developing is extremely impressive, and to see what the company is doing in Rwanda was staggering really. As somebody who has had potentially very serious misdiagnoses in the past (hospital consultant who told a load of students I had food poisoning when actually I had a ruptured ovarian cyst and peritonitis and could have died; A and E doctor who said I had an allergic reaction to eye make-up when actually I had an ulcer on my cornea and could have gone blind ... and other less serious mistakes.....) I don't find it terribly convincing to hear doctors say that because the AI wasn't 100% accurate that therefore it shouldn't be used. Defensive or what? And in one of the examples they showed, although the AI had come to a wrong diagnosis, it still said that the patient needed to see a GP, so the wrong conclusion presumably would have been picked up at that point. Interested to listen to the Radio 4 programme now. Tomorrow!

Thanks Ian, I'll try and watch that tonight!

Thanks Rendel. It's certainly not at all clear from their website that it is not part of the NHS. When I saw the leaflet I thought it wasn't, but when I went onto the website, I thought it was. However, it does clearly say both on the leaflet and the website that you have to deregister from your current GP practice (but it would hardly work otherwise, would it?) And it also says on the website that you can leave at any time and register with a "normal" GP, so I assume you could go back to your present GP (as going by some of the more negative reviews, some people have). Are they actually vetting who they take on though, eg because of age or existing illnesses? That isn't at all clear.

I (and I assume others in ED) received a leaflet through my door advertising an NHS service, GP at Hand. I had never heard of this before, but it seems a great idea. However it has mixed reviews online. Just wondering if anybody has used or is currently using it, and if so what were their thoughts? https://www.gpathand.nhs.uk/

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Several parcels missing, no calling card. This is > why I always use Hermes. There isn't a problem with parcels sent from this area. The problem is with items being delivered, and therefore you don't usually get a choice as to who delivers them.

So did you actually find anybody, OP?

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I ordered three items online on 21 November which > I need for next week. They are all gifts. > > All were sent around the same time. > > The one via a courier arrived a couple of days > after it was despatched (might have been the day > after, can't remember). > > The two via Royal Mail have still not arrived. One > was despatched on 22 and one on 23 November. > > I have had virtually no post this week at all. > > How on earth are they going to cope at Christmas? > I thought that was the supposed reason the office > was moved from Silvester Road? Well, this morning the postie delivered a package to me which was sent well after the two missing ones. So I said I was still waiting for two items which I needed this week. He said he would "look in his van". Surprise surprise, some time later he appeared at the door with the two missing items (sopping wet but luckily dry inside). Now. All I can assume is that they are carting round a backlog, but delivering the most recent items first and not attempting to put items for the same address together. I am grateful to have got them in time to give them to the recipients, but I do wonder when they would have eventually appeared if I had not asked where they were ..... I'm not blaming the postie, who was helpful. It's an ongoing system failure, it seems. ETA: I have had three deliveries this morning, after a week of virtually zilch.

Bic Basher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Are buses running up Lordship Lane today? > > > > Is the P13 on its usual route again now? > > Normal service resumed on Friday. Thanks, got to where I needed to go!

Are buses running up Lordship Lane today? Is the P13 on its usual route again now?

Administrator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > oops I copied and pasted too many words from the > original text, that has been amended. > The OP which was amended now says "you have 4 flats tyres" :)) Sorry, but you must admit it is quite amusing :)) BTW I think it would be useful if a note was put on a post to say where it had been edited by admin.

You may have done it for years, but I (and others) have noticed that it appears to have been done a lot more frequently of late! But the thing is, it seems a bit random which headings are edited to make them more relevant and which aren't. As your terms were last updated in May of this year, I have no idea how long they may have included the part about editing the title! Anyway, glad if it helps people, of course. It never crossed my mind it would affect who read the post!

I ordered three items online on 21 November which I need for next week. They are all gifts. All were sent around the same time. The one via a courier arrived a couple of days after it was despatched (might have been the day after, can't remember). The two via Royal Mail have still not arrived. One was despatched on 22 and one on 23 November. I have had virtually no post this week at all. How on earth are they going to cope at Christmas? I thought that was the supposed reason the office was moved from Silvester Road?

ulverscroftresident Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ***I believe the house with the light is somewhere > between 180-190 Crystal Palace Rd I just PMed you.

Wendy Steatham. [email protected] 07985 575301 ETA: These details are already in the public domain, or I would not have posted them on here.

I suggest you contact Wendy. She teaches Lindy Hop at The Ivy House on Saturday mornings (though I don't know if she is at the moment) but I don't know if she also teaches elsewhere. ETA: Details below. I've put them in a separate post to bring the thread to the top, in case you don't see the edit of this one.

TE44 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- As Sue says there > will be oppertunist theft amongst cases of people > who are genuinely hungry. I didn't actually mean people who are genuinely hungry, though no doubt some shoplifting is done from desperation. I meant chancers who see an opportunity to get something for free either because they know nobody will bother to challenge them or because they know the police will not prosecute.

If admin is going to persist in changing people's post headings, they might at least make their changes grammatical and comprehensible ....

So yet again admin is editing the headings of forum members' posts. Where will this end?!

TE44 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I > feel it was inevitable shopliftifting would become > the norm, in connection and in the same way food > banks have. But people are not stealing things like bread. According to the above they are taking things like steak. That is greed, not need. I doubt most of it has anything to do with food banks. It seems to be opportunist theft, as took place during the riots. ETA: Opportunist in the sense that they can see they can steal without being caught.

To the best of my knowledge nobody in this area has had any issues with outgoing post?

pecksniff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Have Royal Mail indicated what is going to happen > to the backlog of undelivered post ? Have a new > Postie / van driver and tend to see them > delivering post daily . Have started using post > office in Camberwell for sending letters etc > albeit less convenient but uses different sorting > office. The Peckham office is for incoming items to be delivered in the area only, isn't it?

Feij?o Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Both, I am a security manager. But how do you know the students are shoplifting? I don't see the connection with being a security manager at an educational institution?