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I have copied this from the other post about TJ.. make sure you complain to the correct organisation as there have been recent changes in NHS England. If anyone wants to complain about GP services, the newly set up South East London ICS (transferring from the old CCG) is the place to go - they commission local services (so they are the ones paying the s**t show company for the terrible GP 'service' at Tessa Jowell) You can make a complaint verbally, in writing or by email. If you wish to complain about a hospital, community or mental health provider please contact those directly. If you have any comment or complaint regarding the commissioning of a service please contact the Patient Experience Team at: Email: [email protected] Tel: 0800 328 9712 or 0208 176 5337 https://www.selondonics.org Andrew Bland is the CEO... there is a whole website dedicated on how to complain by going straight to the CEO, I have used this tactic before with excellent results, takes a bit of time and one needs to write a very polite and professional letter in order to have impact.

I'm not sure it's about outcomes I want - if only. My choice would be free, fair and democratic elections in Russia, a free press and it not a dictatorship pretending to be a democracy. Putin will not stand down and slowly the 'West' will stop providing arms to Ukraine - I think that will be a terrible outcome for Ukranians. Maybe both sides giving way in some small way will produce a better outcome - I don't think there are any 'good' outcomes, just less 'bad ones' sadly.

An interesting article - about a year old. I don't completely agree with all of it, but I think the author has a good grasp of the current situation. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/27/ukraine-war-end-putin-russia-talks There is also the issue of arms and weaponry meant for Ukraine turning up in Africa and being used by unsavoury groups. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2023-000805_EN.html Putin is too invested in this war and will not end it, doesn't matter to him how many Russians and Ukrainians die and the west will never directly fight Russia as too afraid of WW3, so Ukraine will slowly be destroyed. Diplomacy is really the only way out.

Do you think that that the Ukraine/ Russia conflict will be resolved through more bombs/guns/death or by some diplomatic resolution. I'm sure we all agree that Putin is a dictator and warmonger, that there is no defence and no rationale for invading Ukraine. But where are we now? No end of the conflict and no resolution. Meanwhile - big profits for BAE. Personal attacks are also not appropriate on this forum, even if you do not agree with someone's opinion or point of view. My Quaker upbringing believes all violence and war is wrong. In the case of Ukraine, opposing war in such a time does not mean staying neutral, allowing injustice to go unchallenged, or doing nothing. Instead, Friends seek ways to engage and fight injustice without killing another human being. Peace is not only a moral stance; it can also be a practical solution, Avdiivka is ruined and desperate after 2 years of Russian attack and billions spent on weapons- maybe there is another way? and gas companies - https://www.greenpeace.org/international/publication/59432/who-profits-from-war/

profit for shareholders? https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/21/bae-systems-profit-ukraine-israel-gaza-wars-ftse-100?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Complain - it's the only way to have any actions. Make it clear that the health professionals are providing a good service at the point of use, but the administration of those services is not adequate and give detail. I imagine the reception staff have been given explicit instructions to provide appointments only via the routes that they have been told to follow - they are probably frustrated as well.

Yep - just sit in there until someone comes to see you, be polite but firm. If anyone wants to complain about GP services, the newly set up South East London ICS (transferring from the old CCG) is the place to go - they commission local services (so they are the ones paying the s**t show company for the terrible GP 'service' at Tessa Jowell) You can make a complaint verbally, in writing or by email. If you wish to complain about a hospital, community or mental health provider please contact those directly. If you have any comment or complaint regarding the commissioning of a service please contact the Patient Experience Team at: Email: [email protected] Tel: 0800 328 9712 or 0208 176 5337 https://www.selondonics.org Andrew Bland is the CEO... there is a whole website dedicated on how to complain by going straight to the CEO, I have used this tactic before with excellent results, takes a bit of time and one has to write a very professional, polite and knowledgable letter.

I have been in a similar situation with my partner and their chronic condition. I went there and sat in the waiting room until someone came to see us. I have left and gone to another GP now, my partner remains there for the time being. I think Southwark News should investigate the s**t show of this City-Boy run GP practice in this building funded by public money.

Partnerships always existed, but large organisations like Concordia got ‘in’ when the Tory government broke up the local provider networks and panned it all out for the lowest bidder. Private companies used to complex contracting made mincemeat of low level ‘buyers’ in the NHS (these support staff were being paid around 20k a year and were used to contacting for supplies rather than writing very tight documents), unfortunately they were naive in the face of very high level legal and contact teams in large organisations. Mainly because when the provider networks were broken up all the senior staff who knew about contacting were made redundant.... and were snapped up by the private organisations. The seniority and experience was lost from the NHS, the Tory Government and public blasting about ‘overpaid managers’ lost all of this level....leaving juniors to take on these contracts. It led to ridiculous situations when some organisations were only following up healthy individuals because ‘urgent’ and ‘non-elective care’ was not covered by the contact. I know because I was there as a clinical manager and witnessed the utter chaos. I also had ‘dealings’ with Concordia for a different contract when they wanted clinical advice from me. When I suggested quality controls and expert analysis they were not interested.... cheap and profitable was the only aim of the setup.

It is terrible, my partner experienced the same issues. It's even worse than the original Melbourne Grove Practice that moved there. It is run by a private company...the incompetence for both me and my partner across the last 3 years is astounding. I have left. https://www.nhsforsale.info/private-providers/concordia-health-new/

You were lucky, I'm usually confronted with a buggy, bicycle, scooter combo from the mummies and daddies of Alleyn's JAGs, Judith Kerr - hitting the back of my legs, not letting me pass and forcing me into hedges or the road.... I agree - entitled and rude.

Terrible idea, this cross-road is heavily pedestrianised during the school run. This from the council who advocate 'active travel'. I walk this way most days and the islands are a safe zone for pedestrians. Removing them is extraordinarily foolish and dangerous. Junction planning by this council has been awful for years, with Townley - EDG being the worse and most messed around of the bunch - still at least the planner did well out of their mess.

Remember when flaws were found in certain publications, from academics with ties to LCC and Sustrans that supported LTNs as a way to reduce car use and traffic - even on non-LTN roads. The flaws outlined showed that traffic had increased on high-density housing 'sacrificial' roads. And yet the statisticians, academia and clan-air activists that pointed out these flaws were accused of many 'sins'.... Well - here we are https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/jan/29/sholto-david-biologist-finds-flaws-in-scientific-papers

I love real black pudding and was very surprised by the vegan version....weirdly similar to a cheap ‘real’ version. We had homemade daal tarka and vaala urid daal with rotis yesterday, entirely vegan, entirely delicious 😋 Burn’s night was Scottish humour in a way, about how awful the food was..... of course Scottish cuisine now is amazing with all the produce, but then. Haggis 🤮

I have one in my freezer..... but try SMBS on Lordship Lane, they usually have them, but might have run out by now?? Or forget veggie haggis (too salty) and have vegan black pudding instead. Or go for the more traditional Scottish delicacy - powsowdie 🤢

They are obsessed... just clean our roads of leaves, litter and dog poo, empty the bins and keep our storm drains working..... please stop with this nonsense!

East Dulwich Grove where children walk to school hasn’t been cleaned for ages, slippery and dangerous. Calton Avenue, cleaned on a regular basis. If you live on a wealthy street your road is cleaned more often....have noticed this for years.....

Ha ha ok... I did wonder, I personally don’t mind CPZ zones, so not an (anti) by the way...but the cost is a disgrace. Only mentioning because we walked past 4 on Melbourne Rd/Lordship Lane corner and as you say having ‘a fag’ and a heated row at the time. Walked back that way after buying fetid dairy goods and veg to walk pass the same group having more fags and a more reasonable gossip.

It's been a mess for over five years or so....

ATCs do not count accurately in slow moving traffic. Traffic diverted to boundary roads causes slow moving traffic. ATCs have been used on boundary roads to measure traffic to 'prove' that there is 'no increase' in traffic compared to traffic measured by actual counts (not ATCs) before LTNs in place. So - I agree with Prof Aldred that ' reports used Automatic Traffic Counters (ATCs) to monitor traffic, in most cases ‘tubes’ across the road” “These are imperfect. Parked or very slow-moving motor traffic may affect results' Southwark Council used these before and after 'counts' to claim that small traffic increases on boundary roads were not significant and would soon decrease as a result of increased use of cycling and walking for short local journeys. East Dulwich already had one of the highest percentages of walking as a local transport activity pre-LTNs and the majority of car travel in ED is due to long journeys/ school runs from outside the area for private schools/ commercial traffic. So..not a conspiracy - but certainly incompetent, flawed and lacking scrutiny throughout.

Rachel Aldred’s latest report - Changes in motor traffic in London’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and boundary roads - a meta -analysis “There are known issues with data quality. Usually, reports used Automatic Traffic Counters (ATCs) to monitor traffic, in most cases ‘tubes’ across the road” “These are imperfect. Parked or very slow-moving motor traffic may affect results" “We have not accessed raw data directly from counters, as this would not be feasible for so many count points, schemes, and boroughs" “it is important that boundary roads are not forgotten. They do experience often substantial traffic burdens, and just over half the boundary roads in this study saw increases over the monitoring periods" "There are limitations to what one can conclude from average daily motor traffic counts. For instance, changes in motor traffic volumes do not correlate linearly with congestion, which is time-specific, nor do they directly map onto air pollution where speed and other variables play an important role"

I know, it is hilarious the conspiracy theory that one Dulwich is some sort of cover organisation for nefarious activity...jeez. Although, if you look at the early days on twitter and the smearing by the Cycling Lobby LCC of people (teachers, nurses, mums, health visitors, WHO clean air campaigners to name a few), who didn’t want closed roads in their area - one can see where this behaviour stems from. Apparently they were ‘mis-informed’, anti-vaxers, climate deniers, right-wing...... well you remember. Its just a group of people concerned that some of theses policies don’t work and may have the opposite effect, one can choose to agree or disagree with points they make. One can even agree with one of their arguments, yet disagree with others. See how it works?

Aaah the Daily Mail... Aaah footage.. a morgue worker.....well that sounds like it simply must be an actual bona fide, truthful, factoid.... here are some more IDF factoids..... The ‘calendar', a paper on a wall of a hospital that they said was a ‘list of terrorist names’ – Those who read Arabic recognised it as having the days of the week written on it. They said they targeted a car with “terrorists” in Lebanon. It emerged that the vehicle had three little girls, their mother and grandmother. Only the mother survived the shelling. They showed a video of a nurse in a hospital in Gaza saying Hamas is holding people as human shields. That video was debunked as fake and that the woman was a Mexican-Israeli actor. And of course Shereen - RIP, murdered by Israel.

If one hears the apologists for the war on children in Gaza, they use this type of detailed description as an excuse or rationale for killing children, even descriptions that are not necessarily verified. Poetry is more powerful than crass descriptions - not mine, I’m no poet.. “I wish children didn't die. I wish they would be temporarily elevated to the skies until the war ends. Then they would return home safe, and when their parents would ask them: "where were you?", they would say: "we were playing in the clouds"

‘Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph’