Rogue
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- Comment on The UK could be at the forefront of the climate revolution. Here’s how. 11 hours ago:
It’s not going to happen. Labour need to put funds towards fixing the NHS and other state services systems that have been systematically dismantled by the conservatives.
With America isolating itself times are uncertain so funding has to be set aside to deal with inevitable turmoil.
Finally, European nations need to decide whether to accept America handing Ukraine over to Russia or if they continue to support Ukraine. Even if Europe withdraws resources from Ukraine there needs to be a reassessment of military spending because NATO doesn’t look particularly reliable right now.
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 4 days ago:
I somehow replied to the wrong post. Here’s what I meant to say:
But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless.
This is going to be ultra pedantic but in case I was misunderstood: I’m saying that using wait times as a target is pointless. Obvs we do need wait lists themselves…
What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.
First I know I’m not qualified in any way to answer this and there will be people with knowledge who can provide a far better answer. But if you do want my opinion then I’d say a reasonable place to start would be to simply ask the patient. The written answers will be subjective but you can collate all the [yes/no] answers together to see objective patterns of whether patient satisfaction is improving or getting worse.
How long were you waiting? [Number of weeks] (Would be very interesting to compare this subjective answer to the actual recorded data)
Was the wait time acceptable? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Did your condition deteriorate as a result of the delay? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> How did you condition deteriorate? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Did you receive treatment? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Did the treatment improve your condition? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Why didn’t the treatment help with your condition? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Were you referred to another service? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Do you agree with the decision to refer you elsewhere? [Yes/No/I don’t know]
-> Why don’t you believe the referral is correct? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Overall how satisfied were you satisfied? [0-10]
-> How could we improve? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 6 days ago:
But calling wait lists pointless is also pointless.
This is going to be ultra pedantic but in case I was misunderstood: I’m saying that using wait times as a target is pointless. Obvs we do need wait lists themselves…
What would you propose as a method for measuring NHS effectivness.
First I know I’m not qualified in any way to answer this and there will be people with knowledge who can provide a far better answer. But if you do want my opinion then I’d say a reasonable place to start would be to simply ask the patient. The written answers will be subjective but you can collate all the [yes/no] answers together to see objective patterns of whether patient satisfaction is improving or getting worse.
How long were you waiting? (Number of weeks) (Would be very interesting to compare this subjective answer to the actual recorded data) Was the wait time acceptable? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Did your condition deteriorate as a result of the delay? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> How did you condition deteriorate? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Did you receive treatment? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Did the treatment improve your condition? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Why didn’t the treatment help with your condition? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Were you referred to another service? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Do you agree with the decision to refer you elsewhere? [Yes/No/I don’t know] -> Why don’t you believe the referral is correct? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
Overall how satisfied were you satisfied? [0-10] -> How could we improve? [Answer in as many words as you like, or possibly a tree of yes/no questions]
- Comment on SkyNews | The number of people on NHS waiting lists in England has fallen for the fourth month in a row, new figures show. 6 days ago:
Waiting lists are a fucking pointless target.
It simply encourages organisations not to add you to the wait list or to find any excuse to remove you from them.
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Speech and language therapists will remove patients from their wait list because the patient did not answer or return phone calls. Its an absolutely ridiculous system that will penalise patients with speech impediments for being unable to handle phone calls.
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Mental health services will insist patients see a trainee in order to meet their wait list target. Then if the patient is not satisfied with the trainee’s competence the patient is added back to the wait list. However because the patient has technically been seen the target is met and the patient will end up waiting indefinitely because the service prioritises other patients in order to meet the wait list target.
The system is absolutely corrupt. Targets are fucking pointless.
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- Comment on Report: Unity continues mass layoffs with 'abrupt' communications and 5am emails 1 week ago:
Bevy is damn impressive. I can understand why it’s not suitable for large projects yet but for anyone tinkering or projects willing to adapt to a rapidly iterate ecosystem is well worth a look.
- Comment on "The insultingly low salary you would have accepted is still too high." 1 week ago:
That’s actually insane.
I wonder if they’ve just sent out a generic rejection without checking it.
- Comment on Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm 1 week ago:
It’s not harmless. They’re maliciously using downvotes and as a consequence lemmy’s algorithm will rank OPs content lower.
This isn’t a case of downvoting individual statements you disagree with, it’s harassment.
- Comment on Mod of a similar comm to one I started deleted my advertising post, now downvotes half the stuff I post in my comm 1 week ago:
The mod took down my post without any comment, reply, or reason.
This is definitely enough reason.
It also opens up an interesting debate about what is appropriate. While the mod action is understandable (they don’t want rival communities), it’s a bit of a misuse of mod tools to delete it in my opinion.
Then separately they’re harassing you by following you round downvoting everything you post. That’s the sign of somebody unhinged. They are able to compartmentalise actions that occur inside their community from the wider Lemmy.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 1 week ago:
The game itself is cheaper than that. I suspect they chose to pay for a deluxe edition
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 2 weeks ago:
I decided to not even bother with a significant number of mods because they just seemed mind numbingly confusing to set up.
I’m not complaining, I’m just wondering if I’m missing some trick or something.
I think you made the right choice here.
There’s no quality control in modding communities so I’d say the effort the developer puts into the install instructions is going to be a reasonable indicator of the quality of the mod itself.
- Comment on Can a Steam profile be a real memorial for a lost life? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I think nobody gives a fuck about your profile while you’re alive so why does it suddenly have significance when you’re dead.
Grief is a horrible process that we all go through. Cultural norms are to simply ignore it, suppress it and pretend we’ve moved on.
The digital age preserves a far greater record of our lives than ever before. I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they have a monopoly in quite a few service stations so there’s no alternative at times.
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 3 weeks ago:
WHSmith was the first business to adopt enshittification as a business model.
Back when a 500 ml drink was typically £1 or £1.20 in most stores they’d be marked up to £2 in WHSmith and you’d be conned into thinking±buying 2 for £3 thinking it was a good deal.
Then the sales desk would be littered with giant bars of shitty chocolate that the cashier had to suggest you buy.
Such a shitty store. Wish it had failed a long time ago.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 4 weeks ago:
I’m far enough that I think it’s inappropriate to have issued it to my area.
It’s a very invasive system. The phone screams at you with a siren noise even on silent. And very boldly declared itself a RED warning.
If they are expanding it to account for travel distances I think they should have more accurate wording.
I’m happy to have these alerts enabled if they’re used appropriately but if they start to make a habit of it I’ll end up disabling them.
- Comment on Strongest storm in generations predicted as Éowyn to hit UK and Ireland 4 weeks ago:
The government have kicked their emergency red alert system into action causing my phone to shrill at me.
In the true fashion of government competence I’m not even located in the red warning area.
- Comment on Digital driving licences to be ‘put on phones this year’ 4 weeks ago:
I might consider using it if it was an open data format, or a download to Google Wallet, Apple Wallet etc but it’s a proprietary app.
Why the fuck does it need to be an app?
Why would anyone want to send telemetry directly to the government, it’s insane.
- Comment on The bitter final showdown over British coal, as sun sets on ‘dirtiest fuel’ 2 months ago:
It’s absolutely fucking ridiculous to be even entertaining the notion of mining coal in a developed country.
The north is neglected but opening new coal mines is not a solution to any problem.
- Comment on Uh. So how are the Maplin's in your area doing? 2 months ago:
Their target market are people they can upsell extended warranties, anti-virus, etc too. So if you’re buying individual computer components you already have too much knowledge for them to exploit you
- Comment on Motorist gets ticket for being stuck in Lincoln hospital car park 2 months ago:
What’s even more insane is hospital staff have little choice but to use these car parks so they’re exploited daily.
- Comment on I've noticed a lot of UK job applications use the American MM/DD/YYYY date format and some also say "resume" instead of CV. Does that annoy you if you're British? 2 months ago:
Is there a Lemmy community for /c/ShitAmericansSay
- Comment on 28 YEARS LATER [Trailer] 2 months ago:
In order to get the perfect dystopia vibe they filmed entirely in Northumberland.
- Comment on Pat McFadden vows to make the state "more like a start up" as he deploys reform teams across country 2 months ago:
It’s fine, they weren’t going to be in charge then anyway
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 months ago:
Actions have consequences. It’s important we have precedents that the world is just
- Comment on Vegan drink Oatly can’t call itself ‘milk’, judges rule 2 months ago:
Dairy UK had argued that it was unlawful to use “milk” in a trademark relating to “products that are not mammary secretions”.
I think consumers need to argue that all milk should be accurately labelled as “mammary secretions”
- Comment on Who stole all the pies? Michelin-starred chef 'gutted' at theft of 2,500 pies. 2 months ago:
It’s kind ridiculous, possibly even insulting to suggest the pies could be served to people in need.
If recovered there would be no verification of the temperature they were stored at, whether they were still sealed, whether vermin had been crawling all over them.
I agree the food waste is frustrating but it’s not fit for much more than low quality animal feed.
- Comment on Is the UK shut down during easter? 2 months ago:
Easter isn’t really a big deal in the UK. I’d expect places to be closed over Christmas but probably not Easter.
There may be reduced opening hours and smaller venues and shops may be closed but London is a vibrant city so I expect you’ll find plenty to do.
If there are specific places you want to visit it might be worth checking their website or emailing them to confirm. Or just try booking tickets for those dates and you’ll see.
- Comment on ED testing finds thousands with undiagnosed HIV, Hepatitis B & C 2 months ago:
So many unexplained acronyms.
- Comment on Gatwick Airport: Evacuation of 'large part' of South Terminal following security incident 2 months ago:
Somebody succeeded in taking a 500ml bottle of water through security. So to protect their profits the airport had insisted every go back through security and re-purchase the £4 bottles from the air-side shops.
- Comment on Is "Red Storm Rising" by Tom Clancy considered a good book? 3 months ago:
I gave up on Rainbow Six as well. I didn’t really understand the plot.
Apparently I was meant to be on the side of Team America: World Police and not sympathise with the environmentalists trying to save the world from corruption and climate change.
- Comment on US Elections question: Bernie Sanders said that the Democrats abandoned the working class, and the working class abandoned them. How is this true? 3 months ago:
I’m very intrigued by your definition of Liberalism. It doesn’t correlate with liberalism across the world.