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If the below is true it is disastrous. Gloucestershire has became a very bad place to life the NHS (National Health Service) should not be having to make cuts!
the 1st line makes your heart stop ‘ Nine hospitals, two maternity units, 500 jobs and 240 beds face the axe in the most devastating swathe of NHS cuts to hit Gloucestershire.’
Questions How was the local health trust allowed to get this into debt that they have to do this? what is going to be done to minmise problems? Why did national government not step in? – is it cause other Health Trusts are in similar siteration This is all due to the current admistration any faltalities the government and the local health trust admin is to blame!
The Problem is that other health trusts this could happen to – and government should concentrating it DO NOT Happen again
Below is the article that was in local press and online
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10:30 – 11 May 2006 |
| Nine hospitals, two maternity units, 500 jobs and 240 beds face the axe in the most devastating swathe of NHS cuts to hit Gloucestershire.
Health chiefs face a funding blackhole of £40 million – and have been told to balance their books within this financial year. Yesterday they announced cuts across the board – and said they weren’t open to consultation.
Some 240 of the county’s 1,600 hospital beds will close. Delancey Hospital in Leckhampton will shut. The first ward will close this summer. Many of its patients are likely to be treated at home or in the private sector. Cheltenham General’s maternity unit will close and all obstetrics will move to Gloucestershire Royal in Gloucester. A nurse-led unit at Battledown children’s ward will not go ahead. The A &E department at Cheltenham General and Gloucestershire Royal will come under review as the NHS looks at pooling resources with the GP out-of-hours service. Winchcombe Hospital will close and more services will be provided at Tewkesbury. Cinderford’s Dilke Hospital will shut, and when the Forest of Dean’s other hospital at Lydney goes, it will be replaced by a new ‘health campus’. Stroud’s maternity hospital will close to inpatients. Berkeley Hospital will close eventually, along with Dursley’s Sandpits Clinic. They will be replaced with a new health centre in Dursley. Plans are in hand to move inpatient services for elderly people with mental health problems at Holly House in Gloucester, Stroud’s Weavers Croft and Colliers Court in Cinderford to another site. The ambulance station at Newent will close. Health chiefs say the cuts will make treatment more efficient and effective. It is hoped most of the 500 NHS jobs will be saved through natural wastage and a recruitment freeze but redundancies are an option. The four chief executives, Paul Lilley, from the Gloucestershire Hospitals Trust, Caroline Fowles, from Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT, Richard James from Cotswold and Vale PCT and Stephen Golledge, from West Gloucestershire, announced the further cuts yesterday at the West Gloucestershire HQ at the Highnam Business Centre, Gloucester. When asked if he felt guilty about the wide cuts, Mr Golledge said: "I feel concerned that we’re having to address the problem quickly but it’s been made very clear to us that the NHS in Gloucestershire and beyond needs to balance its books and get on with it. "We need to take radical decisions to ensure we have services in place fit for the 21st century." Industrial action was not ruled out by Peter Robbins, chairman of the committee which represents eight unions in the county’s two main hospitals. He said: "I’ve never been an advocate of striking in the health service because it affects the patients. "But I can’t rule out some sort of action. We have already talked about a protest march." Labour party members blamed the situation on local mismanagement while the Conservatives jumped on Gloucestershire’s raw deal in funding. In a joint statement, the primary care trusts and hospital chief executives said: "We are very proud of the services we offer to patients. "However, we still need to make savings and ensure that we live within our means. To do this we need to speed up our plans to change services if we are to meet the needs of patients in the future." Cheltenham MP Martin Horwood, said: "The closure of the maternity unit would strike at the heart of our town. "Without it, there will be no more Cheltonians, in the old-fashioned sense of the word, because almost no one will be born in the town. "Instead, people will have to face a dangerous extension in drive time, during a stressful period, through an unfamiliar urban landscape in Gloucester city." Gloucestershire’s Tory MPs Geoffrey Clifton-Brown for Cotswold, Mark Harper for Forest of Dean and Laurence Robertson for Tewkesbury have written a letter to the Health Secretary raising their ‘grave’ concerns, and requesting an urgent meeting. They have also tabled a series of parliamentary questions. Mr Robertson said: "We should be advancing in health provision not regressing. We are paying far more tax and getting fewer services." Mr Clifton-Brown said: "The people of Gloucestershire, and the elderly in particular, will undoubtedly be the first to suffer as a result of the incompetence of the Department of Health, and the financial mismanagement of our NHS." An emergency meeting of Gloucestershire County Council is being called to discuss the cuts. The health scrutiny committee will discuss them today. An emergency meeting of all councillors will follow as soon as it can be arranged. The council passed a motion condemning the £70 million gap in government funding that Gloucestershire is facing. Speaking at the meeting yesterday, chairman of the council’s health scrutiny committee, Coun Andrew Gravells (C Abbey), said: "I don’t do this job to watch yet another nail put into the coffin of the NHS. "The people of Gloucestershire deserve more." |
.Talking about Windows Media Player 11: “Early 2006”
I wrote a blog back nearly a year ago about Windows Media Player 11 when they changed the code name to aurora and said it was announced it be launched early 2006. Last day of April 2006 and still not here like Windows Vista being put back to Janurary 2007 deadlines are never set in stone. Windows Media Player 11 has been rather quiet although there has been announced a Windows Media Player 11 is coming to windows XP and this should be mid year (end of Q2) – hopefully this time they whould be correct.
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Windows Media Player 11: "Early 2006"
Windows Media Player 11: "Early 2006", Paul Krevs on 28 May 2005 – 05:20
Windows enthusiast and journalist Paul Thurrott has just posted some new information concerning Windows Media Player 11. Microsoft intends to release WMP11 (Codename: Polaris) as an XP compatible version of the Windows Longhorn media player. Microsoft’s original plans for Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 — formerly code-named Aurora –were fairly low-key, with just a few minor new features. That’s all changed: Microsoft has canceled Aurora
Comment: Aurora sue them
don’t cancel my friends name.
, and the company is moving the Longhorn media player to XP. Now code-named Polaris, WMP 11 will be a major release
. There’s just one problem: Instead of shipping in November, as per the original plan, WMP 11 will now ship in a public beta during that month, coinciding with Longhorn Beta 2. The final release is roughly scheduled for early 2006.
Comment 1: Codenamed Aurora
– Aurora is a really nice name is also my friends name
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to my friend Aurora. Must put WMP 11 in my diary
Comment 2: Aurora
[Source: Neowin.net]
Daylight Summer Time – Round 2
Daylight Saving Time starts today (and ends today for some) in quite a few countries (including Australia and Northern America)
DST News 
Cause of the Commonwelth Games Australia has moved it DST removal from to today from last week. Details
USA and Canada there DST starts 1 week later then Europe and some other areas but typically ends the same
USA – Changes DST from 2007
Canada – Currently considering DST from 2007 Progress
Source: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/daylight-saving-time/
Northern Hemisphere – DST is starting Southern Hemisphere its ending
What i said when it was UK turn 
My Say 
Personally i do not see the point of changing the time twice yearly cause the time is adujsted foreward then back again – i done this 44 times 
in my 22 years – by now its in my head you going to get a hour less sleep but i just wake up 1 hour later – no lost. same when the time is adjusted back i wake up early – it takes a few days to adjust. Also its all satellite or computer based except my watch and that takes about 1 minute to adjust.
My TeleVideo and DTT Reciever use signals to get the time – its also how PDC form of Video Plus and in Satellite Cable and Digital TV how the TV Listings on there EPG guide works. i have not got expensive stuff either. My PC is Syncronised with a time server once a week – these days i have to do hardly anything but was more a tease when i was younger.
Sunday will be 23 hours today for those who having DST added (UK is one of these) and 25 hours for those who having DST removed (New Zealand – my typical example Australia has been moved to next week due to an sports event).
For more information about DST
http://timeanddate.com/time/aboutdst.html
When is DST for you?
http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2006a.html
http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2006b.html
Jamie
Time to change the clocks let again – British Daylight Summer Time (BST) Starts
Daylight Saving Time starts today (and ends today for some) in quite a few countries (1am GMT – In the UK case comes 2am BST)
DST News
Cause of the Commonwelth Games Australia has moved it DST removal from its proposed day of today to next week. Details
USA and Canada there DST starts 1 week later then Europe and some other areas but typically ends the same
USA – Changes DST from 2007
Canada – Currently considering DST from 2007 Progress
Source: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/daylight-saving-time/
Northern Hemisphere – DST is starting Southern Hemisphere its ending
My Say
Personally i do not see the point of changing the time twice yearly cause the time is adujsted foreward then back again – i done this 44 times in my 22 years – by now its in my head you going to get a hour less sleep but i just wake up 1 hour later – no lost. same when the time is adjusted back i wake up early – it takes a few days to adjust. Also its all satellite or computer based except my watch and that takes about 1 minute to adjust.
My TeleVideo and DTT Reciever use signals to get the time – its also how PDC form of Video Plus and in Satellite Cable and Digital TV how the TV Listings on there EPG guide works. i have not got expensive stuff either. My PC is Syncronised with a time server once a week – these days i have to do hardly anything but was more a tease when i was younger.
Sunday will be 23 hours today for those who having DST added (UK is one of these) and 25 hours for those who having DST removed (New Zealand – my typical example Australia has been moved to next week due to an sports event).
For more information about DST
http://timeanddate.com/time/aboutdst.html
When is DST for you?
http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2006a.html
http://timeanddate.com/time/dst2006b.html
Jamie
The Strike – ‘Rumors’ – some of them is me stiring up
mate.
(there aint any day this week that could be alternative for us on our course).
.A clash of tastes or just completely rude? – You decide?
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Published By ashie babie – February 18 10:20:24 PM
Is it me or has Ashlie got a problem
she thinks my space is rubbish cause of the amount of content. its a shame she did not provide her email address or an link to her space for our enjoyment
feel free to leave your reactions to this below.
Jamie |
Talking about Happy Birthday Mum!
Good news 
Just contacted my mum and she got the card – yey panic averted
still feel free to send my mum birthday wishes http://spaces.msn.com/jamieellisuk84/blog/cns!F7F52260F9C1DDA0!1067.entry
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February 16th is my mums birthday.Hopefully the she got the card i sent to her. I called her at 2am in the morning earlier (just after i got back yesterday to wish ‘happy birthday’ (she did not have the card then
) but hopefully its there now.
JamiePS: feel free to leave any birthday wishes
Talking about University to change passwords early
Yep my uni password expired and has been changed not giving hints but its not much different and is still a strong password according to the University’s Password checker – sometimes it feel might be a password logger lol but its not. 90 days or whenever to our next forced password change around Easter me feels!
as of 18:24 dec 14th
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University to change passwords early
Passwords for University MLE accounts are normally set to expire every 90 days. Some users have reported the problem of their password expiring during a University vacation period and being unable to obtain help with getting it reset if difficulties arise. To reduce this problem, all student MLE passwords will be forced to expire during the week of December 12th – 15th. This will ensure that the new passwords will not expire during the Christmas vacation.
When your old password expires you will required to choose a new one the next time you log in.
For information on choosing a secure password please refer to the following Web page:
Here – useful
if you not at my uni either
Passwords will expire by 9am on the following dates:
Student Number beginning: Date:
s05 Monday 12th
s04 Tuesday 13th
s03,s02 Wednesday 14th – oh great i look forward to Wednesday change your password its expired prompt
and they put a message contradicting this as you sign in saying that within 14 days of password expiring you get prompts informing you that your password is to expire but i not got any prompt yet so i assuming mine due to go more then 14 days in
but is being brought forward with 2 days warning
s01,s00,s3,s9 Thursday 15th
ICT Services
Talking about Web2Messenger down again
Web2Messenger – yet its still down and its day 9! 
– i don’t think its came back for more then a few hours since its security breach on November 30th – Computer Security Day. They must be having some real problems with there servers 
. I starting to think if it going to return have had to result having my email address back on my space as Web2Messenger my prefered Blog/ Website – IM (MSN/ Windows Live Messenger) has been down. Just hopes the spam crawlers do not get to it first Windows Live Mail + web2Messenger and only upto 10 spam messages a day was over 20 before i had it 
. if my yahoo account is to go by i get 100-160 spam mail in bulk half weekly and they say MSN is a spam recieving service . my yahoo and MSN account shows otherwise .
There is some good news though Neowin is back online 
but while it was down i increased my news research sites which now include
neowin.net
mess.be
and Windows Live Blogs – for those who wondered where i get my info from – i got them bookmarked but i used ideas.live.com view blog link(s) as a guide and worked outwards 
– i was even tipped of of Windows Live Local by the team at virtual earth before the above sites
PS: i do not want a big flood of spam after this LOL 
after saying how effective little amounts spam i get on this account – i like it to stay this way 
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Web2Messenger has been having not such a good week with Wednesday (which was Computer Security Day) – one of the worse days for it to be down. Web2Messenger was closed down after having its forums and site compromised. The site however came back that evening allowing its forum users and users of the web2messenger messaging service to recieve messages. The good news was short lived with the site being down again the morning after for what the site said for some other reason like wednesday the site came back online later in the day. Today Friday now the upgrading the servers and hope to be back over the weekend. ever since Wednesday breach the dynamic MSN status images have been out of action whenever its back i sure they want to put this week behind them.Web2Messenger is not the only site having some problems Neowin.net still having problems with its news pages although the forum and new blog service is been up and running since late wednesday – only today for those who did not know that neowin.net/forum was avaiable and up. i find out most of my news from neowin and cnet.com
Calendar not Calender
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – Calender (my spelling of it before )
- For the system of referencing dates, see calendar.
The calender is a series of rolls in a stack, at the end of a paper machine (on-line) or separate from it (off-line).The purpose of a calender is to smooth out the paper for enabling printing and writing on it, and to increase the gloss on the paper surface. It is understood to be a process of using pressure for embossing a smooth surface on the still rough paper surface. Formerly, the paper sheets were worked on with a polished hammer or pressed between polished metal sheets in a press. With the continuously operating paper machine it became a process of rolling the paper web. The nip pressure can be reduced by heating the rolls and/or moistening the paper surface. This helps to keep the bulk and the stiffness of the paper web which is beneficial for its further use.
Modern calenders have hard and heated rolls made from chilled cast iron or – in a few cases – steel, and rolls with "soft" covers of polymeric composites. Thus the working nip becomes wider and the specific pressure on the paper more even.
The hypothesis of "micro friction" in the nip contributing to the smoothening process is false. With a microscope, fine scratches in the roll surface have been found to be replicated on the calendered paper. This is contradictory to the assumption of a relative movement between the roll and the paper surface.
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