For those in need of an antidote to health and safety/snowflakeism and the pathetic failure to deal with risk, this should do the trick.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMrB_3wq2ak

She brought the case because she wanted assurances that her daughters or anyone under 16 would not be given contraception or abortion advice without parents knowledge. She wanted to protect her daughters. She lost the case. The fact it is called Gillick competence must be like salt in the wound for her.

Only 11%?

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66716501

'The worst affected route was Queensway, where the daily traffic count jumped from 706 prior to March 2022 to 1,795 in September last year. Council officers said that there was “little evidence” that the LTN had helped people get around on foot and that, despite an initial increase, there had been a “disappointing” downturn in cycling in the area to levels lower than the pre-trial period. It was also found that the project had “little to no impact on alleviating the impact of school traffic”.'

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https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/fenham-low-traffic-neighbourhood-scrapped-27637197

The list of things that the NHS is very bad at would take far too long to compile. However, I might venture to add reading the room to the tally.

To my astonishment, the GP surgery at which I am registered sent me (yet another) text message yesterday. The message asked whether I would like to 'become a volunteer Practice Health Champion'. Other than a loose reference to making a difference to 'people's lives' (not clear whether for better or worse), no description was offered. No, thank you.

Like most surgeries, this one piled up the furniture inside the door the moment the wind changed direction in 2020 and the publicly-funded employees hid behind it. What I will champion, though, are determined efforts for individuals to manage their own health and their own lives and for the NHS—if it is to remain in existence at all—to be reduced a a trauma only service.

This link (which is not from the surgery in question) gives a little insight into the surgery's suggestion. How long before these volunteers are jabbing experimental toxins into their fellow men?

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https://www.planetreesgrouppractice.nhs.uk/practice-information/what-are-practice-health-champions/

Another 'should I worry' classic. This time from the Guardian. Unusually, the answer to the question is 'no', but that's because they have managed to get through the entire article without mentioning either fluoride or glyphosate.

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https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/sep/17/should-i-worry-about-drinking-tap-water

As we know, if you pay for the science, you get the version of it that you want.

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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-and-care-bill-factsheets/health-and-care-bill-water-fluoridation

I believe Prof Judith Curry, veteran & genuinely a climate scientist, said:
“If you combine science and politics you get politics”

Apple blossom, south west England, 18 Sep 23. Is anyone else seeing this?

On water, you may well have a Berkey filter. In the USA, Berkey has been interfered with–for the first time–by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Mike Adams spoke to Jim Shepherd, who runs Berkey, about this.

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https://www.brighteon.com/1ee1fbf0-1ef4-4be7-9bea-e4b080b4f0ba

If you're in the mood for a rather more therapeutic viewing experience, may I recommend watching two Canadians building a log cabin with hand tools?

No soundtrack, other than their environment and the chopping and hammering.

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https://youtu.be/fr8-7trqoH4?si=cCia-X5hELudMtCS

Press release:
£200 million to boost NHS resilience and care this winter

The Urgent and Emergency Care Recovery Plan announced earlier this year was backed by £1 billion to boost capacity in the health system by providing 5,000 additional beds, 800 new ambulances and 10,000 virtual wards.

The government remains committed to cutting waiting lists – there has been good progress made on the Elective Recovery Plan with 2 year and 18 month waits eliminated so far. (Please see a waiting list chart here: https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7281/)

Last year, the government established the Elective Recovery Taskforce, made up of academics and experts from the NHS and independent sector, to look for ways to go further to bust the Covid backlogs and reduce waiting times for patients. It has since published an implementation plan, including reviewing the use of the independent sector in training junior NHS staff.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/200-million-to-boost-nhs-resilience-and-care-this-winter

You may not be a fan of Roger Whittaker (yet). He has just died and the BBC made sure to present the most important pieces of information right away:

'Despite fighting with the British colonial army in Kenya, he is also very popular in the country.'

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https://youtu.be/fBmu0BPYfkI

A short documentary film about offshore wind turbines and the probable harm to whale populations. Just another form of destruction in the name of progress.

The comments are well-informed and worth reading, too.

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https://open.substack.com/pub/public/p/the-film-that-could-save-an-entire