The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
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The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
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#2National Health Service. Free at the point of use. No insurance. No "co-pays". No ultimate death panel of them all: provision based on financial or social status. A basic human need provided to all.
Re: The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
#3National Health Service. Free at the point of use. No insurance. No "co-pays". No ultimate death panel of them all: provision based on financial or social status. A basic human need provided to all.
* Needs volunteers to function
Re: The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
#4National Health Service. Free at the point of use. No insurance. No "co-pays". No ultimate death panel of them all: provision based on financial or social status. A basic human need provided to all.
* Needs volunteers to function
Not to function - but it certainly helps at the moment when the majority of the world is in crisis mode.
The UK health service is one of the few things I’m actually still proud of about the UK.
Re: The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
#5National Health Service. Free at the point of use. No insurance. No "co-pays". No ultimate death panel of them all: provision based on financial or social status. A basic human need provided to all.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The value of a submission like this is the specific new phenomenon it's about. Generic discussion, especially generic ideological discussion, is always the same and therefore off topic on HN. The NHS in general, or healthcare systems in general, are as generic a topic as it gets.
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I'm sure you had no intention of starting a flamewar, yet you can see the incipient flamewar already in the few replies this comment received.
Re: The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
#6National Health Service. Free at the point of use. No insurance. No "co-pays". No ultimate death panel of them all: provision based on financial or social status. A basic human need provided to all.
* Needs volunteers to function
During my brief visit to the Midlands many years ago, the U.K. seems to have a community cohesion that we don’t have much in the US (many rescue services are non profit and operate exclusively with volunteers for example). They will benefit from it through efforts such as this.
Re: The NHS is looking for up to 250k volunteers
#7National Health Service. Free at the point of use. No insurance. No "co-pays". No ultimate death panel of them all: provision based on financial or social status. A basic human need provided to all.
* Needs volunteers to function
In order to support above-and-beyond needs ushered in by a worldwide pandemic:
– delivering medicines from pharmacies;
– driving patients to appointments;
– bringing them home from hospital;
– or making regular phone calls to check on people isolating at home.
They don't need volunteers to merely function, but then we both know there was no honest intent behind your comment in the first place.
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#8Mixed feeling about this. The NHS should be funded to run some of these services. However, it a good way for people to contribute.
Still worried about a slippery slope - free at the point of need. No relying on extra support. If we need it pay people to do the job.
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#9How does one find out if they are an at risk group? Edit> I’m asking. See if I can volunteer to help
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#10Would it be safer for people who has recovered to volunteer?