Davepeers wrote:
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But Saira Khan, from the Wiltshire Safety Camera Partnership, said Quote:
More than 200 people had died or were seriously injured on the M4 in the past year, and defended the use of the cameras. 'If those 240 people had been wiped out in one day, there would have been an outcry,' Khan said.
According to ASH 112,000 people die each year in the UK alone through smoking related illness. Half of them are middle aged.
That equates to 306 people per day! I hear no outcry!!!
Dave.. stats
This clan have great difficulty with one set of stats seen justifying mobile set up. We know there were no such accidents. Concede - perhaps one with a fast clear up operation as well aware what IG's type do... they try to get things moving quickly if they can - I really respect IG and people like him - not just family loyalty either. (He's my wife's cousin - how we met and became firm buddies
) But these numbers were an unbelievably exaggerated fibble.
But am a medic - and will say the deaths due to lung cancer and related respiratory diseases are down to lifestyle - and some victims are passive smokers and others have other respiratory disease which has worsened due to modern factors - such as aerosol pollution, smokey atmosphere, general pollution - as well as the obvious - indulgence in a bad habit...
But I also lose helluva lot even now to AIDS - shared needles, unprotected sex...it's still there and not really abating. (HIV deaths account for most of the virology deaths...and reflect badly on this field in NHS Brownie points.
)
I lose a lot of patients due to organ donation shortages - some viruses attack the heart muscle - and this means only chance of survival is a heart/lung transplant for some poor folks.
I lose a lot more because I am restricted to some extent as to what I can prescribe under NHS. BUT dearest dru is not alwys best - and some do respond very well indeed to drugs I can prescribe. Others - however... would benefit from a more refined version - and I try to fight for it if think it is best option. But I do not always get my way.
I lose a lot due to simply waiting to see me....
Welcome to Bliar's NHS by the way - I spell it as it is! Not as the spinners spin!
Would I be better off under the Tories? Er.... itf I am honest... see little change...just as it was then - except method of collating figures has changed and I have more artificial targets to meet.
Under the Lib Dems - they promise - but they will not deliver.... they have not cost their manifesto properly as we know how much the drugs cost and what is affordable and what is not.
I could lay into my wife over this - but she designs the drugs. She does not price them!
But accept your point - all stats are pure spin - designed to make someone (usually a vivil servant or otherwise unemployable "twazak"
look good.
I do the same with my own
We are all "at it" to some extent!
Sad old world..... but reason why I do not take those scam figures at face value.... Know what happens in my own field.
Pure spins.... and we cannot believe any set of government figure - whichever flavour - and I am still weighing up which bunch is likely to deliver the best for me and mine and the best for country. But the Bliar is discounted.
Think I might go for tactics in this instance... still deciding....