In response to Serinde's comment earlier: I don't know if it is a funding problem, a people problem, a Brexit effect or it's simply that the managers can't or won't manage.
Round here, after Brexit, we certainly have had a diminution in the amount of East European languages spoken on the high street, and it is now possible to hear some English spoken in areas where it was entirely absent (eg building sites, farms & some streets in town).
In November 2018, one Friday afternoon, I walked up the High Street and noticed the languages spoken between couples (a couple being two people talking with each other, male-male, male-female or female-female). I heard clearly enough with 8 couples as I walked by, of those 1 spoke English, 1 spoke an Indian sub-continent language, and 6 spoke East European languages. I repeated my unscientific observation at about the same time on a Friday afternoon last month, and could guess at 9 conversations. 5 spoke English and 4 spoke an Eastern European language. We've also had the town's two 'Polish Food' shops change their names to 'European Food' shops. Anecdotally, talking to parents, the schools now only have to cope with 1 non-English speaker per class rather than 2 or 3 just a few years ago.
There is still pressure on housing, but it doesn't feel as bad as it was.
All very unscientific, I know, but I'm trying to set the scene.
With regards to the NHS & numbers of non-UK origin people working for it. I am not sure. Round here we've always seemed to have had a lot of nursing staff from Nigeria, Thailand & S Africa and Doctors from the Indian Subcontinent & Nigeria (actually, I don't know of a UK origin GP in the borough - there may be, just don't know of them and I know of 10 GP's). I think I have only ever met one person from Continental Europe in the local bits of the NHS I've had contact with over the years (GP's, Maternity, A&E, Cardiovascular, Opthalmic, Osteopathy, ENT, Physiotherapy, Imaging & Mental Health). That lone European was a fantastic Midwife from the Netherlands who came to the UK because she believed in analgesia during childbirth and said it was highly unusual in the Netherlands.
Money. Ah yes money to the NHS.
Never enough.
But, I would like to consider something, as comparisons between nations can be interesting.
In 2018 the NHS was suffering 'funding cuts' and nowhere enough money. At that point France seemed to have relatively fewer problems in its health system than the UK. So, one would assume that the French levels of funding were much higher. Double maybe? Maybe that's too much, but there seems to have been a fair difference in quality difference between the two health care systems.
So, let's look at the actual spend per head in 2018. I dug out an EU comparison chart.
France: 3969 Euros per person.
UK: 3646 Euros per person.
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https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/produ ... 20201202-1)
Is that 320 Euro per person per year enough to pay for the difference in quality between the French & British systems, or is there a value for money, management & efficiency problem in the NHS? I think the latter. Possibly driven by the fact the civil service has such a close oversight that the managers cannot try to make their little area better without interference.
Ah well. All this is speculation & doesn't help a particular case at all.
We are going to do what we can and will keep doing so.
But go to our MP? Oh no. Not a chance.
At least this one lives in the constituency, unlike the last who had a divorce & left the constituency & refused to tell anyone where he lived. In the last full five year Parliament our MP's name was recorded 4 times in Hansard - the only place where I can get
evidence of their work. Politicians say lots, but evidence trumps everything. Two of those records were when he was being referred to by other members in a debate. So, he spoke in the house twice in 5 years. <sarcasm> Yeah. Those are the actions of someone who is utterly dedicated to the welfare of his constituents. </sarcasm>
Regards,
Richard.
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just in case. 
I hope that you both get over these nasty symptoms ASAP. These jabs are Supposed to be giving us peace of mind and protection ,not make us wish that we'd never bothered!! 
