Jack Barsdell takes on Josh YounieA hat trick from centre forward Charlie Urry ensured victory for Ventnor in the final game of the 2023/24 Isle of Wight football season at the Peter Henry ground on Friday evening. Ventnor began the game without captain and prolific scorer Emerson Tattersall. High Park included Newport’s Josh Younie in their starting line up. The South Island side – playing down the slope in the 1st half – began the game on the front foot with Jack Barsdell backheeling the ball into the path of Charlie Urry on the edge of the penalty area for the centre forward to curl the ball past High Park keeper Kieran Williams and into the right side of the goal after just 30 seconds (0-1). High Park were unfortunate when denied a clear penalty in the 8th minute when their centre forward Dan Robjant appeared to have been taken out by Ventnor keeper Dan Russell. Ventnor doubled their lead on the quarter hour mark after Barsdell had sent a high cross into the path of Urry who headed the ball into the goal from close range (0-2). Memorial Cup Final: High Park v Ventnor High Park then had 2 of their starting line up – Zak Younie and Kyle Kilroy – forced off injured to be replaced by Isaac Marley and Chris Dibsdale. However – to their credit – High Park battled gamely with Josh Younie shooting over the crossbar in the 22nd minute. Nathan Holton then gave High Park a lifeline in the 38th minute by volleying the ball past Russell from a 38th minute corner (1-2). Half time: High Park 1-2 VentnorMemorial Cup final: High Park v Ventnor The 2nd half was an even affair until the closing stages of the game when Ventnor extended their goal advantage. Ventnor began the 2nd half with a flurry of chances, with Urry sending the ball just past the upright on 3 occasions, and Frddie Knowles striking the crossbar from a 54th minute free kick. High Park had a golden opportunity to equalise on the hour mark when John Robjant found himself unmarked in the Ventnor penalty area but could only send his effort past the right post. With 15 minutes remaining, High Park came close to levelling the score, with Dan Robjant rattling the left post. Memorial Cup Final: High Park v Ventnor The final minutes of the game went Ventnor’s way: a minute from full time Neo Lamb saw his header clatter off the crossbar for Martin Barrow to provide the finishing touch (1-3) Urry then secured his hat trick by poking the ball into the goal from 5 yards in the 7th minute of injury time (1-4). The match – which many had predicted would be a fiery encounter – produced only 1 booking towards the end of the game. Full time: High Park 1-4 VentnorVentnor win Memorial cupHigh Park: Williams, Jenson, Foster, J. Younie, Holton, Hunt, J. Robjant, Galloway, D. Robjant, Z. Younie, Kilroy Subs: Marley, Wu, Dibsdale Ventnor: Russell, S. Mullholland, Illman, S. Gee (c), Lamb, Knowles, H. Mullholland, Barrow, Urry, R. Gee, Barsdell Subs: Groundsell, Franklin, Rowland Man-of-the-match: Charlie Urry (Ventnor) Man-of-the-match Charlie Urry Ventnor finish their season 3rd in Harwoods Division 1, finalists in the Island Echo Challenge Cup, and winners of the Memorial Cup. Last season, the South Wight side plied their trade in Division 2. They are expected to further strengthen their side ahead of the 2024/25 season. Ventnor collect winners’ medals High Park return to Harwoods Division 2 next year. Sadly, it appears High Park Reserves – who won Combination 2 – will be denied their chance of further silverware as the Junior B cup final will not be played due to clubs fielding illegible players over the course of the competition. High Park collect runners up medals
You now need to register for an account to comment on the Island Echo website. Simply click 'sign up' above, or login.
70 Comments
Oldest
NewestMost Voted
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
Ben
7 months ago
I have got a great idea why not build loads of new houses? So lots of people can move over and just hope that some of them can work in the hospital
Meat
7 months ago
Why is doing your effing job now considered ‘pressure’????????
Victoria
7 months ago
I bet that’s not in the ongoing housing strategy. How can the Council justify building so many more houses without addressing the current and future medical shortfalls. The hospital staff, GP’s, etc. are working ridiculous hours with inadequate resources and the Council doesnt have the balls to say to the government ‘no more housing’ and that the single small island hospital cant cope with taking on so many more residents. It beggers belief.
Indeed, but while the IWC are responsible for housing they have no control over NHS which is down to central government, Lack of joined up thinking equals the shambles we see today.
Paul lycas
7 months ago
Build more houses as…. council don’t care about the repercussions it will cause at the hospital.
Widget
7 months ago
“We currently have a high number of people in hospital beds who are waiting for onward care arrangements in the community”
Anyone like to suggest where we get the, literally, 100s of care workers we need on the Island.
Yes, we have plenty of parents, who BECAUSE of the old ‘tax credits’ now ‘universal credits’ are better off ONLY working 16 hours a week, or 20 if a couple.
For IF they work any more hours than that, then their heavily subsidised or free rent and council tax is taken pound for pound making them NO better off from working more hours.
The benefit system is WAY too generous if you have a child or children.
Whilst the £20+ child benefit was all you used to get, now you get hundreds a week and many other benefits as in extra food heating, gym membership, dental care, school dinners, uniform, making MORE hours NOT PAY.
So imm’s come, but soon DO THE SAME, so they bring in more, who then soon do the same, etc etc. CUT benefits!
Indeed.Invade our shores via dinghies,fertilise the nearest harridan with ticking-bio-clock,become ensconsed with home,NHS,sky package (with always a weather eye for more of an ‘advantageous partner upgrade’) Almost done to a military template albeit in vaster numbers nationwide but very much a case of the (pen is) mightier than the sword and with infinite ammunition ?
As l believe honest yeoman of the parish,Mr J-Rotten once memorably stated ”Ever feel you’ve been cheated” ? Kalergi-Plan,pure and simple.
That’s fair comment in that it is no reflection on those who toil at St Mary’s but the health care provision on the island IS inadequate and any rise in demand (not sure about epidemic of farting !) and we’re in trouble.
Miss Sensible
7 months ago
And this before we have all the new builds,…….
No need to say more ……
karen
7 months ago
Those poor staff. Those poor patients. If only we had a government who proposed not only to fund them properly but also time out and not renew the PFI contracts which cost the NHS over half a billion quid every year in interest payments….
ExtraD
7 months ago
Oh no, Im a bit muddy, guess I’ll pop down there for some medical attention.
YJC
7 months ago
Oh here is an idea. Lets go back to when the island had five hospitals and the population was two thirds it is now.
We were all told this new state-of-the art hospital would be the be end and end all and solve everything.
Stan the man
7 months ago
Unfortunately our nhs is being drained by ‘mental health’ and ‘people who ‘don’t work’ add the ones who Know how to ‘work the system’ as well as the ‘single mums’ who pop on facebook to say ‘I’ve just checked’ I did my time in the services and marched on the Falklands went to Iraq but what for? Our country and island is doomed by the snowflakes and non working population! Let’s stop giving to the no goods and ones who can pop out babies and make them work for their money!! Time to stand up to the wasters and protect out nhs!
Single mum’s weren’t single when their children were produced. Given the amount of men who say ‘a child? hell no’ and run for cover maybe we should stop treating them? Or maybe treat them once by giving them the snip…if you can’t support the one you did have, then don’t have any more. What about those children of single parents? What about widows? Are they worthy? Mental health patients can have bi-polar, schizophrenia, psychosis….untreated by your standards may lead us all to be at risk from their mental health….what’s your considered opinion there then? OR….we could change the government and get a funded NHS which treats everyone.
Why are single Mum’s always getting slated when it’s the men that often abandoned their responsibilities or abuse their partners so that they have no choice to leave in order to provide their child a healthy future. Why is it always women who get the end of the stick whilst men walk around getting away with everything!?
UK hospitals are actually overwhelmed due to poor management, lack of sufficient trained staff because of poor planning, and an increasingly sickly population mainly as a consequence of the obesity epidemic. The best thing that people can do to support the NHS is to lose weight if they are fat or obese. Being fat is the worst possible thing for your health. Take responsibility for your own health.
Yes take responsibility as far as possible but it has been chronically underfunded for years and then subject to PFI initiatives which take money for shiny new buildings which then decreases the money left for the staff and services needed for it to run properly. Because the PFI owners now own the infrastructure, they can charge the NHS what they like for repairs….in some instances hundreds of pounds just to change a lightbulb. That takes the money away from the needed care. Read up on it…it’s an eye-opener.
“Initially launched in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, and expanded considerably by the Blair government, PFI is part of the wider programme of privatisation and financialisation, and presented as a means for increasing accountability and efficiency for public spending”. “Two months after Tony Blair’s Labour Party took office, the Health Secretary, Alan Milburn, announced that “when there is a limited amount of public-sector capital available, as there is, it’s PFI or bust”. PFI expanded considerably in 1996 and then expanded much further under Labour with the NHS (Private Finance) Act 1997, resulting in criticism from many trade unions, elements of the Labour Party, the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Green Party, and others.”
QED
And avoid antibiotics as much as possible.If NOT possible,get the gut-flora, which the antibiotics destroy,rebuilt pronto with sauerkraut or kimchi.The immune system is in the gut,see why ‘they’ are attacking this on multiple levels?
For Banking/mineral and political theatrical interests as with all wars.
Jonny
7 months ago
And our dopey council give planning permission for more houses!
Liz
7 months ago
And still the house building goes on !!
Gottalarf
7 months ago
Pathetic…..
May as well just jump off Tennyson as getting old on the IoW is considered a burden and a crime….
Dave Rose
7 months ago
I have spent today in St Mary’s A & E Department as an elderly relative of mine was admitted early this morning. The staff doing a fantastic job in the overcrowded wards with patients in corridors and ambulances stacked up as no beds inside. Back at 7pm and the some of same patients have not moved since this morning.
I grew up in Newport in the mid 1950’s there were several hospitals – St Mary’s, Ryde Hospital, Ventnor Hospital and Frank James Hospital in East Cowes. I don’t have the population figures for then, but we had all those hospitals. Now – and obviously in the future – the population is massively bigger and getting a higher age population, yet we now only have one hospital. Surely time for another hospital ?
Population was roughly 50 million. It’s now close to 70. Anyone seen one of the 40 hospitals Boris said was going to be built? No, me neither. Seriously bad governance in the last 14 years caused this.
It doesn’t matter how much money they thrown at the NHS, their biggest problem is being poorly managed by incompetents Hospitals used to be organised, and very functional.. now just badly run hotels !! With many levels of management that cannot manage .
My daughter is a nurse, a career she loves but front end staff are treated as badly by hospital’s so called management, also wanting more money, but delivering no more .
Part of the problem is that we are not in the 1950s anymore and the treatments, both life saving and elective, that are available have expanded massively. Consequently our expectations have increased enormously. This is all to the good, but investment has not increased in line with demand. The beguiling idea that a return to the god old days of cottage hospitals would be a solution to our current problems is a sepia tinted fantasy.
Now now, you can’t state the bleeding obvious! You will upset to many. Today in this world you can’t tell the truth, because most can’t handle the truth. Just sit back and watch, the carnage will speak for it’s self.
TIm H
7 months ago
Now this is a surprise as more people living on the IOW and only 1 Hospital Meanwhile Camp Hill over the road has been closed since 2013 and surely could be used as a respite centre to take the pressure off St Marys and its staff!!
You’re an idiot. I was up there yesterday with my father who’s in for cancer. He was wheeled in in a reception area not a ward where there were at least 10 other patients. 2 of them high on heroine and one being abusive to one of the nurses. It’s totally over crowded which is no fault of the nurses and doctors. You try and work in that environment! Let’s hope you don’t get admitted this week to St Mary’s. Prick!
Just go a poke your head around A&E and the acute assessment unit you’ll see them all in the corridors and yes there were 2 patients that were in that were coming down off of drugs. 1 x male with a sheet over his head sat in a chair talking to himself and his wrist shaking and the other a woman sat up on a bed with security watching over her.
bobiow
7 months ago
And this is before all the extra houses have been built and occupied.
Jo blogs
7 months ago
A growing population on the island, meaning St Mary’s can’t cope…..Its going too get worse juring the summer months….
The island population has never increased exponentially. Slow linear growth has occurred and it has slowed over recent decades. In fact, between 2011 and 2021, the increase was only 1.5% (compared with 7% on the mainland) UK hospitals are actually overwhelmed due to poor management, lack of sufficient trained staff because of poor planning, and an increasingly sickly population mainly as a consequence of the obesity epidemic. The best thing that people can do to support the NHS is to lose weight if they are fat or obese. Being fat is the worst possible thing for your health.
Your both right. Bear in mind also that on the mainland when a hospital has a temporary crisis they can send patients to a hospital 30 mins in the other direction. In this respect, our beloved Solent does us no favour.
Juring? Don’t allude to being thick, just come out and say so!
Mackers
7 months ago
And of course the extra 70 homes on greenfield land in Shalfleet are far more important than improving our social infrastructure. You couldn’t make it up, we need a bigger hospital, we need many more Dental and GP surgeries for just the current number of homes. Things are going to get much worse before/if they ever get better.
Stark Reminder
7 months ago
Blame the lazy managers who do nothing but run the frontline staff into the ground and treat them like s**t, get the managers out of there cocoon like offices and get them to some some “real” work, oh hang on they wouldn’t have a clue how the “real” jobs are done, silly me.
Zippy
7 months ago
The NHS needs reforming, there is so much money wasted! There is no point throwing money at a broken system, change it and then fund it properly.
Ah, that dreaded word ! Why not look at countries with far better health outcomes than us : France, Netherlands, Austria, etc, see how they fund healthcare, copy and paste.
Completely agree, having witnessed the wastage firsthand. You would be amazed at what some hospital trusts throw our money at, wasteful doesn’t cover it.There is a total lack of control of resources and a ‘bottemless pot of cash’ mentality within the institution.They rely on our emotional attachment that the majority of the nation has for the NHS. The reality, I’m afraid is very different. We are in different times now compared to why and when the NHS was formed and our culture has changed dramatically.
It needs to be re formed with a tiered system, based on the type of treatment needed and the ability to pay.Problem is, it is a huge job and would take decades to implement.
Too many only work 16/20 hrs p week pay no tax, but get 100’s a week in benefits
So imm’s were bought in, but, soon as safely here, many of them take on the Chav’s way of just having scattered kids, to provide a good income and lifestyle, so instead of making it better, they add to our woes.
Money needs to be cut to the bone, and only food and clothing vouchers issued for those who have children, as now it doesn’t PAY to work full time if you have a child, hence many don’t.
Imms were thought the answer, but they are not silly and once established do the same, adding to housing, and costs for tax payers. Hence a never ending supply of them ruining all our lives as we can’t cope with the amount.
Noodles
7 months ago
With all extra houses , people moving here,it needs to stop and put the hospital 1st ,oh wait council don’t care more council tax comes 1st
stuart derry
7 months ago
cry more about housing, it’s nothing to do with it lol
A Graham
7 months ago
The NHS is in managed decline. They are underfunded,thousands of beds have been cut and there have been ward closures across the NHS. That is always going to add pressure and this crisis is nothing new. Lack of available doctors appointments and delayed diagnosis due to the pandemic adds to the mix as well as the NHS scrambles to catch up. Added to that the thousands of vaccine injured who now have serious heart conditions,new types of blood clots, strokes and very aggressive fast growing cancers make this situation untenable.
Uninformed drivel from A Graham. Stop spreading lies. Increasing evidence actually shows that their is an increased likelihood of cardiac arrest in people who had COVID-19, particularly the most virulent strains. The virus caused lasting damage in those badly affected by COVID-19 and especially those with long COVID. Immunized people are not similarly affected.
Cambridge don
7 months ago
‘Safe and Effective’
Meme
7 months ago
Just built another hospital in another town to take some pressure away from st marys
Rob
7 months ago
The nhs have there self to blame because they could of kept frank James hospital in east cowes open and Ryde hospital open so there wouldn’t be any bed blocking
Sloop John B.
4 months ago
Why do footballers find it normal to strip naked in front of their work mates after they have finished doing what they are paid to do.?
Can you imagine working in McDonald’s and your workmate just made an order for a big Mac meal with a large milkshake, then he strips naked and hugs you and asks you to join him in the bath.?
Absolutely pathetic they should grow up and keep their clothes on.
I have got a great idea why not build loads of new houses? So lots of people can move over and just hope that some of them can work in the hospital
Why is doing your effing job now considered ‘pressure’????????
I bet that’s not in the ongoing housing strategy. How can the Council justify building so many more houses without addressing the current and future medical shortfalls. The hospital staff, GP’s, etc. are working ridiculous hours with inadequate resources and the Council doesnt have the balls to say to the government ‘no more housing’ and that the single small island hospital cant cope with taking on so many more residents. It beggers belief.
Indeed, but while the IWC are responsible for housing they have no control over NHS which is down to central government, Lack of joined up thinking equals the shambles we see today.
Build more houses as…. council don’t care about the repercussions it will cause at the hospital.
“We currently have a high number of people in hospital beds who are waiting for onward care arrangements in the community”
Anyone like to suggest where we get the, literally, 100s of care workers we need on the Island.
Yes, we have plenty of parents, who BECAUSE of the old ‘tax credits’ now ‘universal credits’ are better off ONLY working 16 hours a week, or 20 if a couple.
For IF they work any more hours than that, then their heavily subsidised or free rent and council tax is taken pound for pound making them NO better off from working more hours.
The benefit system is WAY too generous if you have a child or children.
Whilst the £20+ child benefit was all you used to get, now you get hundreds a week and many other benefits as in extra food heating, gym membership, dental care, school dinners, uniform, making MORE hours NOT PAY.
So imm’s come, but soon DO THE SAME, so they bring in more, who then soon do the same, etc etc. CUT benefits!
Indeed.Invade our shores via dinghies,fertilise the nearest harridan with ticking-bio-clock,become ensconsed with home,NHS,sky package (with always a weather eye for more of an ‘advantageous partner upgrade’) Almost done to a military template albeit in vaster numbers nationwide but very much a case of the (pen is) mightier than the sword and with infinite ammunition ?
As l believe honest yeoman of the parish,Mr J-Rotten once memorably stated ”Ever feel you’ve been cheated” ? Kalergi-Plan,pure and simple.
Maybe Sunak does have an answer?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/personalfinance/sunak-to-cut-benefits-to-scrap-national-insurance/ar-BB1jDMSp
Here we go again, someone farted and St Mary’s are overwhelmed again!.
That’s fair comment in that it is no reflection on those who toil at St Mary’s but the health care provision on the island IS inadequate and any rise in demand (not sure about epidemic of farting !) and we’re in trouble.
And this before we have all the new builds,…….
No need to say more ……
Those poor staff. Those poor patients. If only we had a government who proposed not only to fund them properly but also time out and not renew the PFI contracts which cost the NHS over half a billion quid every year in interest payments….
Oh no, Im a bit muddy, guess I’ll pop down there for some medical attention.
Oh here is an idea. Lets go back to when the island had five hospitals and the population was two thirds it is now.
We were all told this new state-of-the art hospital would be the be end and end all and solve everything.
Unfortunately our nhs is being drained by ‘mental health’ and ‘people who ‘don’t work’ add the ones who Know how to ‘work the system’ as well as the ‘single mums’ who pop on facebook to say ‘I’ve just checked’ I did my time in the services and marched on the Falklands went to Iraq but what for? Our country and island is doomed by the snowflakes and non working population! Let’s stop giving to the no goods and ones who can pop out babies and make them work for their money!! Time to stand up to the wasters and protect out nhs!
Single mum’s weren’t single when their children were produced. Given the amount of men who say ‘a child? hell no’ and run for cover maybe we should stop treating them? Or maybe treat them once by giving them the snip…if you can’t support the one you did have, then don’t have any more. What about those children of single parents? What about widows? Are they worthy? Mental health patients can have bi-polar, schizophrenia, psychosis….untreated by your standards may lead us all to be at risk from their mental health….what’s your considered opinion there then? OR….we could change the government and get a funded NHS which treats everyone.
Why are single Mum’s always getting slated when it’s the men that often abandoned their responsibilities or abuse their partners so that they have no choice to leave in order to provide their child a healthy future. Why is it always women who get the end of the stick whilst men walk around getting away with everything!?
UK hospitals are actually overwhelmed due to poor management, lack of sufficient trained staff because of poor planning, and an increasingly sickly population mainly as a consequence of the obesity epidemic. The best thing that people can do to support the NHS is to lose weight if they are fat or obese. Being fat is the worst possible thing for your health. Take responsibility for your own health.
Yes take responsibility as far as possible but it has been chronically underfunded for years and then subject to PFI initiatives which take money for shiny new buildings which then decreases the money left for the staff and services needed for it to run properly. Because the PFI owners now own the infrastructure, they can charge the NHS what they like for repairs….in some instances hundreds of pounds just to change a lightbulb. That takes the money away from the needed care. Read up on it…it’s an eye-opener.
“Initially launched in 1992 by Prime Minister John Major, and expanded considerably by the Blair government, PFI is part of the wider programme of privatisation and financialisation, and presented as a means for increasing accountability and efficiency for public spending”. “Two months after Tony Blair’s Labour Party took office, the Health Secretary, Alan Milburn, announced that “when there is a limited amount of public-sector capital available, as there is, it’s PFI or bust”. PFI expanded considerably in 1996 and then expanded much further under Labour with the NHS (Private Finance) Act 1997, resulting in criticism from many trade unions, elements of the Labour Party, the Scottish National Party (SNP), the Green Party, and others.”
QED
And avoid antibiotics as much as possible.If NOT possible,get the gut-flora, which the antibiotics destroy,rebuilt pronto with sauerkraut or kimchi.The immune system is in the gut,see why ‘they’ are attacking this on multiple levels?
For Banking/mineral and political theatrical interests as with all wars.
And our dopey council give planning permission for more houses!
And still the house building goes on !!
Pathetic…..
May as well just jump off Tennyson as getting old on the IoW is considered a burden and a crime….
I have spent today in St Mary’s A & E Department as an elderly relative of mine was admitted early this morning. The staff doing a fantastic job in the overcrowded wards with patients in corridors and ambulances stacked up as no beds inside. Back at 7pm and the some of same patients have not moved since this morning.
I grew up in Newport in the mid 1950’s there were several hospitals – St Mary’s, Ryde Hospital, Ventnor Hospital and Frank James Hospital in East Cowes. I don’t have the population figures for then, but we had all those hospitals. Now – and obviously in the future – the population is massively bigger and getting a higher age population, yet we now only have one hospital. Surely time for another hospital ?
There were five hospitals – including the Cottage Hospital in Shanklin.
Population was roughly 50 million. It’s now close to 70. Anyone seen one of the 40 hospitals Boris said was going to be built? No, me neither. Seriously bad governance in the last 14 years caused this.
It doesn’t matter how much money they thrown at the NHS, their biggest problem is being poorly managed by incompetents Hospitals used to be organised, and very functional.. now just badly run hotels !! With many levels of management that cannot manage .
My daughter is a nurse, a career she loves but front end staff are treated as badly by hospital’s so called management, also wanting more money, but delivering no more .
Part of the problem is that we are not in the 1950s anymore and the treatments, both life saving and elective, that are available have expanded massively. Consequently our expectations have increased enormously. This is all to the good, but investment has not increased in line with demand. The beguiling idea that a return to the god old days of cottage hospitals would be a solution to our current problems is a sepia tinted fantasy.
Better get those boosters
Now now, you can’t state the bleeding obvious! You will upset to many. Today in this world you can’t tell the truth, because most can’t handle the truth. Just sit back and watch, the carnage will speak for it’s self.
Now this is a surprise as more people living on the IOW and only 1 Hospital Meanwhile Camp Hill over the road has been closed since 2013 and surely could be used as a respite centre to take the pressure off St Marys and its staff!!
Or open Camp Hill back up as a prison and start housing more offenders, rather than giving them Community Service Orders.
YAWN, fed up with hearing how you can’t do the job we pay you for.
You’re an idiot. I was up there yesterday with my father who’s in for cancer. He was wheeled in in a reception area not a ward where there were at least 10 other patients. 2 of them high on heroine and one being abusive to one of the nurses. It’s totally over crowded which is no fault of the nurses and doctors. You try and work in that environment! Let’s hope you don’t get admitted this week to St Mary’s. Prick!
Bullshit story lmao
Well said, sir.
IF, you’re story is true, I wish your father and you all the best.
Life will hurt without him.
Just go a poke your head around A&E and the acute assessment unit you’ll see them all in the corridors and yes there were 2 patients that were in that were coming down off of drugs. 1 x male with a sheet over his head sat in a chair talking to himself and his wrist shaking and the other a woman sat up on a bed with security watching over her.
And this is before all the extra houses have been built and occupied.
A growing population on the island, meaning St Mary’s can’t cope…..Its going too get worse juring the summer months….
no it’s the ageing population
So, you’re saying that the Island population hasn’t increased exponentially over the past decade or two?
And, that the Council isn’t giving planning permission to build hundreds, if not thousands, of more new homes?
Yes, nothing to do with any of that, obviously.
The island population has never increased exponentially. Slow linear growth has occurred and it has slowed over recent decades. In fact, between 2011 and 2021, the increase was only 1.5% (compared with 7% on the mainland)
UK hospitals are actually overwhelmed due to poor management, lack of sufficient trained staff because of poor planning, and an increasingly sickly population mainly as a consequence of the obesity epidemic. The best thing that people can do to support the NHS is to lose weight if they are fat or obese. Being fat is the worst possible thing for your health.
Your both right. Bear in mind also that on the mainland when a hospital has a temporary crisis they can send patients to a hospital 30 mins in the other direction. In this respect, our beloved Solent does us no favour.
Juring? Don’t allude to being thick, just come out and say so!
And of course the extra 70 homes on greenfield land in Shalfleet are far more important than improving our social infrastructure. You couldn’t make it up, we need a bigger hospital, we need many more Dental and GP surgeries for just the current number of homes. Things are going to get much worse before/if they ever get better.
Blame the lazy managers who do nothing but run the frontline staff into the ground and treat them like s**t, get the managers out of there cocoon like offices and get them to some some “real” work, oh hang on they wouldn’t have a clue how the “real” jobs are done, silly me.
The NHS needs reforming, there is so much money wasted! There is no point throwing money at a broken system, change it and then fund it properly.
Ah, that dreaded word ! Why not look at countries with far better health outcomes than us : France, Netherlands, Austria, etc, see how they fund healthcare, copy and paste.
No problem with that, although that is still reforming the current system lol
Completely agree, having witnessed the wastage firsthand. You would be amazed at what some hospital trusts throw our money at, wasteful doesn’t cover it.There is a total lack of control of resources and a ‘bottemless pot of cash’ mentality within the institution.They rely on our emotional attachment that the majority of the nation has for the NHS. The reality, I’m afraid is very different. We are in different times now compared to why and when the NHS was formed and our culture has changed dramatically.
It needs to be re formed with a tiered system, based on the type of treatment needed and the ability to pay.Problem is, it is a huge job and would take decades to implement.
Too many frigging pensioners bed blocking
Too many only work 16/20 hrs p week pay no tax, but get 100’s a week in benefits
So imm’s were bought in, but, soon as safely here, many of them take on the Chav’s way of just having scattered kids, to provide a good income and lifestyle, so instead of making it better, they add to our woes.
Money needs to be cut to the bone, and only food and clothing vouchers issued for those who have children, as now it doesn’t PAY to work full time if you have a child, hence many don’t.
Imms were thought the answer, but they are not silly and once established do the same, adding to housing, and costs for tax payers. Hence a never ending supply of them ruining all our lives as we can’t cope with the amount.
With all extra houses , people moving here,it needs to stop and put the hospital 1st ,oh wait council don’t care more council tax comes 1st
cry more about housing, it’s nothing to do with it lol
The NHS is in managed decline. They are underfunded,thousands of beds have been cut and there have been ward closures across the NHS. That is always going to add pressure and this crisis is nothing new. Lack of available doctors appointments and delayed diagnosis due to the pandemic adds to the mix as well as the NHS scrambles to catch up. Added to that the thousands of vaccine injured who now have serious heart conditions,new types of blood clots, strokes and very aggressive fast growing cancers make this situation untenable.
Uninformed drivel from A Graham. Stop spreading lies. Increasing evidence actually shows that their is an increased likelihood of cardiac arrest in people who had COVID-19, particularly the most virulent strains. The virus caused lasting damage in those badly affected by COVID-19 and especially those with long COVID. Immunized people are not similarly affected.
‘Safe and Effective’
Just built another hospital in another town to take some pressure away from st marys
The nhs have there self to blame because they could of kept frank James hospital in east cowes open and Ryde hospital open so there wouldn’t be any bed blocking
Why do footballers find it normal to strip naked in front of their work mates after they have finished doing what they are paid to do.?
Can you imagine working in McDonald’s and your workmate just made an order for a big Mac meal with a large milkshake, then he strips naked and hugs you and asks you to join him in the bath.?
Absolutely pathetic they should grow up and keep their clothes on.
These guys are serious about their sport and teams. So much so that emotions often dictate their actions. Be it aggressive or playful.
Perhaps you have a dull life and can’t understand what these boys feel.
Better luck next time Daryl know you must be gutted mate
They kick a ball around a field and get so excited that they strip naked and jump in a bath with other men.?
Judges are passionate about their job too, after a long trial when sentencing is passed, they don’t invite the jury to join them in the bath.
No excuse.
Your clearly still in the closet mince meat
Load of pansies, footballers are not usually the brightest bunch of people.