Perhaps we all need to get air conditioning in the UK, because there is definitely a lack of it. I guess that for most of the time the weather is neither hot nor particularly cold and you don’t need air conditioning for that. But when the temperature hits the 90s well that is hot for us poor old Brits! I know that this is nothing for some of you people from across the pond who don’t even melt when faced with proper hot weather, but I don’t seem designed for this unless I am sitting on a sun bed under an umbrella sipping a cool drink and reading a book. Only 2 weeks till that can happen and counting.

So how is the good old NHS? Well it seems to be hanging on just about. When they announced the possibility of redundancies, people began queuing for pension forecasts to get early retirement. That has really freaked out the powers that be. After all, they go on about the demographic time bomb. You know where half of the staff are so old they will retire within 5 years or something (might be more as writing this off the top of my head). Plus if they suddenly decide they need more staff, who exactly is going to do this stuff? Having said that, there is some really great work going on with clinical service redesign, I am just not sure what is driving it. Is it the wants and needs of patients or the need to save money? We wait to find out!

In our place, the directors are beginning the process of applying for jobs. Well they don’t actually know what jobs they can apply for yet, but they can apply to find out if they are fit to be directors. I could save some people the bother of the application, but sadly it isn’t up to me!! I am toying with the idea of an NHS board game, kind of along the lines of Going for Broke (a game I had as a child, where you have to lose as much money as possible). I might be good at that; lets just say the director of finance is unaware of the state of my personal finances.

Speaking of which, I am making some progress. I am learning how to live within my (what should be ample) means, not to use credit and I have sold things. A book on Amazon and a freeview thing on e-bay. I could get good at this stuff, perhaps in the future I could be selling the board game to the unsuspecting customer of online trading companies. Seems like the heat tends to melt the brain, I am becoming deluded again!