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You're just trolling. (I've seen your numerous anglophobic posts in the past.)
The solution is simple: stop the current UK government from funding refugees and giving £billions of UK taxmoney each year to help other nations. UK taxmoney should be spent on helping British people first and on funding the NHS.
Staff shortages are another problem with the underfunded NHS.
Some elderly people have problems with eating and swallowing. (I know because as a teenager when I still lived in the countryside, I used to work part-time as a care assistant in elderly peoples homes ... and spoon-feeding some of the patients would take a long time and required a lot of patience... as some very elderly people struggled to open their mouths and swallow even a small teaspoon of food.)
It took me 30-45 minutes sometimes just to gently spoon-feed an elderly and extremely frail poor lady with a small bowl of warm soup, as she wouldn't open her mouth much.
I'd patiently take my time with feeding her... as most times whenever I lifted the spoon to her mouth - she wouldn't open her mouth. I'd talk very gently to her and she'd smile and quietly say 'thank you dear' to me after she'd successfully swallowed each spoonful of soup... which was really sweet of her to say 'thank you dear' after swallowing each spoonful. I remember her name was Lily and she was so thin and quiet and frail, with a thin layer of white hair on her head that reminded me of an angelical halo on her head.
But the more experienced and older care assistants (who were in their twenties at the time) would sometimes get a bit annoyed and they'd impatiently tell me that I was taking too long with feeding Lily.... and one of them would snatch the bowl of soup from my hands and she'd start quickly ramming large spoonfuls of food into Lily's mouth, and she shouted impatiently at her and she'd tell me that Lily was 'misbehaving' and 'playing-up' by not opening her mouth during mealtimes... and I'd see tears in her eyes when they shoved the food quickly into her mouth, and I felt very sad for her as I know she liked to take her time with being spoon-fed meals.
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I'm surprised they took me on as a p/t care assistant as I didn't have any qualifications related to the industry, nor any experience... they didn't even ask for references or background checks, which I found a bit shocking.... but I just happened to live locally and was looking for some spare work after secondary school, and the manager briefly interviewed me and was eager for some extra help for low pay outside of my school hours as I was 16 at the time.
They didn't pay me much and I felt a bit used by the more experienced and adult staff.
I'd visit the place voluntarily for a few hours outside of my work hours there sometimes - just to sit and play board games with the patients or to play on the piano in the living room area of the care home to the patients... just friendly unpaid visits that I'd make sometimes to the care home outside of my work hours.
Another time I volunteered outside of my work hours to help to take the elderly people out to a countryside cafe in a mobility van. I didn't drive it, but I helped to feed the patients in a pretty little countryside cafe and helped to clean-up their vomit when some of them started vomiting a lot in the cafe.
An elderly man with serious mental health problems would try to attack the care assistants by pinching people hard with his fingers, and throwing things at people, and making scary screeching noises whenever people went into his room to gently lift him together and bathe him, and to give him his medications, comfort and talk to him, feed him, help him with the toilet, change his clothing and bedding and bed-pads, etc, as he used to wet his bed and clothing a lot and it smelt very bad. His skin was very flaky and there used to be a load of dead skin cells each evening all over his clothes and bedding that we had to clean.
It's very sad seeing some of the very weak and elderly people in care homes, but it also makes you appreciate being healthy and living each day of your life. Everyone needs someone to help and take care of them at some point in life though, and giving some of your spare time to help try to make their lives as comfortable and pleasant as possible is a nice feeling too.
Also, I agree with the UKIP political party that health tourists who've never contributed any tax-funding to our nation should be prevented from being able to abuse the UK's free healthcare system.
I'd be more concerned about obesity in the UK being the larger problem. This certainly isn't a nation where famine is a concern - like you're ridiculously trying to portray and imply by sarcastically stating that other nations should donate food and water to the UK. Obese peoples healthcare costs UK taxpayers £millions each year - and costs more money than the amount spent on funding our police and fire services combined.
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