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Strangely , my post code says I am in one of the worse places possible. However I got instant ED clinic and free pump with demo. My GP prescribed me with all PDE5 event doses of drugs and both injections.
The one thing I desperately needed was Cialis 5 mg which they wouldn't give me , but after a fight hey are now prescribing it.
I come under Hampshire West. Strangely the one thing they do provide is psychological services.

Apparently,

here in Pembrokeshire, I can have access to brilliant services regarding E.D. However, I have had problems with E.D. since I got diagnosed with type2 diabetes. For many years, my wife got by with how things were. I used cialis, but it wasn't an exact cure, but did help.

Since I got diagnosed with PCa, my wife herself has developed her own problems and has no libido at all. This doesn't bother us too much. We still love each other, as we always have done. We are now intimate with each other in a different way.  Neither of us are upset with this situation, we just get on with life as it is. No problem at all.

Frank.

Hi Hollie,

I used to work for a public sector organisation (not the NHS) and part of my job was to respond to FOI requests.

Now dealing with those FOI requests wasn't a central, let alone crucial part, of my role.  When I was feeling positive I found researching the facts required for FOI requests a welcome distraction to my main job, but when I was busy, or harassed, FOI's were a pain in the arse!

One of the problems is that they have pretty tight time deadlines, this is good from the journalists perspective, in that you know you are going to get a response by a certain date.  However for the poor sod to whom these tasks are delegated, it generally means there is scant time to gather facts, let alone check their accuracy.

My managers showed absolutely no interest in FOI, other than I would get the occasional query about how much we could legally redact, and no one ever checked the accuracy of my responses, basically I think that while some of them were pretty accurate, a lot of them were not.

So if the response from your membership is at odds with your FOI 'facts', I should trust the membership, because you might find the FOI requests were compiled by some administrator who had never been anywhere near the wards or out-patient clinics of their hospitals?

:)

Dave 

Hi Lynn,

There is an interesting piece in today's Daily Telegraph, by Dominic Raab, now admittedly he is a pro Brexit Tory MP so you must bear that caveat in mind.

The article queries why the experts so frequently get things wrong?

He goes on to disclose that the Bank of England's "conjectural analysis team" measure the number of articles citing the words 'economic uncertainty' published in the Financial Times, the Times, the Guardian and the Independent.  This data is then used to forecast GDP, economic growth, inflation and future government borrowing.

It really does beggar belief that we pay these experts, six figure salaries, to basically read newspapers.

Then when you bare in mind that the journalists are basing their stories on 'facts' gleaned from FOI requests, it gets rather disturbing.

There was a similar bit on the radio the other day, apparently someone at the NHS measures how many times the word 'flu' is tweeted, and they reckon that is the best way of predicting an epidemic.

Personally I just wish there was a newspaper journalist who could predict tomorrow's winner in the 3:30 at Doncaster, but then again if he picked too many winners he would no doubt be recruited onto the Monetary Policy Committee?

:)

Dave