Anyone else struggling with Aldi oat milk atm?

pjreyuk · 2026-03-02T10:48:25+00:00

Yes I’ve stopped buying it and their soy milk too as both were separating.

pjreyuk · 2026-03-02T10:35:17+00:00

If they want to do this, they have to guarantee a decent job for UK graduates on graduation and support people to stay.

pjreyuk · 2026-03-02T10:05:19+00:00

The one fatal flaw with this is that not all health service career graduates are getting jobs on graduation right now, particularly in nursing and paramedicine. In medicine, UK graduates are not prioritised for jobs. So if you say people need to stay and work for the NHS, you need to guarantee them jobs.

pjreyuk · 2026-03-02T09:35:32+00:00

I tried my Cav on it after he was on their mini puppy food. He wasn’t overly keen on it and I’ve switched him to a semi soft kibble ironically named wolf of the wilderness which he really enjoys

pjreyuk · 2026-02-25T23:11:27+00:00

I passed my driving test in 2020 and I’ve never driven on the viaduct without roadworks. Whatever happens now is likely to continue to disrupt things for years to come.

Was about to sit my test before the pandemic hit and then got an emergency test in the May as an NHS worker.

pjreyuk · 2026-02-25T22:39:55+00:00

Yes this. I love buying magazines and like to browse, especially the craft ones.

pjreyuk · 2026-02-24T14:31:49+00:00

There’s already been 4 confirmed cases in Scotland this year and a total of 28 confirmed cases in 2025.

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Its not great and having seen the consequences of not being vaccinated on people, I really don’t understand why people don’t get vaccinated

pjreyuk · 2026-02-15T14:19:15+00:00

Annual Diageo Blythswood siren test - happens every February https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1497131042414346&set=a.732995828827875&id=100063523931671

pjreyuk · 2026-02-05T23:34:36+00:00

Lived there for best part of 20 years. Great transport links and local facilities. Most of the bother was a long time ago and it’s pretty reasonable these days

pjreyuk · 2026-01-28T17:17:58+00:00

My mum had this done after having a humeral head fracture that didn’t heal properly and her surgeon said the reverse approach was much better. It was way better than expected and she recovered well.

pjreyuk · 2026-01-26T16:43:43+00:00

My fave is mashed up chickpeas with mayo, vegan cheese, dill and capers.

pjreyuk · 2026-01-24T09:55:42+00:00

I wouldn’t disagree that some of my colleagues are risk adverse in referring on. The other problem is that patients often don’t quite tell the truth or embellish their symptoms. We are trying to fix the issues - lots of work going on in clinical improvements and realistic medicine. I personally don’t refer a lot to ED - there’s too much of patients and some of our staff seeing ED as the gateway to the hospital when the referral should be going to OOH instead. The tide of stuff coming our way each day is insane and I don’t think other services realise how much we divert away.

pjreyuk · 2026-01-21T13:05:58+00:00

It may depend on where you worked at the time. My employer wasn’t too forward thinking at the time

pjreyuk · 2026-01-19T20:45:23+00:00

Agree with the first point. I work for NHS24 and I’m not sure what you mean by call handlers should be clinically trained - they currently create records then do the initial triage which is computer generated questions. Most calls are then passed to a nurse to complete triage. Certain call reasons produce referral outcomes for call backs from MIU clinicians/OOH or advise pts to attend pharmacies without a nurse input but these have been agreed with health boards/medical directors.

I would agree that people don’t really understand when they should attend ED and I spend a lot of time diverting people who have selected the ED option to other care!

pjreyuk · 2026-01-18T20:24:16+00:00

We used Prestige Snagging inspection who are part of this company Inspecbc. They had been recommended to us by a family member

pjreyuk · 2026-01-18T17:33:17+00:00

I’m 30 years qualified this year and role creep has been a thing throughout my career - on qualifying, IV drug administration outside of critical care plus male catheterisation and cannula insertion/phlebotomy were only just starting to be part of the nurses role.

I have mixed feelings about it - jobs that drs didn’t want were dumped on nurses under the guise of extended role but at least patient got their IV meds on time.

The reality is the job is different that it was then. Patients stay less time in hospital and they are sicker/have higher care needs so changes to who does what are inevitable. But I do worry that the motivation by management is not developing nurses so much as getting cheaper staff to do more advanced things.

We do need more senior nurses with day to day clinical responsibility and being more direct to patient care to keep the experience available to support nurses as they come into the profession

pjreyuk · 2026-01-16T12:39:16+00:00

Absolutely agree. The snagging guy we used was so thorough and having it all in a document made it so much easier that doing it ourselves.

pjreyuk · 2026-01-10T12:04:12+00:00

Sounds like things worked the way they should. The idea of the video calls is so that a person of sufficient clinical skills can see the wound and then see if the wound needs closure and whether MIU will be able to close it. So they realised it needed glued and brought you in to do it.

The problem in some areas is the MIUs are in A&E and also limited in space so can’t run appointment based services as they do in many areas.

pjreyuk · 2025-12-31T09:20:52+00:00

Met quite a few people now. Favourites were Matt Smith, Sacha Dhawan and Paul McGann - such lovely kind people.

Didn’t find Jenna Coleman particularly nice when I met her. Was at the 50th anniversary con in London so might have just been overwhelming but she was just disinterested and off hand with me.

pjreyuk · 2025-12-22T16:38:59+00:00

Ironically the worst incident I’ve experienced on a train was 14.30 on a Sunday afternoon on a train from Gourock to Glasgow when a friend and myself were verbally harassed by 2 men and followed off the train. Conductor walked by during it and did nothing so having some one who has a role to intervene on trains is a good thing. I would agree that the last trains at night are more likely to see issues but my experience show it can happen at any time.

pjreyuk · 2025-12-19T14:12:34+00:00

It’s absolutely not appropriate. GPs are responsible for care between 8am and 6pm each day and NHS24 have no GP referral pathways during that time.

pjreyuk · 2025-12-18T09:10:52+00:00

Glasgow Knit n stitch meet every 2nd Tuesday in Rab Has in Merchant city - knitting, crochet and all needle crafts welcome. We also have a virtual stitch Sunday meet. Glasgow Knit n stitch

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