Online voices

STORY:

As Brexit looms, the NHS desperately needs staff to stay - and that means fixing burnout culture.

Stephen Elliott:

Historically the NHS has been very bad at recruitment anyway, over the past 20 years alone i have spoken to many friends who are midwives, nurses and in some cases doctors and their own experience have advised of posts taking up to to 6 months to advertise alone because of red tape.

Steve Makka:

You know I’m probably gonna get attacked for this but when my son broke his arm, we had to go to hospital once a fortnight for about 3 month and there was that many staff they were failing over themselves to give us the little appointment sheet. Recently my mother has had an operation and when we visited there was always 5/6 members of staff on the ward chatting at the main desk, which I have no problem them doing, now I’m sure it’s a stressful job and like anything in that regards ie firefighter, you should know what you’re signing up to.

STORY:

Emergency repairs have been taking place on a burst water main in Sunderland, which saw a number of the city’s postcode areas face

issues with their supply. Bryony Jade Fucile:

Absolutely brilliant they managed to fix this so quickly. Thames Water took two months to fix water mains down one road, big well done to Northimbrian Water!

Steve Spurs:

Well done to the lads who fixed it back on when I got up for work but they worked all night so this could happen.

STORY:

November 1 will mark the one-year anniversary of the legalisation of medical cannabis in the United Kingdom. Do you think the laws around cannabis should be reconsidered?

Chris Mini Haswell:

Should be completely legalised for all purposes including food and. The possibilities are endless. We'll be left behind if we don't have complete legalisation.

Steve Brennan:

All drugs should be legalised.

Liam Keegan:

Just look at what Portugal have achieved by doing just that, crime rates and addiction rates have massively fallen.