From a Pensioner nearly eighty.

In 2024, Age UK’s Chief Economist’s report highlighted the significant economic contributions of older people, with a focus on employment, informal caring, childcare, and volunteering, totalling £61 billion. With addition contributions to offspring, Chancellor of the exchequer and charity contributions approx. £25 billion gives a total £86 billion.

There are now more than 10 million people in the UK aged 65 and over, with a growing number of them working.

Knowledge, Skill, and Energy: Older people bring a great deal of knowledge, skill, and energy to the workforce and as volunteers.

Government spending on the state pension in 2024-25 is forecast to total £220 billion.

In 2024, pensioners contributed significantly to the British economy through spending and investments, with the total value of taxable payments withdrawn flexibly from pensions exceeding £87.6 billion since 2015.

At the start of 2025, the market value of private sector defined benefit and hybrid (DBH) pension schemes was £1.178 trillion. (Yes, a thousand billion is a trillion). Two and half of this amount would take Britian with a National Debt estimated to be £2.79 trillion out of debt for the first time since 1890. All down to pensioners and their thrift and diligence in handling money.

Cllr Louise Gittins   Chair of HCP, Leader of Cheshire West, and Chester Council

Raj Jain   Chair of NHS Cheshire and Merseyside & Vice Chair of HCP

Ellen Loudon   Vice Chair of HCP – Director of Social Justice, Diocese Liverpool,

and Canon Chancellor, Liverpool Cathedral

Cllr Sam Corcoran   Leader of the Council, Cheshire East Council

Cllr Marie Wright   Chair of Health and Wellbeing Board/Cabinet member for Health

and Wellbeing, Halton Borough Council

Cllr Christine Bannon   Health Cabinet Member, Knowsley Council

Cllr Marlene Quinn    St Helens Council

Gareth Lee   Assistant Chief Constable, Cheshire Police

Tom Walley   University of Liverpool

Cllr Maureen McLaughlin   Warrington Council

Racheal Jones   CEO of One Knowsley, VCSE Representative for Liverpool City Region

Carly Brown   Children’s Services (DCS forum- C and M)

Isla Wilson   Chair – Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust,

Provider Collaborative rep (trust in MH/LD/CS)

Dame Jo Williams   Chair of Alder Hey Children’s NHS FT, Provider Collaborative rep (CMAST)

Joanne Clague   NWAS

Sarah Thwaites    Healthwatch, Liverpool

Stephen Watson   Executive Director, Place, Sefton Council

Adam Irvine   CEO, Community Pharmacy, Cheshire, and Wirral

Louise Barry   Governor of Liverpool City College

Angela Simpson   Executive Dean, Health and Social Care, University of Chester

Matt James Smith MJS

Laura Gibson   Senior Corporate Comms Manager, Cheshire, and Merseyside ICB

Jennie Williams   Minute Taker

Clare Watson   Deputy Chief Executive

Claire Wilson   Director of Finance

Sue Forster   Attending on Behalf of Ian Ashworth

Lee Shears   Attending on Behalf of Alex Waller

Thomasina Afful   Cheshire and Merseyside ICB ECI Lead Officer

Neil Evans   Associate Director of Strategy and Collaboration

Rob Tabb   Liverpool City Region

Melissa Crellin    Cheshire and Warrington LEP

Fiona Lemmens   Deputy Medical Director

Natalie Robinson   Associate Director of Programme Delivery and Assurance

Matthew Cunningham   Associate Director of Corporate Affairs & Governance / Company

Secretary

Ian Ashworth IAs Director of Population Heath, ICB

Alex Waller   Chief Fire Officer, Cheshire Fire and Rescue

Kath McEvoy   Business Delivery Lead, ICB

Cllr Ian Moncur   Sefton Council

Cllr Jan Williamson JWi Wirral Council

Karen Prior   Chief Executive Officer, Healthwatch

Alison Cullen   Chief Officer, Warrington Voluntary Action

Kate Shone   Managing Director, Torus Foundation

Merab Gill   VNSW

Dianne Blair   Healthwatch

Maxine Power   NWAS

Steve McGuirk   Chair of Warrington/ Halton Hospitals

Phil Garrigan   Chief Fire Officer, Merseyside Fire and Rescue

Rowan Pritchard Jones RPJ Medical Director, Cheshire, and Merseyside ICB

Salman Desai   NWAS

Steve Park   Warrington Borough Council

Susan Wallace-Bonner   Halton Council

Cllr Fraser Lake Fla Liverpool City Council

Darren Mochrie   NWAS

“WELL I NEVER” WHAT A LUCKY 79YR OLD MAN I AM

ANTIBIOTICS ARE vital to modern medicine. Their ability to kill bacteria without harming the patient has saved billions of lives directly and made everything from caesarean sections to chemotherapy much safer. Life expectancy would drop by a third if they did not exist. But after decades of overuse their powers are fading. Some bacteria have evolved resistance, creating a growing army of “superbugs” against which there is no effective treatment. Antimicrobial resistance is expected to kill 10m people a year by 2050, up from around 1m in 2019.

Microbiologists have known for decades that disease-causing bacteria can suffer from illnesses of their own. They are susceptible to attack by bacteriophages (“phages” for short): specialised viruses that infect bacteria, and often kill them.

The trouble with phages is that comparatively little is known about them. After the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic, in 1928, they were largely ignored in the West. Only the Soviet Union, powered by research and production facilities in Georgia, continued to use them. Given the gravity of the antibiotic-resistance problem, it would be a good idea to find out more.

A century ago, phages were the most promising tool in the antibacterial arsenal. Felix d’Herelle, a microbiologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, used them to treat the first patient in 1919, after downing a dose himself to ensure they had no harmful effects. One of his colleagues was a young Georgian scientist named George Eliava, who returned home to found the institute that now bears his name.

But with the discovery of penicillin, the first antibiotic, in 1928, phages fell from favour. Production of penicillin surged during the second world war, crowding the phages out.

The first and so far only clinical trial on phages in Britain ended in 2009, concluding they were both safe and effective against an ear infection.

Although Dendritic cells were discovered in the 19th century, it was only at the beginning of the 21st century that their role in adaptive immunity was discovered. Ralph M. Steinman understood that the primed dendritic cells were capable of detecting and destroying malignant cancer cells in the body and for his work he was awarded the Nobel prize in Medicine in 2011.

Like macrophages and neutrophils, dendritic cells (DCs) are considered professional phagocytes. Even if the three cell types phagocytose parasites, bacteria, cell debris, or even intact cells very efficiently, the functional outcomes of the phagocytic event are quite different.

ATP stands for adenosine triphosphate, and it is the form of energy our body uses to fuel all the biological processes that keep us alive.

Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that specifically target bacteria. Phage therapy involves using phages to treat bacterial infections. Phages are everywhere. From the soil to our guts, there are thousands of different types.31 Aug 2022

Probiophage Dairy Free is a specialised bacteriophage formulation combining four types of phages,  Proprietary Blend (Lactobacillus acidophilus, bifidobacterium bifidum, bifidobacterium longum, lactobacillus rhamnosus, bifidobacterium breve, lactobacillus casei, streptococcus thermophilus), PrePhage Bacteriophage Prebiotic Blend (LH01-Myoviridae, LL5-Siphoviridae, T4D-Myoviridae, LL12-Myoviridae).

SO WHERE DID COVID 19 (Money maker) COME FROM PLUTO IN 2020 ?

Davos 18 July 23

Klaus Schwab Founder and Chairman World Economic Forum.

Harvard Student, mentor Henry Kissinger, mater David Rockefeller.

b.1938 Upper middle class. Father’s firm Escher Wyss, slave labour used 1938 to 1945 making ammunitions and heavy industrial components including development equipment for nuclear weapons.

KS. Quote; No one will own property by 2030 but will be happy.

Bank account should be monitored for subversive individuals, jab refusers, non-conformists to religious doctrine and any rebels made non-persons (reflections of Germany in the 1930s).

Guests at this year’s conference (£19,000 a seat by invite only) Sir Keith Starmer and Rachel Reeves plus other UK middle and upper class influencers.

Tony Blair’s company (Tony also guest at the conference)

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Talk about Brain Fog it sound all Tsunami Fog

Those of us 79yr olds need reminding of Christopher Lee in the ‘AVENGERS ‘ 1967 Never Never Say Die. Same hype just another day.