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2021
This is the moment to revitalise and re-finance Public Health: Public Health doctors should be restored to salaried service.original ↗
14 Jul 2021
Everyone agrees: The Health and Social care bill should have independent projections for staffing numbersoriginal ↗
14 Jul 2021
”We need no-fault healthcare more than we need no-fault divorce. If we treasure the NHS for the principles that underlie it,…we should relinquish the right to sue if anything goes wrong.”original ↗
12 Jul 2021
When the UK disintegrates, will Northern Ireland get a more sustainable service by combining with the South?original ↗
11 Jul 2021
“A lack of investment over many years, which has resulted in fewer beds, doctors, nurses and scanners than most of our neighbours….”.original ↗
11 Jul 2021
Psychology – a degree which opens many career options, but few choose the 4 Health Servicesoriginal ↗
11 Jul 2021
At the core of the NHS lies a fundamental falsehood: that it delivers health services equally to everyone ..(Actually) ..it rations services, principally through forcing patients to queue for treatment. Which party has the courage to be honest, and advocate a better and sustainable system?original ↗
6 Jul 2021
The best present that the nation could offer would be a mature debate about how to fund the 4 Health Services in the long termoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2021
This is Personal: I was let down by the health service, and the Health Ombudsman in West Wales – and there’s nothing I can do other than litigate..original ↗
1 Jul 2021
Choice matters for patients… Both in General Practice and for Hospital Referrals. It’s not universally fair ..original ↗
1 Jul 2021
1 Jul 2021
It’s the work contract that largely determines the pandemic risk. GIG economy contracts are designed to spread the virus and “Long Covid” for these workers looks like a disaster.original ↗
27 Jun 2021
27 Jun 2021
The class divide in Medical School Intake reflects rejection of novel scholarship suggestions to improve prospects for white working class childrenoriginal ↗
27 Jun 2021
There is enough cross infection withon our overcapacity hospitals without importing it from outside the UK. We should have no need to import blood or blood products, and policy needs to be altered to ensure self sufficiency.original ↗
26 Jun 2021
The Democratisation of health care planning and implementation: Is a citizens jury the way to open the honest debate?original ↗
26 Jun 2021
Government has a health and social care crisis causing paralysis and myopia. Can Deliberative Democracy (DD) provide the cure?original ↗
24 Jun 2021
Number of doctors retiring early triples: the meltdown of experience resulting from laughable manpower planning.original ↗
24 Jun 2021
There are class barriers to a medical career, but all assistance to an education by parents is inevitably divisive – as is all education.original ↗
15 Jun 2021
The artificial doctor will never see you personally. Ignoring the runes decades ago means we dont have the ability to let the 4 health services plan their futures.original ↗
13 Jun 2021
Manpower planning failure – Building a new hospital in a deprived, coastal, rural, and left behind area after rationing training places for decades – reflects the Hobson’s choice in front of us all.. With burnout of many staff at risk whatever..original ↗
8 Jun 2021
It is wrong to slash aid to poorest countries: surely it is even worse to rely on recruiting their doctors?original ↗
7 Jun 2021
5 Jun 2021
How to find and fix toxicity in the UK Health services – Lack of trust, misleading management and a collective bill totalling billions.original ↗
3 Jun 2021
In a war – Collateral damage is inevitable. ID cards and compulsory vaccinations for health workers are examples..original ↗
31 May 2021
IT change and data extraction has to be incremental if citizens are to trust governments in the 4 UK systems. Will Englands Health Service be able to get cyber insurance cover?original ↗
26 May 2021
Cancer survival will “go backwards” for the next few years, but it was likely to do this anway because of the shortage of dignosticians and of imaging and radiotherapy services.original ↗
25 May 2021
Refashioning the Health Services? Lets start with free speech.. It matters in Hospitals, General Practice, Social Care as well as Universities.original ↗
25 May 2021
The wait for a dentist is a microcosm of the wait for cancer or heart operations. Two tier systems can work but they need planning….original ↗
24 May 2021
The future of the 4 health services should not be above debate, and critique. The “Honest Debate” is as far away as ever.original ↗
23 May 2021
The risk of Privatisation of Consultant and General Practice appointments. The worst kind of rationing…original ↗
23 May 2021
We “paid” for the GP and Hospital appointment – not in money but in time and inconvenience. Digital access has openend the floodgates to demand… The Patients Charter is long forgotten…original ↗
22 May 2021
21 May 2021
What makes people deny the science? Desperation leads to fake cures and populist theories. Its the same in health as in life..original ↗
21 May 2021
Mr Stevens would like to have done better…. He wanted the honest debate. he has NOT got one, and he has still got his “gong”.original ↗
20 May 2021
The origins of Covid-19 – Many theories but no proof. Retrospective studies are always less powerful, and sometimes cannot answer the question for certain.original ↗
20 May 2021
20 May 2021
A message for all sensible parents: choose other sports for kids, but NOT rugby or boxing. State sponsorship, and advertising should be stopped.. Insurance should be obligatory to avoid state expense.original ↗
18 May 2021
The “reality” of health care costs is that fairness demands we contribute according to our means.. ID cards may be essential to deliver social justice..original ↗
15 May 2021
No easy appointment for you – as your GP is dumbed down, and avoids Emergency and Urgent care. If a letter does not work, go privately?original ↗
15 May 2021
A cancer drug is rationed out in N Ireland. They pay the same taxes, but they are part of a different health service. Bring back the NHS…original ↗
14 May 2021
14 May 2021
13 May 2021
The selection bias in health care appreciation and gratitude. The sacred cow of the 4 UK Health Services, formerly NHS, has to die slowly..original ↗
12 May 2021
Sustainability? The Hustings in Wales reveal how uninformed politicians are tempted by superficial speedy catch phraze debates on health.original ↗
12 May 2021
A consensus on social care will not happen without a political revolution. We need PR to have the honest debate needed for agreement on difficult problems that expose “hard truths”. The current system is unsustainable.original ↗
12 May 2021
We avoid more litigation and we reduce medical risk by reintroducing “face to face” consultations. It may also delay the dental solution – private primary care.original ↗
10 May 2021
The perverse nature of social care, and it’s impact on family wealth. The motivation to pass on wealth conflicts with the needs of society to fund care. Wealth equates to health, so those “dynasties” that avoid IHT do better.original ↗
9 May 2021
What happens without the dentistry you need. Long term minefield.. “Oral health is not just a health issue, it’s a social justice and equity issue.”original ↗
8 May 2021
Tax and spend on social care? Without altering the fundamental “rules of the game” this temporary solution will not result in sustainability, or integration with health.original ↗
7 May 2021
Population Iatrogenesis is a possible cause of the “new Disease” dementia in Canada. We need urgent diagnosis… Farmers need to be controlled worldwide..original ↗
5 May 2021
Any state provided health system has to have high standards to avoid an increasing health divide. Comparing UK with India may seem extreme, but the germ of a social and standards divide is here, and spreading.original ↗
3 May 2021
With most political parties aiming to “provide many more doctors”, NHSreality looks at the prospects for success, and how long it will take. Perversely, our political system discourages exactly what we need to achieve.original ↗
3 May 2021
Vaccination refuseniks – the need for a balanced debate abut ID cards, human rights and reducing regressive policies are all limked, and so is social careoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2021
Preventing the next pandemic…. A Global Influenza Surveillance and Response System (GISRS)original ↗
25 Apr 2021
Climate change and health – this is the long term threat. We ration health care, so why not ration air travel?original ↗
25 Apr 2021
Social Care: The Kings Fund warns our politicians to sieze the opportunity now… + How to complainoriginal ↗
24 Apr 2021
Sunk with hardly a “trace”.. The apps failed, the centralisation failed, and the ethics and the politicians failed. We can hopefully repent at leisure.original ↗
23 Apr 2021
The disintegration of “fairness” after this pandemic/election… Go private if you want speed and the best chance of a good outcome.original ↗
23 Apr 2021
Air pollution : The Times opines, but Politicians need to realise that they need to listen to Greta Thunberg more than Michael Kevin O’Learyoriginal ↗
22 Apr 2021
Consultation on Skype – fatuous nonsense to blame the GP contract: there just aren’t enough. Reducing access to examination is becoming an approved way of rationing appointments.original ↗
21 Apr 2021
Addictions as a drain on the health services; alcohol link with obesity and early death.. Another manifestation of drug addiction, abuse and self harm…original ↗
18 Apr 2021
16 Apr 2021
Appropriate rationing of cancer patient referrals during the war against covid….. I may be one of them .original ↗
11 Apr 2021
11 Apr 2021
Whats happenning and going to happen to Life Exepectancy: we are probably going to see poorer people living shorter lives and richer ones living longer lives unless we have high class universal health care and this means changing our system.original ↗
10 Apr 2021
A reminder of the safety net a Mutual Health Care insurance system provides. (Missing until Obamacare in the USA, and then only partial.)original ↗
9 Apr 2021
Gongs have gone crazy.. Health gongs after covid could double the House of Lords – so lets start by kicking out the genetic lords, and having an accellerated drop out rate until numbers reduce to a managable 100. Is the block on debate the same as for the NHS?original ↗
9 Apr 2021