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2024
Unemployed GPs – This crisis has been a slow burn to a hot boil. The rise of the “non-diagnostician”.original ↗
24 Sept 2024
There is no NHS plan, and no meaningful debate on options – The mantra needs to be “Universal, financially sustainable, and depoliticised”.original ↗
24 Sept 2024
Reducing adolescent mental health problems – Controlling mobile phones impossible, but educating parents and children is..original ↗
22 Sept 2024
A new conversation is demanded by Jessie Cunnett, and Richard Smith. Why is Simon Stevens so quiet? Has he been silenced by his “gong”?original ↗
22 Sept 2024
Name changing (and calling) does not alter the lack of capacity for “diagnosticians” and all the support services they need.original ↗
22 Sept 2024
The health decision: Short term populism or long term altruitic integrity. An opportunity squandered?original ↗
22 Sept 2024
Efficiency gains without side effects are not easily come by. How will Labour try to reform Britain’s public services?original ↗
22 Sept 2024
Lets be honest – children with a longer life expectancy, deserve more pro rata resources than the elderly.original ↗
16 Sept 2024
Importing blood products should not be necessary. Besides being risky, it is expensive and shaming. We need to generate our own…original ↗
14 Sept 2024
It has to be a concensus….. if we are to save anything meaningful from the ashes of the 4 health servicesoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2024
13 Sept 2024
Politicians challenging the gatekeeper role risk throwing the baby out…. with the polluted wateroriginal ↗
12 Sept 2024
The risks of cheap addictive drugs. Ketamine and others. Random drug tests are imperative to get a handle on the issue… and devise a long term plan …original ↗
10 Sept 2024
10 Sept 2024
Most patients at GP surgeries will actually see a Nurse or a Physician Assistant in the futureoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2024
The “Enormous Leech” that is health demands on the UK state. The long term dishonesty of the political class …… what was a saprophyte is changing to a parasite that kills its host..original ↗
10 Sept 2024
8 Sept 2024
Planning to fail. Politicians will do anything to delay rationing or co-payments, but it can only get worse now without “fundamental reform”..original ↗
8 Sept 2024
A comeback for barefoot doctors in the UK – might reduce the health outcome inequalities for men, as might a return to single sex education.original ↗
25 Aug 2024
New Alzheimers drug is “rationed out” of the Health Service – until the patent expires…. In 12 years time their may be better (but not cheaper) products. Until then a public/private health divide..original ↗
22 Aug 2024
The Education of us all: Medics and other professionals, including all skills… is threatened. Immigrants can change our culture for the better.original ↗
21 Aug 2024
The declining state. Health Ombudsman (England) might get the sack – for telling the truth. What about politicians?original ↗
18 Aug 2024
Clare Gerada misses the point. Her commentary is all correct, but hte edifice is unsustainable without different sources of cash – us. Clapping does not help!original ↗
18 Aug 2024
NHS led by donkeys? Its sad but true. The politicians give a different answer in private than they do in public.original ↗
17 Aug 2024
Small is sometimes beautiful in palliative care, arthriis and other charities. Renaming ME, and refocussing the three charities involved has proved impossible.original ↗
12 Aug 2024
11 Aug 2024
A cynical public does not believe the pressures the GPs are under. PPGs and local government could do much more to explain.original ↗
8 Aug 2024
The rising beta thallasemia: a new treatment expose the reality of rationing and expose the myth of a “national” health service. Its good news for “science”….original ↗
8 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024
GPs in Wales need “urgent rescue package” after 100 practices close, says BMA. Instead of sympathy there are threats..original ↗
31 Jul 2024
West Wales is not the safest place to deliver a baby. But then where other than “tertiary units” is better?original ↗
31 Jul 2024
30 Jul 2024
The 4 health services were “breaking” before covid… Over the next decade excess deaths could reach 5 million.. NAO tells it as it is. Lord Crisp is wrong: Service reform within the current systems is impossible.original ↗
25 Jul 2024
The public have no idea of the reality and standard reduction in the current health service(s). Renewal is possible only through new people and a new, honest, contract..original ↗
25 Jul 2024
Appointments on phone and by video, without an examination are risky and probably regressive … another inconvenient truth.original ↗
25 Jul 2024
Poor government for over 20 years.. Its a democratic problem of short termism. Sacrificial lambs are needed…original ↗
25 Jul 2024
With bigger gaps in supply chains and life threatening delays : A UK solution? If the system is failing we may to get antibiotics more easily.original ↗
23 Jul 2024
If the birth rate needs to rise, why not have more help for infertility and late conceptions?original ↗
23 Jul 2024
At least a decade before we reform election system, so Health will take two decades to improve. The medical profession might not be able to change this …original ↗
20 Jul 2024
Public money needs to be spent on long term infrastructure and plans, and short term projects could end up wasting far too much. GPs need to explain……about the choices and global warmingoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2024
An arrogant, unprepared and irresponsible government – has led the nation to a health crisis made more evident by covid.original ↗
19 Jul 2024
How long will the next health minister survive? Political failure has left the health system in crisis and caused avoidable harm….. and many deathsoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2024
Hope for the future – if your diagnosis is made early enough. A two tier system for the next decade…original ↗
17 Jul 2024
Male lives will shorten more than women’s lives over the next decade. Ireland and Australia are now better and more sustainable than our 4 obsolete systems.original ↗
17 Jul 2024
Cold comfort for the politicians. Hard truths ( now called “raw honesty” ) mean rationing is essential.original ↗
15 Jul 2024
The possible reform of the (English) Health Service . Letters from the other 3 dispensations are missing!original ↗
12 Jul 2024
7 Jul 2024
Its rationed carefully: Getting NHS (continuing) care funding is a battle — and you probably won’t win.original ↗
6 Jul 2024
Curing the doctors is about curing the system.. Only a Labour government has this license..original ↗
5 Jul 2024
Don’t bother to complain – unless you have very deep pockets, or the patience for a “small claim”. Has the GMC got it’s stakeholders prioritised correctly? The BMJ is right to litigate, but perhaps the government has little alternative?original ↗
2 Jul 2024
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey reinforces the need for arranging an advocate for your next admission…original ↗
1 Jul 2024
The dream for “continuity of care” in my lifetime will remain just that. We gave it ourselves, but we will not recieve it in return.original ↗
30 Jun 2024
30 Jun 2024
Health care is about long term planning. All parties are in denial and Matthew Syed exposes their self destructive thinking.original ↗
30 Jun 2024
How to begin to regain “trust” in politics and politicians… in an “unfair post coded anarchy”.original ↗
25 Jun 2024
Insider trading appears more important than good governance. No wonder the young don’t vote…original ↗
24 Jun 2024
New MND treatment ( Tofersen ) for a rare variant will be state funded. Its just a question of how long financial admin can delay it….original ↗
23 Jun 2024
A longer term perspective, along with honesty, is needed to save our health services from reckless politicians. Having a large majority might be a great opportunity for the county, and Labour.original ↗
22 Jun 2024
“A decade of failure”. How can waiting times for health care be improved under the next government?original ↗
22 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024
“PAs working in general practice and seeing undifferentiated patients makes a mockery of our extensive training.” It’s getting heated on Physician Assistants in General Practice…..original ↗
15 Jun 2024
A life threatening shortage of GPs – and a shortage of jobs for those newly trained. What a mess..original ↗
14 Jun 2024
Cancer – waiting lists to be: assessed, investigated, and treated; and covert rationing of drugs mean excess deaths will increase. We need to ration overtly.original ↗
14 Jun 2024
Mad decisions show that our rulers are disconnected from the populace. We are correct to require a new electoral system to move to sustainable health care – and save many lives that are going to be added to the “excess deaths” in the next years.original ↗
12 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024
Political & health slanging “debates” should make people realise how poor our systems are.original ↗
8 Jun 2024
Medicine and health care: Its a “part time!” profession with little continuity of care. The shape of the job has changed..original ↗
5 Jun 2024
Its caring and honesty, restoring trust, and investments for longer term, thats needed to address retention. We could lose another 20000 doctors this year as well if theres no cultural change.original ↗
4 Jun 2024
The ARRS – and threat of GP unemployment. Labour has not produced a working system in Wales.original ↗
3 Jun 2024
3 Jun 2024