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2024
Leaders Chaand Nagpaul and Annabel Bentley discuss the cultural collapse of the 4 UK health servicesoriginal ↗
3 Jun 2024
Wasting uncherished doctors time, and leaving them no safe space for black humour: means they are more likely to leave or change career.original ↗
3 Jun 2024
Naming the “Elephant in the room”. Despite a majority of professionals wanting rationing, politicians will not let it happen.original ↗
31 May 2024
Information technology is the infrastructure of the Health Services. It’s missing or underfunded…. The money must go to the wrong places.original ↗
31 May 2024
Current whistleblowers are threatened… this inhibits others from coming forward. Exit interviews and no fault compensation are essential to change the culture.original ↗
31 May 2024
GPs are on your side in this election. Most of them will be voting Liberal. The recruitment boot is on the outgoing foot now.original ↗
31 May 2024
Politicians have no idea, so they don’t understand……. Dealing with waiting lists is longer than any term in office noworiginal ↗
30 May 2024
Expensive treatments will need to be rationed. Cities first is not a fair or logical methodology, and will increase the health divide.original ↗
19 May 2024
The UK culture of cover up enquiry, delay, obfuscation and undue child like deification of our national institutions, and our chancer MPs, needs to stop.original ↗
19 May 2024
No short term solution to after care and bed blocking without a revolution in paying people to do unpleasant jobs..original ↗
18 May 2024
Community resilience will be needed to counter the inevitable degradationof care. Stranded patients with nowhere to go need army style solutions in tented emergency hospitals…… and we all need to help.original ↗
17 May 2024
Referendums, health, and the ‘will of the people’ – our last one may lead to 50 years of decline.original ↗
14 May 2024
Midwifery: As with all failing systems, the poorest people experience the steepest decline….original ↗
13 May 2024
Battleing for a GP slot. GPs (but not other staff) need to be allowed to use time as a diagnostic tool, and to live with uncertainty. No fault compensation is needed in a degraded and declining system..original ↗
13 May 2024
A professorial view on the economic oportunity – for business. This runs against the trend.original ↗
6 May 2024
5 May 2024
If the NHS workforce includes the politicians, then yes, its future depends on their honesty and altruism!!original ↗
1 May 2024
Ignoring a 2013 report has led to the crisis in Maternity, Neonatal, (and other) care as politicians fail to act because they cannot grasp the complexity of medicine. Since 2019 there have been 15 chairpersons of the health and social care committee!original ↗
30 Apr 2024
Our children are more important than our elderly. Lets say so with approval of new RSV vaccine.original ↗
30 Apr 2024
My nightmare giving birth — and Britain’s maternity scandal. Standards are fallling and will fall further.original ↗
29 Apr 2024
29 Apr 2024
Successive Governments have led to a “Public health crisis”…. but experts say it can be fixed.original ↗
25 Apr 2024
Autism and ADHD place “unprecedented” demand on NHS. If you never thought there was rationing you never had one of these children..original ↗
25 Apr 2024
” There is a bunker mentality in the NHS ” – Health Ombudsman. It will lead to more and more scandals..original ↗
21 Apr 2024
The differening options are all unpalatable….. An honest debate between sensible persons is imperative for the compromise needed.original ↗
17 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024
Whistleblowers, Gagging and Cover Ups. An NHS endemic. The opposite of a learning organisation is one going into decline….original ↗
15 Apr 2024
Now that we are at war economically we need potential workers to be at work, and treated bfore the retired, elderly and disabled. We have to ration care…original ↗
14 Apr 2024
In a system that is set up to fail, and does not show it cares, the doctors will leave. How bad the system becomes, and for how long depends on politics.original ↗
12 Apr 2024
Children with gender dysphoria. The Cass enquiry. No listening to experience, and common sense did not prevail.original ↗
11 Apr 2024
A scapegoat government is needed. Most of the sensible letters on health – come from doctors. “We all know how to reform our countries, but we then dont know how to get elected afterwards”.original ↗
11 Apr 2024
Rationing of healthcare is inevitable. The “Burns Abacus” tries to find an acceptable and sustainable health compromise.original ↗
6 Apr 2024
Theres no quick cheap remedy for the falling standards, and life expectancy. The GMC vision is suspected of a perverse politicial short term incentive….original ↗
4 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024
” Its a clusterf*** “…The crisis in all 4 health sercvices – just beginning to dawn on the Times letters editor…?original ↗
31 Mar 2024
Our “toxic relationship” with the NHS, allied with denial and inadvertent regression, may mean we are getting ready for the “honest debate”.original ↗
28 Mar 2024
25 Mar 2024
Coroners’ death reports reveal rise in NHS warnings. You and the politicians have been warned. Standards are falling rapidly now.original ↗
24 Mar 2024
How do we safeguard our future in health and social care? The birth rate is one issue we could address…original ↗
21 Mar 2024
Ed Daly makes a mess of his oppportunity to sell “honesty” on Radio 4. Theres nothing in the Liberal shop to sell except sympathy right now.original ↗
20 Mar 2024
Cynical culture of short termism defines the Health Services. Ombudsman chief speaks out giving his own retirement exit interview.original ↗
18 Mar 2024
Its going to get worse… “Even without Nye, the cult of the NHS is verging on pathological”original ↗
17 Mar 2024
Its me mental – the problem affects younger doctors too. Sink or swim in the “National Suffering Service”original ↗
4 Mar 2024
Sensible junior doctors call for “cultural change”. No solution in sight until we have Proportional Representation.original ↗
28 Feb 2024
Cancer survival: we may be rationing sensibly, but not overtly and often without informed consent.original ↗
27 Feb 2024
It’s m’e mental doc”. Why is the epidemic of mental poor health Britain’s biggest problem? It is unique to our country.original ↗
26 Feb 2024
Partial “news” on cancer, and Martha’s Law is a covert way of obfuscation. The unknowns are so great… Citizens juries may help us to get more honest.. The other parties should endorse Labour’s suggestion and avoid “lipservice”.original ↗
22 Feb 2024
Kings fund gives us a scapegoat for the collapse of the health safety net – coalition government 2010-15 – but it goes back further than thatoriginal ↗
22 Feb 2024
Screening is targeted at the people from whom the state gets the best reurn for public health. Rationing is implicit in Wilson’s criteria …original ↗
12 Feb 2024
Is there a conspiracy in the Elephant and Castle? Imposed contracts and binding servitude do not generate goodwill…original ↗
9 Feb 2024
Back to basics: In place of fear. “The NHS was founded in 1948 solely to be reactive, to heal the sick…” “Deal with non health issues elsewhere”..original ↗
6 Feb 2024
The rationing of smear tests – is “failing older women” and means a two tier system is sanctions: NHS and private.original ↗
4 Feb 2024
It was inevitable that progress on cancer survival would slow down. But its still improving despite the denial..original ↗
3 Feb 2024
Short termism in public health will be revealed in the expense of treating long term problems later….original ↗
2 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024
Long term improvements in Universal Access to Dentistry are impossible without altruistic politicians thinking long term..original ↗
1 Feb 2024
The NHS should ditch the woke propaganda and resume using the word ‘woman’. Are managers like Nero: “fiddleing while Rome burns”.original ↗
30 Jan 2024
The Politics of health….. is about many things but especially “the lack of any sense of solidarity and social cohesion”.original ↗
29 Jan 2024
29 Jan 2024