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2024
23 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024
“Have the lost tribe of SHOs found themselves?” “For the past few years…. medical education and training have been failing” . “Going in hard against doctors won’t work, especially in a global health systemoriginal ↗
22 Jan 2024
Private GPs and Primary Care take off: even in one of Wales’ poorest areas…. Should we be aspiring to excellence before reducing inequalities?original ↗
22 Jan 2024
Covert rationing is what disillusions and leads to populism. Enoch Powell pointed this out 60 years ago. The body politic will accept it if it is argued as necessary, and fair.original ↗
19 Jan 2024
Feelings in primary care. The bomber crew mentality in doctors. Patients feel “sidelined because they are old”.original ↗
19 Jan 2024
Will government give direct access to consultant (from home) opinions? The system could well clog up even further!original ↗
18 Jan 2024
The shortage of important drugs is another reminded that our political leaders are incompetent.original ↗
17 Jan 2024
12 Jan 2024
12 Jan 2024
No continuity, no personal responsibility, and temporariy consumer based care await us all as we get older..original ↗
12 Jan 2024
Cancer survival worse in Wales. Can we afford the new genetic based treatment drugs, based on genetic sequencing, for all?original ↗
11 Jan 2024
Wales is worst for diagnosing cancer early. Access to GPs is worse, recrutiment is worse, percentage of practices in special measures is worse..original ↗
11 Jan 2024
A review of the deaths of despair figures means the problem is enlarging and now more medical – sinceoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2024
Humanity has long been squeesed out of the mental health services, and now from the general medical service…original ↗
9 Jan 2024
9 Jan 2024
Not all seriously ill citizens are entitled to free care… This is part of the covert process of unfair post-code rationing. Redistribution should be national, not local, and it should be overt.original ↗
6 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024
Theres a steady rise in Cancers in Younger people throughout the world. We can only theorise as to why..original ↗
5 Jan 2024
A case of abuse of and injustice for a consultant: its a commonplace issue for management ….original ↗
3 Jan 2024
Tax help for a few wealthy people will not help health. Cancer numbers will increase as people live longer. Putting more money into research will not improve quality of life and death..original ↗
2 Jan 2024
2023
30 Dec 2023
30 Dec 2023
“Gone to the dogs”….Respite care, along with dental care, and “fairness” is missing – absent from politicians’ mindsets. We are not “all in this together”….original ↗
29 Dec 2023
28 Dec 2023
If you have Hepatitis C be grateful you are not living uninsured in America. But according to the Liver Trust some UK dispensations will still not fund it!original ↗
27 Dec 2023
Bonded servitude, human rights, and indentured labour. There is a dissonance between full employment and efficiency in health dispensations.. Bringing back fear in patients as well as staff..original ↗
27 Dec 2023
Meddings has only got the job because he is prepared to repeat the “NHS mantra”… Wales is suffering more than England, but no comparisons are available!original ↗
24 Dec 2023
20 Dec 2023
Is dentistry still part of each health service in the UK? “..how far (does) the NHS aspires to offer a comprehensive and universal service”? ….original ↗
20 Dec 2023
Finding a cure for the long wait to see a GP; “The NHS is at is sickest when the solutions are visible but placed out of reach by more than a decade of poor policy decisions.”original ↗
18 Dec 2023
Creative reform is unlikely: inactivity or worse; destructive reform is the likely option in the hands of this government.original ↗
18 Dec 2023
Meaningful feedback is hard to get, and is often necessarily ingognito. Read the reality of being a graduate (mature student) medic in their second year.original ↗
17 Dec 2023
Why exclude migrant carers, nurses, physiotherapists, psychiatric nurses and radiologists?original ↗
17 Dec 2023
World Universal Health Day – an irony if ever there was a chance. Good intentions pave the way?original ↗
16 Dec 2023
New regulations and guidelines on deaths, and accuracy of certificates, try to avoid the cost of more post mortems.original ↗
15 Dec 2023
Fewer successful applicants to med school from Scotland and Wales may mean adverse selection is neededoriginal ↗
15 Dec 2023
14 Dec 2023
Pit stop surgery risks. In an NHS “war zone” for patients, we are all grateful for any care, trained or otherwise. Be grateful for what we have…… !?original ↗
14 Dec 2023
Internet information: Drs should want to know “where their patients come from”…. to make a complete holistic diagnosis, and communicate kindly.original ↗
13 Dec 2023
12 Dec 2023
The Kings Fund looking at other systems: Comparing the NHS to the Health Care Systems of other countries – five chartsoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2023
Human Resources need to do random checks on drugs and alcohol levels in all organisations..original ↗
11 Dec 2023
11 Dec 2023
10 Dec 2023
A changing duty. As standards fall do physicians have a duty to point out the non health service alternatives?original ↗
9 Dec 2023
9 Dec 2023
Palantir: a divisive decision without professional support or mandate. Without GP inclusion this smells of a corrupt process, and abuse of power.original ↗
7 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023
Unsustainablke and unmentionable: 4 health services are set do decline further. The doctor does not yet walk down the outside queues waiting …… but he might have to ration pragmatically shortly.original ↗
30 Nov 2023
Mental illnesss diagnoses are “soft” compared to physical ones. Gaming the system is rife.. Immigrant workers could (in the short term) make our health system more efficient…original ↗
30 Nov 2023
Theres no better sign of an imploding health system than increasing child death rate – and an increasing health divide. Read Martin McKee, professor of European public health opinion below….original ↗
23 Nov 2023
Repeated avoidable deaths – say lots about the culture. No longer a learning organisation.original ↗
21 Nov 2023
The whole NHS is “toxic”: from doctors to nurses and midwives, from administrators to politicians. The public knows this and will be grateful for any honest sustainable and fair replacement.original ↗
18 Nov 2023
Politicians are at sixes and sevens in Whitehall re Health and Social Care. In search of a saner and more stable approach.original ↗
18 Nov 2023
Built upon a rock? Unsustainable pension schemes reflect the general unreality within all 4 health services, and the end of “goodwill”.original ↗
17 Nov 2023
HPV vaccination programme will deliver more than reductions in cervical cancer. It will also reduce orofacial cancer, but in 40 years time.original ↗
15 Nov 2023
New rearrangement of the ministers sitting in their deckchairs on “NHS Titanic”… As productivity fallsoriginal ↗
15 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023
A spring tide of demand is going to meet an absense of diagnosticians, investigations, and both generalist and specialist skills. It will hit the 4 health services unequally. Life expectancy will fall further, and demand should fall. An ironic outcome is possible..original ↗
14 Nov 2023
There are no plans for “virtual paediatric wards”, so families have to travel vast distances for simple problems. A regressive outcome is possible from PEWS – again.original ↗
14 Nov 2023
We cannot replace people with money in the 4 health systems. Toxic working conditions are endemic..original ↗
13 Nov 2023
What was it for in 1948? “To restore sick people to health”. Reports with good intentions had little long term support…original ↗
13 Nov 2023
Learn to give physio yourself please. When the safety net has failed, its best to avoid high risk activities, like sitting still, being obese and inactive, and drinking heavily. But WHAT ARE THE HEALTH SERVICES FOR?original ↗
12 Nov 2023
Contention – Hard Truths are needed to be understood by all. We have abused trainee medics for far too long. Our leaders still keep quiet….original ↗
12 Nov 2023
A hammer requires a nail: GPs need to experience the breadth of complexity in primary careA hammer requires a nail:original ↗
10 Nov 2023
The optimistic view. The good news is that we are always advancing in science and health care. The bad news is that we find it hard to deal with our increasing knowledge and choices.original ↗
8 Nov 2023
Health’s doom loops and why they matter: we all need long term planning, honesty and altruism.original ↗
7 Nov 2023
Plus ca change. No one is listening – too true: It was correct 10 years ago, and he is still right now..original ↗
6 Nov 2023
The future is not hanging by a thread – the thread has broken, and the staff are broken. The Guardian writers are living in the past.original ↗
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023