Mid Staffs fallout – who pays?
Dreadful business, patients neglected, complaints unheeded, and hundreds dead. So let me say at the start that it was clearly unacceptable, mustn’t be allowed to happen again, and if it was my hospital...
View ArticleThat’s better!
At last! – something concrete I can do to strike back at the coalition’s dismantling of the NHS. Naturally, I joined the National Health Action party, formed, I’m pleased to report, by a fellow member...
View ArticleGagging for it?
On the Today programme today, Gary Walker, a former Trust Chief Exec, broke a gagging clause to at least hint at the sort of pressures that led to the West Staffordshire scandal. You’ll remember that...
View ArticleLies and more lies
It just keeps getting worse, doesn’t it? first there was the Big Lie (‘vote for us – no more top-down re-organisations of the NHS’), and now, having squeezed the Health and Social Care Bill past an...
View Articlelies or damned lies?
In today’s Times, we read that 30,000 people die unnecessarily every year in the UK, because of the inadequacies of the NHS. How do they know? What they seem to be talking about is the excess mortality...
View Articlewell, what do you know?
I referred in an earlier blog to the government’s attempt to sneak in even more draconian imperatives to privatise the NHS than had previously been their declared intention (yes, lying again). Well,...
View Articleignorance at the top
It does sometimes beggar belief that people can be elevated to the top level in organisations without any apparent understanding of how they work. The latest example is Sir Bruce Keogh. He is the...
View ArticleRing for Jeeves
For some time now I had wondered how it was possible for Andrew Lansley to come up with such a half-arsed bill for the ‘reform’ of the NHS, and how it was also possible for David Cameron not to spot...
View ArticleDoctors and killing
I recently had a minor spat on Twitter concerning the moves to legalise ‘assisted suicide’. In reply to one tweet, I gave it as my opinion that whatever happened concerning legislation, there was no...
View ArticleIt’s health care, not pasta
Why did management at the Morecambe Bay Trust attempt to silence concerns over infant mortality in their hospitals? Why did the Care Quality Commission (CQC – an organisation who apparently don’t Care...
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