by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 10, 2019 | Diary Archive
Digging amongst the rubbishy murk of PFI funding, bad contracts and other NHS-management that is the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, there is pure gold. Such as the young visiting Swiss Opthalmologist who is prepared to try a new idea on my almost-blind Tamoxifen...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 8, 2019 | NHS
The privatisation con trick rolls on NHS chiefs are pushing through plans to let private companies take over scanning services that are vital in treating cancer patients, having told ministers last week that privatisation was harming patient care. Ten years ago I was...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 28, 2019 | News
Fell down (as one does) ar home, and was eventually carted off to the local hospital – John Radcliffe in Oxford. Had a comfortable wait on a trolley – I’d grabbed a good book to read – before I was wheeled off to X-ray. On the way back, my...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 26, 2019 | News
Where the NHS excels Anyone who has attended an NHS conference recently knows you just can’t beat them when it comes to back-slapping and self-congratulation. But here is a video of a brave nurse who stood up to the big chiefs at an NHS Board meeting, and dared...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 20, 2019 | News
Watch out for your Heart As if having cancer wasn’t enough, my Consultant suddenly announced he wasn’t happy, and was sending me to the Royal Brompton heart hospital. No-one had bothered to tell me, but Hormone Therapy (Tamoxifen, Aromasin and Arimidex)...
