Don’t fob patients off who can help with NHS

Time-wasting exercise? Brace yourselves! Yet another plan is beng hatched by the gurus in the Dept. Health  determined to undermine any slight improvements hard-working NHS staff have managed to sort out.  They just can’t leave well alone, but are about to...

Re-cycling after Christmas

My first Christmas in the country since I was a child produced two delightful surprises.  First one was on Christmas Eve, I had woken up to a painful, puffy eye, the long-term consequences of Tamoxifen treatment which sometimes returns, and had chosen that day to...

Revised ‘deaths’

An enquiry has found Jeremy Hunt’s statement to the House of Commons in May that nearly 500,000 women had not been invited for breast camaancer screening, and that 270 may have died needlessly, was based on wrong advice. Thousands of women were rightly concerned about...

C(r)apita boobs again

An additional 3,591 women have not received information about NHS cervical cancer screening. Capita, (or as Private Eye rightly calls them Crapita) contracted to send out screening invitations, have boobed AGAIN.  Yet another administrative error!  When will the...