STAY SAFE – KEEP OUT OF HOSPITAL

NHSE (National Health Service Executive) has instructed GPs to avoid hospital admissions for patients this winter. So why avoid hospitals?  Labour commissioned the eminent surgeon, Lord Darzi, to report on the state of the NHS. Sadly, his conclusion  – after...

SAVE THE NHS – BRING BACK MATRON

Keir Starmer announces “Ballooning NHS waiting times and delays getting vital treatment in A&E and cancer care is harming health and costing lives, according to Lord Darzi’s government-commissioned report. It is doubtful if anything sensible will come...

POSTCODE LOTTERY

  Anyone believing the NHS will be there ‘from cradle to grave’, might be in for a shock if admitted to hospital today  – particularly if they are aged  65 or over. Recently cracks showing in NHS services, have broadened into massive gaps....

TAKE CARE

Dr. Max Pemberton writes in the Daily Mail that the NHS needs fixing, and suggests starting with axing managers. And whilst they are about it, please will Physios back me up when I protest that the NHS should stop dumbing down their profession?   Going into hospital...

MAGNA CARTA

Magna Carta was debated and sealed,  possibly on the Runnymede meadows near Windsor (left) in June 1215.  This was the first document to put in writing that the King and his government were not above the law. It was designed to prevent the King from exploiting his...

THE KING HAS HIS REASONS

The King is now getting out and about, turning up at the UCH Macmillan Centre,  looking much healthier and happier.  Hopefully his treatment is working. He has obviously listened to his medical team, who probably told him to ignore family members who aren’t...

RATTLING BONES FOR THE ELECTION

USE POLITICS TO GET WHAT YOU NEED Current inhabitants of Whitehall use their offices to feather their nests – so why not follow their example? Long gone are the days when, after a distinguished career, you went into politics to pay something back, and help...

CLIMBING THE WAITING LIST

With over SEVEN MILLION of us on NHS waiting lists for treatment,  etc., the NHS seems shell-shocked and unable to do anything to improve matters..  If you are on its list if must seem never-ending, and, sadly it seems it is up to us, the patients/victims, to help...

KATE

Content goes here;;;;;;;;;  Is cancer now ‘by Royal Appointment’? Suddenly, our Royal Family is showing the reality that ‘one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetimes’. Cancer is no respecter of birth, or lifestyle, and both  King Charles...