May Food

Summer Salads are here! Verité Reily Collins © Tis the season for fresh, crispy salads. Which is a lovely way to eat healthily, lose weight and get a big dose of Vitamin ‘C’. If you are suffering from fatigue, Salads are very ‘accommodating.  They...

Why clap for the NHS?

Going forward – have lessons been learned from Lockdown? Or will the NHS continue to bumble along, desperately needing more funding to keep up with demand?  Where is the politician with the guts to admit we must pay more to keep the NHS properly funded?...

New Mandate from NHS

“Objectives for the NHS” The latest annual Dept Health Mandate is out,…. and in this unprecedented year for the service, what does it offer?  A way forward  out of the current crisis, or sensible plans for the future? Er….No.Its….Starting...

NHS/cancer alliances

Wake Up NHS England Just received the Cancer Stakeholders’ Bulletin from NHS England, typically glossing over recent problems faced by those with cancer. As one of those involved with the start-up of the London Cancer Alliance, it should be no surprise that the...

Army

Time to acknowledge Forces’ contribution As they did during the last Foot and Mouth crisis, our Forces have quietly stepped in and got on with ensuring the current vaccination programme runs superbly.  When TV cameras pan around a vaccination centre, look...

Cancer vaccine

When will cancer have a vaccine? When Governments get scared, they act fast;  thanks to the massive amount of official resources thrown into developing an anti-covid vaccine, cancer prevention could possibly advance quicker now. The scientists who won the race to...

Will you just SHUT UP

Let me be blunt. It’s hard enough handling cancer problems, without having to put up with incompetence from bureaucrats.  Paid a fortune, yet they step away from problems without a care for the consequences.  I have been trying to get the anti-covid vaccination...

March food

Easter food For centuries, Easter was the time when people feasted.  It signified the end of Lent, Spring fruit and vegetables were coming through, and all sorts of goodies were in season. Easter Sunday Lunch  Traditionally, this would have been lamb – but as a...

Having the vaccine

If you have allergies – can you have an anti-Covid-19 vaccine? And what if you are a private patient? Having picked up numerous allergies, finding out if it’s OK for me to have the vaccine has taken four months, and over 100 phone calls. Offered this...

Shuffling NHS cards – again

Watch out – more upheaval is coming to a hospital near you This time it’s Integrated Care Systems The NHS says these are ‘new partnerships between organisations that meet health and care needs. It’s about giving people the support they need,...