by Verite | 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 | Feb 3, 2019 | Diary Archive
GDPR made me take my phone off the hook It didn’t take long for The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to show its true colours. I need a platorm lift. A second-hand one would be ideal. So I do what everyone else does, and Google “second hand...
by Verite | Dec 26, 2018 | Diary Archive
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...
by Verite | Dec 15, 2018 | Diary Archive
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...
by Verite | Nov 28, 2018 | Diary Archive
Skin is our largest organ So why doesn’t the NHS help us look after it? I eep on banging on about looking after it, but if we don’t, germs and nasties can enter through the cracks and cause untold harm. So make look after it – pamper with a purpose....
by Verite | Nov 5, 2018 | Diary Archive
I believe it was Einstein who said ‘I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious.’ What’ s wrong with the NHS today? The old ‘curious’ doctor or nurse seems to have disappeared. Today, there is a set procedure for treating...
