by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 26, 2020 | Diary Archive
Silly me – it’s taken me weeks to realise self-isolation means others protecting me. And I thought it was to keep me away from infecting them! One always thinks one is invincible, but I have to realise at 81 with umpteen conditions, I must protect...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 14, 2020 | Diary Archive, News
NHS calls on Military – Again Plans are in place to call in the Army again. This time to provide cover for staff shortages during strikes in the NHS. Remembering what happened to me when I was transferred from a Military hospital to an NHS one, I do hope...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 20, 2020 | Diary Archive
Guess who must be making a fortune today? Supermarkets. Instead of pathetically wringing their hands and asking shoppers to think of others before panic buying, they should have put rationing in place. The BBC has published a heartfelt plea from a Nurse...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 15, 2020 | Diary Archive
Boy – the latest episode of the reality TV programme ‘Hospital’ really highlighted the NHS – warts and all. There was poor old Ron, over 90 years old, and bravely bearing the pain of a broken hip. Every time he was moved to go somewhere else...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 8, 2020 | Diary Archive
The Paterson case rears its very ugly head again, and again the NHS’s neglect of patient care is highlighted in the most horrific circumstances. Surgeon Ian Paterson’s treatment of patients with breast cancer was so bad that he has been given a 20-year...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 6, 2019 | Diary Archive
Is it just me, or are the Christmas Ads, jingles and jollification toned down this year? There seem fewer ‘Christmassy’ themes around; I put this down to the Election. causing people to think about the consumerism that assaults us in the run-up to...
