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...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 25, 2019 | Diary Archive
Here we go again – yet another NHS hospital trust is facing claims of clinical malpractice and a flood of lawsuits. I wish they would bring back Matron, instead of lumbering hospitals with overpaid and seemingly useless Chief Executives. There are some who...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 19, 2019 | Diary Archive
Patients have the drive and motivitation to search for the best care, so when we take time to do our research and work out what is causing frightening side effects, why don’t doctors listen to us? Admit that we know and understand what is causing problems....
