We’ve got Christmas back!

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...

Am I being selfish?

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....

Cancer care shame

It’s official: Britain has possibly the worst cancer care in Europe The NHS tries to claim it’s the “envy of the world”, but recent headlines in the media highlighting official cancer survival rates told the real facts. With the problems we...

Cannabis, NICE and Arrogance

Recently the media was full of stories saying that medical cannabis was to be available on the NHS to help control pain.  Yet so far it seems only two patients had managed to get a prescription.  Friends have to pay to get this, but why? Interviewing Andrew Lansley...

Simple way to save NHS money

A letter in The Telegraph” A reader in France sent a letter, saying if he needed to see his orthopeadic surgeon, “I would phone the hospital and get an appointment with him and also an X-ray appointment for an hour earlier.  This appointment would be...