by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 16, 2018 | Diary Archive
It’s time we got fighting boots on and campaigned for better care. Dept. Health seems to have forgotten cancer, and last week two consultants told me services they can offer have been cut. One greeted me “I’ve been told I can’t look after you...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 2, 2018 | Diary Archive
Former Conservative health secretary Andrew Lansley has bowel cancer, and called on the government to improve the NHS’s current screening programme for the disease. Funny, I remember the last time I had a conversation with the Minister, I asked him why it was the NHS...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 25, 2018 | Diary Archive
MPs are warning about sending negotiators ‘naked’ to Brussels over Brexit. Well, this has given me a wonderful idea. There is a Russian sect called the Doukhobours that emigrated to Canada. Normally peaceful, they protect their traditions fiercely. ...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 2, 2018 | Diary Archive
Reading about the fantastic results of the TAILORx trials, announced at the ASCO Conference in Chicago. Over 30,000 of the world’s top oncologists gather here annually, and this year was buzzing with good news – for some, as the announcement came that...
by Verite Reily Collins | May 16, 2018 | Diary Archive
You can’t argue with the English countryside in May. Whatever the headlines, a trip out into the country puts everything into perspective. I had been asked to be a ‘model’ – in inverted commas because I am far from a Cat Walk Queen –...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 28, 2018 | Diary Archive
One reads about operations being cancelled at the last minute, but when it happened to a friend this growing problem really hit home to me. I was about to send her a card as she was due to have a hip replacement, and I get an email to say her op had been cancelled at...
