by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 6, 2023 | News
At last – someone to fight for us Sometimes, it can feel as if nobody listens to what you say. Querying my treatment at the Royal Marsden Hospital, the nurse brushed me aside with the comment “you are only a patient”. I found out that doctors and...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 18, 2022 | News
Good thing to come out of Covid Thanks to some rather high-profile people catching Covid, which gave them pain in their joints, I found pain reiief for my joint pain has improved remarkably in the past two years. It’s surprising what can happen when the prime...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 30, 2022 | News
Energy costs hit the vulnerable Faced with an unexplained £6,000 bill from British Gas, when Age UK asked me to talk to an APPG about my experience, I welcomed the chance. APPGs (All Party Parliamentary Groups) consist of MPs and Peers from all political...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 21, 2022 | News
But will Patricia Hewitt improve efficiency? I do wonder who is in charge of today’s NHS? Ministers seem to be on a merry-go-round producing a new incumbent every month or so. Recently, one of these Ministers set the NHS the tasks of improving obesity figures,...
by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 8, 2022 | News
Choosing the next Prime Minister First, can I suggest it would save everyone’s time and money if, next time, they have to choose a new Prime Minister, they did away with all the time-consuming jiggery-pokery when selecting a new leader? My suggestion is shut all...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 27, 2022 | News
What’s happened to Gordon Messenger? In 2021 General Sir Gordon Messenger was appointed to lead a review of leadership in the English NHS: since then – your guess is as good as mine as to what has happened. Healthwatch recently commented “In...
