by Verite Reily Collins | Sep 10, 2024 | NHS
Keir Starmer announces “Ballooning NHS waiting times and delays getting vital treatment in A&E and cancer care is harming health and costing lives, according to Lord Darzi’s government-commissioned report. It is doubtful if anything sensible will come...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 29, 2023 | NHS
Feelings run high over private medical care. In other countries, private and state-funded care run side-by-side, but here it can lead to bad feeling.When I lived in London, some private providers had seen opportunities and were providing sub-standard services to the...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 6, 2023 | NHS
We need a medical professional in charge of NHS – not politicians It’s all coming out now – thanks to 100,000 leaked WhatsApp exchanges, showing that the then Health Minister, Matt Hancock, rejected official guidance from Prof. Sir Chris Witty (the...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 20, 2023 | NHS
Beware the ‘NHS sympathy’ vote Another election is due shortly; you can tell when one is in the offing because politicians start canvassing. One of their favourite ‘platforms’ is ideas for reforming the NHS; a sure-fire vote winner. Every day...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 16, 2023 | NHS
Lets work the NHS for our benefit – and move up appointments ladder Daily stories show the NHS in crisis. With politicians in charge, things are bound to get worse, unless patients tell the NHS what is needed It’s no use spouting the mantra that...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jan 3, 2023 | NHS
My New Year Resolution is to avoid NHS red tape A recent Headline in the Daily Mail has inspired me to DO something for my health’s sake. It quoted GPs saying they feel “the gulf between primary and hospital care is harming patients”. At last...
