by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 28, 2022 | NHS
What’s happened to the promised 40 new hospitals?. Whitehall casually tossed out this sop to us, with the Dept. Health (DH) saying plans were in hand for these new additions. If, like me, you can remember these being promised and wonder what is happening, by...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 15, 2022 | NHS
Getting back to normal – let’s keep ‘new’ NHS care After Sajid Javid’s laest “Rally the Troops” speech to the NHS, I MUST remember to re-double my efforts to tell those still working in the NHS I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE YOU!...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 2, 2022 | NHS
Some things got better during Lockdown During Lockdown, many Consultants and Nurses were ‘abandoned’ by their hospital admin teams, and left to get on with running their own departments, without the heavy hand of bureaucracy – and didn’t they...
by Verite Reily Collins | Oct 25, 2021 | NHS
Don’t throw Reports in the waste-paper-bin You know those official letters/reports sent out by the NHS every time you have an Outpatient appointment, procedure etc? Once, when these were sent doctor-to-doctor, they contained comments such as “nothing wrong...
by Verite Reily Collins | Sep 28, 2021 | NHS
In Defense of GPs Recently the media has been full of horror stories about difficulties getting a GP’s appointment. Am I the only one who has found unexpected advantages? Previously, if you got a recurrence of a condition, you could not book follow-up hospital...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 28, 2021 | NHS
We do our bit – when is the NHS going to do theirs? Were you one of those who recently gave up time and energy helping complete yet another survey, this time on Impact of Covid-19 on Cancer Care Google it, and comments from Macmillan, CRUK, etc. flood the page....
