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....
by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 3, 2021 | NHS
NHS Digital re-hashes old scheme Matt Hancock (left) thinks the NHS should ‘go digital’. This may be the way forward, but …. for many it will make the NHS inaccessible. Or, as will happen if a current scheme to digitalise GP records goes ahead, it...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 19, 2021 | NHS
Going forward – have lessons been learned from Lockdown? Or will the NHS continue to bumble along, desperately needing more funding to keep up with demand? Where is the politician with the guts to admit we must pay more to keep the NHS properly funded?...
