by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 23, 2022 | NHS
An invitation too good to miss NHS England has sent me an invitation to comment on “the delegation of some specialised services to Integrated Care Boards (ICB)”, although I suspect this was a mistake, and I wasn’t meant to receive it. ICBs are set...
by Verite Reily Collins | Aug 22, 2022 | NHS
Reiki on the NHS Reiki. is the latest treatment on offer – from Manchester NHS. I’ve tried this therapy, and would agree with protesters that it did nothing for me – except it could provide mental benefits for those on the treatment conveyor belt. As...
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...
