With waiting lists getting longer What are we doing about it? YOU can do your bit, help shorten waiting times, and even improve healthcare. As a start, how many genuine patients sit on their local hospital Board? Having sat on several, by-and-large the Patient...
The privatisation con trick rolls on NHS chiefs are pushing through plans to let private companies take over scanning services that are vital in treating cancer patients, having told ministers last week that privatisation was harming patient care. Ten years ago I was...
https://youtu.be/ftyjMSMXxMA Where the NHS excels Anyone who has attended an NHS conference recently knows you just can't beat them when it comes to back-slapping and self-congratulation. But here is a video of a brave nurse who stood up to the big chiefs at an NHS...
Treatment at an NHS hospital under 'special measures' King's College patients were horrified to read that 'their' hospital had been placed under "special measures, following serious concerns about the trust’s growing deficit". With an end-year deficit of over £90...
Time-wasting exercise? Brace yourselves! Yet another plan is beng hatched by the gurus in the Dept. Health determined to undermine any slight improvements hard-working NHS staff have managed to sort out. They just can't leave well alone, but are about to announce...
Someone should tell NHS when it's Autumn! NHS doesn't realise that the four seasons (Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring) have legally defined dates to begin and end, enshrined in English law. Everyone has the right to know when they begin and end. NHS officials are so...
Fighting hovering Vultures After the Election it was expected the 'private' boys would be first off the mark, selling their services to the NHS and waiting to cherry-pick contracts to run NHS services. But it was the 'Petition' lot - this time asking for donations -...
ITV shows stark reality of what can happen in the NHS A recent ITV drama, The Cure, was based on a shameful true scandal in the NHS, which led to a major investigation. The Cure was a feature-length TV drama telling the story of how Julie Bailey fought to expose one...
Latest news shows NHS has little desire to learn Googling around info on the latest problem to hit the NHS, I go to the Daily Mail website, to read that the families of patients involved in these scandals must be in despair. The site says the final report on...
Don't patients have rights too? NHS hospitals have notices saying that 'we treat patients with DIGNITY'. What's dignified about being ignored when waiting for a badly-needed bedpan? Or having your case discussed over your head, as though you didn't exist. Or left in...