by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 5, 2020 | NHS
Lockdown swiped away waiting lists Now hospitals cautiously offer appointments again I am now starting to get phone calls from physios and consultants saying they can restore a cancelled appointment – with caution. So, if you are desperately wanting an...
by Verite Reily Collins | May 7, 2020 | NHS
It was scary at first, but …. During lockdown, there have been changes in the NHS – many for the better. “There are fewer meetings…. more focussed and shorter… less red tape and bureaucracy” says Dr. Max Pemberton (left), in the...
by Verite Reily Collins | Feb 11, 2020 | NHS
Hurrah for people like Roy Lillie Thanks to a streaming cold, he’s had to rest up – which has given him time to read the latest turgid announcement from the NHS Dept. of silly time-wasting ideas in Whitehall. In the year when we celebrate the 200th...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 27, 2019 | NHS
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 –...
by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 2, 2019 | NHS
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...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 3, 2019 | NHS
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...
