better known as dunce, this report on their activities is written from the front line, where i was bed blocking after fracturing shoulder - hence one-fingered typing. the dept is trying to get good publicity for all their new iniatives, so sends out public...
So we are back to mixed wards We have to take charge of what is happening in the NHS - not leave it to Politicians with their eye on a lucrative job at the end of their tenure. Today comes new that thousands of patients were forced to sleep in mixed wards last year,...
When Labour came in, spending on NHS was about 6 % of GDP (gross domestic product) Blair increased this to over 8% - and for a time we kept up with Europe - but then Europeans increased their spend on Health to around 10%, and we slid back, And for anyone who says how...
Don't the NHS ever learn? Why do NHS big wigs keep on contracting the same old companies? If they do a bad job, sure as eggs-is-eggs the company will be awarded with another massive contract, yet they haven't learnt - recently Carillion landed them in trouble - now...
Don'tcha just LOVE NHS questionnaires? Who makes them up? Latest questionnaire is a Holistic Needs Assessment - being developed for cancer survivors When side effects of drugs made me feel like this - One of the cancer quangos sent me a Holistic Needs Assessment...
Especially when Gran "doesn't want to make a fuss" in A & E It's left to you to create merry Hxll on the old dear's behalf tell A & E staff who won't listen when the old dear says she is quite happy to wait but her osteo-thingie would be more comfortable if...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV_BE9hvg68 Watch out! Once Brexit is out of the way, the NHS will be looking to privatise more of its services, in an attempt to save money. Warning bells chime when, in the middle of Brexit, Boris takes time off to fly the Atlantic...
Laugh - otherwise you'll cry The saying "NHS is the envy of the world" must come in the same category as Saatchi and Saatchi's "world's favourite airline" slogan for BA . It was dreamt up as a copy-writer's slogan, but taken as truth by a gullible public. And...
Latest book on the NHS Reading Margaret McCartney's thoughtful book, The State of Medicine, had my eyes out on sticks. Written by an NHS Doctor, it is an honest appraisal of a health service ' unraveling, under-funded and under pressure'. A glaringly honest...