by Verite Reily Collins | Jun 27, 2022 | News
What’s happened to Gordon Messenger? In 2021 General Sir Gordon Messenger was appointed to lead a review of leadership in the English NHS: since then – your guess is as good as mine as to what has happened. Healthwatch recently commented “In...
by Verite Reily Collins | Apr 14, 2020 | Diary Archive, News
NHS calls on Military – Again Plans are in place to call in the Army again. This time to provide cover for staff shortages during strikes in the NHS. Remembering what happened to me when I was transferred from a Military hospital to an NHS one, I do hope...
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...