A sobering and uncomfortable read. Which makes it important that we do
Continue Reading →Macmillan cancer
Did you know? that Macmillan nurses/consultants are funded by Macmillan for the first three years (but I know of several people funded for only two) – but the deal is that these posts must be then funded by the NHS but forever known by the moniker. So it’s always going to be Macmillan nurse Smith, […]
Continue Reading →NMT Medical liquidates
and so, I hope, farewell to the libel case against Peter Wilmshurt.
Continue Reading →“Setting an example?” – BMA news article on screening misses the point.
I wish I could link to this article, which is published as a feature in BMA News, a supplement that comes with the BMJ. It’s worrying. “Professor (Erica) Frank, research chair in preventative medicine and population health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has spent more than 20 years examining the relationship […]
Continue Reading →Public appointments of note
for an Audit Committee and Lay Member of the General Chiropractic council.
Continue Reading →Is there any need for a listening exercise?
…and I wonder how much this will be costing in expenses. The Coalition is launching a ‘listening exercise‘ into their reforms of the NHS, staffed mainly by management and academics. But have they not already being paying attention? What more do they want? We have already heard from the Chair of the RCGP (who is […]
Continue Reading →Everyone should read this
Allyson Pollack and David Price in the BMJ. How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England
Continue Reading →What’s happening to the National Confidential Inquiry into maternal and perinatal deaths?
For the last 50 years, every maternal and perinatal death has been independantly and carefully scrutinised. This audit is world-class: it has spotted problems, made recommendations, and raised the standard of maternity care for everyone. Not every speciality has this gold standard of examination: were that we did. The BMJ reports this week that the […]
Continue Reading →Commissioning is bad for patients
I don’t know what the point is of getting rid of one layer or managers (in PCTs) only to replace them with doctors – how many hours have GPs already spent on commissioning palava in England? Whenever the NHS and politicians interact there is a consistent problem. No one ever values the core aspects of […]
Continue Reading →Shared decision making
Podcast recorded at BMA House last week. I hope they have edited out my slightly bad language.
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