This isn’t a post in which I am going to set out my views on the NHS White Paper issued today, I’ve only skimmed it. I am going to note in passing that some people have failed to pay attention to what the coalition parties, with a particular focus on the Liberal Democrats, were saying [...]
Some people in the US seem to think Obama is Hitler, because he wants to reform their healthcare. If only Hitler had stuck to being a healthcare reformer, instead of annexing the Sudetenland…
The majority of US citizens think US health care is the best in the world. Therefore it is understandable that they would be [...]
many of those prescribed Tamiflu are stockpiling it to be sure of having access to the powerful drug
Independent 10th of August
Doctors should stop giving Tamiflu to children as a routine treatment for swine flu, researchers concluded after finding the drug can cause more harm than good.
Independent 11th of August
To be fair, no wonder people are [...]
Right wing attacks on Obama’s healthcare reform are an echo of previous attacks in the UK during Bevan’s creation of the NHS.
For UK citizens it is hard to imagine a time when the NHS was perceived as a threat. Today the NHS is a sacred object in British politics, and those who wish to [...]
The issue of compulsory vaccination has been raised again.
A former chairman of the British Medical Association is calling for the MMR jab to be made compulsory.
Public health expert Sir Sandy Macara believes children should not be able to go to school unless they have first been vaccinated.
I have mixed feelings on this. The dangers [...]
In the recent series of Strictly Come Dancing, the retired political correspondent John Sergeant performed spectacularly well. The judges had mistaken the show for a talent contest, rather than the test of popularity. Sergeant consistently hammered the better dancers in the contest in terms of the public vote, despite lacking any apparent dancing skills beyond [...]
Next Wednesday significant parts of the NHS will be taking industrial action. I am supposedly working to rule, with a “ban on non-essential paperwork, e-mail exchanges, attendance at meetings and telephone calls.” The industrial action is being organised by my union Unite, which in a recent ballot obtained a mandate from the membership for this [...]
There’s a new website where you can leave a review of your doctor called iwantgreatcare.org. It has already been formally warned by libel lawyers acting on behalf of thirty-seven GPs, of the potential for defamatory comments to be posted by the public. There are some nice comments there too:
Many years ago he literally saved my [...]
Here are my brief thoughts on the possible increase in the use of prescribing pharmacists in primary care in the UK.