Govt was warned body-parts firm’s bid was unrealistically low
A huge scandal has broken today with the revelation by the Health Service Journal that a private firm with a public contract for disposing of clinical waste has been unable […]
Tag Archives: Department of Health
BBC: 750 ‘never’ events in the NHS last year. Terrible?
The BBC is reporting today that some 750 ‘never incidents’ – incidents that the Dept of Health says ‘should never happen’ – occurred in 2012/13. These incidents include such things as […]
Spot the difference? Mid Staffs ‘independent’ administrators
Today was a fateful day for the people of Stafford and Cannock fighting to save their hospitals. Monitor, backed by a rushed-through piece of Parliamentary legislation, declared Mid Staffs NHS […]
‘Fighting dirty’? The Leeds children’s heart unit closure
This week, in the course of writing an article for the Campaign Group Open Democracy, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to paediatric surgeons at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), the […]
Emails show NHS ‘coup’ plan by SW cartel – and yet more deceit & illegality
A very interesting set of emails has come to my attention. If, like me, you’re passionate about the NHS and have been following developments in the South West region, where […]
Poole NHS shamefully refuses FOI. Again.
As I mentioned some days ago, Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust continued to act shamefully in ridiculously claiming that neither it nor its highly-paid consultant David Amos had made any […]
Has the government altered the official record of the NHS regional pay debate to hide a confession of involvement?!
I watched with great interest today the Opposition Day debate on regional pay within the NHS. I had the privilege of some small involvement in the debate, as Andy Burnham’s […]
The Liverpool Care Pathway – a personal & political perspective
Jeremy Hunt has announced that he’s going to make it illegal to place dying patients on the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP – or ‘Death Pathway’ if you read the Mail […]
Tories’ poison chalice, Labour’s Holy Grail – Ed MUST not miss his chance on the NHS
It’s been a telling few days in terms of NHS news – and one that demonstrates the central place that the NHS must play in Labour’s thinking and in its strategy for […]
What the SW NHS cartel REALLY thinks about staff, unions – and Treasury ‘theft’
I’ve come across an interesting email among the FOI disclosures from the member Trusts of the South-West NHS pay cartel. I believe that this is the first time that it […]