No, up YOUR coding! Why the ‘45% more NHS deaths’ is nonsense
Please share this widely. The NHS is under propaganda attack yet again – the lie has a head start and the truth needs to catch up. Apologies to everyone that […]
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Pithy 3rd-party assessment of “patients’ campaigners”‘ worldview
Anyone who follows this blog will know that, to say the very least, I am no fan of ‘Cure the NHS’ and allied complaint-groups (I won’t say ‘campaign’, as it’s […]
Guardian comes fully out of closet on ‘needless death’ distortions
Hot on the heels of its ‘correction’ item that represents the mainstream media’s first genuine acknowledgement that the hysterical claims of ‘needless’ deaths were as wildly incorrect concerning Stafford hospital […]
Finally! a paper’s actually READ Francis report instead of assuming wrongly
Somebody just kindly pointed me to a ‘corrections and clarifications’ section of yesterday’s Guardian, in which the paper – which recently became the first mainstream paper to put some of the […]
Mortality stats: govt ‘in bed’ with Dr Foster
Massive credit must go to author Simon Maginn (@simonmaginn on Twitter) for his big investment of time and effort to do the ‘grunt-work’ putting together the information I’m about to […]
Hospital mortality: fact, fiction or politics?
Open Democracy asked me to write an article for them, to draw together various threads of the hospital mortality issue. The article has been published today and looks at the […]
National media: Keogh says 13k NHS deaths! Keogh: er, no I don’t
Please share widely, as this is huge and needs to become well-known before the report is published tomorrow. As I wrote yesterday, the national media is running massive headlines claiming […]
North Cumbria NHS bends over for unmerited ‘Stafford similarity’ inspection
Last night on BBC’s regional Look North programme, there was a segment on the visit of inspectors this week to North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust. According to Look North, […]