Came across this very interesting article on the persistent character-assassination of the NHS in the media, and the reasons behind it (it references my articles on HSMRs and on Private […]
On the day of the publication last week of Sir Bruce Keogh’s report (heavily and utterly misleadingly trailed by right-wing media and commentators) into 14 NHS Trusts, Health Secretary Jeremy […]
Please share very widely. We need accurate information out there to counteract the nonsense. They’re at it again. Well, to be more precise, they never stopped – but yet again […]
I don’t think there could be a much clearer example of the concerted, deliberate and wantonly inaccurate media campaign to undermine the NHS and achieve ulterior motives than today’s BBC […]
Please share this widely. It’s absolutely crucial for the future of Stafford hospital and of the wider NHS. An important new academic paper was published this week by the Oxford […]
I’ve received a copy of a letter that a consultant from the Accident & Emergency Dept at Stafford hospital has sent to the British Medical Journal (BMJ). He doesn’t know […]
Yesterday, some 50,000 people packed the streets, squares and parks of Stafford to march in support of their local hospital and against plans by Monitor, backed by the Department of […]
I wrote some weeks ago that the government was going to use Mid Staffs as a template in entirely the wrong way. The unquestioned problems with poor care in 3 […]
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 […]
The goings-on at Mid Staffs NHS, and the events and statistics that led to them, have been a main theme of this blog for some weeks now. I’ve shown variously […]