A Stafford consultant speaks out
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 […]
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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 […]
Spend £30m or save £53m? Insanity of Stafford closure plan
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 […]
Is Stafford losing its hospital because it humiliated Cameron in 97?
I’m still working my way through Monitor‘s report on its reasons for putting Mid Staffs Foundation Trust (MSFT) into administration, and will write on that shortly. But what’s already clear […]
Mid Staffs admin threat reveals Tory NHS attack plan
It’s been announced this afternoon that Monitor, the regulatory body for NHS Trusts, has begun the process of putting Mid Staffs NHS Foundation Trust (MSFT) into administration. Once this process […]
Tories lie (again) to attack the NHS while Labour battles to save it
I’ve written a couple of articles on what is known as ‘Statutory Instrument 2013 no. 257’ (SI257) over the last few days. The first highlights how the Tories are using […]
If you let the fox into the chicken coop: profit & ‘efficiency’ in the NHS
A couple of news stories have caught my eye over the past few days, because they’ve confirmed developments in the NHS that I’ve predicted in this blog as well as […]