One of the UK’s leading GPs Dr Kailash Chand has said it is his ‘public duty’ to urge voters to cast their ballot for Labour in the general election. Dr […]
As a commenter on the excellent Vox Political site observed yesterday, the Tories ‘dementia tax’ proposals to force elderly people to pay for all their care from the value of […]
In spite of the uproar – and the migration of elderly voters to Labour – caused by the Tories’ plans to make older people pay even for […]
2016 was a landmark year for the NHS in all the wrong ways. Wrong: Accident & emergency (A&E) waits were worse in every month than the year before – so much worse […]
I’ve come across a brilliant but enraging article on another blog on the subject of NHS privatisation. Normally I’d ‘reblog’ it, but it’s not hosted on WordPress, so I don’t […]
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 […]
According to newspaper reports, Julie Bailey, founder of the so-called patients’ campaign group Cure the NHS (Cure), has left Stafford – supposedly ‘driven out’ by a ‘hate campaign’ orchestrated by the […]
Reblogged from CCGWatch: The SKWAWKBOX blog last month covered the betrayal of the country by LibDem peers who voted through the government’s ‘section 75‘ measures designed to parcel up the NHS for […]
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 […]
I have to confess a grudging admiration for the NHS privateers this morning. Not in a positive way, of course. More like the kind of admiration you feel for the […]