It's that time of year again when everyone tends to feel a bit under the weather, it's cold and miserable, the germs have been multi...

I was fortunate enough this year to find a copy of Ben Goldacre's Bad Science on my stocking, since I've had the misfortune of wor...

There is a certain sense of irony in me reproducing a Pulse article here because the article neatly mocks the Daily Mail's lazy and sen...

I am a terrible cynic so I have never paid much attention to the ramblings of the King's Fund , however I am sure that many neutrals get...

"We have requested that some of the senior doctors be investigated for their role as managers integrally involved in the introduction o...

It appears that despite the best attempts of several PCTs to introduce sick cash incentives for GPs to refer less patients to hospital, th...

The ferret has just found of one PCT that is sinking to new unethical depths in the incentivisation of medicine, it certainly would not su...

Amazingly enough this is no joke, MSC (Modernising Scientific Careers) is upon us, so what exactly is MSC ? "The Department of Health...

The screening for certain disease has had massive impacts upon our health, for example cervical cancer, however screening is only appropriat...

It always amazed me just how poor the national press are at picking up on the rank mismanagement of the health service by the various organi...

Whatever one chooses to prioritise can have massive knock on effects on other things, many of which are completely unforeseen. It's sim...

I am possibly being a little kind in describing those that continue to tinker with the structure of the NHS as 'lunatics', there ar...

Apologies for my recent lack of blogging, have had my finger in many a pie recently, shame not many have been particularly fragrant, that...

There's always someone to blame for the obesity epidemic, except that if it's the fatties talking then they will never blame themsel...

I obviously do not claim to speak for anyone other than myself, but for me Labour's reign has seem an utterly ridiculous empowerment of ...

There has been a lot of recent talk about a junior doctor who was suspended from work for comments made on a private Internet forum. On on...

I do not normally steal stories, however for this little Pulse gem I shall make an exception. Steve Nowottny tells us just how his trip t...

News has been circulating that a junior doctor has been suspended for comments made on a private internet forum . The exact ins and outs o...