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Thursday, 29 January 2009

Irony and idiocy - the UK Labour camp

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The current government's breathtaking ignorance and stupidity never ceases to amaze me, I will shut down this blog when I can no longer ...
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009

New Labour's NHS Legacy

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The following list is taken from a GP who has written of the people that she has been emailed by in her local PCT. The list speaks for itse...
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Saturday, 17 January 2009

Honest noble Lord Darzi on the surgical checklist

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One thing this government and its minions could not be accused of is reinventing the wheel and then claiming it as their own invention. For ...
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Sunday, 11 January 2009

Centralisation is not necessarily better

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All that glistens is not gold and all that is centralised is not better, two facts that I'm sure many of you would agree with. The stra...
Monday, 5 January 2009

The rotting system - the Ambulance service

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The following piece is from a doctor who has had a lot of first hand experience with the management structures that control our ambulanc...
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Saturday, 3 January 2009

The management must take the blame

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It's hardly fresh off the press, but the fact that so much money is being continually wasted on paying extortionate rates for agency/loc...
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Thursday, 1 January 2009

Honesty in an NHS manager

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A PCT manager by the name of Caroline Davis has been caught admitting the exact nature of her job with the PCT as a 'assistant director ...
Tuesday, 30 December 2008

Empowering the ignorant and intimidating the intelligent: Labour's NHS

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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...
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Sunday, 28 December 2008

Bad Science and a merry christmas to all

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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...
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Sunday, 23 November 2008

Pulse nails the lazy Mail

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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...
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008

The King's Fund - an 'independent' body

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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...
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Friday, 31 October 2008

GMC referral and more

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"We have requested that some of the senior doctors be investigated for their role as managers integrally involved in the introduction o...
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Monday, 27 October 2008

PCT referral schemes scrapped but fishy smell lingers

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It appears that despite the best attempts of several PCTs to introduce sick cash incentives for GPs to refer less patients to hospital, th...
Thursday, 23 October 2008

Sick PCTs incentivising patient death

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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...
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Modernising Scientific Careers

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Amazingly enough this is no joke, MSC (Modernising Scientific Careers) is upon us, so what exactly is MSC ? "The Department of Health...
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Wednesday, 22 October 2008

GPs sailing close to the wind

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The screening for certain disease has had massive impacts upon our health, for example cervical cancer, however screening is only appropriat...
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Monday, 20 October 2008

Unethical, scandalous and downright dangerous

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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...
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Sunday, 12 October 2008

The dustbin of training

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