There is absolutely no method to this madness . The idea of fining hospitals for re admissions is just plain stupid and short sighted, just...

Remedy are taking the General Medical Council to court this week on behalfof 1600 doctors. The GMC have been accused of blocking a Fitness...

The health service has been dumbed down magnificently since Labour came to power in 1997. In order to try to save money a lot of work previo...

According to the Telegraph Labour have been crafting secret plans to cull large number of junior doctor training jobs if they magically win...

Having watched bits of the Election debates and various interviews on TV in recent weeks, I can conclusively say that health and the NHS ha...

With the election looming I thought it worth emphasising just what 'new' Labour have done to the NHS and doctors since they came to...

As the election fast approaches, one could be forgiven for getting carried away with all the excitement about polls, TV debates and campaig...

Calling a spade a spade should not leave one liable to be sued, yet this is precisely what happened to Simon Singh when he took on the quack...

This eloquent letter sums up so much that is wrong with the way that the government creates policy. Obviously this letter refers only to th...

The ferreting award for the most stupid, dangerous and idiotic NHS target ever has to go to the Trust which is bribing the Ambulance servi...

This investigation for the Sunday Times reveals the tip of the iceberg in terms of business bribing politicians for direct reward. It is s...

It's a familiar tale in today's NHS , rather than primary and secondary care cooperating in order to help patients we have a system ...

After several recent rather high profile deaths a lot of light has been cast on the topic of the way in which medical practitioners are regu...

A survey of nurses has revealed what a lot of NHS workers and patients already knew, that patients are routinely being treated and housed ...

The shambles that is the coverage of health and health policy in the media is exposed by this excellent lecture that Dr Grumble pointed me t...

The Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence, a body that oversees the performance of the NMC and nine other healthcare profession re...

It was no surprise that our esteemed leaders have tried to pin all the blame for the appalling standards of care at Stafford Hospital on the...

Following up on my last piece on the government's spinning of the thromboembolism death statistics, it turns out that less than three ...

The government is trying to convince us of the massive threat of venous thrombembolism ( VTE ), for some reason the threat of deep vein thr...

Apparently the struggling District General Hospital in Hinchingbrook is to be taken over and run by a private company , according to the go...