Exploiting those who are dying of cancer for their very last pennies is one of the most contemptible and disgraceful things humanly possible...

The government's health bill is an absolute disaster waiting to happen, of course it is not anything completely new, it is a continuatio...

The way trauma care is handled in the UK is in the process of being centralised.  This means that a small number of more specialist centres ...

A lot of government misinformation has been and will be spread as the public sector unions' strike arrives this Wednesday.  The simple f...

Dr Rant is back and has had some fairly interesting things to say on recent events: "For Christ's sake people! GP commissioning...

The ferretfancier does not wish to defame or incite hatred.  Obviously there has been a bit of medical storm brewing in the last few days an...

It seems that the social media is an area of great fear and concern for many of us in the medical blogosphere these days.  With Dr Rant bein...

Much bad in medicine in recent years has been allowed to happen because those in the positions of medical power have been looking out for th...

So as expected the Health Bill has won two crucial votes in the House of Lords today.  One would think that large numbers of those voting in...

A mass protest is currently taking place on Westminster Bridge in London.  UKUncut has organised this protest against the corrupt and dis...

I have taken the liberty of repeating this letter than Dr Grumble has recently reproduced on his blog.  I would strongly urge anyone to sign...

I must apologise for my absence from the blogosphere over recent months, it has certainly been a strange old time in the NHS . The health ...

This current news story is old news , the sad thing is that this shocking treatment of patients has been going on for years now and it is co...

I recently took the time out to listen to a certain Andrew Lansley interviewed on Doctors.net.uk, unfortunately nothing surprised me. La...

It is quite astonishing what lies are being told as the government tries to railroad through it's destructive health white paper. As al...

The following letter has been signed by a number of doctors and sent to the BMJ , the author has sent it on to me to publish here just in ca...

I must apologise for being so lazy with this little blogging effort. I stumbled upon this blogging piece which links in two excellent piec...

One thing that I have noticed as a bit of a recurrent theme during my time in the NHS has been the way that politicians and NHS managers e...

It was hard to miss the 'Scottygate' scandal of a couple of years ago; if you missed it then Dr Rant has covered a lot of it ...