I’d be careful not to go off on the tangents about the sadistic medical narcissists of the 1970s or to blame “The Trendy Educationalists” fo...

  I have been doing a fair bit of thinking about medical training reform in recent days, things appear to steaming ahead at full speed d...

The Shape of Training is a review of doctor training that is currently being forced through despite many significant safety concerns bei...

Here is a letter template that I have crafted for anyone to send to their Royal College or trainee organisation.  If you agree that Sha...

I am sure many of you are aware of the small details of the Shape of Training (ShoT) review, however many of you probably are not, theref...

  I got a bit distracted this morning when I started reading HEE's latest idea on medical selection called 'valued based recruit...

I have taken the time to review the ‘evidence’ that the Shape of Training review has relied upon in order to make some rather sweeping ...

Dear BOA President, I am writing to express by disappointment at the BOA's recent move to force Orthopaedic surgeons into training to b...

Here is John Cook's response to my questions: "Re rater reliability and data breakdowns, we’ve released the raw individual ratin...

Strangely or not so strangely, having been 'redirected' to send my letter's questions directly to the author, John Cook, I h...

  "I read the study by Cook et al with great interest (1).   Firstly the study used levels of endorsement of global warming as ...

  The above headline is a total disgrace.  The contaminated drips were supplied by a private firm, ITH Pharma, and the NHS is totally b...

Firstly I am no expert in weight management but I can analyse evidence.  I just wanted to outline the foundations of sand upon which the ...

Niall Dickson has written in the BMJ and here is my response: "The two year foundation programme was introduced in 2005 (as part o...

Dear NICE   I have a simple request relating to your press release :   "Around 20 per cent of emergency cases of AKI are pr...

I have made the following request to the GMC under the Freedom of Information act: “Has the Chair of the review (Prof Greenaway) discu...

I read Professor Sir John Tooke’s recent editorial with great interest (1) and it is strange that he sees the Shape of Training review as a ...

The NHS is in crisis because the current government have wasted billions in yet more corrupt market based reforms which will enrich priva...

  Firstly I do not agree with Brian Jarman on many things but I have the utmost respect for his integrity as a researcher and a huma...

The aim of this piece is to summarise my understanding of why things hurt and specifically, why the shoulder hurts. Obviously this is one m...