Articles tagged NHS:
We All Need to Take the Strain Off the NHS
- 22 Mar 2020
It's quite clear that the NHS is soon going to come under intolerable pressure. The least we can all do is to try to not burden it with unnecessary visits. I got an email from a listener, Sam, a few minutes ago. We all need to think like Sam... Love the show I have been a...
Something Must be Done to Help Individuals and Business. But What?
- 18 Mar 2020
In every crisis there's always a cry from the media and the general public for 'action this day'. The 'Something Must Be Done' crowd are in full cry. And when something is 'done', it's rarely ever considered to be enough. Yesterday the government announced a raft of measur...
Coronavirus: Nudge, Action This Day & the Need to Minimise Risk
- 14 Mar 2020
One of the big debates that we should be having is the conflict between the power of the state and the responsibility of the individual. Throughout the Coronavirus crisis there have been constant calls for the government to take action - usually quite drastic action. There's n...
It's Time to Reverse the Decline in NHS Bed Numbers (UPDATED)
- 8 Mar 2020
Back in January 2018, I wrote a long article looking at the issue of the decline in the number of hospital beds since the 1980s. It provoked a lot of reaction, and I know both Jeremy Hunt and Jonathan Ashworth read it. The Coronavirus crisis has brought the subject back into t...
When You Find Out You've Got a Haitus Hernia...
- 14 Sep 2018
Some of you will have read an article I wrote a few days ago, which explained the fact that I have had a persistent cough for the last month, and in addition I’ve lost a lot of weight, and also lost my appetite. If you missed it, read it HERE. This morning I went into the Spi...
In Defence of Lord McColl
- 19 Aug 2009
It's stories like THIS in today's Times, which make me despair about the quality of some of our political journalism. Full of innuendo, attempts to smear, but backed up by very little. Lord McColl is a junior Tory health spokesman. Heard of him? No, me neither. In real life...
We Should Obsess About the Nation's Health, not the NHS
- 14 Aug 2009
The campaign via Twitter to force people to declare their "love" for the NHS is not one I shall be participating in. I do not "love" the NHS any more than I "love" other major national institutions like the Police or the armed forced. These institutions are not there to be "lo...
When Hospitals Kill
- 11 Oct 2007
Last week, the Chief Executive of Maidstone & Tunbridge Wells Hospital Trust resigned. It wasn't before time. She had presided over four years of chaos and failure. I know, because I live there and saw at first hand what was going on. Local MPs' postbags were full of compl...