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Where the Queen’s New Year Honours went

December 31, 2009

Most recipients will proudly wear the badge of the Member of the British Empire – above  Wikipedia

Nurses, ambulance workers and others beavering away in the background were honoured
Health made a big impact on the New Year Honours list, with a baron, two dames, a knight and scores of OBEs, CBEs and MBEs.  But amongst the [...]

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Latest money-wasting idea from NHS

December 18, 2009

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New Number to Call
Latest gimmick from Dept. Health is to provide us with a new telephone number for medical questions.
111 – or ONE ONE ONE.
This isn’t for emergencies – that is still 999.
111 is for people to call who want advice about a medical problem, and to take pressure off 999 – because [...]

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Two more hospital trusts are found wanting – when will it end?

November 29, 2009

This week it was Basildon and Thurrock, and Colchester hospitals that produced shocking statistics;  following
on from Mid-Staffordshire, Birmingham, Kent and others.  All found wanting.  All accused of causing needless
deaths.  All run by Trust staff that mouth platitudes, but don’t resign until forced so to do.  Then the CEOs
immediately talk of unfair dismissal.

Perhaps it would concentrate [...]

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Does you doctor listen to you, or spend more time looking at a screen?

October 31, 2009

Typical Surgery – full of computers  Wikipedia

DOES YOUR DOCTOR LOOK YOU IN THE EYE?
In a recent survey, Pulse Magazine (the doctors’ in-house mag.) found nearly half of GPs claim to be too busy to make eye-contact with their patients during consultations.
97 per cent complained that consultations had become more complicated and intense over the last [...]

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When Politicians use the NHS as a political pawn

October 28, 2009

David Cameron has praised the NHS for the way it looked after his disabled child – but many other parents tell a different story  Wikipedia

31.8.09
USING THE NHS AS A POLITICAL PAWN.
When politicians use the NHS as a political tool, am I the only one who is disgusted?
Recently Gordon Brown and David Cameron have been outdoing [...]

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How to lobby an MP – effectively

October 23, 2009

WESTMINSTER FLY-IN A SUCCESS
Every year Breakthrough Breast Cancer (BBC) organises the Westminster Fly-in, a very effective day for members to lobby their MPs for better cancer services.
This year the mood was upbeat, not least because BBC’s three research units have had some notable success recently.
It’s the 10th Anniversary this year for the Fly-in, and over [...]

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