In healthcare our systems of governance are increasingly developed and vaunted. Yet these are very different from our capacities for stewardship. Inevitably and predictably, the recent party political conferences each […]
Robin Williams’s recent death is a familiar shock: another premature loss of a publicly loved figure. How do we understand and respond to such tragic discrepancy? On the radio (BBC’s Today programme on […]
An eminent academic psychologist, Professor David Clark, recently broadcast on the BBC’s Today programme (1 July) authoritative hope to the many sufferers of depression. He informed us how current scientifically formulated, […]
Recently the media has told us that the Labour Party is considering a long journeyed return: back to the nationalisation of rail services. Some claim that this will offer better […]
A recent article by Stephen Moss (“Pills, bills and bellyaches: a peek behind the scenes at a GP surgery,” Guardian.) is a vivid Hogarthian portrait of a frontline of our […]
In this new era of GP led NHS commissioning, I saw a young GP on the television. She was interviewed to sample a voice of professional support and enthusiasm for […]
In an article in the Daily Telegraph, Gerry Robinson tells us that “fixing the NHS is straightforward.” He writes with optimistic alacrity of pragmatic, logistical, data-fuelled managerial devices to sharpen […]
As the debate becomes more fraught, I want to add my voice to the fray. I have been a frontline medical practitioner for more than 40 years, and have seen […]
The covid-19 pandemic has challenged and stretched the NHS as never before. What kind of service is likely to emerge, asks David Zigmond […]
The government’s long parried acknowledgement of the unviability of many years of NHS reforms will be welcomed by almost all its healthcare staff. But this proposed reform of reforms overlooks […]
