Samir Dawlatly: Is NHS privatisation inevitable?
“So what difference would it make if the NHS was privatised?” asked a medical student this week. We had just been discussing my pet conspiracy theory: that the bad press […]
“So what difference would it make if the NHS was privatised?” asked a medical student this week. We had just been discussing my pet conspiracy theory: that the bad press […]
Dear Department of Health and NHS England It seems clear that you, the medical fraternity, as well as the mass media agree that there is a recruitment and retention crisis in […]
Recently Lord Howe warned GPs to stop complaining about their work conditions, so that they did not cause a workforce crisis. Similar noises were heard from NHS England at the recent […]
The problem lies in semantics. GP. General practitioner. Could one be more vague than that? There’s an argument that since, on the whole, we provide general medical services (in medical […]
I live at the top of a hill. One winter it snowed after a hard frost, just a thin layer of snow on top of the existing ice. The morning […]
Four years ago I wrote about my diagnosis of bipolar disorder, and how despite this I had gone on to be successful at medical school, in the hope that it […]
• Samir Dawlatly explains in a blog the barriers that he faces daily as a practicing GP, which often hinder him from providing high quality healthcare. He gives the example of […]
As a GP who didn’t train in the UK and who has never worked in the country as a GP, I follow the situation of general practice in the UK […]
Up to this day, I’m still often asked by friends when I am going to become a specialist, considering I am “just” a GP. It remains difficult for lay people […]