What value a medical degree?
on Nov 18, 2009 in dumbing down nurse doctor idiots It seems that the Australians have more balls than the British, down under the Australian government is trying to force through various destructive dumbing down reforms that empower those without medical degrees to jobs that previously required much...

Junior doctors deserve no rights
on Nov 17, 2009 in junior doctors exploited NHS news According to this 'consultation' document from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills the rights of junior doctors are to be completely ignored yet again; apparently medical deaneries, the bodies that are responsible for the recruitment an...

Who will do the nursing?
on Nov 15, 2009 in nursing crisis degree standard 2010 NHS Much talk has taken place in recent days on plans for all nurses to be trained to degree level from 2013. I think a lot of the chatter and debate has missed the point. 'Degree level' is just a label, it doesn't mean a great deal on its own, I think t...

Who will do the caring?
on Nov 12, 2009 in dementia care elderly The BBC has reported on a government report which claims that around 2,000 people's deaths each year are contributed to by the innappropriate prescription of anti-psychotic drugs for patients with dementia. The report claims that:"But the expert...

PCT deprives NHS of cash to to council's job
on Nov 10, 2009 in PCTs idiots morons gritting roads I read this story in the newspaper that demonstrates how completely stupid those in charge of alot of the NHS' cash are, the Mail covered this story of Durham and Darlington Primary Care Trust (PCT)'s decision's to spend 1 million pounds of NHS money...

Johnson and Brown: two idiots of the highest order
on Nov 2, 2009 in nutt prof brown johnson The Prof Nutt saga is not going away unfortunately for the incompetent duo of Gordon Brown and Alan Johnson. The disgraceful sacking of the eminent Professor is turning into quite s sh*t storm, and quite rightly so. The more information that comes...

Ex-postman sacks Prof Nutt: government shows contempt for independent advice
on Oct 30, 2009 in nutt sacked alan johnson Professor Nutt has been told to resign as chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse Drugs (ACMD) after a series of controversial outbursts including accusing ministers of ignoring scientific evidence to distort the drugs debate.This is a disgrac...

The BNP sideshow - corrupt politics fuels the rise of the far right
on Oct 22, 2009 in labour corrupt BNP democracy failing NHS The news headlines will be dominated by talk of Nick Griffin of the BNP appearing on the BBC's Question Time program tonight. Whatever one thinks of the BNP, they are a political party and they have a right to their views as long as they are within t...

Numpetry in the NHS; the Walk in Centre Quacks
on Oct 17, 2009 in empowering ignorant nurse quacks "Am on call this weekend as a ENT reg and received a call from a "Senior Nurse Practitioner"(her words) in a local walk in centre. She had seen a chap in his seventies with hearing loss for the last week.She had examined both his ears...

Hospitals will go bust, the cultural revolution goes on
on Oct 10, 2009 in PCTs NHS DH funding crisis The way the NHS works is never simple, in fact in gets more and more complicated every year as the layers of bureaucracy and management exponentially proliferate. The current financial crisis means that NHS funding is being cut. PCTs are therefore ha...