Latest Blog Posts for Dr Rant

• The First Cut Is The Deepest?
  on Jan 19, 2012 in Government. BMA Pensions
  If you have an NHS pension, this first cut might be the deepest, but make no mistake.......IT WON'T BE THE LAST!!Remember that pension that you signed a contract for? You know, the one that us doctors have paid billions of pounds more into that has b...
• Pack it in you lot!!
  on Nov 22, 2011
  You know what what I'm talking about!!I'm not going to draw more attention to this than is needed. Please take a step back and see what an online lynch mob looks like.YES!!YOU are part of it probably.Why are we attacking one of our own like this? We'...
• Useless. Completely fucking useless
  on May 25, 2011 in BMA Commissioning
  Bob Crow addressed the National Union of Rail, Maritime, and Transport Workers last night. He came to talk to an RMT meeting about the government's latest plans for transport workers.He told them that the plans are a steaming pile of shite, but it wa...
• Updates and Microblogging
  on May 16, 2011
  Dear Rant fans,I've been rather busy in the last couple of months. Lansley has decided that as well as doing the work as a full time GP partner, I've now got to do the entire work of a PCT. For free. Now, the PCT work isn't too difficult - it could b...
• Commissioning: Aldi versus Poundland
  on May 16, 2011 in Lansley Commissioning
  So. The Rant Commissioning Consortium has to decide where to spend its money. Lets say, for examples sake, that to get an idea of how bad a patient's heart failure is, an echocardiogram is required.Currently, the PCT has arrangements, usually with th...
• Fooled again.......
  on Mar 29, 2011 in Lansley privatisation Politicians Commissioning Lies
  Apparently the NHS is 'biased against the private sector'"The issue is being looked into by the Co-operation and Competition Panel on behalf of the Department of Health. Its interim findings suggested as many as 70 of the 151 PCTs are employing such...
• Commission This, Mutherfucka!! (part 2)
  on Mar 16, 2011 in Lansley BMA
  Lots more on commissioning to come. Rant central is slowly absorbing the latest developments. The BMA have held a special general meeting, during which they fiercely announced that 'a lot of us disagree with these things, but not all of us' and also...
• BMA welcomes government concessions on NHS rogering
  on Mar 4, 2011 in Lansley BMA Commissioning
  Government/BMA negotiations, yesterday(see this post on DNUK if you are a little confused)Press release: BMA welcomes government concessions on NHS rogeringFor immediate release: Friday 4 March 2011The BMA has welcomed a commitment from the governmen...
• The Return of Jobbygate - an interlude
  on Feb 27, 2011 in Jobbygate
  I have no idea what could possibly be going on here.
• Noooooooooooooooooooo!!!!
  on Feb 26, 2011 in Steve Field Liam Donaldson
  The Next Chief Medical Officer?For the love of GodNooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!Dr Rant has just heard a rumour that the next CMO will be Professor Steve Field, the man considered responsible for building the largest ever extension on the Ivory Tower t...

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