Farewell Lord Darzi
on Jul 15, 2009 in Darzi Lord Darzi: Back in the clinical saddle yesterday?So, farewell then Lord Darzi. You were once described as a well tethered goat. No longer. You seem to have gnawed through the ropes binding you to your ministerial desk.Or maybe you have just seen th...

Labour: always the wrong sort of choice
on Jul 6, 2009 in Politicians new labour NHS Here’s a brilliant example of a government repudiating its own record. This piece in the Guardian could be summarised down to,“Labour OFFICIAL: We fucked it up. We got it wrong.” However the more choice version is that Liam Byrne now admits tha...

Gordon Does The Five-Knuckle Shuffle
on Jun 8, 2009 in Ben Bradshaw Politicians new labour Alan Johnson New Personnel at the Department of HealthSo, we now welcome another reshuffle. We get our sixth SOS for Health in 12 years. The cadavers on the Labour front bench will get polished up and moved sideways, but nothing will really alter. Dr Rant says le...

PE7 and PE8: More Government Lies to come
on Jun 5, 2009 in Money General Practice Targets new labour Bullshit NHS In the Autumn the government announced it planned to do a survey of patients to assess many aspects of primary care, including access to GPs. The survey was going to be independent and of a random sample of those on GPs lists, rather than of surgery...

What does your own medicine taste like?
on May 22, 2009 in Politicians Poor little Tory MP (and former nurse) Nadine Dorries has been bleating about the effect of the recent expenses fraud furore is having on the MPs themselves. They don't like being tarred with the same brush as everyone else, and she's worried that so...

NHS Progress this week
on May 4, 2009 in Connecting For Health bullying managers NHS CfH trials it's new portable communications system, yesterday1.PBC is dying on its feet. It has a much life in it as the parrot in Monty Python’s sketch. It will have even less when it is used by PCTs as a means of keeping their budgets secure, rat...

Missing the point
on Apr 30, 2009 in Sarah-Kate Templeton Quango Fuckwits crap journalism Stick to making the tea love...Is it really worth it? What is the point of hard work? Should one bend over backwards to try and help patients, or the hospital one works for?Obviously not, thinks Sarah-Kate Templeton. This particular 'health journalis...

Swine Flu: We're all doomed!
on Apr 29, 2009 in flu ...

Referrals Mismanagement
on Apr 28, 2009 in General Practice PCTs bullying managers Well Fuck Me. The Fucking fuckwits who manage the NHS have managed to fuck it up again!This time it’s on referrals. Referrals are a basic necessity in any healthcare system such as the NHS as one doctor passes on a patient to another.Now the idiots...

Oh my prophetic soul
on Apr 23, 2009 in General Practice Targets Recently Dr Rant blogged on medicine by dictat. We included this line, meaning it as a joke. “All diabetics are so well controlled that they never get out of hypoglycaemic coma”Reality it seems is ahead of art this weekend. This piece in the BMJ...