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Risk-free profits for the vultures begin by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This excellent article from Allyson Pollock sums up the disaster that Lansley's terrible NHS reforms are .  It is clear that the market is fake and that many private sector ... Read on »
Dr No - nail on head? Can of worms exploding by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I stumbled upon this , I have to agree with Dr No, I do not trust the Royal College of GPs and suspect some cynical motives may be at play "There are of course those wh ... Read on »
Andrew Lansley - popular compared to Hitler by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So the antidemocratic farce that is Andrew Lansley's 'Health Bill' has not yet been scrapped.  Today the deeply unpopular and arrogant health minister needed a pol ... Read on »
Lansley on the run - write to your President now! by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Lansley's disastrous Bill appears to drifting towards the rocks , the BMA, RCN, RCM, Unison and Unite already oppose the Bill.  The Colleges are not covering themselves i ... Read on »
Lansleys lies some more by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So Lansley is now claiming that nurses' and doctors' unions are opposing the health bill because of pay and pensions, what an illogical and incoherent view from this cock ... Read on »
Quackery of the lowest form possible - exploiting dying cancer patients by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Exploiting those who are dying of cancer for their very last pennies is one of the most contemptible and disgraceful things humanly possible, yet it does not app ... Read on »
Bevan's run - Save the NHS from Lansley! by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The government's health bill is an absolute disaster waiting to happen, of course it is not anything completely new, it is a continuation of the destructive market based re ... Read on »
The NHS is in utter crisis - Trauma disaster by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The way trauma care is handled in the UK is in the process of being centralised.  This means that a small number of more specialist centres are meant to be taking a far lar ... Read on »
Support the pension strike by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A lot of government misinformation has been and will be spread as the public sector unions' strike arrives this Wednesday.  The simple fact is that the government is using ... Read on »
Dr Rant rises above the storm by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Dr Rant is back and has had some fairly interesting things to say on recent events "For Christ's sake people! GP commissioning is being taken off GPs and given to priv ... Read on »
Someone doth protest too much? by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The ferretfancier does not wish to defame or incite hatred.  Obviously there has been a bit of medical storm brewing in the last few days and I only think it right that my ... Read on »
The GMC, the social media and our lives by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy It seems that the social media is an area of great fear and concern for many of us in the medical blogosphere these days.  With Dr Rant being take offline and in a state of ... Read on »
The GMC: a totalitarian regime? by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Much bad in medicine in recent years has been allowed to happen because those in the positions of medical power have been looking out for themselves rather than the interes ... Read on »
Corrupt Bill edges through Lords by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy So as expected the Health Bill has won two crucial votes in the House of Lords today.  One would think that large numbers of those voting in the Lords would be objective an ... Read on »
#Blockthebill and corrupt media by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A mass protest is currently taking place on Westminster Bridge in London.  UKUncut has organised this protest against the corrupt and dishonest health Bill that is cu ... Read on »
Letter to the Lords by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I have taken the liberty of repeating this letter than Dr Grumble has recently reproduced on his blog.  I would strongly urge anyone to sign up, time is fast running out ... Read on »
The Bill of disgrace by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I must apologise for my absence from the blogosphere over recent months, it has certainly been a strange old time in the NHS. The health news has been dominated by the Hea ... Read on »
Dishonest manager-led patient torture by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy This current news story is old news , the sad thing is that this shocking treatment of patients has been going on for years now and it is completely evidenc ... Read on »
Lansley and his lies: a tired corrupt joke by Garth M. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy I recently took the time out to listen to a certain Andrew Lansley interviewed on Doctors.net.uk, unfortunately nothing surprised me. Lansley comes ac ... Read on »