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Rayner my parade! The importance of specialist advice.
Jemma Brimblecombe
7 April 2017
GP Surgeries in crisis
Recent news reports have highlighted the dire straits our GP surgeries find themselves in. Multiple closures across the UK, with surviving surgeries having to merge and take the strain of an increasing number of patients, with fewer GPs remaining in practice, has led to an already difficult situation, becoming increasingly impossible to manage.
14 March 2017
“Realising Realistic Medicine” The Reports of Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer are welcome news for doctors and patients
I read with interest the second Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland, Dr Catherine Calderwood, which was published at the end of February. The report is Dr Calderwood’s second since she took up the post in March 2015, her first report having caused something of a stir, not just in Scotland, but in England and Wales too.
6 March 2017
NHS Standing on a Burning Platform
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that safety is still inadequate in 4 out of every 5 acute NHS Trusts. The report, which looks at the state of care in NHS Hospitals between 2014 – 2016 raises a number of concerns.
27 February 2017
Setting the Discount Rate and Achieving Fairness for Victims of Accidents
This morning, the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss announced that she is changing the discount rate from 2.5% to minus 0.75%.
15 February 2017
Blame the system, not the staff
Last week the BBC 10 o’clock news ran a nightly feature on the NHS, looking in particular at the Royal Blackburn Hospital, one of the busiest hospitals in the North West. We saw tired and worried patients being looked after by exhausted and demoralised staff, a nurse saying “it’s dangerous, it’s frightening”, and a patient saying “they need beds and staff - the Doctors and Nurses are working really hard, and it’s heart breaking”.