27th November 2024

Your chance to tell Wes ….
Have your say! Add your views to this WeOwnIt template. Tell him about the myth of private hospital “spare” capacity. Or that only by employing and training more staff will restore the NHS…funded to succeed, not defunded to fail.

Rehashed policies: didn’t work then, so why now?
The appointment of Alan Milburn as ‘lead non-executive member’ to the board of the Department of Health and Social Care has dredged back up a failed politician. Milburn saddled the NHS with Private Finance Initiative-funded hospitals and a plethora of contracts for private providers before he went off to make millions in the private sector.

Doctors warn of “massive winter crisis”
The president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine said: “This is a stark warning from those on the frontline. Clinicians are worried and patients are unsafe… It looks like we are facing a massive crisis.”

If a plane is under safety review, it’s grounded…
30-year-old Emily Chesterton died from a pulmonary embolism after a misdiagnosis from a physician associate. She thought she was seeing a GP.  So why do PAs continue to treat patients?