Lord Darzi's 'independent' report skates over the NHS's systemic flaws and pushes for a digital band-aid that's likely to be a tasty prize for Big Tech, says the Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor.
NHS waiting lists sit at record levels, yet the Royal College of Physicians finds time to produce a Green Physician Toolkit, which reads like a parody and would be amusing if it wasn't so serious, says our in-house doctor.
Why is it the sections of the Labour and Conservative manifestos dealing with the NHS are almost identical? Because both parties know elected politicians have long since had control of the NHS taken away from them.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor, a former NHS consultant, has watched Breathtaking so you don't have to. As he expected, it's NHS-worshipping, pro-lockdown, anti-Tory dross.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor reviews a new book on information warfare by Andreas Krieg. It's good, but has a blindspot about deployment of information warfare by democratic governments against their own citizens.
The junior doctors continue to strike during the winter permacrisis. But a 35% pay rise is not going to stop the NHS's march towards ever greater levels of inefficiency, which is tied to the growth in part-time medics.
Why does the NHS become less productive every year, despite growing numbers of doctors and huge splurges of cash? A new report actually gets the answer right, for once.
The Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor casts a critical eye over the Covid Inquiry, raising questions about the Government's sudden rejection of 'herd immunity' and the Inquiry’s uncritical acceptance that lockdowns work.
The Government's proposals to sort out the longstanding problems with the NHS workforce are just more of the same medicine that has never worked yet, says our in-house doctor.
The BMA's demand for a 35% pay-rise for NHS doctors when taxes are at a 70-year high is unjustified, says our in-house doctor. What's really needed is a boost to their productivity, but the BMA is a major obstacle to that.
Recent data reveal that record numbers of patients are opting for private healthcare because they can't get the treatment they need on the NHS. The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor thinks things will only get worse.
It is likely that some patients will be harmed as a result of the coming strike by junior doctors and some may well die – this is several orders of magnitude more significant than not being able to get on a train.
