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.
At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.
Senior doctors are urging stricter regulations and oversight of NHS managers in the wake of allegations that hospital administrators ignored repeated concerns about child serial killer Lucy Letby.
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.
Masks have gone in most parts of UK society now, but healthcare settings like GP surgeries remain a notable exception. Why are medics the last holdout of the masking obsession, and what can be done about it?
More 'experts' have weighed in, claiming the decision to phase out all Covid restrictions is "premature" and "not based on current evidence". Meanwhile, infections, hospitalisations and deaths continue to plummet.
