Labour blames the Tories for the state of the NHS. The Tories blame striking Leftist doctors. In this Punch and Judy show, neither will admit that the eye-watering waiting lists are because of lockdown, says Alex Kriel.
Up to 2% of the population of England is autistic, according to the Nuffield Trust, while ADHD prescribing is up 50% in five years. What we have here is a serious case of overdiagnosis, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
NHS waiting lists have soared to another record high following the wave of strike-induced carnage, adding to the toll of the pandemic years and leaving one in eight people waiting in an NHS queue.
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.
When Maria Chaplia contracted a nasty skin infection last year, she hopped on a flight back to her native Ukraine, where she was immediately treated in a health system that she says is much better than the creaking NHS.
The NHS paid billions during the pandemic for private hospital beds that should have prevented the backlog but managers never bothered to use them. This is a scandal, says Dr. David Livermore.
NHS management will play it long, awaiting a Labour Government in 2024, when more taxpayer cash will be handed over for no discernible increase in service levels, writes the DS in-house doctor. Better not get ill or old.
NHS England is unable to tell the national auditor what its £14bn bung of taxpayers' money is going to be spent on, while the increasingly female workforce shifts part-time. No wonder the NHS is not delivering.
Correlation isn't causation. But the correlations keep cropping up and the causal mechanisms are known. The possibility the vaccines are involved in some of the thousands of recent excess deaths must be taken seriously.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast, the talking points are England's World Cup virtue-signalling climbdown, Twitter's blue tick meltdown and the NHS backlog breakdown.
