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.
In the last year, there has been an excess of 21,841 cardiovascular deaths. The data suggest it isn’t caused by a fall in drug treatment. The Government should do better to get to the bottom of what is really driving it.
Deaths in England and Wales were a massive 20% above the 5-year average in the week ending Dec 23rd – that's 2,493 deaths, with just 308 from Covid, giving 29,880 excess non-Covid deaths since April. What's going on?
Mask wearing, social distancing and working from home could be introduced by ministers to 'ease pressures on the NHS', as some experts call for Britons to start adopting Covid-era measures.
Unwell adults should stay at home and wear a mask if they have to go outside, health chiefs said today amid warnings the NHS is facing more pressure than it did during the peak of the pandemic.
Flu hospitalisations in England have jumped by more than 40% in a week as they overtake Covid admissions for the first time and the NHS braces for one of the worst outbreaks of the virus in recent years.
The French pay the same for their health service as Brits, but this gets them far more doctors and nurses, much less bureaucracy and much better outcomes. Why don't we ditch the 'our NHS' dogma and learn from them?
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.
A sharp drop in the number of diagnosed bacterial blood infections since the lockdown can only mean many are going unreported and untreated, leading to hundreds of avoidable deaths, writes Dr David Livermore.
Hospitals are still performing fewer operations and scans each month than before Covid, despite being given billions more taxpayer cash and being better staffed, as the waiting list continues to soar above 7 million.
