How Theresa May Made Modern Britain
31 May 2023
by J Sorel
On Wokeness, Its Nature, and Its Prospects
30 May 2023
by Eugyppius
Our collapsing NHS seems obsessed with hiring diversity managers to ensure it "reflects the communities we serve". But since ethnic minorities are 'over-represented' at all levels, this is an utter waste of money.
The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor scrutinises the NHS's latest wheeze to solve the workforce crisis – the medical apprenticeship Scheme. Not surprisingly, he isn't impressed.
Turning the NHS into a Covid service was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says top cancer doctor Karol Sikora.
Finding himself distressed when wearing a mask, Dr Damian Wilde was exempted from the mandate by his GP, but his NHS employer refused to accept the exemption and made his life misery.
The striking junior doctors are demanding a 35% pay rise. It sounds like a lot, but their larger point – that the NHS is a poorly managed, bureaucratic basket case with no clue about financial incentives – is valid.
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.
Read the heartbreaking and shocking story of a user of NHS mental health services, whose request not to wear a mask because they cause her panic attacks was refused, leaving her cut off from her support and suicidal.
The NHS is in crisis – so why is it hiring diversity managers on £55,000 a year, at a total cost of £40 million, asks David Craig.
More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.
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.
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