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.
