News Round-Up
10 January 2025
Britain “Came Within Whisker of Blackouts” Yesterday
9 January 2025
by Will Jones
Labour’s War Against the Past
9 January 2025
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.
Hancock emerges from the Lockdown Files as a vainglorious pipsqueak. But he was just reading out a script written by other, more devious people behind the scenes. Who were they, asks the Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor?
NHS stroke consultations shot up by 25% following the Covid vaccine rollout, but for some reason the Government has shown no interest in getting to the bottom of this worrying trend.
A group campaigning to put the word 'woman' back in official NHS advise has attracted the signatures of over 1,400 female patients and clinicians in the past 24 hours.
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