Flawed Reasoning Behind Mask Requirements in Healthcare Settings
Dr Gary Sidley has written an excellent piece in the Critic dissecting the faulty reasoning behind the ongoing insistence on masks in healthcare settings.
Dr Gary Sidley has written an excellent piece in the Critic dissecting the faulty reasoning behind the ongoing insistence on masks in healthcare settings.
Karol Sikora was accused of endangering people's lives by warning against turning the NHS into a Covid-only service during the lockdowns. Now, predictably, over 300,000 people are on NHS England's cancer waiting list.
Police officers in England and Wales are spending up to a third of their time on non-policing matters, including assisting heart attack patients due to high demand and an overstretched ambulance service.
A reader says he is currently unable to get hold of urgent medication for his heart condition owing to an NHS computer failure, which is affecting the whole country and has been blamed on a cyberattack. Is it that easy?
Why is the NHS failing? Not because of Covid or inadequate funding. It's failing because the model is fundamentally flawed, according to a former NHS consultant. It is socialism in practice. Nice idea. Never works.
The Tavistock transgender clinic is to be shut down by the NHS after a review found it is "not safe" for children. But the NHS is now promising to set up eight regional centres in its place.
GPs in Scotland are to be told to offer powerful gender-change hormones to people referred to but not yet seen by specialist gender clinics, despite doctors warning of a lack of evidence to support use of the drugs.
The Editors of the BMJ and the Health Service Journal have said the "pandemic is far from over" and an immediate return to work from home, masks, gathering limits and free testing is needed to save the "dying" NHS.
The NHS dropped its national requirement for face masks in hospitals last month, yet many hospitals continue to insist on them. But why, when the Health & Safety Executive is clear that they do not provide protection?
The NHS's chief 'sustainability manager' has praised the lack of face-to-face appointments because it reduces the NHS's carbon footprint. Yet more evidence 'our NHS' is putting its woke agenda ahead of patients' interests.
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