At last, after three years of cuts to social care, there now seems to be a growing awareness that there may be a problem in cutting this vital public service. Sadly that problem, at least as far as the newspapers … Continue reading
A whistleblower claimed last night that she was hired by an NHS hospital to fiddle its shocking death rates. As hundreds of patients died needlessly, Sandra Haynes Kirkbright says she was headhunted by hospital bosses and asked to ‘fix’ … Continue reading
Atos, the company contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions to carry out medical assessments of people claiming benefits, has subcontracted elements of the work back to a number of NHS trusts in England. The subcontracting of the NHS … Continue reading
Sir David Nicholson or as he’s known now “The Man with No Shame” has refused to resign, this is the man who totally ignores the families who’s loved ones died under his watch, he has washed his hands of all … Continue reading
Hospitals are ‘very bad places’ for elderly people, according to the head of the NHS. Sir David Nicholson said they were not the right place to care for ‘old, frail people’, and called for community care to be expanded to … Continue reading
London Ambulance Service insists that many patients with minor injuries or illnesses do not need to be sent ambulances Continue reading
Labour calls on government not to ‘let the tax avoiders into the NHS‘ after revelations in review by Monitor Private companies providing NHS services could be exempt from paying corporation tax on their profits under proposals being considered by a … Continue reading
I have always been totally gobsmacked that Hospitals seem to close down on weekends, Nurses, Porters, Technicians, Labs, Kitchens, X-Ray Dept and several other areas of the general hospital workforce yet Consultants appear to be a different breed of human being. … Continue reading
Jo Brand to some people may be a brilliant comedian but apologising for the state of nursing is a joke too far. Nursing standards have been going downhill for years, it’s not something that has just happened and it’s NOT just down … Continue reading
MP said her husband was ‘squashed up against the iron bars of the bed’ with ‘an oxygen mask that didn’t fit his face’ The human rights advocate said ‘nobody should die in such conditions’ A spokesman for the University Hospital … Continue reading