NHS

Thoughts on Social Democracy

July 16, 2011
Thumbnail image for Thoughts on Social Democracy

I realize that I will probably offend generations of political anoraks with this bland assertion, but I’m going to make it anyway: “social” anything, whether it’s “social democracy” or “pure socialism” or “social something else” ultimately means that the costs for bad things get pushed onto society as a whole. Whatever the motivation for said [...]

Read the full article →

Blood Sucking Bureaucracy

July 14, 2011
Thumbnail image for Blood Sucking Bureaucracy

I’ve got the hang of the local accent now; I rattle confidently through the questions with them as they laboriously write out the answers in triplicate. Nom, prénom flies out in the correct back to front order; I deliver my telephone number in batches of two digits at a time, no longer do they turn [...]

Read the full article →

Killing The Sacred Cow

February 16, 2011

And so it ends, the National Compact first dreamt up in the dying days of the Second World War called the Welfare State. The Welfare State was always a ponzi scheme of gigantic proportions, that relied on the next round of investors paying out to the first batch of ‘investors’. The only difference between the [...]

Read the full article →

Health Economics.

August 3, 2010

In Hereford there is a purpose built podiatric hospital. That’s a foot hospital for the benefit of those who cruise the Internet looking for any mention of paedophilia and get confused with paediatrics. I had been in intermittent pain for some 20 years, and no one had ever figured out what was wrong. The podiatrician [...]

Read the full article →

The Smoker in the Deck.

June 15, 2010

[Ed. Anna I need 150 words on transplant patients by 8am] 30% of Transplant patients die before they ever get the chance of a donor organ. According to NHS figures, three people die each day waiting for a transplant. However the family of a 28 year old committed Christian told of their horror at learning [...]

Read the full article →

Healthcare revisited

March 12, 2010

One of the things that came out of the US healthcare débâcle was the curious false dichotomy that the only two possible approaches to healthcare were the NHS or the current American system. Now, the American healthcare system has many things going for it: America has the highest quality treatment of any country in the [...]

Read the full article →

The way we were.

August 15, 2009

Life used to be very simple. You found a husband, got married, got pregnant. A few people skipped the middle bit, but not so many as tipped the social balance. When the time came, you tied a tea towel round the bed head, hung on for grim death and gave birth. If you’d been fortunate [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries