Prime Minister Blair asked to end patchy UK…

The end of general practice

Dr Branson and the Practice Nurses Retail giants set to run GP clinicsTONY BLAIR is to invite retail chains including Tesco, Virgin and Boots to bid to run GP surgeries on behalf of the NHS with contracts worth £225m over five years. GPs will be encouraged to run clinics at breakfast[...]

Patricia Hewitt resigns

In an unexpected statement made earlier this morning, too late for the Sunday newspapers, the Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, announced that she was stepping down from office for personal reasons. After the usual exchange of letters, the Prime Minister said: I know that all who have worked in[...]

The BritMeds 2007 (12)

Does the Prime Minister have a sense of humour? Maybe. Does he demean his office by doing things like this? Dr Crippen did not know whether to laugh or cringe. When you have done whatever you have to do watching something like that, you can relax with Dr Rant, who is[...]

Top News Hospital Wants to End Child’s Life…

Top News Hospital Wants to End Child's Life...[...]

How to cause the downfall of socialized medicine

Have the politicians use publicly financed systems. Given the choice, would they? Of course not: Stephen Robertson is Minister of Health for Queensland, the third most populous state of Australia where he oversees the taxpayer-supported, government-run, public health care system. Australia has long waiting lists for diagnostic tests, appointments with[...]