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Christian GP gives it away really

akm — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:10:33 +0000

Observing behaviour rather than advice

akm — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:41:34 +0000

http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/11/30/how-doctors-die/read/nexus/

Were Massive Reforms necessary to Save the NHS? No.

akm — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:27:46 +0000

“Summary
Overall, we concluded that the NHS did not need a wholesale restructuring. We were also oncerned at the cost of the reforms, 2-3billion (Kieran Walshe, professor of health policy at Manchester Business School) in light of the Government wanting the NHS to save £20bn by 2015,
However, with much of the reorganisation underway despite the Health and Social Care Bill still being debated, our recommendations are to minimise the disruption to NHS patients and we hope that what emerges from the reforms helps deliver a more efficient, patient centred NHS that is sustainable long into the future.”
All Parliamentary Group on NHS report (PDF)

Mind you, I thought the tumour of management was destroying it. Alas, I don’t see a reduction occurring, planned, or likely.

NHS: Health and Social Security Bill

akm — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:09:14 +0000

Tribal and astroturf: http://www.spinwatch.org/-articles-by-category-mainmenu-8/70-british-politics/5422-revealed-government-secretly-uses-doctors-to-spin-tribal-war-for-nhs-hearts-and-minds-oh-and-p80-billion

Breasts and money at the Open University

akm — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:50:44 +0000

Cosmetic surgery tourism and anthropological thoughts on the institution of credit antedating that of money.

Meanwhile in London (Bevan’s Run)

akm — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:56:10 +0000

Clive Peedell et al arrive in Whitehall protesting the mess being made of the NHS. I’d be there if I wasn’t a long way away.

Here we go again?

akm — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:47:55 +0000

Gruaniad article by Cardiology Registrar on the badness of the Health and Social Security Bill.

I’m old enough to remember the previous time we had a Department of Stealth and Total Obscurity. It was split because, I think, it was too big and unwieldy. Are we better at handling such masses? Is the total amount of trouble to handle in it no larger? I think not. So is it going to work this time? Optimism would be nice, but realism seems safer.

10 years on: constraints added

akm — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:37:01 +0000

Since I wrote this brief piece on what happens after the NHS collapses: http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/apres-deluge-moi a raft of constraints have been introduced – or are asserted to be about to be introduced.

It wasn’t something I said that set that off was it?

Removing a patient from a gp list is a last resort

akm — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:48:52 +0000

http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/01/05/removing-patients-from-gp-lists-is-a-last-resort/. Indeed so. Rare. We are trying to make our lists bigger, for various reasons, and losing a patient doesn’t do that.

EOS 7D

akm — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 05:46:39 +0000

Canon EOS 7D review on photo.net