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The Central Question: Are they using a sound methodology?
These are feverish times. Probably not the the most propitious time for standing back and having a measured conversation. My problems (the problem of list size and quality; the problem of patient...
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Email to MPs, beginning with the A’s
I have circulated this blog to everyone I can think of: local GPs in Tower Hamlets (thanks for your support), journalists, health think tanks, MPs, medical students I meet, and so on. MPs: these were...
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Getting back to work on this blog….
I have had to take a break from this blog, partly due to a 1 week holiday, and also because March is the GP ‘end of year’ so lots of deadlines fall on March 31st. There has been lots of controversy...
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You need to keep shouting and protesting
Just received this comment to the Home Page, which I think is most eloquent: ‘I have been married to my husband, a GP for 15 years. We live in Cambridgeshire with our three children. I cannot believe...
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Troubling Patients in Troubling Times: workshop at RCGP
I’m just back from a day’s workshop at the Royal College of General Practitioners. The title: Troubling Patients in Troubling Times. This was a joint venture by the APP (Association for Psychoanalytic...
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Invitation to Matthew Parris; & the response
Dear Matthew, I noticed consternation from GPs on Twitter this morning in connection to a comment that GPs were little more than glorified receptionists. I assumed they were overreacting. I get a...
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GPs are paid way too much!
It is my birthday today. I had promised myself the afternoon off. I went into work this morning to tackle on an enormous backlog (blood results, hospital correspondence, DWP reports, issues relating to...
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Are GPs too lazy?
Two evenings ago, when I arrived home at 9pm for supper, my daughter, with a smile on her face, pointed me to the front cover of the current edition of The Week which asks ‘Are GPs too lazy?’ She and...
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I smell a rat. Is Monitor working in the interests of patients or free market...
I recently set up a Google news alert for articles on GP practice boundaries. It threw this article up this morning. “Monitor senior policy adviser Paul Dinkin, the man heading its primary care...
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People’s March for the NHS
A number of good ladies have marched from Jarrow to Trafalgar Square. I saw this video about a month ago. So I joined the march today, the final leg to Trafalgar Square. For about 5 miles, I walked...
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