The BMA's demand for a 35% pay-rise for NHS doctors when taxes are at a 70-year high is unjustified, says our in-house doctor. What's really needed is a boost to their productivity, but the BMA is a major obstacle to that.
Recent data reveal that record numbers of patients are opting for private healthcare because they can't get the treatment they need on the NHS. The Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor thinks things will only get worse.
It is likely that some patients will be harmed as a result of the coming strike by junior doctors and some may well die – this is several orders of magnitude more significant than not being able to get on a train.
Hancock emerges from the Lockdown Files as a vainglorious pipsqueak. But he was just reading out a script written by other, more devious people behind the scenes. Who were they, asks the Daily Sceptic's in-house doctor?
NHS reform does not mean merely increasing patients per session or cutting maternity leave. It means a fundamental rebalancing of power away from doctors and managers and towards the public who pay for medical care.
The In-house doctor breaks down the Byzantine complexity of our de facto private health system. Ironically, the greatest ally private medical providers have turns out to be the ‘useful idiot’ NHS zealots.
NHS management will play it long, awaiting a Labour Government in 2024, when more taxpayer cash will be handed over for no discernible increase in service levels, writes the DS in-house doctor. Better not get ill or old.
The Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor explains why the NHS is such a basket case compared to most European healthcare systems and is likely to remain one for the foreseeable future. It’s basically a Soviet tractor factory.
NHS England is unable to tell the national auditor what its £14bn bung of taxpayers' money is going to be spent on, while the increasingly female workforce shifts part-time. No wonder the NHS is not delivering.
Why is the NHS failing? Not because of Covid or inadequate funding. It's failing because the model is fundamentally flawed, according to a former NHS consultant. It is socialism in practice. Nice idea. Never works.
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