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.......or start by having a critical look at things like the absolute multitude of 100kpa+jobs (Directors supporting Directors for example ? Associate Director of Cleaning Services ? ) currently advertised (let alone those occupied - there are 100+ 70k+ vacancies on the NHS Jobs website right...

Yep. The degree basically replaced the professional study trainee nurses had to do to become an SRN (nursing diploma) which they did on the job and studied privately. BN Degree is more in-depth (some are 4 years Hons courses) and they have to specialise in one of a number of disciplines. Passing...

Nightingales - who is going to staff them ? There is a massive shortage of care staff already in all settings. Given what nurses have to do a degree is absolutely necessary - two years in ‘social care’ wouldn’t enable an individual to be remotely qualified to be a nurse……however the degrees...

Lost my brother in law last year to bowel cancer. He never responded to the regular screening requests he got. Aside from the human cost of the illness, the cost of screening relative to the treatment required is miniscule.

Not always that simple……the insurance company will often push you down the NHS route first, excesses and max allowances per year and/or condition usually apply, certain things aren’t covered etc etc. I had a potential heart defect picked up in a routine (private) annual medical, ended up having...

Pizza tax 👍

Yep…..I’m not a medic but have direct involvement/interest due to the immense demands on the clinical side of things at the school where I’m a Trustee, and separately our eldest is a nurse (was in DME, then in research attached to a Uni/drug co clinical trial and now in palliative care in a...

Fixing it will take way, way longer than a parliamentary term - it’ll take a full term just to get plans approved and in place (including all the arguments that will happen based on whatever reforms are suggested). Won’t happen but should be a cross-party group that transcends whoever is in...

Very difficult to draw a line on who to treat………..hence all people treated equally (in theory anyway). Underfunding, wasting billions on crap admin/IT/processes/management etc, increasing UK population (not matched by increasing NHS resources over many years), increasingly aged population...