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Exactly. If we divide causes of death into four groups, 1 - illnesses caused by overweight, 2 - cancer, 3 - old age and dementia, 4 - everything else including heart disease not caused by overweight; then, by definition, thin and healthy people must suffer more from causes 2, 3 and 4 than fat...

I agree. You can run the show for me - consider yourself head of "NHS England". I certainly agree that we don't want the US system, but one thing that I saw in a letter to the Telegraph rang very true. It was from a surgeon who has worked in a surgical hospital in America, and said that...

I didn't achieve "very little". I achieved a drip, medical treatment, nine days in hospital. You may say that none of that was needed and I would have been better off waiting a couple of days before trying to get a GP appointment; who knows. I think I did right. That's the problem. Patients...

I did ring 111 and their advice was to go to a chemist and get some stomach tablets. The chemist's advice was to wait till after the weekend and get a GP appointment. Sometimes, the best person to diagnose a medical problem, is a doctor. As for the hospitals now, East Lancs is officially...

Many A&E visits are for minor ailments, it's true. But how is the patient to know if it's minor? Not all patients are medical professionals. I went to A&E 10 years ago for a "minor ailment", stomach ache, one of those things that they specifically tell you not to go to A&E for. Within an...

The Supreme Court was created by politicians as recently as 2005 and could be brought down by politicians, just as the judicial supremacy of the House of Lords was. And MHRA, even more so - do you really think that if the MHRA started making decisions to quadruple its budget and to release (as...

Can't be done. In a democracy, nothing can be ultimately apolitical because the elected representatives must be able to change it. If an apolitical body decided that the NHS should be replaced by a system like the USA has, would that be better than letting politicians do it? If an apolitical...

The problem with people visiting A&E when they don't really need to is that few people can diagnose themselves effectively. (And until everyone is a qualified doctor, that will always be a problem with no solution.) If you have an emergency, then you go to A&E straight away. If you have a...