Published in The Times (May 11th, 2011) For those of us forced to deal with the daily realities of healthcare in Britain, Nick Clegg has been an admirable […]
Health / Policy
NHS rewards bosses after 1,200 ‘excess’ deaths at scandal-hit hospitals
Published in The Mail on Sunday (May 1st, 2011) Julie Bailey is still haunted by the death of her mother, who entered hospital a sprightly 86-year-old but was […]
Policy / Politics
Public v private isn’t the issue – what’s best is key
Published in the London Evening Standard (February 22nd, 2011) The facts speak for themselves. Elderly patients starved to death in hospital. Families spending a lifetime on benefits. Desperate […]
Health / Policy
The NHS is ripe for revolution
Published in The Observer (February 6th, 2011) It was just a small thing, but telling none the less. My son developed an abdominal pain, which was rapidly diagnosed […]
Health / Policy
2,000 dead and still no justice for the victims of Britain’s blood transfusion scandal
Published in the Daily Mail (October 18th, 2010) A few months after his birth, Colin developed a bruise on his knee. It was seen by his aunt, whose […]
Health / Policy
It is patients who will end up losing out
Published in The Independent (November 13th, 2009) Nurses are the lifeblood of the health service. Without good people on the medical front line, all the technological breakthroughs, genetic […]
Health / Policy
The health service needs whistleblowers
Published in The Independent (September 9th, 2009) Soon after Alan Milburn became Health minister in 1997, he wrote to employers across the National Health Service telling them that […]
Disability / Health / Policy
The NHS is flawed. Here’s the evidence…
Published in The Independent (August 28th, 2009) It was the most painful of the emails that I’ve received over the past week. It began, like dozens of others, […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Why I don’t believe that the NHS is sacrosanct
Published in The Independent (August 21st, 2009) It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever flawed gene or missing protein might be the […]
Health / Policy
Set us free to pay
Published in The Spectator (May 11th, 2002) During the phoney war before the last general election I attended a lunch with William Hague. He was in fine form, […]