Conservative manifesto only says that hospitals will be 'properly staffed', and nowhere does it say that this will be achieved by making junior doctors work anti-social hours for less pay
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2016/04/27/no-plan-no-funds-no-staff/
How irritating. I had drafted a short, blistering blog about how the NHS, the sacred cow of British politics, is a massive socialist project. “If the NHS did not exist”, I would have said...
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2015/07/28/the-pragmatic-idealism-of-team-corbyn/
“I want doctors with stethoscopes not bureaucrats with clipboards”—David Cameron, 2 April 2015, #LeadersDebate In tolerant and inclusive twenty-first century Britain, there is still one gro...
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2015/04/03/hurrah-for-nhs-bureaucrats/
Citizens are now discovering that that some areas of public interest have been suddenly and unexpectedly cordoned off - an Enclosures Act of the mind.
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2013/06/29/an-enclosures-act-of-the-mind/
I have put in a poorly worded Freedom of Information request to the Department of Health to find out what statistics are available. What do you think?
Dominic Grieve spoke of the "mythological state of absolute security." Perhaps we need to speak of a mythological state of absolute health too, and admit that the consequence of decriminalisation...
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2009/07/14/liberalism-and-legalisation/
Just because Facebook conversations occur in semi-public, its not clear to me why this sort of personal communication is considered time-wasting, while simple vanilla e-mailing is still acceptabl...
A picture of the inside of my eye.
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2008/09/16/keeping-an-eye-on-things/
We have an army of millions of people around the world, who have worked in the UK at some point in our lives. They are a million secret agents, sleeper cells in their own communities, who will st...
I’m sure elsewhere in Blogistan the wags are enjoying the news that all the recent terror arrestees worked for the NHS. No doubt someone will suggest that working under Patricia Hewitt was enou...
https://www.robertsharp.co.uk/2007/07/03/terrorists-and-the-nhs/