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Childcare woes
Yesterday I was flipping through a medical journal and read something that brought back the past very vividly. It was an account of how a young GP, who was a mother of school age children, was struck off the medical … Continue reading
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Tagged childcare, doctors-strikes, general-practice, general-practice, gmc, health, healthcare, NHS
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Interesting snippets on getting adequate medical care
Last year I wrote a blog “Women’s bodies shamed in medicine”, (1) on how women are treated both as doctors and as patients, and how their position as doctors has improved out of all recognition in the last fifty years. There … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Policy, Medicine, Private health care, Women's Health
Tagged dental-care, health, healthcare, Medicine, NHS, Optometrists, pharmacists
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A brave new world of lower waiting lists in the NHS?
Thank goodness, the new government is trying very hard to speed up the process of diagnosis and treatment to reduce waiting lists in the NHS, and I think they are on the right track. Allowing patients to book their own … Continue reading
Posted in Health Delivery, Health Management, Health Policy, Uncategorized
Tagged health, healthcare, news, NHS, politics, waiting times
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NHS funding – Where should our priorities be?
With all this talk of the latest budget giving a huge amount of money to the NHS, it is now necessary to look at how this amount of money can be spent in order to rescue the health of this … Continue reading
Can the NHS survive?
While going about my normal life, fitting in appointments for dentists and eye tests amongst shopping and hair appointments, I sometimes think about the changes in provision for these first two since I retired from clinical practice over ten years … Continue reading
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Tagged dental, dentist, dentistry, Dentists, Ear infections, health, health service, healthcare, NHS, Optometrists, Privatization, UK
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Vaccine Hesitancy and Anti-vaxxers.
As a doctor, I can’t understand anti-vaxxers, certainly not the vociferous sort who campaign aganist vaccination outside schools, or just refuse without giving a reason. Vaccinations have always been an incredible scientific advance. In the 1960’s, I was so relieved … Continue reading
Elen Samuel, doctor and writer 