Some musings

A healthcare provider [HP] enters a government shop. Behind the counter is the Secretary of State for Health [SSH] HP: Hello, I wish to register a complaint. SSH: We’re closin’ for lunch. HP: Never mind that, my lad. I wish to complain about this health system what I’ve been trying to work in these last […]

Once upon a time there was a little girl and her name was Little Red Riding Hood. One morning she felt ill and decided, therefore, to go and visit her Grandma who, for almost 75 years had been providing health care to anyone who required it. ‘Should I take a hamper of food for her?’ […]

Promises change things – they give us hope. Today is January 1st and at the start of a new year you may be hoping that 2023 will be better than 2022. But if the last few years are anything to go by, simply hoping that next year will be better because it couldn’t possibly be […]

Though there can’t be many men whose wives have likened them to a pregnant kangaroo, this is an experience that, in recent days, I have had to suffer on more than one occasion. As such, it was perhaps inevitable that whilst watching this years ‘Top Gun’ film, I found myself thinking that she who sat […]

NOW WITH LINK TO AUDIO VERSION… Steve Barclay, are you listeningHave you heard, something’s missingA lack of GPsMeans they’re down on their kneesWorking in a healthcare hinterland Nurses too, they’re unhappy‘Taint enough, that you clap, theOnes you applaudThey still can’t affordWorking in a healthcare hinterland In a little while there will be no oneWanting to […]

Some posts are liable to divide opinion – this post may well be one of them. Not because I’m going to discuss the merits of Marmite, not because I’m about to express a political opinion, not even because I’m on the verge of venturing a view as to whether GPs should cap the number of […]

THE DR SCROOGE CHRONICLES BOOK ONE A PRIMARY CARE CHRISTMAS CAROL Stave One – in which Scrooge reveals how burnt out he is Old Dr Marley was dead. As dead as the NHS would be within a couple of years if things didn’t start to improve soon. And, as far as Dr Ebenezer Scrooge was […]

Amidst continuing denials of a national shortage of antibiotics, it was announced today that Milk Tray Man had been recruited in a bid to improve the supply of penicillin to pharmacies. Asked why it was that the former special forces operative, one renowned for his ability to deliver irrespective of how challenging the circumstances, was […]

PART ONE: IN WHICH SCROOGE PLANS THE DEMISE OF COUNTY CRICKET Old Marley was dead. As dead as Old Father Time’s great grandfather and, if Ebenezer Scrooge had anything to do with it, as dead as county cricket would be in just a few short years. It was late afternoon on Christmas Eve and Scrooge […]

A CRICKET CHRISTMAS CAROL: A GHOST STORYPart Five: in which all is not lost. To read Part 4, click here Or the whole story can be read here Scrooge woke up with light pouring in through his bedroom window. The room seemed particularly bright and looking outside Scrooge realised that the reason for this was […]