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  (delete as necessary)   Today it is revealed that GPs are failing /getting worse at dementia detection/sending patients to A+E/offering health checks/objecting to telehealth. This is important because we need to have an external locus of blame/policy to support the technology industry/policy to support the pharmaceutical industry/policy popular with people […]

The Jobbing Doctor is leaving the building....   "Jobbing Doctor" is waving goodbye.I have decided that it is time to hang up my stethoscope, close the door to my room, and finish a job that I have loved doing for a third of a century.I have worked in the Black Country, the industrial area to the West of Birmingham for 33 years, and have had a wond […]

The health secretary Jeremy Hunt blames general practitioners (GPs) for the overcrowding crisis in UK emergency departments,1 because GPs gave up responsibility for out of hours care in 2004. Is this fair? Before 2004, GPs had 24 hour responsibility for patient care. General practice has always been hard work, but demand and expectation were increasing unsus […]

It’s hard to know what to make of  David Tredinnick MP (Cons, Bosworth). He is certainly an extreme example of the scientific ignorance of our parliamentary representatives, but he isn’t alone in that. Our present minister of Education, Michael Gove, memorably referred to Newton’s Laws of Thermodynamics, blissfully unaware that thermodynamics was a 19th cent […]