Lab Rat or Button Monkey?

I saw an interesting piece on the BBC news site.  It talked about a report from the Royal College of Surgeons that suggests that the 48 hour per week work limit for doctors is potentially damaging patient care.  The original report can be found here. Whilst the report does contain some valid points e.g. continuity [...]

I have been re-examining the content of the training site and realised I could add some extra RSS feeds to the front page.  I have added feeds from the Department of Health and the NHS. I hope these extra feeds prove to be a good resource.  If any one can suggest other suitable feeds, I [...]

The NHS IT project for computerised records has hit yet more problems.  It seems that any IT project  will have problems but this project has been hit more than most.  Only the air traffic control centre at Swanwick seems to be worse

I am surprised by this report.  I don’t know whether the figures are a ‘real’ disaster or part of political fighting, as the report is by the Conservative Party.  I don’t know wether the figures are part of a trend or not.  The figures may actually be lower than five or ten years ago, its [...]

BBC Health are reporting that waiting times under labour are up. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7271772.stm

Been looking at the BBC Health website and found some news items which I would like to bring to your attention. The first story is a protest about the NHS refroms. As someone who works in the NHS, I do feel that we should focus on primary role of patient care rther than all of [...]

It seems the Americans have been looking at various different countries and their health systems. They have concluded that the US is the the worst or second worse on the various different parameters used. According to this survey, the best health system was the NHS. I must read the full report to find out how [...]