NHS
What the NHS pay rise says about Boris Johnson's priorities
Well, that didn’t take long. Two days ago, a leaked report revealed that the government was considering using a national insurance…
Can Boris and his ministers agree on the point of the Covid app?
What is the point of the Covid-19 app? Ministers seem to be as in the dark about the answer to…
Is Boris brave enough to confront the truth about the NHS?
If a government does not wish to break a manifesto promise it should punt fewer such ‘promises’ into its manifesto.…
The cold reality facing Sajid Javid
The most difficult time for a new secretary of state is normally the first three months in the job. An…
Letters: The case for an NHS card
A new prescription Sir: It is maddening to see the British people being refused face-to-face GP appointments and subjected to…
My medical embarrassments are my business and no one else’s
While we were looking forward to Freedom Day, the National Health Service was busy planning something extra special to coincide…
Why are GPs still not seeing patients in person?
The GP won’t see you now
Just how far will the NHS go to get me jabbed up?
More threatening letters from the NHS demanding I let them jab me up with two Covid vaccinations. Or as the…
Our doctor’s surgery is beginning to look like a Category A penitentiary
When the time came for the nurse to ring me to take my blood pressure, the phone simply didn’t ring.…
‘Protect the NHS’ is all very well, but when will the NHS protect us?
After refusing to issue my HRT without a blood pressure test, the GP surgery rang to offer me an appointment.…
Rishi Sunak's real opponent
Things are starting to get more awkward for Rishi Sunak — something the Chancellor has long been prepared for. He…
The mysteries of ‘long Covid’
Why do some people’s symptoms not go away?
Vaccination offers us a road out of lockdown. Let’s take it
As an epidemiologist and doctor who volunteered to return to the frontline in both waves, I have seen first hand…
Why are so many health workers turning down the vaccine?
On Saturday the government hit its target of administering a first vaccine dose to 15 million of the highest-risk groups…
Tavistock gender clinic whistleblowers have been vindicated
The Care Quality Commission has released its reports on the gender identity services offered by the Tavistock and Portman NHS…
How the NHS has coped with the second wave
Across Europe, hospitals have been filling up again with the second wave of coronavirus. France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the…
Letters: Why lockdown II was necessary
Cancelled procedures Sir: Your leader (‘A lockdown too far’, 7 November) suggests that the Prime Minister should have shown ‘leadership’…
Who came up with ‘lockdown’?
The start of lockdown The earliest known use of ‘lockdown’ in its current sense was in a 1973 story in…
There is no Santa Claus, Sir Patrick
It seems, then, that this latest lockdown has been instigated simply to protect two very questionable institutions — the National…
Instead of lockdown, let's create a National Shielding Service
So what would you do? That was the question that cropped up on my Twitter timeline after I’d sent out…
The generosity of French doctors
My last NHS scan showed a shadow on a rib. The scan report couldn’t decide between a new cancer metastasis…
How much does it cost to save lives from Covid?
Why has much more been spent on saving lives from Covid than other conditions?
The memo Dominic Cummings never sent
There’s something about Dominic Cummings I will always like, and perhaps partly it’s the danger. I hardly know him well…
Was the maskless man in my carriage dying of Covid?
A man without a mask appeared to be dying of Covid, or something quite like it, on the London to…
Trust the NHS to take the worst elements of the private sector
After driving around the hospital grounds in concentric circles until I was surely down a wormhole, I found the scanning…
