Anything as complex, large and difficult as a national health service will have problems. The greatest mistake anyone could make is to assume the NHS is itself the problem. (more…)
NHS Threats
Whistleblowers’ Review – evidence must be asked for
The government’s Review of the whistleblowing framework was long overdue before the events at the Countess of Chester Hospital became known in all their terrible and harrowing detail. (more…)
NHS 75: will we have any happy returns?
As our NHS shows increasing signs of its own sickness, many are calling for more funds, staffing and technology. These may be necessary but are certainly not sufficient. What else of importance are we missing? (more…)
75 years on
I never knew my grandmother. She died from cervical cancer, 13 years before I was born. She died in agony, because the family could not afford medicine or dressings to relieve her pain. (more…)
The fight of your life
We have been saying the NHS is under serious threat for so long now it gives no pleasure to see it happening on such a scale that you can’t avoid it. The long-awaited Workforce Plan promises much but is long overdue – we welcome that, but ask: look at the record. (more…)
Why have things gone so wrong? And what can we do about it?
David Zigmond, a member of DFNHS’s Executive Committee, summarises his thoughts, drawing on five decades of experience as a frontline doctor (more…)
The Peter Fisher Essay Prize 2023 – First Prize £500
Doctors for the NHS in association with the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine is delighted to announce the Peter Fisher Essay Prize for 2023. (more…)
More democracy needed for the NHS
The NHS needs democratising – EC member Mike Galvin points to one solution in the BMJ (13 March)
Privatisation deals are the road to destruction
The founding principles of the NHS have long been under attack, but now it seems that some politicians from both Conservative and Labour parties are predicting its impending collapse unless radically reformed. (more…)
Striking for the NHS
Doctors and nurses cost money. Highly skilled people doing, every day, what very few people could – saving lives. No one, surely, would argue with that? Yet we are doomed, it seems, to be heading to the point where NHS staff are cast as the enemy. How could this be? (more…)