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The NHS is not working

Our national health service, coincidentally known as the National Health Service (NHS), continues to disintegrate into chaos and, in some places, paralysis. Fêted for decades as the jewel in the crown of our welfare state, it has fallen for its own rhetoric and thinks that it only needs to exist to merit praise. When troubles

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Lunacy at The Lancet

I had the misfortune to be the inaugural chair of one of the series of Lancet Commissions, this one into nursing. This was one of the many mistakes I have made in my professional life and not one of my proudest aspects of my Wikipedia entry which some charitable souls curate for me. I tried

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A pox on all your houses

When it was announced that Covid-19 was going to wipe out the human race, I cowered in my house; determined to drink myself to death before the virus got me. Having done my liver irreparable damage in the process, I was dismayed to learn we are not all going to die. Still, I continued drinking,

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I’m a Platinum Party pooper

“Dear me” is all I can say having watched the Platinum Jubilee Concert broadcast from outside Buckingham Palace and the Mall. The highlight was definitely HM The Queen exchanging views on marmalade sandwiches with Paddington Bear. Why she felt the need to do this or got talked into it however remains a mystery. It was

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