Motorway Coach Crash Victim Wins £2 Million in Damages
6 April 2016
A fruit picker who suffered life-changing injuries in a fatal road accident – in which an unroadworthy coach broke down on a foggy motorway and was shunted…
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I was a junior doctor – if we want a genuinely 7 day a week NHS, we need more of them.
2 March 2016
Junior doctors, even the government concedes, are the backbone of the NHS. They comprise a significant proportion of the workforce of the NHS and already…
Read more →“Maternity Turf Wars” and the promotion of home birth by vouchers
23 February 2016
The aim should be a healthy mother and a healthy baby! Almost everyday of my professional life, I see the very challenging consequences of mistakes made during…
Read more →The Trade Union Bill – an attempt by the Tories to entrench themselves in power
11 February 2016
You might think that 18th Century British politics is not an obvious starting point for an analysis of the current Tory Government’s Trade Union Bill. Here’s…
Read more →NHS, fixed fees and patient safety
5 February 2016
In 2015, Jeremy Hunt said that there were probably about 1,000 “avoidable” deaths in the NHS every month. So there are about 12,000 deaths every year and this…
Read more →Lord Justice Jackson’s Lecture : Fixed thinking?
3 February 2016
I read Lord Justice Jackson’s Lecture note from 28th January hoping to find the voice of an independent judiciary dispassionately appraising the case for and…
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