A Shropshire man has fallen foul of the nationality lottery after Telford & Wrekin NHS Trust refused to treat him with Lucentis to try and save his sight. Allan Farley has punctate inner choroidopathy and two consultants have told him that Lucentis will help to save the sight in his right eye. He is already [...]

My father-in-law is disabled because of an über-rare disorder caused by a brain tumor when he was a child.  He is now deaf, has no balance and has no short-term memory.  My mother-in-law is his carer – he can’t go out without a wheelchair any more, he doesn’t feel pain and if left to his [...]

The Scottish government ban on hospital parking charges came into effect on the 1st of January leaving England the only part of the UK where everyone has to pay to park on hospital car parks. Hospital car parks have been free to use in Wales since April and in Northern Ireland, chronically ill patients and [...]

You may recall that back in August I wrote about the NHS deciding it was going to weigh and measure children in England, check them against the Body Mass Index (BMI) and then send parents a letter to tell them if the computer says their child is fat or thin.  You may also recall that [...]

The BBC were bleating this morning about another promised measles epidemic (the last one they said was going to happen didn’t, I wonder if this one will) and navel gazing about the number of children that aren’t getting vaccinated. What they failed to mention was that it was the BBC was one of the media [...]

The other day I went to the doctors and saw the triage nurse to ask for some antibiotics to sort out the infection in my gum. I know I’ve got an infection in my gum because I had it about a month and a half ago and I know I need some antibiotics because that’s [...]

“The authorities” in the West Midlands are appealing for possible victims of a HIV-infected man who has been knowingly having unprotected sex with women for a couple of years to come forward and get tested so they don’t unwittingly pass the infection on to others. Unfortunately, the man can’t be named for legal reasons even [...]

The following letter was published in tonight’s Shropshire Star. Unfortunately, whilst editing it they took out “in England” from the end of the first line which makes the whole letter ambiguous. Kind of PM to think of England How kind of Gordon Brown, the MP for Kikcaldy and Cowdenbeath in Scotland, to find some loose [...]

English PCTs are to send parents letters telling them if their children are overweight. According to the British government, most parents of fat children don’t think their children are overweight and sending a letter from the local NHS trust using data collected by schools will prompt them to take action. However, the NHS have told [...]

The Ministry of Justice has decided to include Wales in a new bill to introduce specific offences relating to mental and physical abuse in hospitals.  The Welsh government said they didn’t need the law but some Liebour MPs and a peer complained and the MoJ has changed its mind. I’ve spent a lot more than [...]

Researchers at Cardiff University reckon they can “cure” osteoarthritis using stem cells. I have quite bad osteoarthritis in both my knees.  On my left knee, parts of the joint have no cartilage at all and the rest is poor quality, rough cartilage.  On my right knee, it’s poor quality, rough cartilage.  They both make some [...]

English lose out in funding of health Tom Taylor, chief executive of the Shrewsbury & Telford Hospital NHS Trust, has confirmed what the Shropshire branch of the Campaign for an English Parliament has been saying for the last couple of years: Treating Welsh patients in Shropshire hospitals is costing millions of pounds that could be [...]

The following letter has been sent to the press in the West Midlands and Shropshire MPs: Tom Taylor, Chief Executive of the Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust, has confirmed what the Shropshire branch of the Campaign for an English Parliament has been saying for the last couple of years – that treating Welsh patients in [...]

The following article appears in tonight’s Shropshire Star: Concern grows on ‘health apartheid’ A member of a Shropshire political group has criticised the “health apartheid” of the NHS, which he claims is responsible for county patients receiving poorer services that those in Scotland and Wales. Stuart Parr, of the Shropshire branch of the Campaign for [...]

On Monday I pointed out two examples of NHS discrimination in England. The third example of NHS discrimination this week was announced today – the price of a prescription in England will rise to £7.10 per item. Meanwhile, in Scotland prescription charges are capped at £5 with 93% being dispensed free of charge.  In Wales, [...]

Two examples of NHS discrimination today … Discrimination #1 The Welsh Assembly today announced that it is abolishing parking charges in Welsh hospitals. In Scotland, parking charges in hospitals are capped to £3 per day in the 6% of hospitals that charge for parking and in Northern Ireland only 20% of hospitals charge for parking [...]

No Mandate Brown has announced that the (English) NHS will start offering health screening for heart disease, strokes and kidney disease as well as increasing the screening for some types of cancer. Health screening is good but it’s still wrong the Gordon Brown is interfering in the English NHS.  He has no say over the [...]

Call Me Dave Camoron has declared the Conswervatives “the party of the NHS” and pledged to fine cash-strapped hospitals for every infection case they have. Genius. The rise in “superbugs” in hospitals is down to a change in the way wards are run and cuts in cleaning and maintenance budgets because of the woeful underfunding [...]

Read this then read the letter I just sent to my turncoat Liebour MP. Dear David, Your Prime Minister has somehow, against all the odds, managed to make me even more annoyed today than he has since he was appointed as your leader. I was pretty incensed when he announced that his priorities as Prime Minister [...]

Transport Ministers have approved funding of Federal Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system from the general EU budget. The £2.4bn cost (more like £3bn once fraud and theft has been taken into account) will be met from “spare” money.  Why are we throwing billions at Federal Europe if they don’t need it all?  Why don’t they [...]