Sainsbury's has come up with the bright idea of offering GPs free premises in their stores or on their property. Currently there are 27 such surgeries across the country and there are more to come. … [Read more...]
Dispensing Futurehealth – from vision to action
James Fearnley has lots of ideas and unlike the rest of us, he generally does something about them. He lives his projects - from the survey unit of Which?, the Reichian orgone box in the corner of the … [Read more...]
Best Blog Awards – A Toot on Our Own Trumpet
We wrote almost 60 blogs in 2012 and we commemorate some of the most memorable with our very own BEST BLOG AWARDS. The January newsletter with which we kicked off 2012, eschewed prediction, preferring … [Read more...]
Data “sense makers” needed – why not patients?
The big hit of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics was undoubtedly the "games makers". Those big purple pointy fingers were everywhere. We need something like that - knowledgeable, readily … [Read more...]
Patients loved Dr Shipman, don’t forget
Whatever you want to call it – medical revalidation, health checks for docs, medical MOT, fitness to practice, competency assessment – the announcement that a new system of assessment will start this … [Read more...]
The Civil Mr Ferguson Cleans the Beach – July Newsletter
In his last Reith Lecture, Niall Ferguson asked whether nations can flourish in the absence of a vibrant civil society. He tells us of his efforts to clear the beach in front of his house - a success … [Read more...]
When Customer Satisfaction is just routine..
The Gas Man did cometh; Plusnet answered my question about not connecting to iPlayer; someone came to paint the front of the flat; John Lewis delivered on time and with the goods I ordered (at a cost … [Read more...]
Data cut off or cut off data – making sense of it all
The news this week was of a 10 fold variation between PCTs (remember them?) in what the report called 'major amputations' for sufferers from diabetes. Not only diabetes sufferers - the rate of … [Read more...]
Mad March MAC Newsletter
We talked in the last newsletter of laughter and lunacy prompted by a 1956 Goon show and the goings on with the new NHS legislation. Things have got little better for patient or practitioner. The … [Read more...]
End the Rip-off Consumer Culture – Ed Miliband takes up consumer cudgels
Which? invited Ed Miliband to say his piece about consumers today to a group of us who had come in out of the early morning cold and wet - breakfast supplied - for the meeting at their Marylebone Road … [Read more...]
