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[70] Our crisis in General Practice will need much more than
money
Letter to The
Times, October 2017
[69] Our gaping, gasping health
service. Governance v dissidence. How best to compromise? When best to
submit?
Letter to NHS colleagues and managers, October 2017
[68]
‘Care Navigators’? So what happened to Family Doctors?
Letter to the Daily Mail, September 2017
[67] Modern Slavery: how do we
separate expedient economy from our human nature?
Letter to Evening Standard, September 2017
[66] Our NHS follies and conundrums. Are you distressed?
Perplexed? Recent history has much
to teach us,
Letter
to NHS colleagues and managers, August 2017
[65] Vocation or corporation?
Competence or compliance?, The managed asphyxiation of healthcare morale
Letter to NHS colleagues, June 2017
[64] The NHS needs human sense as much as
money and systems
Letter to the Guardian,
May 2017
[63] Government may like giant
GP practices, but what about the rest of us?
Letter to The Sun, March 2017
[62] Revitalising
the NHS? Get rid of the Internal Market
Letter to The Guardian, February 2017
[61]
Our
oppressive Care Quality Commission: our depressed NHS
Letter to Academy of Fabulous NHS Stuff, February 2017
[60]
‘Stakeholders’
in suicide prevention: isn’t that all of us?
Letter to Chair, Parliamentary Health Select Committee, February 2017
[59]
Prevention
of Suicide. The crux of personal continuity of care
Letter to Chair, Parliamentary Health Select Committee, January 2017
[58]
Dying with,
or from, dementia? An important distinction
Letter to Daily Telegraph, December 2016
BMJ Blog, January 2017
[57] Older
people often need a different kind of hospital
Letter to Daily Telegraph, December 2016
[56] Our ailing
profession: our consequent fractious collegial misunderstandings
Letter in British Journal of General Practice, December 2016
[55] CQC
Inspection and closure of my NHS General Practice. Farewell
from a long career
Letter to Chief Medical Inspector of Care Quality Commission, November 2016
[54] Price and value
in personal care: the planned closure of community pharmacies
Letter to Daily Telegraph, October 2016
[53] Our burgeoning NHS problems are
more organisational than financial
Letter to The Observer, September
2016
[52] The doctor is out, but still
answering
Letter to The Observer, September 2016
[51] How and why
do we retire? Ill omens for younger doctors
BMJ Blog, September 2016
[50] Letter to NHS colleagues, July 2016
[49] Only
personally fulfilled practitioners can deliver good personal healthcare
Interview with Independent Age, May 2016
[48] General
Practice needs more than recruits and money: we need to refind
our vocational attachments
Letter to Daily Telegraph, April 2016
[47] Plummeting
morale of junior doctors: one branch of our blighted tree of Welfare
Letter to the Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges,2016
[46] Can we reduce childhood
Sepsis by more vigilant management? I doubt it
BMJ Blog, February 2016
[45] GPs’
demoralisation is due to our loss of human connection
Letter to the BMJ, February 2016
[44] Our
demoralised and depersonalised NHS workforce
Letter to Chair of the Parliamentary Health Committee, February 2016
[43] How to make
our NHS sustainable? We are losing personal morale and commitment faster than
money (re cross-party review)
Letter to Shadow Secretary of State for Health, February 2016
[42] "Airline
levels of safety in healthcare"? No, we can't
Letter to The Telegraph, February 2016
[41] How to make our NHS
sustainable? We are losing personal moral and commitment faster than money: Letter to
ex Health Ministers, January 2016
[40] Flood defences? It is we that need
containing
Letter to The
Independent, January 2016
[39] An
electronic questionnaire is far from a personal dialogue: Further reflections
on professional Appraisals
BMJ Blog, November 2015
[38] Arguments
about money are often about much else
BMJ Blog, November 2015
[37] Competence
or Compliance? The corrosive cost of professional practitioner Appraisals
BMJ Blog, September 2015
[36] Burgeoning need: collapsing staff
morale – the management conundrums of the NHS
Submission to the Secretary of State for Health, 2015
[35] ‘Curing Dementia’:
Medical possibility or political rhetoric?
Letter on BMJ Blog, May 2015
[34] In public service we need
personal integrity, not personal loyalty
Letter to Daily Telegraph, April 2015
[33] The Extinction of Care by
Treatment: Our healthcare’s heart-failure
Letter to BMJ, February 2015
[32] The loss of
personal containment in pastoral healthcare
Letter to mental health commissioners, managers and senior
practitioners, 2015
[31] NHS Stewardship: the missing
personal factor
Letter to the BMJ, 2014
[30] Reclaiming the NHS: Let’s discard
the entire Internal Market
Letter to the Guardian, 2014
[29] Repealing the Health and Social
Care Act: why stop there?
Letter to Andy Burnham, Shadow Secretary of State for Health, 2014
[28] The death of Robin Williams:
can we ‘treat’ our tragic paradoxes?
BMJ Blog, August 2014
[27] Depression needs more than
formulaic treatment
BMJ Blog, July 2014
[26] Personal
continuity of care in Mental Health Services
Letter to Minister of State for Care and Support. May, 2014
[25] Personal
continuity of care in hospitals. Restoring the role of the General Physician
Letter to Secretary of State for Health. January, 2014
[24] Thank
Goodness we now have business-sense to safeguard our Welfare
Letter in the Independent, January 2014
[23] Form
Devouring Essence: When
brokered
services tend broken hearts
Letter to Mental Health Colleagues and Managers, January 2014
[22] Dementia is not only (or
even) a disease: it is a signal of our community cohesion
Letter in The Telegraph, December 2013
[21] We need an appointment with Dr Finlay
Letter on BMJ blog, December 2013
[20] Qualifications
may be less than useful
Letter to The Independent, 2013
[19] Dr
Frankenstein’s Reprise: Industrialisation of Personal Healthcare. Adverse
effects of sequestered psychiatric in-patient services
An open letter to Medical Directors of services, October 2013
[18] Loneliness in the ailing elderly: social and
healthcare responses
Letter to Secretary of State for Health, 2013
[17] Re-establishing
personal bonds and understandings in NHS Care Letter to
Secretary of State for Health, October 2013
[16] NHS Healthchecks:
more automation and less intelligence
Letter to The Times, 2013
[15] Psychiatry? Everyone is right - but not for
long
Letter to The Guardian, 2013
[14] The high price of commodified
healthcare
Letter in The Guardian, August 2013
[13] How Care Pathways obliterate care: More
industrial follies from the NHS
Letter in The Telegraph, July 2013
[12] NHS Savings? Abolish the Internal Market
Letter in The Guardian, July 2013
[11] Physis: healing,
growth and the hub of personal continuity of care
A thirty-nine (39) year delayed follow-up
correspondence with Sally, June 2013
[10] The rise of business culture in the
NHS; our consequent loss of
compassionate healthcare ethos
Letter to The Times, 2013
[9] 'Fixing the NHS is straightforward'.
Really?
Letter in the BMJ, March 2013
[8] Balancing healthcare: Technical vs Personal. Local vs Systemic.
Closures at Lewisham Hospital
Letter to Joan Ruddock MP and Lord Ara Darzi,
February 2013
[7] Continuity of Care: Of course, but
whose? A Sleight
of Slogans
Letter to Family Doctor Association, 2012
[6] ‘Evidence’
is both more and less than it seems. The rise of scientism and the demise of
the personal in healthcare
Letter to the Secretary of State for Health, 2012
[5] Eric: Another victim of Hypertrophic Obstructive Management
Coagulopathy
A letter to the Medical Director, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, June 2012
[4] Further NHS
Reforms: inevitable and unintended consequences
Letter to BMJ, May 2012
[3] Commodification, commissioning and commercialisation:
the growing threats to personal healthcare
Letter to the Secretary of State for Health, 2012
[2] Five Executive Follies
How commodification imperils compassion in personal healthcare
Submission to Secretary of State for
Health, December 2011
[1] Bureaucratyrannohypoxia
An open letter to Mental Health Services
Director, September 2010
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