Letting Off Steam
Scare Story Supported by Dodgy Reasoning
I took exception to some dodgy reasoning in the letters page of the 12 October Evening Standard. I emailed a ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Aggregating the best of the blogs on science and pseudoscience
October 12, 2011
August 20, 2011
Letting Off Steam
An Email From My MP
This is just a short post to say that I have received a response from Jim Dowd, my MP, regarding ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
August 15, 2011
Letting Off Steam
Calling The Prime Minister On His Riot Claims
I haven’t said much about the riots here, mainly because I thought I would just be commenting on other people’s ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
July 2, 2011
Stuff And Nonsense
Nadine Dorries and Abortion
Nadine Dorries and Frank Field have proposed an amendment to the health and social care bill that would bar charities ...(read more)
by jdc325
May 19, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
McKinsey save the NHS
McKinsey in shock discovery that if you put things in numerical order half of them will fall below the median. ...(read more)
by pj
April 29, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Liar, liar, pants on fire!
Via Dr Grumble:Addressing the Royal College of Nursing conference in 2009 according to the New Statesman. (read more)
by pj
April 20, 2011
Letting Off Steam
Will 25% of 16 Year-olds Really Live to be 100?
Tuesday’s press was full of stories such as this suggesting that one in four current 16 year olds will live ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
Pyjamas in Bananas
‘Efficiency’ is in the eye of the beholder
From the Guardian:One of the big debates around the NHS is whether its budget should be allowed to grow ...(read more)
by pj
April 18, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Not the best doctor in the world
Now I may not be the best doctor in the world, but I'm pretty sure I can distinguish PEA from ...(read more)
by pj
April 13, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Nurses have more balls than doctors
The RCN is usually a pretty spineless union but they've shown more balls than the BMA:...this meeting of the RCN ...(read more)
by pj
April 3, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Hyperinjunctions – because not talking about something makes it disappear
As explained in the Telegraph - our wonderful legal system has a new concept - the hyperinjunction - not the ...(read more)
by pj
April 2, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Herbal medicines – because the government thinks you’re stupid
David Colquhoun asks "Why does the MHRA refuse to label herbal products honestly?" Basically the EU regulations state that you ...(read more)
by pj
March 29, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
NHS reform myths
Richard Blogger of the torylies blog has a good site addressing some of the 'myths' around the 'reform' of the ...(read more)
by pj
March 28, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
The fundamental priority of a national health service
Read this article today from a consultant working in the ill-fated Mid Staffordshire Trust:In my opinion a major underlying cause ...(read more)
by pj
March 27, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Politicians and the NHS
Baroness Murphy blogs on the NHS 'reforms':Given the recent Ombudsman’s report about the quality of care for older people, ...(read more)
by pj
Pyjamas in Bananas
Sharing the pain
Vince Cable:...has confirmed the 50p rate on tax will be abolished He told BBC Radio 5 Live: "It ...(read more)
by pj
March 25, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Sharing the risk – creaming the profits
The King's Fund demonstrate their true colours again, according to the GP magazine 'Pulse':The King’s Fund has called for entire ...(read more)
by pj
March 17, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
The future of the NHS
Duck on the Badscience forums asked me to blog my concerns about the future of the NHS and how what ...(read more)
by pj
March 15, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
‘Doctor’ says screw the NHS
Via the Jobbing Doctor, according to this BBC story: "Dr David Bennett, head of the economic regulator Monitor, has told ...(read more)
by pj
March 13, 2011
Letting Off Steam
Fairer Pensions
Inevitably, the Hutton report into public sector pensions has reccomended changes – the most notable being basing pensions on career ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
March 11, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Preventing access to psychological therapy?
Interesting article in the BMJ on the Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) initiative started under Labour and continuing under ...(read more)
by pj
February 11, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
No cuts in frontline services – whiteboards to take up the slack
We're constantly told by the government that its squeeze on public finances will not affect frontline services in the NHS. ...(read more)
by pj
January 27, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Britain: leading the world in fake explosive detectors, because brown people’s lives are cheap
On Newsnight tonight how Britain's military and government promoted selling dowsing rods to third world countries for thousands of pounds. ...(read more)
by pj
January 19, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Pay and conditions in the NHS
Our trust has just made a big chunk of people redundant, admin staff, nurses and doctors. Last year my pay ...(read more)
by pj
Pyjamas in Bananas
Care clusters: A race to the bottom?
Do you think you've got severe depression? Well you're wrong, you are in 'care cluster 4':"This group is characterised by ...(read more)
by pj
January 17, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Diversifying the skill mix: or paying peanuts and getting monkeys
This is what Alan Maynard, economist, and influence behind much government thinking on the NHS, thinks is the way forward:"...can ...(read more)
by pj
January 7, 2011
Pyjamas in Bananas
Antidepressants have no more than a minor effect in Minor Depression
Neuroskeptic reports on another paper that:"...has added to the growing ranks of studies finding that antidepressant drugs don't work in ...(read more)
by pj
December 28, 2010
Letting Off Steam
A Third Year of Steam
[BPSDB]It is almost New Year so I thought I would conduct a review of the major themes of 2010 as ...(read more)
by jaycueaitch
December 18, 2010
Pyjamas in Bananas
BMA Idiots
From the GP magazine 'Pulse': "Dr Andrew Dearden, chair of the BMA’s pensions committee, said...the NHS Pension Scheme was running ...(read more)
by pj
November 22, 2010
Pyjamas in Bananas
Levelling the spirit – pt 2.5
From the comments to part 2 Christopher Snowden notes that:"...since the only plausible mechanism is through stress and CVD, what ...(read more)
by pj