David H Dighton

The NHS. Our Sick Sacred Cow (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The NHS has become a sacred cow; a corporation so valuable, many think it above criticism.

The NHS provides an invaluable public service.It is sad, therefore, that the NHS and UK medical practices are together failing to provide millions of patients with the care they need. Why? Many causes are identifiable. To reverse them, so that it can continue its valuable work, we need to make many fundamental changes.

The experience and judgement of doctors and nurses no longer have the influence they once did. Medical practice has gradually lost its sacrosanct sovereign role in favour of the precedence and control of clinically unqualified bureaucrats. Medical bureaucracy is no longer content with housekeeping. Its decisions now impact patients in the clinical arena. The result has been that many doctors and nurses have become dispirited, demoralised and discontented. In considerable numbers, they are leaving the UK medical profession or emigrating.

Fundamental changes are required if we are to cure our sick sacred cow and preserve its future. The many suggestions made here to cure our sick sacred cow will doubtless be resisted by an NHS corporation intent on expanding its bureaucratic workforce and strengthening its controlling influence over dedicated healthcare workers. There are better ways forward.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dr D H Dighton trading as Loughton Clinic
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399966757
• Artikelnr.: 69145085

Autorenporträt

Dr. David H. Dighton qualified with MB BS (London) degrees in 1966 from the London Hospital Medical College. After junior jobs at Whipp's Cross Hospital in East London that included A&E and anaesthetics, he became a GP for a short time. In 1970, he took a British Heart Foundation Fellowship in cardiology at St. George's Hospital Hyde Park Corner, London, under Dr. Aubrey Leatham and Dr. Alan Harris. There he wrote several papers on the autonomic control of the heart rate in bradycardias. He became an MRCP(UK), and in 1973 a lecturer (London University) in medicine and cardiology at Charing Cross Hospital, London. In 1980 he became Chef de Clinique (Assistant Professor in Cardiology) at the Vrije University Hospital in Amsterdam. From 1982 he worked as a cardiologist and general physician in his own private practice established in Loughton, Essex. In 2000 he established a cardiac diagnostic cardiac specialising in the early detection of heart and artery disease. He retired in 2020 after successfully making adversaries of the CQC, GMC and PSA. He now writes, composes music, paints in oils, and attempts to play the piano and guitar (www.daviddighton.com). He is constantly trying to improve his foreign language skills.