Could Ozempic bankrupt the NHS?
The NHS spends around £6.5 billion every year treating obesity. People who are overweight cost the health service twice as…
The unstoppable rise of the locum doctor
The career trajectory for doctors used to be relatively simple. After graduating, you would step on the conveyer belt of…
TikTok is giving our children Tourette’s
The pandemic has hit our children even harder than we thought
The Premier League’s sleeping pill problem
Football’s sleeping pill problem
The petty cruelty of the GMC
The General Medical Council has lost the trust of doctors
Tina: the drug devastating the gay community
The ‘chemsex’ drug devastating the gay community
Why legalising cannabis is safer than decriminalising it
The London mayor’s new policy on cannabis is a disaster
Prince Harry could learn from Kate Middleton’s mental health work
I wonder if the royal family realise how lucky they are to have Kate? She may have been born a…
Why are GPs still not seeing patients in person?
The GP won’t see you now
The horrifying toll of lockdown on the poor and mentally ill
I start the week with someone throwing faeces at me. I thought people were supposed to clap for doctors these…
The NHS is letting down thousands of patients
The NHS is letting down thousands of patients
On the NHS front line, we’re braced for what’s coming
The fight against coronavirus has only just begun
How Boris can make the extra cash for the NHS really count
It would be daft for someone to offer you £1.8 billion and you turn it down. That sort of money…
I’m a doctor, and tried the new GP app. My experience was terrifying
Everyone agrees something dramatic has to be done to help the NHS. It is crumbling and the canary in the…
The NHS’s internal market is an expensive catastrophe
The NHS is in dire straits. I never thought I’d say this but as a doctor, and having seen the…
This is an emergency
The NHS as we know it is dying. It’s no longer a matter of if it will collapse, but when.…