NHS
Farewell, Speccie
So we are all going to have to pay for fatties to have stomach bands and bypasses, are we? It…
How Wales was betrayed by its (Labour) government.
Devolution has left my country with catastrophic misgovernment
The big fat lie about cholesterol
Though I’m not generally big on banning stuff, there’s one substance I would prohibit without a moment’s hesitation — probably on…
How the NHS fails new mothers on breast-feeding
Why isn’t there a proper service to show new nursing mothers how to feed their babies?
Spectator letters: Ken Loach defended, and the music of Pepys
We need religion Sir: Roger Scruton (‘Sacred hunger’, 31 May) describes a reason, dare I say a ‘purpose’, for religion in…
Nigel Farage is becoming a moderniser
There are many words that you might associate with Nigel Farage, but moderniser probably isn’t one. Yet the Ukip leader…
Why Weight Watchers doesn’t deserve taxpayers’ money
Why slimming clubs don’t deserve public money
The sinister new meaning of ‘support’
When I asked my husband why paramedical professions were given to remaking the language in strange ways, he replied in…
This strategy won Eurovision. It could also save your life
Oskar Morgenstern grew up in Vienna, John von Neumann in Budapest. Clearly the same Austro-Hungarian intellectual spirit which gave rise…
E-cigarettes are making tobacco obsolete. So why ban them?
The e-cigarette means that tobacco is going the way of the top hat. So what is the medical establishment’s problem with it?
As a doctor, I’d rather have HIV than diabetes
In the West, the deadliest thing about HIV may now be the stigma
Our leaders have betrayed the noble worker. Oh really?
Alan Johnson cannot accept that the best days of the British working class are over
Dear Mary: My teenager insists on an NHS operation. What can I do?
Q. Our son, aged l6, has a medical condition which, although not life-threatening, requires surgery by a specialist to pre-empt…
What the NHS owes the Tories
Pinned to the wall of Jeremy Hunt’s office in the Department of Health is an A1 piece of paper detailing…
Martin Vander Weyer: In my hospital bed, I saw the future of the NHS
I blamed the pheasant casserole, but I did it an injustice. Its only contribution to the drama behind my disappearance…
Portrait of the week
Home The government announced proposals for the National Health Service, including a law to criminalise wilful neglect by doctors and…
Portrait of the week
Home EDF Energy said it would put up prices by 3.9 per cent. BT Sport spent £897 million on the rights…
I got a call from Jeremy Hunt about health tourism — but he still doesn't get it
Ministers are finally acting on my warnings about health tourism. But they aren’t doing enough
How the Spectator helped blow the whistle on health tourism
In February, an NHS surgeon came to The Spectator’s offices to discuss a piece he felt it was time to…
Letters: Alan Sked on party politics, and how to win a pony show
Party politics Sir: I don’t think it is true that I would be unhappy in any party, as Ross Clark…
Hospital food isn’t a joke. It’s a scandal
Hospital food isn’t a joke. It’s a scandal
Letters: GPs reply to J. Merion Thomas
Some doctors write Sir: Professor Meirion Thomas (‘Dangerous medicine’, 17 August) may be an excellent surgeon but he is uninformed…
The wrong way to fix the NHS
A senior surgeon says Jeremy Hunt’s NHS reforms will do more harm than good
Ancient and modern: Herodotus on 111
The NHS 111 line, designed to deal with problems that do not count as emergencies, is in financial and organisational…
Leader: Ring-fencing the NHS is only making matters worse
According to popular wisdom on the left — and even among some in the Conservative party — this ought to have been…
