What is happening to General Practices in the NHS

Over 50 years ago the family moved to Tring, and for all this time we have been registered with a practice run by a single doctor who we got to know and who got to know us. But the NHS is changing and on October 1st the practice we are registered with will be merged with the very large surgery at the other end of town. Having been on a number of health committees are a public representative I understand the pressures on the NHS and the knock on effects on patients.

I was therefore delighted to see that one GP practice had produced an excellent video of what is actually happening to General Practice in the NHS.

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How Accurate are Police and NHS Statistics?

This morning the BBC Breakfast Program said that later today the National Audit Office would raise questions about the accuracy of NHS waiting time lists while the News web pages reported similar questions about police crime statistics

I am not surprised - for many years I was a public representative on committees relating mainly to mental health in Hertfordshire and I never believed a lot of the statistics - but I knew enough to know why the local figures were likely to be only approximate and I also knew that the officials who presented the statistics also knew of the limitations - but it was necessary to present them with a straight face. [Some examples below the fold.]