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A below the line contributor to the Guardian website asserted that, ‘Therapy should be as easily available and prescribable as medication is at the moment’.  I replied: Fine words, but your response ignores the reality: 1   There are simply not enough trained... Read More

Homeopathy has raised its head in my local rag, Stroud news and journal. Let’s get the facts right. 1 Christian Hahnemann invented homeopathy in 1796.  He had been trained as a doctor, but not as a scientist [*1]. 2 In the 221 years since, not one single scientific study has been... Read More

My local rag, the Stroud news and journal, printed this in its edition of 27 april as a news item: A PENSIONER who suffers from a rare condition has thanked a therapist who helped her regain confidence. Joy Alexander, 74, was diagnosed with Ramsay Hunt Syndrome in 2014, making it... Read More

Hunt’s medical qualifications Our sparkling current health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, appears to have no education in health or medicine:  he studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford. After university Hunt worked for two years as a management consultant at OC&C... Read More

In a move which can only be described as either hilarious or jaw-droppingly insincere, talented health secretary, Jeremy Hunt has launched an urgent inquiry into the level of junior doctors’ morale and welfare as large numbers threaten to quit the profession over being forced to... Read More

In my line of business, I often have to help people understand why they do things in preparation for working out what they could do better. Invaluable in this process is the purpose and outcomes model.  This essentially says there is a difference between your purpose in doing... Read More

The UK parliamentary and health service ombudsman, Dame Julie Mellor, has published her ‘review into the quality of NHS complaints investigations where serious or avoidable harm has been alleged’ [Guardian articles on this:  here, december 2015, and here, february 2015]. The... Read More

A LinkedIn contributor recently posted this discussion topic I naively began an Indiegogo campaign devoted to mental health and I’ve spread the word far and wide. This is a site for people who are looking for ideas of where to donate funds. A “save the bees”... Read More

As Tolstoy observes at the start of Anna Karenina, Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. [*1] Equally, happiness at work is a doddle;  unhappiness is much more complicated, runs much deeper and is more likely to be exogenous, ie not... Read More

It is well known that particular constituents of certain foods have specific benefits to the body. Apparently, grated carrots can be used to help heal wounds, cuts and inflammation. Blueberries are one of the richest sources of proanthocyanidins which have a unique ability to... Read More