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Time to say goodbye to the NHS

15th August 2023 Going Postal 2299 Comments

Our Story I write this as a person rather than one of my OTF articles.  I feel compelled to write it after our recent experience with the NHS. Some of you know whereabouts I live [more…]

20th Century

How Is The Health Service Working?

25th April 2023 Going Postal 2364 Comments

In September 1948, a few weeks after its launch, John Alldridge set out to answer this question – His findings make very interesting reading 75 years later – Jerry F On Monday, July 5, nearly [more…]

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What Will The New Year Bring

4th January 2023 Godfrey Bloom 3008 Comments

Much has been written about the disastrous effect of experimental spike protein therapy on hitherto healthy young adults & children, much more will be when the slow exposure of the criminals involved get put under [more…]

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Reflections on The National Health Service – based on personal experience

3rd October 2022 Emile Woolf 3052 Comments

Some seven years ago, after experiencing the dizzying effects of a very low pulse rate, I was given a pacemaker and, as an anti-clotting precaution, a blood-thinning medicine, which I was taking for several years [more…]

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Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Fifty-Six

28th August 2022 Going Postal 2197 Comments

Monday Good morning happy readers. The temperature has dropped overnight, it’s still warm but it is a little cloudy and there is a tiny breeze, now this is Larry weather! It is still peaceful here [more…]

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Your GP is simply a functionary

9th February 2022 Godfrey Bloom 4391 Comments

You were probably brought up on such medical TV programmes, depending on your age, as Dr.Kildare, Emergency Ward 10, Dr. Finlay’s Casebook or the many subsequent  programmes of a similar genre. The implication of such [more…]

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Social care is finished

13th September 2021 Rookwood 1806 Comments

Rapidly heading towards the sunset of my life, I write this article with much sadness in my heart. Not because of the natural onward march of time, nor any real angst at the fact that [more…]

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Anonymising Data

26th August 2021 well_chuffed 4119 Comments

The inspiration for this article was the report that so many people have opted out rHNS’s data sharing scam that they have had to postpone it. The associated throwaway comment that the data would only [more…]

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Politicians – the People’s Enemy for Centuries

27th July 2021 Godfrey Bloom 2294 Comments

Most problems that blight the lives of ordinary folk are caused by politicians. In a democracy one might suggest this is counter intuitive, but democracy has mutated since its  Athenian concept so drastically it has [more…]

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    As devoted puffins may notice, I have spent quite a lot of internet hours to date. From the times of 56k modems all the way to what BT laughingly describes as “best” internet, I have [more...]
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