As everyone knows, the NHS is in a mess in all four countries in the UK. Too much demand and too few resources. Aside from 'resus' care, there are even waiting lists of several days before assessment in some A&E departments.
The power-sha...
By the end of January 2026 my four months on Solaraze had proved ineffective and I therefore phoned the surgery and requested the promised Efudix.
I left my call until late morning so that the receptionist could hear me. She mentioned the third GP ha...
By this point it was October 2025 and as I waited in the surgery for my dermatology review with the third GP I reflected on our previous encounter almost a year earlier.
On that occasion, I'd requested an appointment to discuss my colorectal heal...
The rest of 2023 went by in a bit of blur because I left England to join my son and his family in Northern Ireland. What a beautiful place it is and you wouldn't find friendlier folk anywhere on this planet.
Then 2024 left me equally dazed but I ...
The next NHS letter I received came as quite a surprise.
It hadn't come from the bots. Instead, I'd been given a Dermatology outpatients appointment, where presumably I might even encounter an actual dermatologist. Things were looking up. Was...
