How real is your ADHD?
Why does everyone suddenly seem to have ADHD? It’s a question that many of us working in mental health have…
Could Ozempic bankrupt the NHS?
The NHS spends around £6.5 billion every year treating obesity. People who are overweight cost the health service twice as…
The unstoppable rise of the locum doctor
The career trajectory for doctors used to be relatively simple. After graduating, you would step on the conveyer belt of…
TicTok
The pandemic has hit our children even harder than we thought
Losing game
Football’s sleeping pill problem
Unfit for purpose
The General Medical Council has lost the trust of doctors
Ice storm
The ‘chemsex’ drug devastating the gay community
User friendly
The London mayor’s new policy on cannabis is a disaster
Prince Harry could learn from Kate Middleton’s mental health work
I wonder if the royal family realise how lucky they are to have Kate? She may have been born a…
Dr No
The GP won’t see you now
Diary
I start the week with someone throwing faeces at me. I thought people were supposed to clap for doctors these…
Nothing to applaud
The NHS is letting down thousands of patients
The battle ahead
The fight against coronavirus has only just begun
How Boris can make the extra cash for the NHS really count
It would be daft for someone to offer you £1.8 billion and you turn it down. That sort of money…
I’m a doctor, and tried the new GP app. My experience was terrifying
Everyone agrees something dramatic has to be done to help the NHS. It is crumbling and the canary in the…
The NHS’s internal market is an expensive catastrophe
The NHS is in dire straits. I never thought I’d say this but as a doctor, and having seen the…
This is an emergency
The NHS as we know it is dying. It’s no longer a matter of if it will collapse, but when.…
