You will all be glad to hear that my blog reorganisation is, more or less, complete. All those gardens and wanderings around Hampstead Heath in lockdown have been banished to their own blog, WalksonHampsteadHeath, and our forays into salon chamber music have been given their own …
Food/Health Policy
Concerning statistics – and not about COVID
Two reports came my way this week, neither of which make encouraging reading. The first, specifically about allergy, from the Anaphylaxis Campaign yesterday: figures on hospital admissions taken from the NHS Digital site. These show a rise of 27% in the number of people …
Stop Denying Patients Access to Medical Cannabis on the NHS
Many people will remember that eighteen months ago and after a positively heroic fight, backed by neurologist Professor Mike Barnes, Hannah Deacon won her campaign to legalise the use of medical cannabis to treat a certain number of limited conditions, including her son Alfie's …
Ecological Medicine
Sarah Myhill is not everyone's idea of an average GP. Indeed so far was she from the GMC (General Medical Council)'s idea of an average GP that they tried to 'de-frock' her no less than 12 times. Only to have their attempts foiled by their own lawyers who pointed out that 'all …
A really useful testing system
There is much talk at the moment about immunity passports and the new tracking app to be trialed in the Isle of Wight – but I have a much simpler answer. We just need the technology.... Version 1. 'The basic' A home finger prick COVID test (you have the virus/you have not …