When I started this Blog, it was a very simple health campaign;
I’d been taken to Accident and Emergency with a broken ankle, they decided I
had sprained it and I was sent home for a week. When I went back, my dislocated
fracture had become a real emergency. The story and the campaign runs through
December 2012 and into May 2013 – have a look through the archive if you want
to catch up. I’m still watching ’em.
Fairly soon I started to deal with wider NHS issues than my
ankle, which probably only ever interested me and no one else. I started to do
longer, analytical articles. Everytime I did I lost all my readers and had to
struggle to get them back. As I got more ill it got harder.
So I set up a parallel Blog which I call my ‘seriously boring
Blog’;
It humours me, every so often I post really long and boring
articles. No pictures.
Can you stop messing about at the back of the class please?
I like to think that’s where I hide the really good stuff.
I’m researching a few things right now. This afternoon, if I’m
OK, I plan a lightening raid on the internet (aided and abetted by the Café
Nero and its free wi-fi) to get the stuff I need to analyse Professor Berwick’s
report on patient safety in the NHS.
In a few days I’m also going to take a look at ‘The
Foundation Trust Network’ which is a new, active and probably very expensive PR
outfit acting on behalf of our hospitals, now that they have won a bizarre kind
of status: independent of government and the taxpayers who pay the bills,
independent of the patients and staff who pay in different ways when things go
wrong. Free of any democratic control.
I’ve also got stuff in the far background about the
relationship between MRSA infections and the privatisation of cleaning services
in hospitals.
When I say it’s seriously
boring.
I meant seriously boring.
Do you remember ‘The Buzzcocks’ track on ‘The Spiral Scratch’
EP, ‘Boredom’ ?
B’dem B’dem.
Check it out.
Neil Harris
(a don’t stop till you drop production)
You don’t even know what an E.P. is, do you?
Bless.
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