“It was not about rogue staff or a rogue hospital. It was about a rogue system.” But what is a rogue system? How does it tick? Who drives it? How does it kill more people in a single week than Ted Bundy murdered in a lifetime, and somehow it’s never held accountable? These questions are incredibly important in …
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Senior clinicians up and down the country, at national level and in each small district general hospital, are meeting urgently to prepare for what’s coming. Omicron is about to massively challenge the NHS. So what do we know about Omicron? Back in July 2021, the UK’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies tried to predict how Covid-19 might evolve. In the …
The Health Select Committee’s Report lacks integrity. Of course, that’s not to say it doesn’t say some useful things. It identifies many serious errors made by the current Government, while laying the blame for many thousands of deaths at Boris Johnson’s doorstep. However, it lacks transparency, suppresses data, and refuses to account honestly for the UK’s failed pandemic preparedness. …
Health Committee Report HC92 – A question of integrity Read More »
We can now publish reports from seven secret pandemic exercises conducted by the British Government between 2015 and 2018, including Exercise Alice – the secret coronavirus exercise which could have helped us prepare for COVID-19, but which politicians and healthcare leaders failed to act on. Reading through these reports, it’s very clear that the Department of Health, NHS England …
Exclusive – Seven Secret Pandemic Reports (including Alice) Read More »
It has taken us over a year to win disclosure of these secret documents prepared by NHS England for the Department of Health & Social Care in 2017/18. They address a pandemic influenza but they are clearly relevant for UK pandemic management during COVID-19. Both documents will be published and downloadable here from 9am on 31st July 2021. …
Pandemic NHS triage and social care briefing papers Read More »
Recent events have thrown the probity of the UK Prime Minister and his Health Secretary into question. We can reveal today that Mr Hancock has been keeping the existence of multiple pandemic exercises secret from Parliament and even from the Government’s own scientific expert advisors. These include “Exercise Alice” which modelled MERS – a coronavirus. We now think …
Hancock and the truth: Exercise Alice in Wonderland Read More »
Questions have been raised across the world about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. Many scientists previously raised concerns about the Sputnik vaccine but now the spotlight has turned on our very own “British” vaccine manufactured by Oxford / Astra Zeneca. The WHO has urged European countries to keep using the Astra Zeneca vaccine to save lives, and this is even …
Why the UK may have to think again about the Astra Zeneca vaccine Read More »
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War is used by corporate strategists to this day, and explains a great deal about what’s happened to UK healthcare over the last 40 years. Here we examine the possibility that COVID-19 has finally provided Sun Tzu’s “extraordinary moment”, and what that means for the NHS. COVID-19 presents an “extraordinary moment” in NHS …
Back in April 2020, the New York Times reported that the UK Government was on the verge of publishing a triage plan for rationing care during the C19 pandemic. The Government later backtracked, for “fear of a public uproar”. Medics on the front line battled on, heedless of political calculations made by the Department of Health. To put …
