Category Archives: Health Reform

The Government has commited itself to reforming the current health service in a manner that many find confusing and potentially very dangerous. Few ideas seem to have been tested apart from in the mind of Andrew Lansley (Health Secretary)

Following Sussex Day, our MPs have some challenges

Posted on June 21, 2021 by ianchisnall

Many of us enjoy living or working in Sussex and so it is fantastic that a few years ago Ian Steedman in Worthing followed by Martin Ellis in Crowborough set out to re-establish the Sussex day celebration. The day has … Continue reading →

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The Government needs to realise all people matter

Posted on June 19, 2021 by ianchisnall

It is always fascinating when one reads the text from Parliament and finds a radical and strong argument being made by people who one might not expect would challenge their own political party based Government. That said it is very … Continue reading →

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Why is Gavin Williamson so unwilling to vaccinate teachers?

Posted on January 13, 2021 by ianchisnall

Last Wednesday in Parliament following the debate on COVID and the call to lockdown the nation this was the debate on the theme of Covid-19: Educational Settings which began with a statement from Gavin Williamson. He touched on a number … Continue reading →

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Vaccine priorities and US Capitol chaos both need responses

Posted on January 11, 2021 by ianchisnall

At the start of this week many of us are still recovering from a number of events that took place last week. For those of us in the UK, the lockdown following a huge increase in COVID-19 cases over December … Continue reading →

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A Coalition type of leadership is now vital for our nation

Posted on January 5, 2021 by ianchisnall

The latest COVID-19 announcement by Boris Johnson which he made at 8pm last night seemed to be in a very clear change from his approach at 9am on the day before. Despite this change the positive aspects of his announcement … Continue reading →

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Government refuses an inquiry, but is closing down PHE

Posted on August 16, 2020 by ianchisnall

When COVID-19 emerged and then led to thousands of deaths in the UK compared to far fewer in many other nations, understandably some people began to call for a public inquiry and the Government claimed that it was not appropriate … Continue reading →

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Daily Telegraph please stop publishing such nonsense

Posted on June 26, 2020 by ianchisnall

Yesterday two high profile political idiots tweeted one of their shared views and sadly along with their tweets there was also a publication by the Daily Telegraph of an article by one of these offensive people. The tweets and retweets … Continue reading →

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How do we stop ex-Ministers from criticising their own workers?

Posted on June 7, 2020 by ianchisnall

It is clear that members of the Government which includes Conservative MPs who were Ministers until recently will have to work very hard to stop their Government from being challenged over our nations impact by COVID-19. Trying to blame other … Continue reading →

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A very difficult position for the Government and our whole Nation

Posted on May 24, 2020 by ianchisnall

I find writing about the Dominic Cummings situation as difficult as I did about writing about Neil Ferguson’s situation. Both men have worked very hard to try to communicate with our Nation about COVID-19 along with many of their colleagues … Continue reading →

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Can the Government communicate “Coronavirus: Disease Control”?

Posted on May 17, 2020 by ianchisnall

On Thursday 14th May after Parliament had closed for the week, the Government kindly provided an answer to this written question from John Hayes MP who asked it under the title of Coronavirus: Disease Control. Presumably Matthew Hancock was too … Continue reading →

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