Times is hard.  A recent survey of hard pressed mandarins at the Department of Health is gruesome reading.  The results have been obtained by Medical Harm and are published here.  It starts with only 35% of DH workers recommending it … Continue reading →

£50 for anyone who can send us a correct image.     Every public inquiry has a “secretary”.  Somebody  usually parachuted in from the civil service department under criticism to provide back office support.  This role can be very important. … Continue reading →

So Goodbye then Cynthia Bower, who quit one day after the piece in the Eye’s last edition questioning when she would Bower out.  Cynthia Bower was originally exposed in Private Eye’s special investigation, Shooting the Messenger, for conducting a lame … Continue reading →

It was with grandiose language and some fanfare that Jill Finney announced the CQC’s latest ‘initiative’ to the Health Select Committee.  In response to the “fundamental problem” that Stephen Dorrell of doctors being gagged, Jill Finney was pleased to announce … Continue reading →

  To the Health Committee of Parliament, Dr Mark Porter of the BMA perched to give evidence and was absolutely, categorically, jaw-clenchingly certain.  He said, “I have no specialist knowledge of the case of Dr Mattu… I have not been … Continue reading →

“W” Civil servants have often toiled with openness like a terminal immune system illness.  And David Cameron’s new commitment to openness and transparency does not seem to have made any impression on the mandarins at the wheel in the Department … Continue reading →

Private Eye published, due to very restricted space, an edited version of our hymn to deviousness and destruction of medics with surgical or safety concerns in the NHS, our manual on how to silence a whistleblower.  Our original 21 methods … Continue reading →