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Dr Crippen is unwell

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Link: NHS Blog Doctor: Dr Crippen is unwell.

How strange. At least one blogspot blog can be accessed from Shanghai. Is the Great Firewall breached, or do the censors favour NHS blogs?

The NHS Blog Doctor – Doctor Crippen – is feeling a little peeky today. Having lambasted the Taxpayers’ Alliance for criticising the high pay of public servants – notably County Council Chief Executives – he researched the background of some of the highest paid such mandarins (presumably in order to find evidence that they were worth every penny). What did he find? The Chief Executive of Kent is a former nurse-quacktitioner. Regular readers of his blog will know precisely how highly Doctor Crippen rates those.

Delicious. All credit to the good doctor, however, for having the honesty to post about it.

UPDATE: Today it seems that all Blogspot blogs are accessible. Hmmm.

2 responses to “Dr Crippen is unwell”

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    jameshigham

    It takes a brave person who’ll criticize from within. Well done to Crippen.

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    Colin Campbell

    My cousin is a very senior nurse practitioner in Scotland and was entrusted with Gordon Browns first child, who died. I don’t think that is a reflection of her work. My wife’s best friend here in Australia is a nurse practitioner and the first nurse in South Australia allowed to dole out drugs. I think that there has to be some common ground here. Not sure what the issues are in the UK, but here in South Australia there is a terrible shortage of medical practitioners, call them what you like, doctors, nurses… Some smaller towns cannot get a doctor for love or money> There has to be a role for “quacktitioners” to fill some of this gap in the short term. Deporting Indian doctors who look like terrorists is not going to encourage foreign doctors to set up camp here in the outback.
    The new government is putting a lot of money into training and new skills. That will take many years to filter through the system. It is an important start.

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Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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