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  • The National Health Service is about to become more dangerous

    We have failed to train enough doctors. Patient safety will suffer as a result

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    J Meirion Thomas 5 Feb 2024, 6:00pm
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  • Part-time GPs are an insult to taxpayers who trained them

    It is a waste of public money to train doctors who do not wish to work in the NHS

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 29 Sep 2023, 7:00am
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  • Nobody dares admit that GPs aren’t working

    Low cancer survival rates in the UK are partly caused by the failure to give patients continuity of care

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 16 Aug 2023, 5:00pm
    A GP checking a patient's blood pressure
  • Britain’s obesity epidemic is crushing the NHS

    This is a matter of personal responsibility, but public health officials are far too nervous about saying so

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 30 Dec 2022, 6:00am
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  • NHS general practice has passed the point of no return

    Solutions to the crisis can only be discussed when the stakeholders agree that our GP system is irrevocably broken

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 31 Aug 2022, 6:00pm
    A GP writing a prescription
  • Cancer is now a public health emergency

    Restoring face to face appointments with GPs is only the start of what needs to be done to tackle it

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 10 Apr 2022, 11:00am
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  • We have become too reliant on foreign doctors

    Poaching doctors from low income countries is both immoral and unethical

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 2 Jan 2022, 7:00am
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  • Sajid Javid cannot afford to cut GPs’ workload

    A short-term effort to increase booster jabs risks becoming a long-term disaster for patients

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 2 Dec 2021, 6:55pm
    Sajid Javid speaking to media during a visit to the Vale Medical Centre in Forest Hill
  • Part-time GPs are proving a roadblock to reform

    The total number of doctors is not a problem – it’s their working practices that need to change

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 24 Sep 2021, 5:00pm
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  • If the GPs went on strike, would anybody notice?

    Extra money for the NHS will be wasted because the Government won’t take on the hard-line health unions

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 11 Sep 2021, 6:00am
    A doctor writing a prescription
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  • Vets serve pets better than GPs do the public

    General practice has no financial incentive to give taxpayers the service that they have a right to expect

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 26 Aug 2021, 5:21pm
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  • Our failure to train doctors in the UK hurts the developing world

    Why are we turning away young British people who want to enter the medical profession?

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 9 Aug 2021, 7:00pm
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  • GPs refuse to see that general practice is broken

    The problem is that GPs are untouchable - protected by their powerful trade union, the British Medical Association

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 15 May 2021, 6:00am
    A GP checking a patient's blood pressure
  • The rise in part-time GPs is a symptom of the system's failure

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 18 Dec 2019, 7:33pm
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  • A lifetime of service didn't help when I blew the whistle on the NHS. We need better protection

    J Meirion Thomas
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  • Foreign doctors won't solve the NHS shortage. We must train and retain our own

    J Meirion Thomas
    J Meirion Thomas 14 Jun 2018, 4:22pm
    Doctors from the Europe can register in the UK without any skill checks
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