The NHS is refusing to give a date for implementing new single-sex space guidance, leaving rules that let transgender patients choose their ward in place two days after the EHRC published its code on protected spaces. You’d think medical professionals would have a clear understanding of biological sex…
Existing guidance tells staff to accommodate patients “according to their presentation“. Even more absurdly, it instructs staff to follow a child’s preference over a parent’s:
“In some instances, parents or those with parental responsibility may have a view that is not consistent with the child’s view. If possible, the child’s preference should prevail even if the child is not Gillick-competent.”
NHS England (which is supposed to be closing down) says policies will follow “shortly“, and blames the Cabinet Office for “co-ordinating the response“. The Cabinet Office says this is nonsense, and nobody has been stopped from updating anything. It really shouldn’t be this complicated…
NHS stats out this morning are happy news for Wes Streeting:
70% of the last year’s progress towards this target was posted in last two months. Suspicious…
Streeting said: “Our plan for the NHS is working. This is the biggest cut in waiting lists in a single month in 17 years. It means we are right on track to deliver the fastest reduction in waiting times in the history of the NHS. Lots done, lots more to do.” Lots for him to do today…
Taxpayers have forked out at least £4.95 million in golden goodbyes for senior civil servants in the NHS. According to health minister Karin Smyth, in the year 2024-25 there were 33 exit payment cases disclosed by integrated care boards which were of a value of £150,001 or more. Eye-watering…
For context, there are currently 42 NHS Integrated Care Boards responsible for carving up NHS budgets and commissioning services for local areas. Meanwhile, as of November last year, NHS England has not opened a voluntary redundancy scheme and staffing costs have actually gone up since Starmer promised to ‘abolish’ the quango last March. The Hippocratic Oath doesn’t apply to quangos you’ve promised to abolish, by the way…
NHS quangos managed to hold 117 diversity events between May 2024 and December 2025, according TaxPayers’ Alliance research. Naturally all during working hours…
NHS Blood and Transplant, NHS Education for Scotland, NHS Professionals and the NHS Resolution racked up nearly 117 hours on DEI events. Or two working weeks…
Among the events:
And that’s just for the quangos…
Wes Streeting has warned the combination of surging super flu cases and the junior doctors’ strikes next week means the NHS faces its worst week since the first days of the pandemic. ‘One minute to midnight…’
Speaking to Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning, Streeting blasted the BMA for holding the NHS to ransom and putting staff at risk:
“The thing that I am genuinely fearful of is even if I throw more money at this situation now at this time to get us through the next week of strikes, there’s only a finite number of doctors and staff. There’s only a finite number of care home beds and community-based care… So if you’ve got strikes and you’ve got flu, and you’ve got all these challenges on corridors, and you’ve got demand going up rather than down, I just don’t think there’s a lever I can pull, I don’t think there’s an amount of money I can throw that means I can sit on your programme and guarantee patient safety over the next week…
I don’t understand why the BMA have not been willing to compromise.”
We are a long way from ‘getting around the table’ and ending the threat of strikes just by electing a Labour government…
NHS Trusts splashed £58,274 of taxpayer cash on 189 Pride events between June and August this year, according to analysis by the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Meanwhile junior doctors are walking out in the lead up to Christmas…
Some of the more intriguing events held across 88 hospitals include:
Callum McGoldrick of the TPA said: “The NHS should be focusing on treating patients and clearing backlogs, not funding endless woke events”. Taxpayers will be running out of patients with this…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”