Blog archive for August 2020
COVID-19 Isolation Syndrome
James Frame looks at the psychological effects of lockdown on plastis surgery patients.
The scandal of NHS contracts with the independent healthcare sector
Since March 2020 it was sensible medical practice to consider making all possible beds in the NHS available to potentially admit ill patients with COVID-19. The expected admission rate was supposed to risk overwhelming the NHS, so independent sector facilities apparently volunteered and were then contracted to the NHS as priority, with full remuneration for their losses, and all private practitioners were effectively frozen out from seeing, admitting and operating on their own self pay patients.
Letter from Hong Kong (17 August 2020)
So much can change in just a few weeks. In Hong Kong after three weeks with no new cases we started to see a third wave in mid-July. More and more cases with no obvious source.
Dalvi Humzah nominated for BMA Private Practice Committee
Co-editor of The PMFA Journal, Dalvi Humzah, has been nominated to join the BMA Private Practice Committee.
