Posts Tagged ‘Organ donation’

Beware of going to your GP

Dear General Medical Council (GMC),
No-one should be under any illusions about how serious the shortage of organ donors is right now.  At present an estimated 1,000 people a year die because of the NHS’s chronic shortage of body parts.  However, your latest ruse – telling doctors to routinely ask every dying patient about organ donation – [...]

Alcohol abusers should never get liver transplants

Dear Andrew Lansley,
Seeing as you still remain the only Shadow Cabinet member to be guaranteed your job up to the General Election, it’s about time you started doing something useful.  Your frequent fumbles over NHS policy have left me wondering whether you are up to the job and whether you even understand the basic principle [...]

Presumed consent for donating organs is rightly rejected (for now, at least)

Dear Sir Liam Donaldson,
As Chief Medical Officer I would hope that your first priority is to guarantee the safety and well-being of patients.  I appreciate that thanks to our socialist overlords, there is a bit of a craze going round at the moment where you use the economic crisis to take control of as many [...]