Editor’s blog Wednesday 4 August 2010: What we learned today

Happy Wednesday to you. Not far till the weekend now.

So today ... we have learned that:


GPs should be midwives (which might not have helped this consultant)

Screening generates false positives, and may sometimes create as much work as it saves

US doctors love being rated as much as UK doctors

If you cut doctors’ working hours, waiting lists start to rise (and this is on figures pre-dating the end of central performance management of waits)

Woe! The Magical Money Tree Where Cash Grows For Free has withered, and services are going to be reduced or cut

All in all, not a bad day for the hallowed purlieus of the Things That Are Not Surprising …