IVF in the headlines
I can’t have been the only person who almost choked on my coffee and croissants when I read the Sunday Times this morning. Couples are being invited to enter a lottery to have some ultra-expensive IVF. I suppose it is slightly better than IVF on the NHS – because I am not [...]
Is health insurance in good health?
It’s a fact of life (and death) that insurance is one of those things you don’t need until you needed it. Then, maybe, if you are lucky, you’ll be glad you got it. And then you might find there is something in the small print that suggests payment is not an option. [...]
Having Children is a Costly Business
Did you see the news this week that having a child costs the parents a mere £200,000? I am not quite sure just how they arrived at such an eye-watering figure – but presumably it doesn’t include designer baby wear or champagne instead of baby milk.
All of which got me wondering why is it [...]
Management Consultants take hack at NHS
How many of us who have seen the lack of care given to our elderly under the NHS would like to badvise the government in pithy terms on how best to sort out the NHS? I see from the news today that some men and women at suits at an expensive management consultancy grabbed [...]