Exactly a month ago, in July 2025, I wrote about the mandatory cost dumped on every GP trainee in the UK: pay the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) hundreds each year to gain access to a training portfolio platform called FourteenFish.

There is a funny obsession with titles amongst healthcare leaders. Nearly every CEO and Chair you spot leading a trust or a health board these days refers to themselves as a “professor” or a “doctor”.

See previous post about the RCGP and FourteenFish for context. Today I’ve sent a letter to Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP, the Health Secretary, about what I see as an unnecessary and unfair cost being forced on every GP trainee in the UK.

Congratulations to me, I’ve secured a GP training post. No popping corks yet though. You see, having successfully gained a spot to train as a GP, I have now been emailed by the Deanery, on behalf of the Royal College of General Practitioners, to ask me to take out a membership as a GP trainee.

The following motion (Motion 43) was presented to BMA ARM 2025 on 24 June, 2025: Your browser does not support the video tag. That this meeting reaffirms the BMA’s position statements of June 2024 and January 2025 on the Israel-Gaza conflict, which underscore the imperative of upholding international humanitarian law and the protection of healthcare workers and infrastructure in conflict zones.

Driven by pure spite for the fact they’ve put various charges up again across the airport (and as a local resident, it just means more cars hanging around in places they shouldn’t, to try dodge the drop-off fees), I wanted to dig a bit more into who owns the airport.

Who remembers when NHS Education for Scotland tried to limit claims on study budgets? Incensed, I wanted to know how much was being claimed by the same directors who wanted to cut back on doctors’ claims:

Time to talk about Goodbody Clinic. They offer various blood tests for cancers. Their “lung cancer testing” page, in particular, appeared in my Sponsored Links this morning. Let’s have a look, shall we?

See here for other articles on dodgy “MRI Cancer Scans” Vista Health, another favourite. We’ve already covered the fact there is no such thing as a “full body cancer screen”, and how these types of screening-not-screenings can cause harm.

See here for other articles on dodgy “MRI Cancer Scans” or here for the series on “bad ads”. These predatory adverts keep coming up: this one for Phoenix Hospital Group, offering “Full body MRI cancer screening”1.