Had a busy day today. Big clinic today without my registrar who is away today. Had 2 junior docs who shadowed me. Got an email about the future of thoracic services in the Midlands. What started as an exercise to see if thoracic surgery should take place in Wolverhampton has now become an exercise by managers to dictate what services should be offered by individual trusts. So much for individual freedom and devolution to foundation trusts. The NHS is becoming the proving ground for the control freakery and Stalinist tendency of this government.
Had a lung cancer research meeting . Potentially we have a good thing for this trust - however I suspect the central control outlined above may scupper all efforts.
Off to the pub to celebrate the end of Sue's semester . I am very excited about what Sue is doing and thanks to Geoffrey - top class guy.