Bill Harvey: With no meaning or control

The age of uncertainty continues.

2022 began with hopes of a continuing post-Cold War peace dashed by yet another megalomaniac over-flexing underwhelming muscles. At home, we were introduced to new concepts such as warm banks (which some of my patients have reported as ‘lifesavers’) and GPs ‘prescribing money’ to help people with essential services. Perhaps most memorable was the oddly short tenure of a Sheriff of Nottingham PM, so bent on preventing wealth redistribution that she employed a Health Secretary who had previously voted against banning smoking in cars containing children and whose plan to improve health services amounted to shouting: ‘Improve health services!’