INTERTWINGLEMENTS Unravelling the tangle……..
Unravelling the tangle of The Leadership Agenda and a few other things….The Beginning
Round about April Fool’s day 2007, The Witch Doctor was asked by The Oldest Sage Witch to find out what the hell was going on in the UK regarding something called MTAS. She felt it was more that just a fiasco affecting junior doctors’ job prospects. She felt it was a symptom of very deep rooted and far reaching changes in UK Healthcare. The Oldest Sage Witch was fuming because these changes, regarding the healthcare of a nation, were being imposed without any valid consultation process.
The Oldest Sage Witch had every right to fume!
And so,“The Witch Doctor” blog began in the spring of 2007 at the time of the MTAS fiasco. The Witch Doctor was appalled at how these young doctors were being treated by a government whose main aim seemed to be to demoralise the medical profession prior to carving up the NHS for the benefit of large multi-national companies. What appalled The Witch Doctor even more, was that most of the medical profession seemed to be oblivious of the magnitude of the problem, and the fact that there were attempts to replace professionalism with a morass of tangled competencies.
Gradually, after much thinking and reading, The Witch Doctor is coming to the conclusion that the NHS is a bystander being caught up in changes that are deep-rooted within The Heart of Government, and what we are seeing is the consequence of hubris surrounding a new elite class in society, The Political Class, who are no longer representing the electorate.
Until now, The Witch Doctor has had no interest in politics whatsoever, but she is passionate about Freedom. (it seems we all have to be passionate about something nowadays).
The Witch Doctor is troubled by the possibility that Freedom is being eroded in the UK by a process we witches call CREEP and by the use of a new language intended to obfuscate and confuse.
This required to be investigated further, and so The Witch Doctor blog continued long after MTAS lost its momentum and a second WD blog was born.
THE WITCH DOCTOR’S CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
This site, is an attempt to organise information. It is one of The Witch Doctor’s many Aide Memoire’s – relating to the future of the NHS, practice of medicine in the UK today, and where the government is sitting in all of this.
It’s a bit scrappy and gets neglected at times bu you might learn something if you read it.
You probably won’t.
After all, it’s just for me.
A very personal thing.
Intended to try to organise a complex, meandering, messy witch’s brain.
A kind of Continuing Professional Development for witches.
Not really suitable for The Humankind!
And now, there is a third blog.
This is really a fun blog and is only suitable reading for those that like doing jigsaws or unravelling a ball of wool that has been molested by a lively kitten.
During the course of blogging on medical matters she became irritated by the obsession with “leadership.” So much so that she wondered if there was some kind of leadership agenda going on, not just within medicine but in UK society as a whole. It was then, quite by chance she stumbled upon “Common Purpose,” a charity that ran leadership courses for all and sundry, as long as these candidates were chosen by senior Common Purpose staff. She discovered members of her own health board were attending these courses and wondered why she had never heard of this outfit, because we witches think we know everything that is going on round about us. She was rather intrigued that this had passed below her radar and when she asked around none of her medical colleagues had heard of Common Purpose either. She explored this outfit further and discovered Common Purpose intertwingled closely with other outfits and all the political parties.
Who knows whether these intertwinglements are important or not?
My Black Cat thinks she uncovered a conspiracy surrounding Common Purpose and she became very excited. Since Intertwinglements is not in any way a conspiracy website, and WD believes in Creep rather than conspiracies, My Black Cat will be banned from entering “Intertwinglements” although from time to time she skulks around The Witch Doctor blog and talks utter drivel.
To make this blog more interesting, The Witch Doctor has decided she will follow three strands to see whether the three intertwingle in any way. The strands are topics that she currently finds interesting, namely The Leadership Agenda, Assisted Dying and Integrated Medicine.
Who knows whether all three will intertwingle?
And if they do, will it matter?
The Witch Doctor plans to find out.
