In the desperate struggle for readers and clicks, the Herald tries to make something negative out of nothing at all: ‘The latest workforce statistics show that more GPs than ever before are being paid a salary instead of earning their income as an independent contractor, in a sign of the strain facing the profession.’ From my lefty perspective on the NHs and other things, that looks like good news. We don’t want any more ‘independent contractors’ motivated by profit, do we? Anyhow, McArdle has previous. On the 28th November, she told us that there were ‘unsafe’ staffing pressures on nurses, … Continue reading The Herald vs BBC Scotland battle for ‘Mencken Sickness Correspondent 2019’ continues as GP numbers increase but only in Scotland