You'd be surprised how difficult it is to make a living as a GP. Put up an idea which challenges their income and it's clear that they are only one rung above the breadline. (View Post)

I worked for a Primary Care Trust in the mid 90's. I think we had just the one. Our neighbours had, I think, two. (View Post)

Ah, understand. Setting up as a single-handed practitioner could easily be expensive. Being single handed in the 80's/90's was becoming increasingly unusual, though. (View Post)

I was once told, and have never had it contradicted, that if a medieval peasant was transported to the 1930's he could have managed the vast majority of farm equipment, with the exception of the thre… (View Post)

When did it all start to go wrong? Can I suggest the election of Margaret Thatcher. Taxes on income went down, indirect ones, in particular VAT, up. (View Post)