Doc gets my vote...

Hope none of our desperate politicians was watching BBC1 at 9pm last night. Doctor In The House would surely have had their vote-hungry minds spinning: “Hey, a GP goes to stay with a family for 24 hours and sorts out their health problems – what a vote-winner that would be! Is it too late to get it in the manifesto?”

Obviously, such a policy would be utterly impractical and prohibitively expensive – but it’s no more outlandish and undeliverable than some of the carrots we have seen dangled so far.

Then again, with all these cyber attacks, maybe installing GPs in our homes will be the only way of ensuring healthcare in future. If Dr Rangan Chatterjee’s success rate was anything to go by, 24-hour, one-to-one consultations may work wonderfully.

Cheshire mum Gemma Hughes had been suffering up to 16 debilitating cluster headaches a day for the worst part of 13 years, and it was having a devastating effect on family life.

Within two months, Rangan had helped her so much she was going whole days without a single episode.

Paralympian Gary Farmer was suffering crippling shoulder pain before Dr Rangan’s visit. Within weeks, the pain had all but gone.

It might sound like witchcraft, but there was no miracle cure in either case. Dr Rangan was simply showing what can be achieved when GPs are given the time and resources to investigate root causes and prescribe correct treatments.

On second thoughts, I hope our politicians WERE watching.