Should GPs ban patients who complain?
It now seems that if you complain about your GP, instead of looking into the complaint they will simply boot you out of their surgery "perminantly" leaving you to find another surgery, of course the...
View ArticlePatient choice or not?
One of the main planks of the governments changes to the NHS is the oft repeated patient choice and their main strategy to achieve this is to put control of the NHS b budget in the hands of...
View ArticleAnd the first shoe drops....Obamacare being abandoned by Obama
The long term care provision is being abandoned as fiscally impossible...a huge blow to Obamacare as it was touted as a means to offset the overall costs of the health care package from being a deficit...
View ArticleDave plans to share your medical information.....
David Cameron has outlined plans to share NHS patient data with private companies as party of government efforts to boost the medical research industry. The prime minister said the move would not...
View ArticleShould the state pay the unpaid supply bills of hospitals?
In my country south africa there are many unpaid supply bills for hospitals. The way out of this I think is to make the state pay for them in the meantime, as it is for their citizens that they need...
View ArticleBreast implants - the NHS and private clinics
Regulatory authorities involved in the current implant scare include : 1. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons 2. British Association for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons...
View ArticleShould sex education just consist of telling teenagers to abstain?
Bigots and reactionaries are like small children, in that when they ask a question over and over again, it's usually because they don't like the answer. "How do we stop teenage girls having sex?" is...
View ArticleVoluntary euthanasia
As I just came to the site a few days ago I have not managed to get round all of the topics here, and as such I hope that I am not resurrecting, ( excuse the pun ), a thread that has already been...
View ArticleMinimum price for alcohol - has the government got it right?
Today the government announced its proposals for tackling binge drinking with a minimum price for alcohol based upon 40p per unit of alcohol. As a licensee working in the pub trade for almost 20 years,...
View ArticlePersonal experience of NHS cutbacks
I am a type 2 diabetic, although I am not on medication, I manage to control it through diet and exercise. Diabetes is a problem where your blood sugar levels go way to high and this causes damage to...
View ArticleThe Tories will use even the Paralympics against the disabled
Hi all. I'm posting this here at Ivan's request, but the links to supporting articles won't copy over. If you want to see those, please visit the original article at...
View ArticleThe Liverpool Care Pathway - a personal and political reflection
As ever, for links please visit the original at http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2012/11/03/the-liverpool-care-pathway-a-personal-political-perspective/ Jeremy Hunt has announced that he’s going to...
View ArticleDoes meat kill more Americans than cigarettes?
http://www.alternet.org/food/154532/does_meat_kill_more_americans_than_cigarettes_do Way back in 1989, the European Economic Community (EEC) placed a ban on hormone-treated U. S. meat, preventing U. S....
View Article100,000 cancer patients to get whole genome sequencing
Is this a good use of tax payer's money? £100-162 million set aside to sequence the genomes of 100,000 cancer patients. Meanwhile the NHS struggles to provide timely cancer treatment for those...
View ArticleTories masquerade as 'independent charity' to push for NHS privatisation
Original, including many links, is at: http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2013/01/04/tories-pose-as-independent-charity-to-push-for-nhs-privatisation/ There are other glaring examples of this 'fake Tory...
View ArticleLeeds children's heart unit
I was asked by Open Democracy to write an article about developments around the proposed closure of Leeds General Infirmary's children's heart unit, the court judgment that the decision was illegal and...
View ArticleProfits or people?
Over 160 people are now known to have died when a textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh collapsed. Some of the workers said they had expressed concern about cracks in the eight-storey building (which...
View ArticleOsborne calls cost of an ageing population "a burden"
Successive governments have betrayed Britain’s pensioners by spending less on social care for the elderly than almost any other country in Europe. Research which campaigners say ‘should shame us as a...
View ArticleHealth as business/industry?
I'm keeping the title of this thread general, as I think this is a wide and deep topic with plenty of potential discussion points. I'll start it off with an article I've just written (see...
View ArticleNHS foundation trusts and patchwork privatisation
The NHS is something us Brits regard very highly – it’s a public service that we’re all proud of. Almost everybody in the UK is opposed to the abolishment of the National Health Service, and the vast...
View ArticleTreatment for most of your diseases
take 7 dates in the morning It was very weird that western physicians who treat their patients by fasting advise them by taking the natural sugar in fruits and water when breaking the fast . And when...
View ArticleAssisted dying
Yesterday we had the High court rule that 'Locked -in-Syndrome sufferer,Tony Nicklinson's could not have anyone to help him died.....
View ArticleDo you believe that vitamins can shorten your life?
I once asked my GP what he thought of vitamin and mineral supplements. His non-committal response was that there's no evidence that they do you any harm. He's now come round to the idea that at least...
View ArticleTell me, true or false?
Allah says (Ye who believe intoxicants and gambling, (dedication of) stones, and (divination by) arrows, are an abomination, of Satan's handiwork: eschew such (abomination), that ye may prosper. -...
View ArticleShould cancer patients have to face welfare tests during chemotherapy?
Stupid question, isn't it? Not if you're a nasty, vicious and utterly malevolent member of our Tory government. (I won't say 'Tory-dominated' any more because the Lib Dems are invisible.) Thousands of...
View ArticleFemale Genital Mutilation - horrifying and widespread, despite bans
Last night, my Twitter timeline came alive during Newsnight due to a report about Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). You can watch it here (skip to 19:46m):...
View ArticleLabour and the NHS
Just posted on my blog at http://wp.me/p2sftc-5fl - please see there for the various links An evening with Andy Burnham - and hope for the NHS You don’t need to read very far through this blog to know...
View ArticleMid Stafford Hospital report
The 1,700 page report has been released into the serious lack of care & compassion at Stafford Hospital that resulted on 1,200 premeture or unnecessary deaths between 2005 and 2008. My questions...
View ArticleDo nurses and doctors have time to care?
Last week we had D Cameron declaring that nurses will in future be expected to do hourly ward rounds. Today we have the 'Independant' Tory created 'NHS Future Forum' brand nurses as lacking care and...
View ArticlePro-choice or pro-life?
(From my blog post which originally appears here: http://onehundredmilesfromthesea.tumblr.com/post/20645520794/response-anti-abortion-extremists-are-in-the-heart-of ) Anyone who hasn’t yet read this...
View ArticleDo you know of any areas of wasteful health spending?
The NHS is being changed, no matter what the public say... The given main reason is to improve services but cost effectiveness is always included. We are told that increased compatition will help this...
View ArticleThe future of hospitals under the Tories
For links, please see the original post at http://skwalker1964.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/tory-health-minister-lies-to-tory-mp-re-hospitals-future/ Let me start this post by congratulating new Labour MP...
View ArticleUSA health care: broken, or in need of emancipation from “bean counters”?
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer Patients in the Dark on Medical Costs, Study Finds By CHRISTOPHER TOKIN, M.D., ABC News Medical Unit April 23, 2012 The vast difference in costs among hospitals for...
View ArticleWhy are U.S. citizens ignoring the 6% gain on GDP, by not nationalizing...
Why are U.S. citizens ignoring the 6% gain on GDP, by not nationalizing health care? Statistics show that the average U.S. citizen pays considerably more for their, --- bankruptcy creating inhumane...
View ArticleIs the NHS really safe in Tory hands?
Here is a news item from North Yorkshire which never made it onto the national headlines A York-based practice has written to its patients offering them a range of minor treatments privately, claiming...
View ArticleThe assault on the poor and disabled
I reblogged this post in 'honour' of the Tory party conference and Ivan asked me to post it here, too. You can find the original post complete with links at:...
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