The 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...
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