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Theme : health
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Finland privacy judgment
Finland privacy judgment
from : petebradwell
24th July 2008
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The Talking Cure
Wednesday morning was the launch of The Talking Cure. Faizal and I wrote the pamphlet to try to capture the changing conversations taking place between professionals and patients around health. The discussion at the launch was fascinating and impassioned. Howard Stoate gave us his perspective at the only practising GP in the House of Commons. Richard Horton was as thoughtful and fired up as ever.
You can listen to all of the speeches, questions etc. here.
from : jackstilgoe
19th May 2008
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The Talking Cure
Approaching its sixtieth birthday, the NHS faces some tough challenges. Success in treating acute illness and failure in prevention mean that medicine will have to manage a flood of chronic illness. This means rethinking relationships between patients, professionals and the public.
from : peterharrington
14th May 2008
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‘Complements’ and sweet talk
Dr. Edzard Ernst, a prominent professor of alternative medicine, is interviewed in today’s Independent talking about his new book, Trick or Treatment. From what I gather, it gives alternative medicine a bit of kicking, demonstrating its ineffectiveness when subjected to randomised controlled trials.Two interesting points strike me about the article.The first is that whilst Dr. Ernst is very critical about the complementary medicine industry, he doesn’t shy away from criticising...
from : faizalfarook
22nd April 2008
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The Talking Cure
Demos will launch a new pamphlet which examines the future of medicine and healthcare in the UK, and argues that is now time to rethink and rebuild relationships between patients, professionals and the public.
from : clairecoulier
15th April 2008
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Trust me, I'm the head of immunisation at the Department of Health
Vaccines are an interesting condensation point for debates about science, the public good, personal freedom and choice. As the UK government found a few years back with the MMR vaccine, you get in trouble if you are on the one hand telling people to choose everything to do with their healthcare and on the other coercing them into vaccination for the public good. The evidence, as we found out, won't win arguments that messy. There's a nice book co-authored by Demos friend Melissa Leach that...
from : jackstilgoe
10th March 2008
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Roger Clarke's 'eHealth Records'
Piece on 'privacy versus quality of care', looking critically at the privacy issues of sharing patient health records.
from : petebradwell
5th October 2007
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NHS Productivity
Opening the papers this morning, it looks like Derek Wanless has thrown the efficiency cat amongst the NHS pigeons. We already knew that a large proportion of extra NHS funding went on staff wages, yet according to Wanless we have seen little increase in productivity. Improvements in smoking cessation and increased life expectancy are being countered by increasingly poor lifestyles/obesity and rising health inequalities between rich and poor.According to NHS statistics total staffing (FTE) in...
from : faizalfarook
11th September 2007
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GP hours - Time for change?
According to the Times today Alan Johnson is set to challenge some of the terms of the GP contract by proposing that GP’s open surgery out of hours and on weekends. This has met with some criticism from the BMA, who argue that other professionals don’t have to work weekends, and that out of hours work would mean a reduction of normal hours service.There are genuine questions to be asked around how to shape our current model of GP care to best suit the healthcare requirements...
from : faizalfarook
10th September 2007
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Side effects of pay injection for GPs
Response letter to Guardian article, Aug 7th 07
from : faizalfarook
10th September 2007
