House of Lords briefing on the Health and Social Care Bill 2011by Allyson...
Health and Social Care Bill 2011 House of Lords – Committee stage, 25 October 2011 BRIEFING ON CLAUSE 1 Prepared by Allyson Pollock, professor of public health research and policy, Queen Mary,...
View ArticleSecond House of Lords Briefing by Allyson Pollock
Health and Social Care Bill 2011 House of Lords Committee Stage Second Briefing on clause 1 for day 1, 25 October 2011 in the light of evidence from Professor Malcolm Grant This briefing explains the...
View Article“The Mackay amendment is both dangerous and enlightening”
From Peter Roderick “The Mackay amendment is both dangerous and enlightening. It introduces a political,rather than a legal, statement as subsecton (a), which is unlikely to get past the Parliamentary...
View ArticleWhat is a GP’s role today?
Brief notes before the Battle of Ideas 2011 debate, Radical surgery for the NHS: what is a GP’s role today? The answer depends on who is defining the role. The answer (as always) should not come from...
View ArticleHouse of Lords briefing paper 3 Peers should vote for amendment 3 on 2.11.2011
Health & Social Care Bill House of Lords Committee stage Briefing Note 3 Peers should vote for Amendment 3 on Wednesday 2nd November in order to stop the government abolishing the Secretary of...
View ArticleA world without health professionals?
My response (that was moderated for hours and left me assuming it had been refused) to an excellent provocative blog by Richard Smith, Time to get rid of health professionals? What patients want from...
View ArticleReferring patients
The history of the GP referral. “… by 1900 The London Hospital [outpatients department] was seeing, on average, over 4200 out-patients a week or (excluding Sundays) over 700 a day. These patients were...
View ArticleHouse of Lords Briefing paper 4 by Allyson Pollock
Health & Social Care Bill 2011 Briefing note 4 House of Lords Committee stage Clauses 3, 4, 6 and 7 for debate on Monday 7th and Wednesday 9th November 2011 Recommendations With a view to...
View ArticleOther House of Lords Briefings by Allyson Pollock
To see the latest House of Lords briefings on the Health and social care bill, please check Allyson Pollock’s blog here:...
View Article‘Proof’ government plans to privatise the NHS
Link to story: http://www.channel4.com/news/proof-government-plans-to-privatise-nhs This is the paper the programme refers to: Towards Service Excellence , on the Health Service Journal website. The...
View ArticlePress release from Keep Our NHS Public
For immediate release: Friday 25th November 2011 Keep Our NHS Public welcomes the British Medical Association’s affirmation that the Health Bill be scrapped. Keep Our NHS Public congratulates the BMA...
View ArticleThe BMA needs to fight to stop the Health Bill
Reproduced from the Opendemocracy website Jacky Davis December 1st 2011 The British Medical Association – representing 147,000 doctors in the UK – finally lost patience with Andrew Lansley’s unloved...
View ArticleBevan’s Run
January 10-15th, 2012. 160 miles in 6 days from Aneurin Bevan’s Statue in Cardiff to the Department of Health, Richmond House, Whitehall, London. To protest against the Health and Social Care Bill and...
View Article3 things you can do to stop the Health Bill
Dear friends, Three things you can do now to help the campaign against the Health and Social Care Bill: 1. Lobby the Lords. Its still worth writing to the Lords who are still scrutinising and trying to...
View ArticleThe NHS reform transition risk register
There is a memorable scene in ‘Doctor in the House’ in which the surgeon, Mr Lancelott-Spratt tells a patient who is wondering what’s wrong with him, “Don’t worry my good man, you won’t understand our...
View ArticleWhat you might have missed
Apologies for the lack of original material. A new post on the theme of the sceptical healthcare consumer will be up soon. Meanwhile here are some of the more original, important, informative articles...
View ArticleUnanswered questions about the Health Bill
Tory peer, Earl Howe has had these since October and has not yet addressed a single one . Journalists, patients, anyone … can ask them of their MPs/adopted Lord, GP, hosptial specialist, local GP...
View ArticleLansley’s NHS market could wind up like social care
PRESS BRIEFING: Health & Social Care Bill Tuesday January 10 2012: IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lansley’s NHS market could wind up like social care While David Cameron and ministers talk misleadingly about...
View ArticleWhat’s Lansley got to hide?
PRESS RELEASE: Wednesday January 11 2012: IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lord Owen steps in on Health Bill after Commons “misled” What’s Lansley got to hide? Former Health Secretary Lord Owen has stepped up the...
View ArticlePublic Health community calls on Royal Colleges to oppose Health Bill
PRESS RELEASE: January 12, 2012 IMMEDIATE Public Health community calls on Royal Colleges to oppose Health Bill An influential group of public health experts has sent an urgent plea to all the...
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