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Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) – a blog in response to the May 18 Geneva meeting minutes

Sep 24, 2013

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in Health services, MDG 5, Population, Private medicine, Reproductive Health Matters, RHM Journal, Safe motherhood, WHO, Women

A blog by Marge Berer, Editor Reproductive Health Matters. Originally posted on the blog of JALI – the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health I asked JALI if I could write a blog after I had read the minutes of the May 18 meeting in Geneva on the way forward for…

An unholy alliance: religion, neo-liberal economics and good old fashioned patriarchy – restricting women’s abortion rights in Eastern Europe

May 11, 2012

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in Abortion, Anti-abortion, ASTRA, AWID, Contraception, Eastern Europe, Health services, Midwifery, Private medicine, Women

A report from guest blogger Charlotte Gage on ‘How much does abortion cost?’ a session organised by ASTRA Central and Eastern European Women’s Network for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights at the AWID Forum in Istanbul. I attended this session where speakers from Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia outlined the economic dimension of sexual…

Does midwifery have to be privatised to provide continuity of care for women?

Mar 30, 2012

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in Health services, Midwifery, NHS, Private medicine, Women

Published on the British Medical Journal Guest Blog, 29 March 2012 Earlier this year we received news of a social enterprise, Neighbourhood Midwives, providing midwifery services in the community in London, and a private company providing midwifery services for NHS Wirral Primary Care Trust. One to One, in the Wirral, promotes itself as offering the…

An open letter to Shirley Williams

Feb 17, 2012

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margeberer

in Health services, Private medicine

Dear Baroness Williams, I have greatly appreciated your continuing efforts during the debate on the NHS Bill in the House of Lords until recently and that you took the time to send out the group emails that have kept those of us on the outside informed. I am writing now, however, to say how disheartened…

The breast implant fiasco: a scandal of private medicine

Jan 18, 2012

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margeberer

in Breast implants, Cosmetic surgery, Private medicine

First published 17 Jan 2012 on the BMJ Group Blog So, the silicone’s hit the fan. The use of industrial-grade silicone intended for mattresses, the possible fraud in hiding information from inspectors at production stage, and the failure in quality control in the regulatory phase, are particularly outrageous. However, the rapidly expanding private sector provision of breast…

Fighting the English Health and Social Care Bill

Oct 3, 2011

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margeberer

in Health services, Private medicine

I have just written a letter to 16 members of the House of Lords, asking them to intervene and make sure the Health & Social Care Bill is thoroughly examined and if possible rejected to prevent it passing into law as it is. The letter was designed to support the efforts of those among the…

Category: Private medicine

Framework Convention on Global Health (FCGH) – a blog in response to the May 18 Geneva meeting minutes

An unholy alliance: religion, neo-liberal economics and good old fashioned patriarchy – restricting women’s abortion rights in Eastern Europe

Does midwifery have to be privatised to provide continuity of care for women?

An open letter to Shirley Williams

The breast implant fiasco: a scandal of private medicine

Fighting the English Health and Social Care Bill