Tag: Health and Social Care Bill
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Does midwifery have to be privatised to provide continuity of care for 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…
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An open letter to Shirley Williams
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…
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The breast implant fiasco: a scandal of 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…
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Fighting the English Health and Social Care Bill
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…
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17 reasons to oppose Lansley’s NHS bill – and what to support
Everyone I’ve spoken to wants to oppose privatisation of the health service in England, but many said they wouldn’t know what to say about the NHS bill, currently going through Parliament, because they haven’t read it. I wrote this list of reasons why people should oppose the bill, which has been shared with my local…