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Category Archives: Health
Why we need lockdown and some reasons to be optimistic
As the world comes to grip with the Covid-19 Pandemic I feel called to offer some personal thoughts and reflections.Like most in the medical profession I have been enormously frustrated by the lacklustre response of the UK government to this … Continue reading
Posted in Covid-19, Health, NHS
Tagged Covid-19, Epidemic, Lockdown, Pandemic, Public Health, Social Distancing
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Enough is enough.
Call me naïve if you like, but I still believe that most politicians go into the business because they want to make the world a better place. They may lose their way, become seduced by the sense of their own … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Norman Lamb, resignation, Syria
Tagged bombing, health, Lib Dems, Lieral Democrats, NHS, Nick Clegg, resignation, Syria, Tim Farron
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Lib Dems to be offered radical new Health Policy
I shall go to Glasgow this weekend with a group of others to promote our new policy on the NHS. After a year of deliberations, a policy working group set up by Liberal Democrats failed to reach agreement. Two policy documents … Continue reading
Posted in Glasgow, Health, Lib Dem Conference, NHS, Nick Clegg, Norman Lamb
Tagged Allyson Pollock, Andy Burnham, Liberal Democrats, Margaret Thatcher, NHS England
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Will Lib Dems take the high road or the low road to Scotland?
Liberal Democrats meet this weekend at Glasgow for the Autumn Conference. It is only a few days since the eyes of the world were looking to Scotland with one big question in their minds. Anyone who cares about politics will … Continue reading
Posted in Glasgow, Health, Lib Dem Conference, NHS, Public Services, Transport
Tagged Liberal Democrats, public services
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The hush hush health policy
So what are these proposals that no-one dare let Liberal Democrats see at Conference? There is an increasing body of reputable opinion and evidence that market competition is an expensive irrelevance in healthcare. It is interesting to note that every … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Lib Dem Conference, NHS
Tagged competition, NHS, NHS providers, Public Health, public services, secrecy
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Your hospital could be closed or taken over without any consultation.
In the law of the jungle we see nature red in tooth and claw, dog eats dog, might is right, competition is king and the playground bully rules the roost. In a civilised society, however we have different values. We … Continue reading
Posted in Health, NHS, Uncategorized
Tagged CCG, Clause 118, Jeremy Hunt, Lewisham, NHS, Public Health
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Where next for the NHS?
As we read of another scandal of neglect and cruelty in a privately run nursing home, as we hear that competition law is blocking the co-operation between NHS providers in Torbay and in Bournemouth and Poole, as we hear of … Continue reading
Posted in Health, Lib Dem Conference, NHS, Nick Clegg
Tagged Liberal Democrats, NHS providers, Nick Clegg, policy working group
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