I am grateful to Cliff Webb, the franchisee of McDonalds, High Wycombe, for a visit yesterday. Cliff employs over 200 people. It seems to me that McDonalds comes in for some unfair criticism. The franchise succeeds because it provides food that people want at the right price and level of […]
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Launching our Wycombe Hospital campaign
Today, I am launching my Wycombe Hospital campaign for fair funding, local control and freedom for clinical professionals. Time and again, local people tell me of their concern about the loss of services at Wycombe Hospital. As we can see from the recent campaign on Facebook, thousands are dismayed that […]
Read MoreGovernment and big pharma
Via PharmaTimes | EU to probe pharma over “false pandemic”, this deserves a longer post: The WHO’s “false pandemic” flu campaign is “one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century,” according to Dr Wolfgang Wodarg, chairman the PACE Health Committee, who introduced the parliamentary motion. “The definition of an alarming […]
Read MoreLate cancer diagnosis kills 10,000 a year according to government tsar | Society | The Guardian
Via Late cancer diagnosis kills 10,000 a year according to government tsar | Society | The Guardian, another tragedy: Up to 10,000 people die needlessly of cancer every year because their condition is diagnosed too late, according to research by the government’s director of cancer services. The figure is twice […]
Read MoreHospital cuts: babies born in back of ambulances (From Bucks Free Press)
The problems caused by the withdrawal of services from Wycombe Hospital are becoming very real: TWO women gave birth in the back of an ambulance because of changes at Wycombe Hospital – leading them to warn that lives are at risk. via Hospital cuts: babies born in back of ambulances […]
Read MorePlans for swingeing hospital cuts as NHS on brink of ‘Armageddon’ – Telegraph
Via Plans for swingeing hospital cuts as NHS on brink of ‘Armageddon’ – Telegraph: Health service managers warned of an “Armageddon scenario” facing NHS finances as they draw up secret plans for swingeing hospital cuts. Senior officials have set “aggressive” targets to reduce the number of patients referred to specialists, […]
Read MoreDoctors demand ban on all alcohol advertising – Times Online
The BMA demand a resort to force: A total ban on alcohol advertising must be introduced by the Government to halt an epidemic of problem drinking, doctors’ leaders said today. A report from the British Medical Association (BMA) has called for a sea change in the approach to alcohol regulation […]
Read MoreDizzy Thinks on the NHS
Via Dizzy Thinks: Grow up you morons, a rather unfortunate title: Sadly, unlike what’s going on in USA right now, the structure and delivery of healthcare services is not even a matter for discussion in the UK anymore. Instead, the snobbish and arrogant British superiority complex rears its head, and stupidly […]
Read MoreBBC NEWS | Health | NHS ‘faces huge budget shortfall’
New Labour’s Andy Burnham appears to be referring to a different NHS from the one that concerns the NHS Confederation: The health service will face the most severe and sustained financial shortfall in its history after 2011, a report by NHS managers warns. The NHS Confederation report says the health […]
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