This question, or variants of it, has already been posed many times in the EU debate. Lord Rose and Sir John Major, both key Remain voices, have said that we could survive Brexit. It is time to define our basic terms. We need parameters to discuss this survival. The most literal reading of the term… [Read More]
The government’s promise of a seven-day NHS is in the difficult process of being realised. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt is trying to implement the Conservative party’s manifesto commitment to give more equal service provision throughout the week by focusing almost entirely on doctors’ weekend working hours, largely ignoring the necessary presence of many other professionals who are just as essential in keeping NHS… [Read More]
Today’s EU renegotiations are being touted as one of the biggest challenges of David Cameron’s premiership. Out of his key reform demands, the one meeting the most opposition from other EU leaders is his plan to stop EU migrants from claiming in-work benefits for four years. The deal is being compared to the negotiations of… [Read More]
In a sense, NHS hospitals are health production lines. The sick patient is admitted, travels through the system and, unless beyond the help of modern medicine, should emerge in far better health at the other end. However, at present this production line has major problems. Some say that the line is manned by insufficient numbers of de-motivated staff. Others say that funding shortages limit production and hinder… [Read More]
David Cameron has warned today that the migrant crisis could push Britain out of Europe as it makes voters think ‘get me out of here.’ This misleading claim implies that the wave of immigrants coming into the EU will have a direct and negative effect on Britain, as though thousands of migrants will now be… [Read More]
A new report in The Lancet shows that the price of new cancer drugs varies widely across the world. The range is from only 28 per cent to a staggering 388 per cent of the nominal price for the same drug. Information on prices is however frequently restricted. Some healthcare organisations are required never to disclose the discounted price they have received in relation… [Read More]
The French regional elections this Sunday are being touted as the first test for President François Hollande after the terrorist attacks in Paris last month. Hollande, who has previously been described as France’s least popular President, saw his ratings go up a few points as a result of his bellicose response to the Paris attacks.… [Read More]
At a summit this weekend EU leaders and the Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoglu agreed a deal on asylum and Turkish access to Europe. Turkey will try to slow numbers travelling through to Greece and accept those economic migrants the EU returns to Turkey, in exchange for €3bn and enhanced visa-free movement rights for Turkish citizens to… [Read More]