Archive for category Health
A Neglected Down-Side of ’Sixties Feminism
Posted by David Conway in Family, Marriage and the Culture, Health on 16/03/2010
To mark the centenary of International Women’s Day, BBC Channel 4 is currently broadcasting a series about women made by feminist film-maker Vanessa Engle. The instalment shown yesterday was designed to expose how badly done by, in the opinion of Engle, are those women who, upon becoming mothers, opt to stay-at-home to care for their young off-spring and their bread-winning spouses.
PCTs run up in-year deficits
Posted by James Gubb in Economics, Health on 03/03/2010
Civitas, in conjunction with The Guardian, has today released figures obtained from PCT board papers that show, while the NHS is forecasting a surplus of over £1bn for the year, a number of PCTs – that buy care on behalf of patients – are currently in deficit in the year to-date. While not threatening the NHS’s overall financial position at present, the lack of financial control in PCTs is of serious concern ahead of tighter financial times.
The market can help the NHS
Posted by James Gubb in Health on 18/02/2010
The British Medical Association needs to stop its scare stories about the private sector, because the evidence isn’t there. Continued on The Guardian’s Comment is Free.
BMA campaign to shut out independent sector from NHS is misguided and foolhardy
Posted by James Gubb in Economics, Health on 12/02/2010
The BMA today extend their ‘Look After Our NHS’ campaign, to stop commercially run firms providing NHS care and end the market in the NHS, to patients.
Leaflets will be distributed containing stories such as a 70-year-old lady who is forced to go to a treatment centre run by a private provider and suffers ‘complications’.
The BMA are shamelessly politicising health care on cherry-picked evidence.
Food for Thought
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Education, Health on 18/01/2010
As the greasy smell of soggy chips and nondescript chicken wafts around the overflowing bin full of mangled newspaper, you may mistake the entrance to my classroom for the local kebab shop. And that’s only for starters. For many pupils, a greasy-fingered session of identifying nouns is promptly followed by feast of lurid, sugary snacks.
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