Anyone having to deal with the health and human services industries knows how rigidly they are controlled by the Medical Model and its sister act, Compliance Surveillance. What goes unnoticed in this mechanically e-captive state of affairs is that the dominant model of assessing and accrediting the quality of care is only one approach to Continue reading »
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It only took a week for Donald Trump to have America looking like Belarus as a dictator, helped by totally subservient politicians, put governing in the hands of unqualified, unintelligent loyalists. As one commentator asked this week “When did brains go out of fashion!” Health and science have been immediate targets of the Trump regime Continue reading »
And why it’s bad for patients
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Politicians are refusing to take meaningful action to resolve the perma-crisis in our health service, writes NHS Doctor, David Oliver
"There is a moral responsibility by each global leader to think from the global perspective instead of from their own national-interest perspective."
It's the latest hint that Reform UK would privatise the NHS
It blows a hole in the party's claim to have 'fixed the roof while the sun is shining'
Do I really need to keep saying that this is where the personal is the political? writes Penny Pepper
Half a century ago, governments around the world ditched their old psychiatric hospitals for something they said would work better. It didn’t. Australia has a poor record in treating the massive mental health problems in the population. More and more money is spent, without achieving any overall improvement in either the mental health of the Continue reading »
The impact of famine may be written in the bodies of future generations
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