Is the Longer Lives website useful to local communities?
The reasons for the wide difference in mortality rates across English local authorities is a …
Health Education and nanny statism
Education can be very effective in improving health outcomes through improving lifestyles. The best example I …
The state of care
Aspects of poor nursing care have been well documented concerning care home and hospitals in …
An honest debate about rationing medicine?
The excellent Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of GPs is calling for a …
Why do the Scots want minimum pricing of alcohol?
This shows the comparison of rates of liver disease in Scotland against other European countries, …
Public Health for 2015 election
HEALTH BRIEFING Number 9 From the West Midlands Socialist Health Association, April 2013 WMSHA has …
Tackling Health Inequality
Dave Watson asks can structural change help tackle health inequality? If there is one constant …
Depression is not a “must have accessory”
Gordon McKay urges us to have a proper conversation about mental health. Isn’t it about …
Labour’s NHS Mission
The Labour approach to developing the NHS after 2015 will be limited by major constraints; …
Doctors back denial of treatment for smokers and the obese
Doctors.net.uk, a professional networking site, found that 593 (54%) of the 1,096 doctors who took …
#healthdebate
Would the national health service survive 2 terms of conservative government asks Andy Burnham? The’re …
NHS SoS – It’s all the Doctors Fault?
The collection of articles in the book NHS SoS edited by Jacky Davis & Raymond Tallis …