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Individual funding requests – Inside Health 17/1/17

http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6856   http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d3279?hwoasp=authn%3A1484558930%3A4130220%3A1366167283%3A0%3A0%3AhBoXX8On0w%2BLtDdaVnqpWA%3D%3D http://medicalethicist.net/documents/Bariatric%20surgery%20BMJ.pdfhttps://www.themdu.com/guidance-and-advice/latest-updates-and-advice/referral-management-centres-faqs http://www.cochrane.org/CD005471/EPOC_are-there-effective-methods-to-improve-the-process-of-referring-patients-to-specialised-care http://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.i6856 Click to access CEL2011_27.pdf Click to access 37-09_Psychological_assessmwent_exceptional_aesthetic_referrals.pdf  

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Water births- Inside Health 10/1/17

First recorded water birth (unintentional) Michel Odent Lancet paper  case series of harm via water births  NICE Cochrane review  RCM Guidelines  Select committee health 2003  1999 audit of water birth  1992 Winterton, N, House of Commons Health Committee, Second Report – Maternity Services. 23 February 1992, ISBN 0 10 283092 4 CQC link via Which? single […]

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Sniffer dogs – Inside Health 2/2/17

smells and cancer dog sniffing at patch of skin disease turned out to be cancer reported in Lancet in 1989 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673689922575?showall%3Dtrue%26via%3Dihub followed by anecdotes http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(01)06065-2/fulltext 2004 study in BMJ – ‘proof of concept’ dogs using the smell of urine to detect bladder cancer 6 dogs, detected 22 out of 54 people with bladder cancer 2006 […]

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The State of Medicine – keeping the promise of the NHS

    Here’s the book Here’s a podcast from the BMJ  why the NHS is now Westminster’s chew toy and needs to be liberated from it (Independent) and how calling non evidence based medicine ‘innovation’ will simply waste NHS money and resources (Guardian) Times – GPs who sell their services online   I’m grateful for […]

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Book launch – 27th October

The State of Medicine – keeping the promise of the NHS I am furious, sad and scared for the state of the NHS…. The NHS is ‘the closest thing the UK has to a national religion’. No wonder: it has worked secular miracles. Before the NHS, sick children could not see a doctor before a […]

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Inside Health 11/10/16

Testosterone https://www.nice.org.uk/Guidance/NG23 Click to access MenMed_0512.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474615/ http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0707302#t=article

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Receptionists and cancer

public-health-paper-receptionists The media coverage today has been ridiculous. The paper asked people what might happen, not what had happened. experiment: here’s storify from earlier on twitter  

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Facts and notes: Jeremy Hunt, 4/10/16

Conservative party speech.    I’m not going to check every sentence. I’m going to examine the bigger claims that I am concerned about. “But the truth is that for many years we have had the lowest cancer survival rates in Western Europe.” The most recent EUROCARE study published in 2015 examines the cohort of patients […]

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