Just released files published by the Guardian. “Intimate examinations – used to “check the marital status” of Indian and Pakistani women coming to Britain to marry – were on a far wider scale than was previously known. The practice was banned in February 1979 after the Guardianexclusively reported that a 35-year-old Indian woman teacher was […]
Continue Reading →Turning sexual health clinics into prisons
My friend Ben Holden speaking out about the prison created in the sexual health clinic where he works. Asylum seekers are people first.
Continue Reading →NICE guidance on ovarian cancer diagnosis
NICE, in new guidance, are telling GPs to perform CA-125 tumour markers in patients with possible ovarian cancer. They say “Asking the right question – first tests Measure serum CA125 in primary care in women with symptoms that suggest ovarian cancer (see section 2.1 on page 43). If serum CA125 is 35 IU/ml or greater, arrange […]
Continue Reading →Plos Medicine on Guantánamo Bay
A sobering and uncomfortable read. Which makes it important that we do
Continue Reading →Macmillan cancer
Did you know? that Macmillan nurses/consultants are funded by Macmillan for the first three years (but I know of several people funded for only two) – but the deal is that these posts must be then funded by the NHS but forever known by the moniker. So it’s always going to be Macmillan nurse Smith, […]
Continue Reading →NMT Medical liquidates
and so, I hope, farewell to the libel case against Peter Wilmshurt.
Continue Reading →“Setting an example?” – BMA news article on screening misses the point.
I wish I could link to this article, which is published as a feature in BMA News, a supplement that comes with the BMJ. It’s worrying. “Professor (Erica) Frank, research chair in preventative medicine and population health at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, has spent more than 20 years examining the relationship […]
Continue Reading →Public appointments of note
for an Audit Committee and Lay Member of the General Chiropractic council.
Continue Reading →Is there any need for a listening exercise?
…and I wonder how much this will be costing in expenses. The Coalition is launching a ‘listening exercise‘ into their reforms of the NHS, staffed mainly by management and academics. But have they not already being paying attention? What more do they want? We have already heard from the Chair of the RCGP (who is […]
Continue Reading →Everyone should read this
Allyson Pollack and David Price in the BMJ. How the secretary of state for health proposes to abolish the NHS in England
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