Great song by Rosie Holloway
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Two people in two rooms
after reading Tim Senior http://bjgp.org/content/66/652/579 We cannot meet in one room. Yours or mine. Telephone or video today. This is too important for text or e-mail. There may be talking. There may be listening. There will be silence. What will we see with our ears? Is there enough relationship? Understanding? Knowledge? Wisdom? or Skills, Competencies, […]
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The Alma Ata Declaration
In 1978 the WHO adopted the Alma Ata declaration, a seminal document which stated that economic and political policy are the major determinants of global health and wellbeing. It argued that inequality is unacceptable, and that people have the right and duty to participate in the planning and implementation of their health care. At the […]
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GP workload – the real picture
Doctors in Unite Policy Paper, September 2021 SUMMARY Up to a third of UK social class differences in health was probably caused by work 50 years ago. Since then, many hazardous jobs have been exported but new types of unhealthy work have emerged. Work can be bad for health but so is unemployment. The most […]
Written evidence opposing the Health and Care Bill, submitted by John Puntis co-chair of Keep Our NHS Public, a national campaigning organisation seeking to maintain a publicly funded and provided universal healthcare system across the UK. Executive Summary This Bill will be highly damaging to the NHS as a national health service based on social […]
At our meeting last weekend, Doctors in Unite passed the following resolution in solidarity with the staff at Florence House Medical Centre, and general practices across the country: “This branch is horrified at the brutal attack on staff at the Florence House Medical Practice in Openshaw on Friday 17th September 2021 Health workers across […]
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Medical activism
John Launer This article is reproduced from the Postgraduate Medical Journal 25 August 2021. Please click on link for references. Medicine and politics are inseparable. This applies from the very beginning of medical training and throughout doctors’ careers. In most countries, the young people selected to go to medical school are predominantly drawn from a […]
Martin Blanchard July 2021 This briefing is not a detailed report of recent privatisation of healthcare in London, but rather examples of the type of privatisation that is occurring with links to details about the companies involved. If these examples are occurring in all five incipient ICSs (North West London -NWL, North Central London-NCL, North […]
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Bring out the dead
let’s bring out the deadthe defeated the destitutethe isolated mind our bodies scarredmemorial on the high streetmedals for the survivorsparties for the kind onesno dancing by eros we endured knightly collusionpoliticians begonein the shadow of the slaughter we had it within uscourt friends knew bettercall centre illusions our best chanceoxbridge sagemodelling murderfollow the moneyeat out […]
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