Health

Whats Really Selling On-line

This graphic was posted by those excellent guys at The Next Web but I’m not sure of the source. I am sure it confirms a) what a scary place the Internet is and b) there’s no limit to the gullibility of otherwise intelligent people. These days we all have to view doctors prescriptions with a [...]

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Scottish NHS Lags English in Performance and Costs

News on the TV this morning reported a comparison of performance and costs for health services in England and Scotland. Not surprisingly the English service showed more bang for the buck. Defending the Scottish system, Health Secretary Nichola Sturgeon pointed out the study related to the ten years up to and including 2006 – out [...]

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Proof Nicotine is Good For Us

Why is it, despite the massed ranks of health police, brain washers, interfering busybodies and thought fascists, 12 million people in the UK are smokers? Over the last thirty years successive governments have ratcheted up swingeing taxes, mostly making the poorest in society worse off. The poor who smoke, now subsidise the rich who don’t. [...]

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Proof Booze is Good For Us – Gotta Love it

At least it seems alcohol might good for us if we’re going to hit our heads Alcohol Might Lower Death Rates in Brain Injury Patients HealthDay Friday, September 25, 2009   FRIDAY, Sept. 25 (HealthDay News) — People who suffer serious head injuries are more likely to survive if they have alcohol in their bloodstream, [...]

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It’s Our NHS and We Don’t Want Americans Criticising It

Message to all our American friends. – Anybody wanting to know about our healthcare just needs to ask us. They shouldn’t listen to the garbage being spouted by the nutcases. Our healthcare is no more rationed than anybody else’s. Based on a number of measures it’s more effective than the American model, at less than half [...]

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This is how to make the NHS work – Competition!

How 3,000 patients signed up for a place at the secret dentist’s surgery When Alfred Huynen was preparing to open a new dental practice he was forced to rip up the rulebook on marketing. Instead of advertising the service that he intended to provide, he concealed it, fearing that his acceptance of NHS patients would [...]

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