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From BBC NEWS Call for £20 charge to see doctor
Patients should be charged £20 to see a GP in a bid to limit demands placed on the health service, a centre-right think-tank says. The Social Market Foundation said forcing people to pay a fee for an appointment could help the NHS cope in the tight financial times ahead. The group said it would not breach the values of the NHS as charges already applied to dentistry and prescriptions
LITTLEJOHN: Fast-tracking the Tarmacing community on the NHS | Mail Online
One of the many emails I received yesterday was from a loyal Daily Mail reader incensed at the news that the NHS has decided to give priority to gipsies in hospitals and GP surgeries. He had tried to see his doctor in Wellingborough, Northants, only to be told that the first 'pre-bookable' appointment was in a month's time. His options were either to turn up on the dot of 8am, in which case he might be seen within three hours, or to sit pressing the redial button on his phone in the hope that someone would answer and offer him a slot some time between now and when he died of old age.
The Press Association: Midwives reject 'immigration' claim
The Royal College of Midwives has hit out at the British National Party (BNP) over suggestions immigration is fuelling a crisis in NHS maternity care.
The RCM said it "rejects absolutely the BNP's assertion that immigration is a problem".
Swine flu could infect 'one-third of world population' - Scotsman.com
SWINE flu is likely to spread around the world in the next few months and infect one-third of the global population, according to the first detailed analysis of the spread of the virus published by British scientists today.
Chris Paling on time spent on a ward with alcoholics | Society | The Guardian
He'd heard the debates about the cost of alcohol abuse to the NHS, but only when novelist Chris Paling found himself on a ward with long-term alcoholics did he really grasp the prognosis
The human brain is on the edge of chaos
Cambridge-based researchers provide new evidence that the human brain lives "on the edge of chaos", at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published March 20 in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, provides experimental data on an idea previously fraught with theoretical speculation.
Mid Staffs: the first big case of death by empty words | Melanie Reid - Times Online
Critical decision units, they called them. Or CDUs, to make them sound important. But they were just rooms with no proper facilities where staff at Mid Staffordshire NHS dumped unassessed patients to meet four-hour waiting-time targets.
In these critical decision units, critical decisions weren't taken. One didn't have any staff. In the other, the Healthcare Commission says, patients were left for three days or more. CDUs were a sham, a cheat.
What killed hundreds of people in Mid Staffordshire was semantics; the first big case of death by empty words. It won't be the last. Incompetence was an accomplice - it always is - but the main culprit was the cloak of evasive language
Medical Dispatch: That Buzzing Sound: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
The mystery of tinnitus.
Charlie Brooker on the absurdity of calorie counting
Actually, why not just ban food? Step one: make owning a kitchen illegal. Step two: replace all supermarkets and cafes with trucks that rove the streets three times a day dispensing bite-sized meal-pellets. Make sure the trucks are controlled by a compute
Brain-boosting drugs 'not to be feared' - health - 14 December 2008 - New Scientist
SOCIETY should embrace the use of drugs that boost brain power. That's the message from a group of neuroscientists, psychiatrists and ethicists.
A recent survey found that at some US universities, up to 25 per cent of students routinely buy Ritalin or Ad
Mind Hacks: Medical jargon alters our understanding of disease
A new study just published in PLoS One reports that simply using technical-sounding labels for newly popularised medical conditions changes our understanding of the condition itself, leading us to think it is more serious and more common.
The study is in
Amazon.com: War Surgery in Afghanistan and Iraq: A Series of Cases, 2003-2007 (Textbooks of Military Medicine)
US Military Surgery textbook blocked by US army. Should be available later.
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