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  • Healthcare for Asylum Seekers

    I read in The Guardian yesterday that the government is to abolish her plans to tighten regulations that allow asylum seekers to seek free primary care. To be honest, I was horrified when I heard it had been proposed at all. What kind of society are we to become when we deny very basic health care [...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 10-13-2008

  • Delayed Discharges

    Since moving from a generic Community Care team into a specialist Mental Health team a few years ago, I haven’t had as much contact with the vagaries of the delayed discharge system as I did back then. Yesterday was a rude (in every sense of the word) awakening. The Community Care (Delayed Discharge...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008

  • Social Inclusion online?

    This morning, I came across this interview in The Guardian with Tim Hunt, Mental Health Lead on the Patient Opinion site which is from a couple of weeks back now. I had never heard of Patient Opinion, but it is a site which, unsurprisingly, given the name,  allows patients to give opinions on the services...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008

  • Happy Birthday, NHS

    Today is the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Health Service. There has been a lot of coverage over the last week in every kind of media source to commemorate this. From finding people born on the same day to relive their lives through access to the health system to much polemic and debate...
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-05-2008

  • Prevention before cure

    It is all very well for the government to call for better preventative care for older people. It is a noble aim - and a cost effective policy too. But I can’t help but be a little bit cynical. As long as the Fair Access to Care bands exist and restrict care provision to Critical [...]
    Posted to Fighting Monsters (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-23-2008
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