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Green the Health Service
http://greenhealthservice.blogspot.com/
Thoughts on how to run a green health service, issues ranger from anti-privatisation to accountability and funding. Ensuring that we put the planet and people above the desires of big business and understanding the place for health care with the cycle of life.
- Added on: Jun 17th, 2008
- Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
- Author: Stuart Jeffery
- Listed in: Green Politics Health
- Tags: politics health NHS green health care privatisation
Recent Posts
Medication of the masses
Being a lowly Green I rarely achieve a national media hit but yesterday I spoke with a journalist from The Times who was writing a piece on whether selenium should be routinely added to wheat and, given the recent furore in Southampton where the resi...
Vote Margaret Haywood for the Nursing Standard's Nurse Awards 2009
Margy was struck off for whistleblowing and is appealing against the decision next month. Please support her by voting for her here.We need a new national campaign to protect whistleblowers as current legislation is clearly not working. Anyone who is...
US attacks the NHS
The debate about changes to the US health care has kicked off in a big way. They aren't even bothering with lies or statistics, they have gone straight to the damn lies. The US media seem to be on a bit of a roll, even claiming that Stephen Hawking w...
Six new rights - spin not substance
So are the new 'rights' for patients being unveiled by Gordon Brown anything but spin? He has promised to scrap unpopular targets in favour of a list of rights that patients can demand: An operation within 18 weeks of patients first seeing their GP ...
HEALTH SECRETARY’S ‘VESTED INTERESTS’ IN SOUTHAMPTON’S WATER FLUORIDATION SCHEME
Green MEP for the South East Caroline Lucas has challenged the Secretary of State for Health Andy Burnham over his position as vice president of the British Fluoridation Society – at a time when health authorities in Southampton were giving the gre...
Letter to Indy on dentistry
Letter to the Independent on the new dentistry report:Sir, The renewed debate on NHS dentistry is very welcome and Professor Steele's report contains some useful ideas, however unless the government addresses the real problem that many people simply ...
