Ever Get The Feeling You’re Being ‘TUPE’d’?
The 2012 Health and Social Care Act (HSC) marks the de-regulation of primary health care in England. Much of the critical response to the legislation has been concerned with the implications for patients: what will the reforms mean for the...
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And the cupboard was bare…
In his Greedy Bastards Hypothesis Scambler (2004) argues that a capitalist class (the greedy bastards) are centrally complicit in widening health inequalities due to their commitment to social and structural changes associated with disorganized capitalism – such as changes that...
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Idiot’s guide to ethical publishing in a competitive world.
Pay walls preventing access to research funded by tax-payers: bad. Open access publishing: good. Greedy multi-national publishers with high profit margins: bad. Academics working for greedy publishers for free: absurd. Individual academics declaring boycott of greedy publishers: good. Academics’ collective...
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Polypharmacy?
Have you ever worried about mixing different medications? Have you ever been prescribed several medicines at once and found it difficult to keep track of different pills? Researchers at Barts in London think they have an answer, proposing that several...
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Bloody jumped-up nurses – they obviously know too much…
It’s happening again – the overly “academic” training of nurses is being blamed for the development of a compassion-less culture in the NHS. Cameron was at it back in 2010 and in January this year, the Daily Telegraph was trumpeting...
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Is driving the new smoking?