Millions spent on keeping adults with learning disabilities locked up, ITV News reveals. https://www.itv.com/news/2024-03-21/millions-spent-on-keeping-adults-with-learning-disabilities-locked-up Hospital seclusion: ‘I’ve been treated like an animal’ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63049874 Mental health patients are being failed as they leave care, warns Ombudsman. https://www.ombudsman.org.uk/news-and-blog/news/mental-health-patients-are-being-failed-they-leave-care-warns-ombudsman ——————————————————————————————————————————————– https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-62477095 Share Image caption, The family of Fraser Malcolm (left) fear he will not be released from […]
How much should patients know about pharma payments to doctors? https://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/2016/may/18/patients-pharma-payments-doctors-database Individual NHS doctors receiving £100,000 per year from drugs firms https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk/ How GPs are Paid to Prescribe Ineffective Drugs How GPs are Paid to Prescribe Ineffective Drugs GPs are prescribing far too many pills. Most people know that and Dr James LeFanu, Telegraph columnist, […]
IF WE WANT TO SAVE THE NHS, WE NEED TO TAKE ON BIG PHARMA Big pharma “Big Pharma” emerged in the post-war period as companies specialising in different parts of the medicine supply chain merged into single corporations, able to take care of every step of the medical research process from research to the marketing […]
The UK is becoming a thoroughly medicalised nation, with various players: patients, doctors, other professionals, government and public health, acting in some cases to increase or in others to decrease medicalisation. Over a single professional lifetime, general medical practice has reversed from being mainly reactive work with doctors responding to patients’ symptoms, to a pro-active […]