Young people in distress who are treated by paramedics or A&E staff are not being recorded in England’s health statistics Thousands of patients are being omitted from official health statistics because they are not seen by hospitals or GPs, according to a groundbreaking study of ambulance data in England. More than a third of people who […]
MindFreedom is a human rights organization with members worldwide. If you care about freedom and human dignity in the face of forced psychiatry, you’ve come to the right place. MindFreedom members unite to STOP human rights abuses in the mental health system. Welcome to the campaign for MindFreedom. Unlike most other mental […]
The government is preoccupied and has a lot of things to do, but this issue is not going to go away’ warns health ombudsman Rebecca Thomas Health Correspondent Tuesday 29 November 2022 10:32 GMT The human rights of vulnerable mental health patients are being violated because of the crisis in care, a regulator has warned. Rob Behrens, the health service ombudsman […]
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 […]