As expected, all three major political parties have this week made strong references to public, or, as they most commonly term it, preventive health in their election manifestos. Ahead of the General Election on 6 May, the Conservative party have, at least superficially, made the most explicit commitment, with their pledge to re-title the signs [...]
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Public health and the public vote
Posted in Health Inequalities, PH Spending, tagged Alcohol, conservatives, general election 2010, labour, liberal democrats, manifesto, public health, school meals on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
12 Steps to Better Public Health
Posted in Alcohol, Health Inequalities, Obesity, tagged 20mph, Alcohol, chlamydia, cycling, election, Food, manifesto, minimum pricing, Obesity, olympics, organ donation, public health, school meals, smoking, The Guardian, Tobacco, transfats on January 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Faculty of Public Health today publishes our joint manifesto on public health, alongside the Royal Society of Public Health. 12 Steps to Better Public Health offers a dozen practical recommendations that, if adopted by the next government, will improve the UK’s health and well-being for the new decade. The joint public health manifesto calls for: [...]
Notorious or just unsung? Let’s have some nice news about NICE for once
Posted in Health Inequalities, Obesity, tagged NICE, Polly Toynbee, public health on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“A Stalinist NHS quango” is just one example of the kind of newspaper coverage that the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has been hit with according to the Guardian Columnist Polly Toynbee. “Notorious for denying life-saving drugs to terminally-ill NHS patients” was another, hardly more measured, journalistic description Toynbee chose to quote [...]
Expert argues prisoners have a right to better health
Posted in Health Inequalities, Health Protection, tagged Hepatitis C, HIV, Inequalities, Mental Health, Prison health, WHO on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
By Dr Alex Gatherer Consider some of the facts relating to prison health. The majority of prisoners, some 80% or so, have some form of mental ill health, and between 5-10% have serious mental illness, which requires specialist care in suitable facilities. Furthermore, in any community, the local prison at any one time will hold [...]
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