uk healthcare

In a recent multi-faceted study the NHS (UK health system) was ranked as the No1 healthcare system in the 11 wealthiest countries. The US system was ranked last out of the 11. Does this demonstrate that a primarily socialist national model of healthcare can be the most efficient and 'best'...

Well it's taken them 62 years, but it looks like the Conservative party are finally about to demolish the NHS in all but name, by accelerating the New Labour plans to allow private companies to provide more and more healthcare services. Their inspiration for this has come from looking at the US...

I've also just posted this on Bad Science - let's see which forum generates the best discussion :D The conservatives are proposing a pretty radical shake up of the NHS....I was wondering what people thought. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/09/nhs-funds-distributed-doctors-reforms...

I've just received a leaflet through my door entitled: "GP services in your area are improving" In it is the following information: Below that is this: What is not mentioned is who will be running these polyclinics, which is likely to be private companies in many cases. GPs are getting...

It seems that in the NHS, patients are absolutely discouraged from taking up alternative therapies, but only if those therapies are alternative to the NHS's preferred treatments. is the case of a cancer patient who died after paying for a treatment, approved by the FDA, but not permitted to be...

I picked this up from the previous thread on NHS funding of homeopathy, and thought it important enough to start a new one. Some of us have had a few battles with various public sector health sites, and now the NHS has surpassed itself with NHS Choices. Here is what it says about homeopathy. It...

Dear Forumites, Over in the NHS funding of homoeopathy thread, Pipirr pointed out that nearly 200 of the UK's elected Members of Parliament have signed an Early Day Motion to protest the closing of the Royal Homoeopathic Hospital. It's text reads as follows: This is more than a little...

If anyone in the North London area is going to be at a loose end on Thursday 7th June, there will be a public meeting about referrals from Barnet PCT to the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital. The meeting will take place from 6:30-8:30 at Edgware Community Hospital, Burnt Oak Broadway, HA8 0AD...

Grauniad article Anyone have a copy of the letter ?

Hmmm..... What do we think? This particular religion affects the beleiver's way of life a lot. But should services like the NHS provide special treatment for these people? I suppose this is one advantage of not having an free NHS in the US.

I'm having what might best be called a robust exchange with the chairman of the National Health Service Trusts Association (NHSTA). It has provided "The NHS Directory of Complementary and Alternative Practitioners", which you can find here. It seems there is a quite a CAM mafia involved, with...

Presumably you folks are aware that all forms of quackery will now be available at taxpayer's expense in the UK. The woo-woo mafia comprising Blair, Prince Charles and Peter Hain have railroaded this through in total defiance of the evidence. There are 2 very good pressure groups - Healthwatch...