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We need universal access to occupational health
WEBA key part of tackling economic inactivity must be ensuring universal access to occupational health. Put simply, everyone who needs support to stay in work should have access to it. The response needed from policymakers to achieve universal access is …
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How hormones rule our lives
WEBFrom the moment a foetus begins producing its own at 12 weeks until old age, hormones regulate sex, conception, birth, growth, body temperature, sleep, circadian rhythm, hunger, digestion and metabolism. In chronological chapters, The Power of …
Fantastic mental well-being strategies and where to find …
WEBBy Paul Murray. The Health and Safety Executive’s annual report on mental health in the workplace makes for sobering reading. The most recent edition shows that 50 per cent of all work-related ill health absences in 2020/21 were caused by stress, …
David Nutt on psychedelic drugs as a treatment for …
WEBPart scientific tract, part manifesto, Psychedelics is a lucid guide to how these substances operate on the brain and on their potential in medicine. Since those first studies, drugs such as psilocybin, LSD and DMT (the active ingredient in ayahuasca) have been …
Are you mentally ill, or very unhappy
WEBIn recent months there has been extensive coverage of an unfolding mental health crisis. Government figures suggest that, since the start of the pandemic, the number of adults with depression has doubled to one in five. Referrals for children have also …
Young people are too ill to work
WEBThis unemployment can be attributed to the sharp rise in mental health conditions, worsened by long NHS waiting lists. In 2021-22, more than a third (34 per cent) of young people aged 18-24 reported symptoms that indicated a “common mental …
How can a preventative approach to health and care help …
WEBExperts came together at the New Statesman’s Path to Power conference to discuss how a new government could transform the nation’s health. Labour has pledged to deliver a “prevention first” revolution which will enable people to live healthier and …
Can Labour’s ten-year NHS plan revolutionise long-term …
WEBIn England, the burden of long-term health conditions affects an estimated 25 million people.While the NHS’s recovery plan and the soon-to-be-published Major Conditions Strategy target prevalent health issues like diabetes, cancer and mental …
We need to look beyond economics on smoking, drinking …
WEBConversely, shifting spending from retail to hospitality would create a few more jobs, but lower-paid ones. Unlike the impact on specific industries – with increased demand for some sectors being offset by lower demand for others – the health benefits …
We need a national campaign for heart failure
WEBThe 25in25 initiative aims to reduce deaths due to heart failure by 25 per cent in the next 25 years, thereby saving 10,000 lives every year. As there are many conditions which lead to heart disease, 25in25 is supported by 60+ healthcare organisations with …
There are concerns around ADHD overdiagnosis. But what about
WEBThe Panorama reporter Rory Carson was diagnosed with ADHD and offered medication by three private clinics. He paid between £685 and £1,095 per appointment and was quoted prescription costs of more than £50 a month, indefinitely. When he visited …
Rosena Allin-Khan: "This is Tory Britain, where we examine patients …
WEBAllin-Khan tells bleak stories: suicidal young people who can’t access mental health; there’s nowhere safe or private to examine someone with bowel cancer symptoms; children are sleeping on waiting room floors. “This is Tory Britain, where we examine …
Prioritising private healthcare increases inequalities, says union
WEBThe latest NHS statistics in September 2022 found 133,446 vacancies, a vacancy rate of 9.7 per cent, of which 9,053 were for doctors and 47,496 were for nurses. Focusing on private care would only make the staff exodus worse, said Kennedy, with …
Here’s some advice for Steve Barclay as Health Secretary
WEBThe new Secretary of State has some tough decisions to make. Steve Barclay was a minister in the Department of Health and Social Care through most of 2018 until he became the Brexit secretary. Returning now as Secretary of State, he inherits a …
CCHQ’s email breach is both a literal and metaphorical failure
WEBIt also wasn’t much of a surprise to get an email from this particular CCHQ-affiliated address: [email protected]. This is the address used to communicate information about the party conference. Indeed, the subject of this email …
“Ugly, gouty, fat”: the problem of Queen Anne’s body
WEBA Victorian scholar of Alexander Pope introduced the Queen as “ugly, corpulent, gouty, sluggish, a glutton, and a tippler”. In 1848, Agnes Strickland wrote, “Few of those to whom the rotund form and high-coloured complexion of queen Anne are familiar can imagine …
Can Victoria Atkins, the new Health Secretary, save the NHS
WEBAs Westminster grapples with the latest cabinet reshuffle, the pivotal role of Health and Social Care Secretary has been taken from Steve Barclay, who has been demoted to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs portfolio, and given to Victoria Atkins, a rising star …
Nigel Farage could help destroy the Conservatives
WEBThis third attribute is why Tory MPs will have nervously observed a new JL Partners poll for the Sun that showed Farage’s return would take Reform to 16 per cent in the polls, pushing the Tories down to 21 points – which, according to the New …
How would a Labour government fix the NHS
WEBImproving public health, through prevention, earlier diagnosis and faster treatment, will be a priority for the next Labour government. With the longest waiting times for adult and child mental health patients since 2010, it is clear we face a mental health …
Joe Biden is deluded on Rafah
WEBPresident Joe Biden apparently learned everything he knows about the Middle East from the Charlton Heston film The Ten Commandments, released when Biden was a young movie buff, in 1956.Recently, on 7 May, the president spoke of “ancient hatred” …
Data can lead us to the truth or, as Rishi Sunak prefers, distort it
WEBRishi Sunak has been making headlines by vowing to tackle Britain’s “sick-note culture”. He singled out the rise in young people on long-term benefits because of mental illness and observed that “something has gone wrong” since the pandemic. Sunak also …
The crisis on England’s maternity wards is worse than I imagined
WEBAccording to NHS Resolution – the arm of the Department of Health and Social Care that handles litigation – 62 per cent of the £6.6bn total clinical negligence cost of harm in 2022-23 was related to maternity. Of the £2.6bn spent on clinical negligence …
Why Babylon is scaling back its ambitions in the UK
WEBBy Polly Bindman. “Quickly and with less bureaucracy” is how entrepreneur and Babylon CEO Ali Parsa has described the digital healthcare provider’s business model. Since Babylon’s inception in 2013, the allure of bypassing endless NHS waiting lists and …
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