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SOCIALIZED MEDICINE (Free subscription) | yesterday
Latest political brainwave in Britain: NHS will provide free marriage guidance Talking therapies are generally useless but so is the NHS on many occasions so I suppose it is a fit. They already support acupuncture. Getting real medicine -- like getting diagnostic tests done -- however, is often too hard. The NHS is run by politics not science or economics Couples are to be offered marriage guidance...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Extended 'talking therapies' programme aims to tackle anxiety, mental illness and depression The government is to announce that divorcing couples will be offered counselling on the National Health Service for the first time in an effort to tackle growing rates of depression. The move will be unveiled by health secretary Andy Burnham this week. From April, couples' counselling programmes will be launched...
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Labour.org.uk (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Labour’s Health Secretary Andy Burnham and Work and Pensions Secretary Yvette Cooper have written to David Cameron attacking his misleading comments yesterday suggesting Labour planned to cut disability benefits. It followed an email to Conservative Party member where he said "unbelievably, they're cutting disability benefits for the oldest and most vulnerable members of our society."...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
• News: Swine flu jab to be offered to healthy under-fives • Features: The UN gave children rights - it's time we consulted them • Comment: Kick up a stink for better sanitation Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk **************** Today's top story - Tories 'scaremongering' over national care service plans Labour's Andy Burnham says it is 'gutter politics'...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Health secretary Andy Burnham says it is gutter politics to claim benefits for pensioners with disabilities will be cut The government accused the Tories of "scaremongering" and "gutter politics" today for refusing to support its plans for a national care service. The shadow health secretary, Andrew Lansley, welcomed the broad thrust of the plans, saying they were a "step...
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The Corner (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"Death Panels" is an emotional term (to put it mildly) that, as a practical matter, is not necessarily inaccurate. Here are two stories from right-of-center British newspapers (the Daily Mail is the more tabloidy of the two) about the prescribing (or not) of one drug (sorafenib and Nexavar are the same compound) that show some of the issues involved in the way that the British system actually...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Labour says the Conservatives are 'completely wrong' to claim some pensioners could lose up to £3,400 a year from the government's plan unveiled in the Queen's speech The Conservatives were today accused of "scaremongering" after claiming that more than 2 million old people could lose out under the government's plan to offer free social care at home to needy pensioners. Labour claimed...
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The Economist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A shadow culture secretary begins to makes his mark THE Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has rarely been the frivolous sideshow suggested by its Whitehall nickname, “the ministry of fun”. It was a training ground for some of Labour’s brightest prospects, including James Purnell and Andy Burnham. It has a big role in staging the London Olympics in 2012, perhaps the biggest...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Conservatives say Andy Burnham has indicated that two benefits claimed by over-65s could contribute to funding of new care package More than 2 million old people could lose out under the government's plans to offer free social care at home to needy pensioners, the Conservatives claimed today. Andrew Lansley, the shadow health secretary, launched a strong attack on the measure – identified by...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Listening to the Queen reading her leisurely seven-minute speech from the throne, it was hard not to imagine ministers ransacking the attic, dusting off odd bits of legislative furniture with which to spruce up an empty room. Not even the first tentative steps towards the creation of a national care service – 61 years after the National Health Service – raised more than a one-handed clap...
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Labour Matters (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Lord Mandelson, Labour's Business Secretary, today chaired a press briefing with key ministers to chart progress since the last Queen's Speech and preview Labour's Party Political Broadcast. Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper, and John Healey set out the action the Government has been taking on employment, housing and social care. Labour's Party Political Broadcast, 'Fighters and Believers' will air tonight...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Minute-by-minute coverage of the state opening of parliament, the Queen's speech and the rest of today's pomp and ceremony 8.23am: The state opening of parliament is a curious occasion. It's a big political event – the government will list everything it wants to do in the next session of parliament – but it's also a day for ceremony and fun, and nothing that happens in the next 12 hours...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Gordon Brown will make social care for the elderly the centrepiece of the Queen's speech by introducing free care for some of the most needy pensioners in their own homes. Ministers said the measures represented a staging post to help the most vulnerable before the introduction of a broader white paper on the national carers strategy, and then consensus-based legislation in the next parliament. Brown...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
• Culture Secretary under pressure to delay consultation • FA makes seven-figure profit from Brazil friendly Ben Bradshaw, the culture secretary, has a tough call to make over the timing of his consultation on proposed changes to the so-called "crown jewels", the list of sporting events for exclusive live broadcast on free-to-air television. Digger understands that executives from...
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Dungeekin. . . (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Not girly: this boy's mother wasn't exposed to plastics. Chemicals in plastics alter the brains of baby boys making them 'more feminine', according to researchers in the US. The research adds to concerns about the safety of phthalates, which are found in vinyl flooring and shower curtains. The head of the research group, Amanda Bulldyke, said, "results from urine samples, combined with behavioural...
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