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• Podcast: St. Mungo's on Health and Homelessness In this new Demos podcast, our own Jack Stilgoe spoke to Peter Cockersell of St. Mungo's charity about the challenges of addressing the combined issues of health and homelessness. from : petebradwell 16th October 2008
• Finland privacy judgment Finland privacy judgment from : petebradwell 24th July 2008
• The Talking Cure Wednesday morning was the launch of The Talking Cure. Faizal and I wrote the pamphlet to try to capture the changing conversations taking place between professionals and patients around health. The discussion at the launch was fascinating and impassioned. Howard Stoate gave us his perspective at the only practising GP in the House of Commons. Richard Horton was as thoughtful and fired up as ever.
  
  You can listen to all of the speeches, questions etc. here. from : jackstilgoe 19th May 2008
• The Talking Cure Approaching its sixtieth birthday, the NHS faces some tough challenges. Success in treating acute illness and failure in prevention mean that medicine will have to manage a flood of chronic illness. This means rethinking relationships between patients, professionals and the public. from : peterharrington 14th May 2008
• ‘Complements’ and sweet talk Dr. Edzard Ernst, a prominent professor of alternative medicine, is interviewed in today’s Independent talking about his new book, Trick or Treatment. From what I gather, it gives alternative medicine a bit of kicking, demonstrating its ineffectiveness when subjected to randomised controlled trials.Two interesting points strike me about the article.The first is that whilst Dr. Ernst is very critical about the complementary medicine industry, he doesn’t shy away from criticising... from : faizalfarook 22nd April 2008
• The Talking Cure Demos will launch a new pamphlet which examines the future of medicine and healthcare in the UK, and argues that is now time to rethink and rebuild relationships between patients, professionals and the public. from : clairecoulier 15th April 2008
• Trust me, I'm the head of immunisation at the Department of Health Vaccines are an interesting condensation point for debates about science, the public good, personal freedom and choice. As the UK government found a few years back with the MMR vaccine, you get in trouble if you are on the one hand telling people to choose everything to do with their healthcare and on the other coercing them into vaccination for the public good. The evidence, as we found out, won't win arguments that messy. There's a nice book co-authored by Demos friend Melissa Leach that... from : jackstilgoe 10th March 2008
• Roger Clarke's 'eHealth Records' Piece on 'privacy versus quality of care', looking critically at the privacy issues of sharing patient health records. from : petebradwell 5th October 2007
• NHS Productivity Opening the papers this morning, it looks like Derek Wanless has thrown the efficiency cat amongst the NHS pigeons. We already knew that a large proportion of extra NHS funding went on staff wages, yet according to Wanless we have seen little increase in productivity. Improvements in smoking cessation and increased life expectancy are being countered by increasingly poor lifestyles/obesity and rising health inequalities between rich and poor.According to NHS statistics total staffing (FTE) in... from : faizalfarook 11th September 2007
• GP hours - Time for change? According to the Times today Alan Johnson is set to challenge some of the terms of the GP contract by proposing that GP’s open surgery out of hours and on weekends.  This has met with some criticism from the BMA, who argue that other professionals don’t have to work weekends, and that out of hours work would mean a reduction of normal hours service.There are genuine questions to be asked around how to shape our current model of GP care to best suit the healthcare requirements... from : faizalfarook 10th September 2007

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