The meaning of QUATSCH
(posted - 02/10/11)
THE NHSCA WANTS
EVIDENCE NOT PROPAGANDA
(If you have relevent data then please send it
to
me -
Mark Aitken)
aitken.petri@btinternet.com
While we are busy saving lives
They come to woo and to disguise
Enticing us with porky pies.
Take this they cry.
We take a bite
To find the pie
Is aconite.
O what a wicked web they weave
To trap the hapless and naïve,
To chat us up and then deceive.
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Evidence (??) based politics takes another hit
(posted -
31/05/11) -
Clive's critique v Coalition's codswallop re privatisation
(posted -
19/05/11)
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BMJ Editorial underlining the stupidity of rushing through NHS reforms
(posted -
31/03/11)
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Absence of evidence base for NHS reforms in England
(posted -
29/03/11)
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Chaos Theory applied to the NHS (The Independent - 20th Jan 2011)
(posted -
18/02/11) http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2011/01/20/shock-therapy-for-the-nhs/
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Health Minister cherry-picks "evidence" - Ben Goldacre (The Guardian - 12th Feb 2011)
(posted -
15/02/11) http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/12/bad-science-ben-goldacre-nhs
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Commons Health Select Committee gagged - Toby Helm (The Observer - 13th Feb 2011)
(posted -
14/02/11) http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/feb/13/new-tory-politics-claim-sham
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No evidence to support GP Commissioning - Ben Goldacre (The Guardian - 5th Feb 2011)
(posted -
09/02/11) -
No evidence to support Competition in the NHS - Ben Goldacre (The Guardian - 5th Feb 2011)
(posted -
09/02/11) http://nedwards.posterous.com/competition-in-healthcare
http://www.niesr.ac.uk/event/propper.pdf
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc1360901/
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2010/abstract242.html
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61231-7
http://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.d566.full
Government claims that UK cancer survival rates are poor prove to be rubbish (posted - 08/11/11)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/nov/07/nhs-cancer-figures-cameron-lansley
This website gives the details about how the Tories intend to cut £20bn from the NHS budget (posted - 03/09/11)
http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~alexss/nhs.pdf
Look up this Lancet website and click on the analysis about patient choice (posted - 14/05/11)
http://ukpolicymatters.thelancet.com/?page_id=578
Listen to what Michael Moore has to say on this video or for ever hold your peace (posted - 31/03/11)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9VyQhhDwmr8
http://www.westminsteradvisers.co.uk
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmc1314221/
http://www.bmj.com/content/333/7579/1168.full
http://eurpub.oxfordjournals.org/content/5/4/233.abstract
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(95)91805-1

