NHS

• 28th June 2014 by manager in Campaigns

  HealthWatch – Caring for the NHS if we want the NHS to Care for Us

  What does it mean to be British?

  One of the greatest Britons of all time (arguably) once said ‘History will be kind to me as I intend to write it’.  Although Winston Churchill could be said to have achieved this aim and despite being a national isntitution and  the most popular British Prime Minister of all time (then or since) Churchill led his party to its biggest election defeat in 1945.  

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• 3rd January 2014 by manager in Campaigns

  What we pay to take our medicine

  Always laugh when you can.  It is cheap medicine.

  When Lord Byron first offered this advice he could not have imagined the scale and cost of medicines prescribed in England 200 years later (which are certainly no laughing matter).

  According to government figures, published by the Health and Social Care Information Centre there were just over 1 billion items prescribed in 2012 by community pharmacists,

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• 22nd December 2013 by manager in Campaigns

  Improving the NHS – with Help from Healthwatch

   
  It has been a long time since the wise men made their epic trip to deliver three simple gifts and it was a long time before that when Hippocrates, another wise man observed,
   
  ‘Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm’.
   
  In July 1945 the founders of the National Health Service also had three simple gifts in mind when they determined the core principles of the NHS,

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