At last Labour is concerned with food. It has plans to improve hospital food. “Hospital food” always reminds me of those occasions in pubs, which thankfully, I’ve moved on from, when someone would look at me menacingly in the eyes whilst enquiring whether I liked hospital food. I didn’t know then – and I’m delighted… Read more
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A Type 1 diabetic Prime Minister and Health
So the Sugar Tax has arrived and I see one of Cameron’s ex advisors has been congratulating herself in last edition of ‘The Sunday Times’ (paywall) for persuading him to institute it. It is certainly a start. Rather like taxing cigarettes it is to be hoped it will be the start on changing behaviour. It… Read more
Private Emergency – or Accident?
I have always been surprised by how the Accident and Emergency crisis has never been linked to any aspects of the private health sector. The chart below suggests NHS Intensive Care Units [ICU] seem, between them, to accept (per year) well over 3000 patients transferred from private hospitals with no ICUs. This cannot help the… Read more
Welcome to the future?
How interesting to see the photograph of the empty bread shelves in Asda during the recent cold weather. From some personal experience this was – remarkably – no different at Tesco who have the most sophisticated UK ordering system – indeed it may well be the best anywhere. The enormous Walmart, owners of Asda, who… Read more
Virgin Care – the New Carillion?
This (click to enlarge) is from ‘Private Eye’ and rather worrying. Odd indeed that the accountants are happy with loans that are from ‘unknown sources’……. Read more
Obesity Hotspots
This is the disturbing picture for obesity in England showing that really the whole country is a hotspot for obesity. It is true the sugar tax is coming, but by the time it arrives the overwhelming majority of soft drinks will have switched largely if not completely, to some sort of sugar substitute and it… Read more
May’s reshuffle: chronically ill and disabled people now have much to fear
A guest blog by Mo Stewart Sometimes, you have to wonder which world the Prime Minister (PM) lives in, as it’s certainly not the real one. She will realise this in time, when there’s a public reaction to her appointment of one of the most reviled women in British politics to a very influential government… Read more
The road to ‘Cash Not Care’ ~ a personal voyage of research discovery. A guest blog by Mo Stewart
Mo Stewart is a medically retired healthcare professional, a disabled veteran of the Women’s Royal Air Force and, since 2009, has worked as an independent disability studies researcher exposing the influence of corporate America since 1992 with the design of future British ‘welfare reforms’. Her book ‘Cash Not Care: the planned demolition of the UK… Read more
Corporate Diet
It is of considerable surprise – to me at least – that Tesco has been given the go-ahead by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to take over Bookers. That’s Britain’s largest food retailer taking over Britain’s largest food wholesaler. Tesco also runs its own convenience stores which is an area where Booker are very… Read more
Fat chance
“Obesity is unlikely to occur (although it is not unknown) without the refinement of foods, because without such refinement it is hard for the body to process enough food to obtain a large excess of calories. Modern refinement frees calories and provides them in concentrated packages, making over-consumption possible. Given the costs of transportation and… Read more