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10/3/2009Patients will not benefit from a merger between drugs decision makers
A new report examining the potential of a merger of the UK’s two national watchdogs on vaccines and drugs in the UK has found that such a move would not provide significant improvements for patients, and could weaken their effectiveness overall. more
4/12/2008
Concerns Surrounding the HPV Vaccination Protocol
Iseult Roche has written a new article on the HPV Vaccination, in it she highlights that the UK is the poor man of Europe when it comes to the choice of vaccination more
3/6/2008
Yorkshire GP Paul Charlson
comments on the latest BMA campaign and spells out why government should be working with GP's to improve healthcare provision more
18/3/2008
Civitas Review: Why the NHS is the sick man of Europe
"The NHS is struggling to cope", and the "root of the problem is not the world-class doctors, nurses or even managers who work in the NHS, but the... more
18/3/2008
Modest cost savings could add up
Parkinson's first law states that 'work expands to fill the time available for its completion'. His second law can be summarised as... more
14/3/2008
Key Questions from Obesity
The PDF from a round table debate on obesity is available on the website now. Key questions that arose from the debate are included on this topical subject with which we are still battling as a nation.... more
14/3/2008
Key Questions from Vaccination Seminar
Key questions relating to the main issues raised in the Vaccination Seminar held in July earlier this year... more
19/10/2007
Tragic Targets
Two stories in the press this week have highlighted two significant events that have been caused by the target culture... more
14/3/2008
Key Questions from Dental Summit
Key questions relating to the main issues raised in the Dental Summit held earlier this year are published on the website today .... more
17/7/2007
Vaccinating for the Greater Good
Last week, 2020health.org held a seminar on the crucial role that modern vaccines have to play in the delivery of Public Health in the UK….. On Monday this week, the General Medical Council hearing began into serious professional misconduct by Dr Andrew Wakefield and two other doctors who published their damaging theory of a link between the MMR vaccination jab and autism in 1998... more
25/6/2007
It not a NICE job but somebody has to do it
A lady consulted me with a nasty rash. I could have prescribed a variety of treatments. My choice included .... more
8/5/2007
NHS Reorganisationitis
A Public Health Doctor writes on his experience of NHS changes and changes and more changes ... more
14/3/2008
BMJ Gambling Articles
Following our article in January Gambling with our health? Creating a new Public Health problem, the 21st April edition of the BMJ had two articles on gambling .... more
14/3/2008
Dental Summit
2020health.org organised a hugely successful summit on Dentistry in partnership with the Dental Strategy Group on April 26th in the House of Commons. The event was featured in both the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail the next day.... more
30/1/2007
Gambling with our health
Today the Government will announce the site of a new 'super casino' for the UK... more
1/12/2008
Public Health: Are we failing our teenagers?
This week's editorial in the BMJ highlights research that shows that the millions being ploughed into sex education for teenagers has had no effect on the use of contraception... more
20/12/2007
A Year of Mixed Messages
As 2006 draws to a close, as a front line health professional, I am left in no doubt that 2006 was a year of mixed messages... more
