NHS in England is compiling a national frailty index to go on elderly people’s medical records - BEWARE!
(NHS = National Health Service)
Editorial: This all has the taste of fascism. The Daily Mail on 28/11/20 cries out to wake us all up to what England’s government is doing. The brave article by Su
‘governments hope we will all increasingly keep our noses stuck in small screens for our work, our leisure and, increasingly, our sex life
Editorial: My government, and perhaps yours, has been panicked by Covid into incompetence and confusion. It began by making health a single and exclusive priorit
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I see three great dangers: viruses and bacteria (as always), chaotic and cruel lockdowns, outside-the-law vaccines
Editorial: Every medicine and surgical procedure comes with risks of disease or death. We have to take this as a fact of life whether we are taking anti-depressants or having an appende
Read more: Being very apprehensive of any rushed ‘outside-the-law’ vaccine
'There is a rush to find a vaccine but I doubt I would feel confident to accept a vaccine for me or my family that has been so quickly produced'
In my country, and perhaps in yours, we have had a valuable lesson about science not being an absolute. This cat is out of the bag now and should stay out.
'contrary to what the Government experts would have you think...that hospitals were close to overflowing...at least half didn’t have a single Covid-19 patient'
UK’s Daily Mail has been a loan voice in questioning the government response to the Covid virus. I applaud its bravery.
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Read more: Covid: Moving from government-inspired hysteria to a common sense approach
We are learning from the pandemic that it is very dangerous to define ‘health’ narrowly
The world is slowly waking up to the fact that ‘health’ is a composite that includes:
Read more: Editorial: What does ‘health’ mean? How can a person be ‘healthy’?
This support for disability and development disorders is not a medical issue
Peter Limbrick writes: In my serialised essay (starting here) I have been looking critically at the support offered when babies and young children have disabilities and special needs that will impact on their development an
'This caring work might be only one of the low-paid jobs that the worker is compelled to take on to keep the home and family afloat'
In the UK, up to the 1980s, children and adults with special needs (mental, physical, mental and physical) could be incarcerated in ‘long-stay hospitals’ run by the NH
Cartoon © Martina Jirankova-Limbrick 2011