Category Archives: politics

The Monday Morning Quote #423

On this day in 1964 Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment, during the Rivonia Trial Mr Mandela chose, instead of testifying, to make a speech from the dock and proceeded to hold the court spellbound for more than four hours. His speech, which was made at the beginning of the defence case, ended with theContinue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #423”

Peter Ward exposes the NHS(E)’s “Cunning Plan”

Nice editorial in the BDJ from BDA Chief Exec Peter Ward. HERE Edited highlights only Death by commissioning ….That master plan looks like a determined effort to wrest away NHS dental care from small autonomous units. That model that has been supplied by a legion of conscientious practitioners ever since the beginning of the NHS.Continue reading “Peter Ward exposes the NHS(E)’s “Cunning Plan””

Playing the “What If” game.

I delivered my presentation, “Is Dentistry Making You Sick?” in Gloucestershire a couple of days ago and introduced a game that I suggest participants play with their teams and partners. It’s called “What If” and the rules are simple in the extreme, you come up with the most unlikely thing that you can imagine andContinue reading “Playing the “What If” game.”

NHS urged to share data so patients can be deported

If an NHS doctor divulged personal information about a patient, they could be struck off. But the government pays the NHS to do just this. A patient’s name, date of birth and address are among the data which are passed on to the Home Office. If you are in the UK illegally, they can findContinue reading “NHS urged to share data so patients can be deported”

“This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant….

“This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant. Every one of them.” via Memex And some of them have started pointing this out – while politicians on both side of the Atlantic trade in anti-immigrant rhetoric. Continues here. My mother was an immigrant, the vast majority of boysContinue reading ““This year 6 US citizens won Nobel prizes. And every one of them was an immigrant….”

Worth a read. Brexit – its impact on regulatory aspects of health and life sciences.

From Eversheds LLP via Lexology Much UK regulatory law originates from the EU. Most of it comes from EU Directives which the UK has implemented into our national law. Examples are Directive 2001/83/EC on the Community code relating to medicinal products for human use (as amended) and Directive 89/105/EEC, regulating the pricing of medicinal productsContinue reading “Worth a read. Brexit – its impact on regulatory aspects of health and life sciences.”

Elections – little changes from Heath to Trump via the Dáil Éireann

The US election campaign and subsequent coronation will grind on for another 10 months and appears from here to be more show biz than content. This time round Donald Trump has given us something to wonder about, marvel at or just shake our heads over. In Ireland the general election was called last week, theContinue reading “Elections – little changes from Heath to Trump via the Dáil Éireann”