Mental Health - issues, speeches and useful links
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19/10/2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk
Nurse of the year quits NHS with parting shot at 'mistrust and fear' | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited

19/10/2007
http://www.blink.org.uk/
Black information Link

19/10/2007
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/content/gpopionsurvey1007
BMA - National survey of GP opinion survey 2007 - results

24/4/2007
http://petittions.pm.gov.uk/fruitjuiceVAT/
Sign the Petition to have VAT of Fruit Smoothies and Fruit Juice removed!

24/4/2007
http://mises.org/2540
Our father's view on childbirth and the free market
A Free Market in Childbirth - Mises Institute.

20/3/2007
http://www.webcameron.org.uk/library/video-3131
Webcameron: Yesterday at the London doctors' rally. If you weren't at the London Doctor's rally at the weekend, you can see David Cameron's speech to the assembled masses here.

20/3/2007
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health_medical/article2368994.ece
Independent Online Edition > Health Medical. After a 10 year campaign, the Independent on Sunday printed a front page apology for it's fight for the legalisation of cannabis.

13/3/2007
http://pub.ucsf.edu/today/cache/feature/200703083.html
Medical Application of Nanotechnology. A post-doctoral scientist is pioneering the use of nanotechnology to try and regenerate eyesight in people who suffer from macular degeneration - the most common form of blindness in people over the age of 60. UCSF Today - Macular Degeneration: Preserving Eyesight Through Regeneration Science.

13/3/2007
http://www.choosingtomorrow.blogspot.com
Choosing Tomorrow. A thought provoking look at the health and science challenges that are coming our way...

07/3/2007
www.crossroads.org.uk
Caring for carers. One in eight of us is a carer at sometime in our life and this website offers support to those involved in caring.

07/3/2007
www.bbc.co.uk/dna/actionnetwork/G2101
Support Dr Shin. Preserve the high standards of medical training in the UK
Dr Shin, an NHS Doctor, is asking for your help to challenge the Modernising Medical Careers debacle. " If you want to help preserve the high standards of postgraduate medical training in the UK, please write to your MP, asking if he/she will support Early Day Motion 737 on Junior Doctors Training, which calls for an urgent review of MMC and MTAS. MTAS is turning out to be worse than anyone could possibly have imagined."

21/2/2007
www.medgadget.com
The medgadget website has very helpfully given awards to the best medical blogs - which give you even more links to fascinating websites and weblogs.

14/2/2007
www.onemotheronemidwife.org.uk
We want every woman in the UK from whatever background and socio-economic status to have the opportunity to choose their lead professional (midwife) and be provided with a maternity service built upon Choice, Information and Partnership."

07/2/2007
www.drrant.net/
http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/
Hear what NHS doctors have to say about the realities of what's going on day to day in the NHS. Warning: The Dr Rants are very angry!...

30/1/2007
www.healthdirect.co.uk
How the Government is saving the NHS. This site tells you how...

24/1/2007
www.thehumanfuture.org
new regular links to sites on health, social services and technology...

16/1/2007
Mental Health Bill
Read the text of the debate in the House of Lords which saw the Government defeated in an early stage of trying to impose a new controversial Mental health Bill [from half way down the page on Hansard]   more 
See also   more

4/1/2007
Links to HSJ story in press:
NHS will be 14,000 nurses short, says report (Telegraph)  more
NHS facing glut of consultants and nurse shortage (Guardian)  more