Briefing note 19 July 2021 in advance of Lords Debate on regulatory amendment to Health and Social Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014. Prof Lydia Hayes, Kent Law School, Prof Allyson Pollock, Newcastle University Read as pdf Vaccination is not…
Health and Care Bill 2021-22
Key points and questions for the second reading, 14 July 2021 Prof Allyson M Pollock and Peter Roderick13 July 2021 Read as pdf The Health and Care Bill which was introduced in the House of Commons on 6 July 2021…
Freedom of Information requests to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, May 2021
1 Further authorisation of Innova LFTs I note that MHRA’s ‘authorisation of special use of DHSC COVID-19 Self-Test Kit’ dated 22 December 2020 states that “If this authorisation ends on 22/06/2021, and there continues to be a need for a…
Letter to Infected Blood Inquiry, 27 May 2021
To the Secretary, Infected Blood Inquiry Thank you for your letter of 26 May 2021. I am disappointed by your position to deny access to the public hearings, and by your reasoning. As you correctly state, the MHRA authorises (Innova)…
Misuse of lateral flow tests
An email sent to Dr June Raine, chief executive of the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency23 May 2021 Dear Dr June Raine, I am writing to draw your attention to the ways in which the government is expanding the…
Integrated care systems
Roderick P, Pollock AM. A new bill to reform the NHS in England: the wrong proposals at the wrong time. BMJ Opinion 11 Feb 2021.
Rugby and rights of the child
18 December 2020 To: Juliet HarrisDirector, Together (Scottish Alliance for Children’s Rights) Dear Juliet The purposes of this email are to introduce myself and to ask for your advice and perhaps collaboration. I am Professor of Public Health at Newcastle…
Rugby and rights of the child
18 December 2020 To: Children & Young People’s Commissioner Scotland Dear Children’s Commissioner The purposes of this email are to introduce myself and to ask for your advice and collaboration. I am Professor of Public Health at Newcastle University, and…
Write to your local MPs, councillors, and mayors
COVID-19 contact tracing – BMJ editorial Please see a BMJ editorial which I co-authored on contact tracing, out just this afternoon. Please consider asking your MPs and other national representatives, local councillors, and mayors to persuade the government to follow…
Covid-19: local implementation of tracing and testing programmes could enable some schools to reopen
Originally published as a letter in the BMJ, 24 March 2020: BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m1187 As a public health physician, I am increasingly concerned about the apparent failure to implement fundamental public health measures to tackle the covid-19 outbreak—specifically, community contact tracing, clinical…