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Letter to Infected Blood Inquiry, 27 May 2021

28 May 202128 May 2021 allysonpollockUncategorized

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)…

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Misuse of lateral flow tests

24 May 202124 May 2021 allysonpollockUncategorized

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…

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Integrated care systems

18 May 202118 May 2021 allysonpollockUncategorized

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.

Write to your local MPs, councillors, and mayors

30 March 20201 April 2020 allysonpollockUncategorized

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…

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The proposed National Health Service Reinstatement Bill, July 2018 – explanatory notes

6 July 20186 July 2018 allysonpollockUncategorized1 Comment on The proposed National Health Service Reinstatement Bill, July 2018 – explanatory notes

These notes are intended to explain the Bill that was provided to Eleanor Smith, MP for Wolverhampton South West, for presentation in the House of Commons on 11th July 2018. [download pdf] Overview In short, the Bill proposes to fully…

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Judicial review judgement: the campaign moves on

6 July 2018 allysonpollockUncategorized

Today the High Court handed down its judgement on the judicial review we brought against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care and NHS England on their introduction of Accountable Care Organisations (ACOs). We had originally brought our…

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Open letter to Jeremy Hunt on the 69th anniversary of the NHS

9 July 2017 allysonpollockUncategorized

This first appeared on the Huffington Post 05 July 2017 Dear Mr Hunt The 69th anniversary today of the National Health Service is a timely but sad occasion on which to draw your attention to the end of the service…

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Note on children’s rugby injury data

9 March 20169 March 2016 allysonpollockUncategorized

Listeners to More or Less on BBC Radio 4 have asked where I got the data to make the points that rugby players up to the age of 18 or 19 had a 28% chance of getting injured over a…

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Why I wrote to the government to ask them to remove the tackle from school rugby and put in place injury surveillance

8 March 201610 March 2016 allysonpollockUncategorized

(This blog was first published on Better Health For All (the blog of the Faculty of Public Health) on 08 March 2015) On 2nd March 2016, along with 70 other academics, doctors, and public health professionals, I wrote an open…

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Risk of privatisation of the Scottish NHS in the event of a no vote

1 September 20141 September 2014 allysonpollockUncategorized

The Coalition Government abolished the public NHS in England when it passed the Health and Social Care Act in 2012. This Act didn’t directly affect the NHS in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, but could have grave long-term consequences for…

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Latest articles and publications

Bridging the gap? Local production of medicines on the national essential medicine lists of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda

Regulating new drugs in India needs to be improved

Children in poverty: time for action to address rising inequalities in the UK

Areas of interest

Public inquiries – infected blood and covid-19

Sports injury & injury epidemiology

Covid-19

NHS reforms

Regulatory science & pharmaceuticals

Health and Care Bill 2021-22&

PFI & PPPs

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... unevidenced community masking policies have resulted in enormous diversion of public funds, billions of tons of waste and landfill, filled the oceans and choked the guts of fish etc, and made huge profits for many at the expense of public health care

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Surely @ONgov @ONThealth should drop its unevidenced policy of wearing masks indoors especially in nurseries and day care settings for young children and looked at the evidence base see https://www.cochrane.org/CD006207/ARI_do-physical-measures-such-hand-washing-or-wearing-masks-stop-or-slow-down-spread-respiratory-viruses

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Public speaking

• What has happened to evidence based public health?
Aarhus University [online]
Date: 13:00 GMT, Thursday 20 January 2022
• Deputation on the Health and Care Bill 2021-22
Camden Council meeting
Date: 19:00 Monday 24 January 2022
• What is the evidence for covid passes?
North East Humanists, Tyneside Irish Centre, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 4SG (now online)
Date: 19:00, Thursday 20 January 2022
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Recent posts

  • As covid continues its tour of Europe, what is the public health evidence for covid passes? 02 December 2021
  • Mandatory vaccination will not make care home residents safe from covid, it is unnecessary, and data underpinning the government’s case is unreliable
  • Health and Care Bill 2021-22
  • Freedom of Information requests to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, May 2021
  • Letter to Infected Blood Inquiry, 27 May 2021

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