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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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Don’t blame a ‘rotten NHS culture’ for the CQC cover-up

28 June 201310 March 2016 allysonpollockUncategorized

Published in The Guardian, Tuesday 25 June 2013 Market-led health reforms are leading to poor quality healthcare – and are giving managers incentives to hide failure We now know that England’s healthcare regulator, the Care Quality Commission, tried to cover…

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Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS

17 May 201310 March 2016 allysonpollockUncategorized1 Comment on Why we need a political campaign to reinstate the NHS

This blog first appeared on Left Foot Forward on 25 March 2013 At 2.36 on the afternoon of Tuesday 27 March, 2012 the Health and Social Care Bill 2011, repealing the legal foundations of the NHS in England, was given…

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The latest casualty of health reform: casualty itself

17 May 201310 March 2016 allysonpollockUncategorized

Published in The Guardian 04 April 2013 A&E departments are the pressure valve of the health system, yet the government is moving rapidly to turn it off Accident and emergency departments are serially failing to meet targets, according to official…

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Latest articles and publications

Closing schools is not evidence based and harms children

Letter to Matt Hancock: Centene’s take-over of GP services in London

A new bill to reform the NHS in England: the wrong proposals at the wrong time

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COVID-19

Regulatory science and pharmaceuticals

NHS reforms

PFI and PPPs

Tackling rugby

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This shonkily misleading DoE was slated months ago: the word 'safe' features an inordinate no. of times. This is not DHSC being 'categoric' about the significance of a neg.result, as claimed by @JimBethell. It's the very opposite. Take it down FGS, @PHE_uk https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/1366663354329227266

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Students and staff at @NCLSixthForm took part in coronavirus testing pilot schemes.

They explain how the tests work and how simple they are to do.

#BackToSchool

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