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As covid continues its tour of Europe, what is the public health evidence for covid passes? 02 December 2021

3 December 20213 December 2021 allysonpollockCOVID-19

Mandatory vaccination will not make care home residents safe from covid, it is unnecessary, and data underpinning the government’s case is unreliable

19 July 202119 July 2021 allysonpollockCOVID-19

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…

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Health and Care Bill 2021-22

13 July 202114 July 2021 allysonpollockHealth service reforms, NHS

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…

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Freedom of Information requests to the Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, May 2021

31 May 202131 May 2021 allysonpollockCOVID-19, Freedom of Information, SARS-CoV-2 testing

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…

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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.

Rugby and rights of the child

21 December 202021 December 2020 allysonpollockchildhood injury

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…

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Rugby and rights of the child

21 December 202021 December 2020 allysonpollockchildhood injury

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…

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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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Latest articles and publications

Dismantling the National Health Service in England

Imposing compulsory rugby union on schoolchildren: an analysis of English state-funded secondary schools

Waiting times for cataract surgery in Scotland since 2002 and the effect of austerity: an interrupted time series analysis

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Health and Care Bill 2021-22

COVID-19

NHS reforms

Regulatory science & pharmaceuticals

PFI and PPPs

Sports injury & injury epidemiology

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Andrew Lansley as SoS introduced the laws that parliament passed (HSC Act 2012) enabling break up and privatisation of NHS services and then took a health role advising private sector health clients on how to get NHS contracts- https://www.consultancy.uk/news/3085/andrew-lansley-takes-on-health-role-at-bain-company

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Andrew Lansley -responsible for disastrous 2012 HSCAct allowed privatisation and sale of NHS’s Plasma Resources UK in 2013 to Bain Capital for 90M. Lansley joins Bain Capital in 2015. In 2016 renamed plasmacompany (BPL) sold to chinese investors for 890M https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/478404/Letter_to_AL_-_Bain_and_Blackstone_Group.pdf

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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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  • 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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