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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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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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Latest articles and publications

Maternity charges in NHS widen health inequalities

Socioeconomic inequality, waiting time initiatives and austerity in Scotland: an interrupted time series analysis of elective hip and knee replacements and arthroscopies

SARS-CoV-2: public health measures for managing the transition to endemicity

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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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To honour the incredible kids & teens who took part in our school (sKIDS) + long COVID (CLoCk) studies during the pandemic, we held a public webinar to update our findings so far on 15 May 2022. A recording of the webinar is now available on @YouTube 👉 https://youtu.be/2MVvpormJb4

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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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