News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
The 'Green Physician Toolkit' is just the latest move from the climate ideologues who have colonised medicine, intent on turning a once scientific profession into a den of activism, says Ben Pile.
The Human Medicines Regulations state that celebrity endorsement of drugs is not allowed. So why are TV doctors in the pay of AstraZeneca promoting vaccines in the media, ask Tom Jefferson and Carl Heneghan.
People are living longer and healthier lives than ever. But the WHO wants doctors and nurses to claim that the opposite is true, because climate change. And worse than that, its new toolkit tells them not to debate.
Which profession let us down the worst in Covid, getting behind the awful lockdown restrictions and public health coercion with unseemly zeal? It's a close call, says Dr James Allan, but doctors are definitely up there.
Doctors across the world are sounding the alarm over a surging epidemic of young people being diagnosed with cancers since the pandemic, with no obvious explanation for what lies behind it.
The NHS seems to be in permanent crisis. Yet the number of doctors is up 37% and non-medical support staff up 45% in 10 years. How does a health service do so little with so much?
Why does the NHS become less productive every year, despite growing numbers of doctors and huge splurges of cash? A new report actually gets the answer right, for once.
The Government's proposals to sort out the longstanding problems with the NHS workforce are just more of the same medicine that has never worked yet, says our in-house doctor.
The BMA's demand for a 35% pay-rise for NHS doctors when taxes are at a 70-year high is unjustified, says our in-house doctor. What's really needed is a boost to their productivity, but the BMA is a major obstacle to that.
It is likely that some patients will be harmed as a result of the coming strike by junior doctors and some may well die – this is several orders of magnitude more significant than not being able to get on a train.
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