The National Health Service (NHS) is the shared name of three of the four publicly funded healthcare systems in the United Kingdom.

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If we stopped our National Health Service being an International Health Service we wouldn't have to cut the National Health Services at all!

ABUSE REPORT Racism in the United Kingdom On October 30, 1998, David “Rocky” Bennett, a 38-year-old African-Caribbean living in England, had an argument with a white patient over the use of a phone in a psychiatric facility. Staff picked Bennett to be segregated from the rest of the patients. He became more upset. The staff then pinned him face down on the floor for 25 minutes. He screamed, “Get off me, get off me, I can’t breathe. Get off my throat. … They are going to kill me.” His screams were ignored. Then they stopped—David was dead. A May 2001 coroner’s inquest determined “Accidental Death Aggravated by Neglect.” David Bennett’s family requested and obtained a government inquiry into his death. This resulted in a February 2004 report that painted a bleak picture of “institutional racism” in the country’s mental health system. Sir John Blofeld, a retired High Court judge, stated: “Black and minority ethnic communities have a fear of the NHS [National Health Service]: tha ...

Have a frikkin read. If you can't be arsed, you are letting it happen. Stuart Anthony: "We're ruled by a mass of reactionary right wing posh boys (and girls) who did not get a majority vote and had to form a coalition with a lite version of themselves to govern. Who have no idea what it's like to live in working class Britain. Nor do they want to know. They want us be grateful for the crumbs from their table. Not content with making disabled people work when they are unfit, privatising our National Health Service to fit the US model, and making being poor and unemployed akin to a crime punishable by merciless bureaucracy and withdrawal of financial help, they want to ban the Human Rights Act from our shores and have us leave the European Union so they can set up a new monetized, finance led meritocracy. They seek a moral justification for selfishness like all conservative bigots. The minute they got in power in 2010 they set about this country like ravenous wolves, turning it into a theme park for attitud ...

Motions for the Finals Series That physicians are compelled to be PhilHealth accredited and serve indigent PhilHealth sponsored patients to be able to practice medicine in the Philippines That the Philippines should shift to a tax-funded National Health Service as opposed to one funded by social health insurance That the FDA be exempted from law suits from the industries they regulate That PPP in health should include private investments in public hospitals and facilities

Downing Street is refusing to answer questions about why Sir David Nicholson, the chief executive of the National Health Service, has not resigned in the wake of the Mid-Staffordshire scandal.

At least 1,165 people starved to death while they were patients in Britain's National Health Service hospitals over the past four years.

Filipino Nurses Official Petition: Unconditional Public Apology Petition Background (Preamble): The recent statement of Senatorial Candidate Cynthia Villar on the February 23 episode of GMA News TV's "Pagsubok ng mga Kandidato” about the Filipino Nurse is completely unacceptable and a blatant disrespect to the profession. The commentary made on the said program is a direct insult to the Filipino Nurse. It clearly demonstrates her lack of knowledge, perception and information on one of the most respected profession. It is insensitive and conduct unbecoming of an aspiring public servant who in the early days of her political career has already displayed a character and a mental distortion not worthy of public service. May we remind Mrs. Villar that in the United Kingdom, there are more than 25,000 Filipino Nurses employed by the National Health Service alone, not counting the Filipino Nurses who have decided to become naturalized British Citizens. The National Health Service is the largest employer in the ...

From: the Troika! Power to the People! In September, October and November we filled the streets of Portugal showing clearly that the people are against the austerity and destructive policies imposed by the government and its allies, the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank - the troika. Once we defeated amendments to Sole Social Taxe, new measures soon appeared and even more serious. The Budget for 2013 and the new proposals of the IMF, prepared with the government, unerringly fire against labor rights, against public services, against the public school system and the National Health Service, against culture, against all that is ours by and hit right in the heart of each and every one of us. Everywhere, growing unemployment and precariousness, emigration, wild privatizations, selling the balance of public enterprises, while reducing labor costs. We can not take more theft and aggression. We stand indignant with the theft of the retirement pensions, with the th ...

Don't be fooled into relaxing your opposition to the theft of our NHS by the interview on BBC Today programme (1/3/2013). Dr. Michael Dixon tells the BBC that GP Doctors will walk away from the clinical commissioning groups if the government do not re-word the legislation -that is a smoke screen to stave off opposition. It is, and always has been the purpose of the Nuffield Trust, Monitor, The King's Fund, (and the right wing so-called think tank "Reform" set up by Conservatives Andrew Haldenby, Nick Herbert and Patrick Barbour) to privatise the National Health Service. The "failures" in the NHS are deiberately "managed decline": The now failing hospitals are a direct result of the recommendations to the Government by Mckinsey to Make savings (cuts). It is the remit of Monitor and David Wakefield's jjob (at Bolton) to bring in private health providers, when -what a coincidence - a Hopital such as Bolton's should now be in danger.

That an humble Address be presented to Her Majesty, praying that the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) Regulations 2013 (S.I., 2013, No. 257), dated 11 February 2013, a copy of which was laid before this House on 13...

Gartloch Hospital was built by the City of Glasgow District Lunacy Board, Scotland. When the hospital opened in 1896 it had a bed complement of 540, this rose to a peak of 830 in 1904 but had decreased to 530 by 1909. Although primarily a psychiatric hospital, Gartloch operated a 50 bed tuberculosis sanatorium from 1902 which closed after World War II. During this War, Gartloch was transformed into an Emergency Medical Services hospital. Psychiatric patients were transferred to other hospitals and a number of 'temporary' hutted wards built. A legacy of this wartime use was a 160 bed medical unit which was not phased out until the 1960's . When Gartloch joined the National Health Service in 1948 it was placed under the Board of Management for Glasgow North-Eastern Mental Hospitals. When the Greater Glasgow Health Board was created in 1974, Gartloch was placed within the Eastern District. From 1993, Gartloch was one of the hospitals within the ambit of the Greater Glasgow Community and Mental Health Service ...

*Public Notice from We-The-People * Since we started our campaign we have had requests from many hundreds of British citizens for assistance with complex and demanding problems concerning all aspects of pensions, benefits, The Bedroom Tax and other aspects concerning the welfare reform bill and we are proud to say that in almost ALL cases, we have been able to render assistance to a fair conclusion or, we have been able to put people in contact with other organisations that have been able to help them. More recently however, we have been receiving requests from a number of overseas organisations requesting our support in their endeavours. With this in mind we would like to clarify the following. We-The-People is a group that is based within the UK set up solely to support British Citizens in their quest for fair and non-judgmental treatment from the state in connection with Benefits, Pensions, the National Health Service and the UK Legal System. We are an apolitical group and therefore have members and fo ...

In the UK, the Labour Party was influenced by the British social reformer William Beveridge, who had identified five "Giant Evils" afflicting the working class of the pre-war period: "want" (poverty), disease, "ignorance" (lack of access to education), "squalor" (poor housing), and "idleness" (unemployment). Unemployment benefits, national insurance and state pensions were introduced by the 1945 Labour government. Aneurin Bevan, who had introduced the Labour Party's National Health Service in 1948, criticised the Attlee government for not progressing further, demanding economic planning and criticising the implementation of nationalisation for not empowering the workers with democratic control of operations. The UK Labour Government nationalised major public utilities such as mines, gas, coal, electricity, rail, iron, steel, and the Bank of England. British Petroleum, privatised in 1987, was officially nationalised in 1951, and there was further government intervention during the 1974–79 Labour Governme ...

Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) has found itself in the spotlight once again, after a Conservative MP uncovered that £14.7m ($22.4m) of taxpayer funds were used to silence whistleblowers.

WorkAbroad ASK: [Umagang Talakayan] What can you say about Prince Philip's (Duke of Edinburgh) joke about the number of Filipinos working in the National Health Service in England? ""The Philippines must be half-empty - you're all here running the NHS!" Ano'ng masasabi mo dito, Kabayan? Is it funny or insulting? Or he's just stating a fact? In a way, his joke has a point. :)

Regulations passed last week will turn England's National Health Service into a competitive market. They appear to contradict assurances from the Coalition government on one of the most central elements of the Bill.

HSC.Set up an Inquiry into Whistleblowing in the National Health Service.

Jeremy Hunt the Health Secretary "urges" NHS trusts not to stop whistle-blowing. Now this simple mind understands that it is the National Health Service. That says its our NHS (they all always telling us this), therefore OUR government is in charge. So, is there any chance of Jeremy Hunt taking charge and TELLING THEM not to stop whistle-blowing, after all he is The Secretary for Health. Come on Mr Hunt, you wanted to be a politician, to wield power for the good of the nation. As my drill instructor all those years ago use to SHOUT incessantly "GET A BLEEDIN' GRIP"

WelcomeThe National Health Action party was founded in 2012 by a group of like-minded healthcare professionals, who strongly support the original principles on which the National Health Service (NHS) was founded.We believe the greatest current threat to the values of a fair and caring society is the...

Graham has welcomed the recommendation for a Chief Inspector of Hospitals for the National Health Service. Graham said, “For too long our hospitals have

groan what does anyone know about the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990

Founders of the Socialist Medical Association in 1930 thought the best hope for a National Health Service was the Labour Party. We still do

Government Run and Free Healthcare - look into your future America British Prime Minister David Cameron this week issued a formal apology for the National Health Service (NHS) after a report revealed "truly dreadful" patient care at an English hospital. The report—which examined conditions at Stafford Hospital in Staffordshire from 2005 to 2009—was prompted by the Healthcare Commission, which oversees NHS care and became concerned with unusually high mortality rates at the hospital in 2007. It cited myriad examples of atrocious patient care, including patients who were: - Left unbathed and lying in their own filth; - Denied medication; - Left without food or water; - Developed infections due to unsanitary conditions; and - Patients sent home to die after receiving an incorrect diagnosis. "This is the story of the appalling and unnecessary suffering of hundreds of people," said Robert Francis, the lawyer tasked to lead the government inquiry. He added that it would be impossible to determine how many p ...

Valentine's Day is on it's way so let's show some love to our precious NHS. This Saturday Plymouth Uncutters will be taking action to protest against Virgin Healthcare's increased involvement in our National Health Service, and their outrageous tax avoidance. For more info join the event or contact plymouthuncutat 11am Virgin Media Store, 36 New George Street, Plymouth, PL1 1RW. Let's send some love to our NHS. See you on the streets.

Today's newspapers are filled with the damning inquiry that's been published on how and why 1200 people died prematurely at Stafford Hospital. It has been dubbed the 'worst scandal in NHS history' but do you still have any faith left in our National Health Service?

History of the Labour Party Introduction This history of the Labour Party celebrates our achievements from its emergence in 1900 as a parliamentary pressure group. We are right to regard as historic the establishment of the National Health Service, the enshrining in law of equality of opportunity for all and the creation and maintenance of an empowering welfare state – all Labour achievements. Equally important has been the development of Labour as a mass membership party in the 1920s and 1930s, the modernisation of our campaigning techniques in the 1980s and the election of 101 Labour women MPs in 1997. However, the lessons we should draw from our history are not all positive. Labour was in government for just 23 of its first 100 years. On occasions we have also been the victim of division and disunity which, as we all know, has cost us dear in electoral terms. It has allowed the Tories to win and undermine our achievements. Our history is one to be proud of. Since our formation, Labour has grown from ...

by Stephen Knight (Abridged by henrymakow.com) (Stephen Knight 1951-1985, left, was murdered for his exposure of Freemasonry in his book, The Brotherhood,1983. This is an abridgement of pp.140-149.) I received a phone call from a man who told me he would very much like to meet me... He was tall, more than six feet, slim and aged about fifty. Everything about him spoke of affluence, except his plain National Health Service glasses. We went to his club, which he pledged me not to name as it could be used to identify him. I told him I was interested to know what a person might have to fear from a group of influential Freemasons if circumstances made him, for instance, a threat to them in the business world; or if he discovered they were using Masonry for corrupt purposes; or had fallen a victim of their misuse of Freemasonry and would not heed warnings not to oppose them. 'It is not difficult to ruin a man,' he said. 'And I will tell you how it is done time and again. There are more than half a million bret ...

Euthanasia, also known as assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide (dying) , doctor-assisted dying (suicide) , and more loosely termed mercy killing, basically means to take a deliberate action with the express intention of ending a life to relieve intractable (persistent, unstoppable) suffering. Some interpret euthanasia as the practice of ending a life in a painless manner. Many disagree with this interpretation, because it needs to include a reference to intractable suffering. In the majority of countries euthanasia or assisted suicide is against the law. According to the National Health Service (NHS), UK, it is illegal to help somebody kill themselves, regardless of circumstances. Assisted suicide, or voluntary euthanasia carries a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison in the UK. In the USA the law varies in some states (see further down). There are two main classifications of euthanasia: Voluntary euthanasia - this is euthanasia conducted with consent. Since 2009 voluntary euthanasia has been le ...

Gardening for Health formerly known as Totnes Healthy Futures (THF)links community food growing with National Health Service initiatives.

As the National Health Service heads towards a radical overhaul, BBC Inside Out takes a look at what these Government reforms mean for patients, with regional films exploring the health issues where you live.

BRITISHNESS AND THE STATE OF THE UNION One of the main things about how people feel about themselves and where they live is the need to feel they have allegiance to an identity, which can either unite people or be a divisive force. The recent events that marked the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the pumped up enthusiasm of the Olympic Games of 2012, was strong evidence of the confidence and public affirmation of British integration, inclusiveness, and patriotism at a time when openness to migration and international trade has often been tempered by caution and restraint about overt displays of national unity. But the trumpeting of that grand British project of the National Health Service at the Games, only served to highlight what has been termed our “national fragility”. For everyone knows that the NHS is no longer the symbol of British internal cohesion it once was, any more than the image of Britannia which has disappeared from the coin of the realm. Add to this, the problems we have had with the mo ...

I seriously shouldn't of had that nap earlier this afternoon. Means I can't get to sleep. In my sleepless state I was however, able to measure and calculate my resting heart rate which ended up being a total of 54 BPM. Which, according to the National Health Service (UK) is the equivalent of an adult athlete.

National News: More calls to mental health service

Today I have been surprised that young people have no respect for the National Health Service. They need to be reminded why we have it.

Question Time tonight highlighted especially with regard to our National Health Service the Shame on you!

You're Invited to Join Us on National Day of Service: Public Health Awareness Day - host: MSU Public Health. A...

National Health Service was started as a National Health Service.. Yeah, thanks for that

how can this woman sit on this panel as a tory rep and talk about protection of a NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE

I don't think we should have very good national health service people pay for lazy *** and they get good quality health cae

clue is in the name...National Health Service.

Wish you guys had something like the National Health Service...we all deserve the right to free healthcare! Going private should

that's quite a statement! Do you agree that in many ways we do not have a national health but rather an ill-health service?

Fernando serves for health. Why are u giving back in NM on the National Day of Service?

Is National Healthcare the way to go? "I believe that if we can fix healthcare, we can heal the nation"

Why doesn't America want a national health service like Britain?

Shine project on managing blood pressure through telehealth (is now on NICE db! More at

And breast enhancements will be funded by the new national health service.

HSE publishes National Service Plan - details of 4000 cut in staff and savings of €323m from Primary Care Schemes

Good news: 1,873 nurses and midwives to undertake national service in Ghana over 2012-13.

UK Gov are privatising the National Health Service with big 5 year contracts and as of yet no access to Freedom of Information !

UK's NICE clears innovative bone healing device for reimbursement by National Health Service:

Join our National Day of Service ??? Health event by signing up here: join me in speaking up for service k9 rights

is supposed to be a NATIONAL health service after all. Think we need online map of what is / not avail each area for ur campaign?

Got a months supply of nicotine patches and mints &I've still to get loads of other stuff from them ...God bless the national health service

nice one! Yes of course - it will continue to be a brilliant comprehensive national health service!

Bates receives a new prosthetic leg through the National Health Service; runs a marathon.

The National Health Service recommends that overall weight gain during the 9 month period of pregnancy be 22–26 pounds.

UK's National Health Service (NHS) came into operation at midnight on the fourth of July 1948. Third reich. Con/Dems want your NHS gone.

National Health Service is losing high caliber staff all the time. Downgrading and therefore degrading people doesn't help. Short-sighted!

HSE’s National Service Plan 2013 to be published tomorrow. Reality of health cutbacks will only be known then.

Cousin Matthew receives top-notch physical therapy through the National Health Service. He's walking again within days.

integrating into the National Health Service (SNS) the health system of the security forces. (Às armas, grita o Vasco Lourenço)

Then do enlighten me as to why we still have the national health service and national rail?

These are saying fro the 1930'S and ARE STILL RELEVANT TODAY!! Tribune, 5 November 1937 That is why no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin. They condemned millions of first-class people to semi-starvation. Speech on 3 July 1948 at the Bellevue Hotel, on eve of the entry into force of the National Health Service. The language of priorities is the religion of socialism Labour Party Conference, Blackpool 1949 Why read the crystal when he can read the book? House of Commons, 29 September 1949. There is only one hope for mankind — and that is democratic Socialism. Aneurin Bevan, resignation speech, House of Commons, 1951 Not even the apparently enlightened principle of the ‘greatest good for the greatest number’ can excuse indifference to individual suffering In Place of Fear, 1952 Man must first live before ...

Speacial Report Reveals Poodle Tips and Secrets Compiled By Therese Straker How to Keep Your Dog From Running Away Plus How to Build a Very Cosy (Free) Pet Bed How the big four commands save lives According to the National Health Service and media reports, over 4,500 incidents a year in the U.K. involve dogs and people, with children being the biggest victim group.. You are more likely to be bitten by a dog than win the lottery! One incident is an unwelcome statistic but until you accept that your pet dog runs away because you let it these incidents are going to continue to occur. There are 5 basic steps, 4 big commands and 3 essential pieces of equipment which you need to learn how to use effectively to gain control and to build discipline into your dog. This guide explains how to do this and how to stop your dog running away. A collar and lead are working instruments of control, just the same as holding your child's hand. Mobile phones are another safety device we use with our children to maintain conta ...

Join service users in research - MH research network - national institute for health research

GAO report says USPS should prefund retiree health benefits, but the Postal Service is broke:

The National Health Service should be a universal service for ALL & NOT a business run for profit. It's in the name.

And when it produces even greater atrocities than Britain's National Health Service, you'll once again express shock.

so healing people is now down to fair trade, amazing, what happened to the National Health Service

Prevalence & characteristics of severe and profound hearing loss in adults in a UK National Health Service clinic:

And again: IT consultant operating within the national health service.

So glad she is on the way to making a full recovery. Very proud of the National Health Service for taking good...

Same goes for any National health service.

National Health Service. In Wales we get free prescriptions, I think it's £7 per script in England.

Typical Shinner hypocrisy; Gerry Adams elected to have surgery in USA & not carried out by HSE or the National Health Service in the North

Interesting few days leading the fire instructor health research project for the national fire service.

National Health Service Corps report rise in retention rates. Corps members choose to remain in under-served...

By Traci Pedersen Associate News Editor Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on January 5, 2013 Quitting Smoking Reduces AnxietyQuitting smoking reduces anxiety, especially among those who mainly smoke to “cope” with life, according to new research from Oxford and Cambridge Universities and Kings College London. “The belief that smoking is stress relieving is pervasive, but almost certainly wrong. The reverse is true: smoking is probably anxiogenic (causes anxiety) and smokers deserve to know this and understand how their own experience may be misleading,” said the researchers. For the study, researchers followed 491 smokers who were enrolled in U.K.’s National Health Service smoking cessation clinics throughout England. They had all received nicotine patches and were attending weekly appointments. Overall, 106 (21.6 percent) of the participants had been diagnosed with mental health problems before they tried quitting smoking — mostly anxiety and mood disorders. At the beginning of the study, pa ...

I keep on mistaking the "National Health Service"-NHS for the "National Honor Society"-NHS. Makes reading British news very confusing.

Sweeping reforms of the National Health Service will be demanded by a public inquiry into one of the worst scandals in NHS history.

NIGERIAN DEFENCE ACADEMY KADUNA. 19TH REGULAR COMBATANT COURSE. Today 5th January 1976, dat is 37 years ago d training of NDA 19 Officer Cadets commenced. As we mark d bowing out of d last except one members of d Generals of dis Course in d Army, we give thanks to God for keeping most of us alive to see dis day. D Navy still has one 'member' standing while in d Airforce, all bowed out. I congratulate d retiring Generals & all others of dis Course dat have retired earlier than now for d meritorious services rendered to our great nation Nigeria. We remember those of our Coursemates dat have gone beyond. May their souls continue to RIP. We still commiserate with their families. As d Lord has made it possible for us to enter d new year it is my fervent prayer dat He keeps us alive for d Re-Union come March 2013. Officer Cadet Walter Feghabo NDA 1226 Burma Company.

UK backs Lucentis for new use after Novartis cuts price - LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's healthcare cost watchdog has given its backing to eye drug Lucentis to treat diabetes-related problems after Swiss drugmaker Novartis offered it at a discount to the National Health Service.

A report soon to be released by the Royal College of Physicians will call for obese and overweight staff working in the UK’s National Health Service to have surgery and eat healthy food to reduce their weight and set an example to patients.

Tory long-term plan for NHS finally out in the open: "This would of course mean the end of the National Health Service"

Blood A blood bank is a cache or bank of blood or blood components, gathered as a result of blood donation, stored and preserved for later use in blood transfusion. The term "blood bank" typically refers to a division of a hospital laboratory where the storage of blood product occurs and where proper testing is performed to reduce the risk of transfusion related events. It is important for a blood bank to pass all the eligibility guidelines as mandated by the National Health Service (NHS) in Britain and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States. The safety and reliability should also be a consideration too. This includes compatibility testing for transfusion and may include blood donation processing, depending on the capabilities of the facility. Transfusion Most hospital blood banks also perform testing to determine the blood type of patients and to identify compatible blood products for blood transfusions, along with a battery of tests (e.g. disease) and treatments (e.g. leukocyte filt ...

Billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson and his Virgin Care have become a lightning rod for opponents of the cash-strapped U.K. National Health Service's strategy of hiring private-sector contractors in a bid to save money and improve service.

Princely Christmas message 24/12/12 The Prince of Wales has delivered his own Christmas message to the UK National Health Service calling for clinicians to develop a "healing empathy." Writing in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the Prince set out his ideas on improving health. He said the NHS should recognise the "the core human elements of mind, body and spirit." Calling for a wider perspective on healthcare, he said symptoms "may often be a metaphor for underlying disease and unhappiness." He called for treatment that "understands, values and uses patient perspective and belief rather than seeking to exclude them". Clinicians, he said, should emphasise "the value of caring, continuing relationships and for society to adopt a more holistic approach to health and disease that maximises the potential of the physical and social environment so that healing and better health can thrive." His vision, he said, includes "the physical and social environment, education, agriculture and architecture." ...

Colicky babies helped by osteopathy and chiropractic 14 December, 2012 By Staff Writer NYR Natural News Natural Health News — Colic is a distressing problem, for parents and babies. New evidence suggests that hands-on therapies such as osteopathy and chiropractic can help. Colic is characterised by excessive crying and it is the most common complaint seen by physicians in the first 16 weeks of a child’s life. Parents are often told not to worry about it because the symptoms generally disappear by the age of five or six months. However, the degree of distress caused to the baby, to parents and to family life is such that physicians often feel the need to intervene. Some studies suggest that there are longer-lasting effects on the child, for instance behavioural problems, and estimates put the cost to the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) for treating colic at over £65 million. Small studies have previously suggested that osteopathy and chiropractic, might safely reduce the symptoms associated with ...

Annals of Government Medicine: (John Hinderaker) A National Health Service hospital in Great Britain has paid cl...

Basic economic problem - scarcity & choice The Economist's Dictionary of Economics defines economics as "The study of the production, distribution and consumption of wealth in human society" The purpose of economic activity It is often said that the central purpose of economic activity is the production of goods and services to satisfy our ever-changing needs and wants. The basic economic problem is about scarcity and choice. Every society has to decide: What goods and services to produce? Does the economy uses its resources to build more hospitals, roads, schools or luxury hotels? Do we make more iPhones and iPads or double-espressos? Does the National Health Service provide free IVF treatment for childless couples? How best to produce goods and services? What is the best use of our scarce resources? Should school playing fields be sold off to provide more land for affordable housing? Should we subsidise the purchase of solar panels for roofs? Who is to receive goods and services? Who will get expensive ...

Total repeat of 1980s except instead of miners', we're seeing the destruction of OUR National Health Service.

A new initiative lead by the UK’s National Health Service aims to sequence the genomes of as many as 100,000 patients, a project that will cost £100 million.

DOES THE MMR VACCINE (FOR MUMPS, MEASLES & RUBELLA) CAUSE AUTISM? The MMR vaccine controversy is over the safety of the MMR vaccine. Critics of the vaccine say that the incidence of autism has greatly increased and that the vaccine is a primary cause of this increase. They posit that the vaccine can overwhelm the young immune system, which they assert is often already struggling from the effects of other environmental insults such as exposure to heavy metals. Critics also say that the live measles virus in the formulation of the MMR harms susceptible individuals in a way that wild measles does not. Lack of scientific evidence The consensus of the medical and scientific community is that the benefits of the vaccine greatly outweigh the risks, and that there is no scientific evidence to support the critics' claims. The Centers for Disease Control,the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and the UK National Health Service have all concluded that there is no evidence of a link between th ...

Cameron in PMQ's: "I am a massive fan of our National Health Service". How does he keep a straight face saying this kind of stuff?!

Does Miss IMechE know that that Paul Drayson company knowingly sold to the National Health Service several batches of BCG tuberculosis>

Socialized medicine seems to lead inexorably to the callous treatment of patients. That currently is the foremost complaint that Englishmen have about their National Health Service. It is very much...

A British physician's disturbing testimony is shedding light on the increasingly common practice of National Health Service (NHS) hospitals sending sick or severely disabled newborn babies home or to

Exam rescheduling, early intervention can help students’ - The Globe and Mail

McDonalds, Walmart, UK National Health service, Indian and Chinese armies all have more employees than the Indian Railways.

The UK's National Health Service is not the utopia that people here think it is.

UKs NICE gives new cystic fibrosis drug green light for use by National Health Service:

"Massive job losses in UK’s National Health Service" We're not the only ones who've noticed this.

UK's National Health Service: 1 in 4 Brits drinks in excess. "Duh" says any fool who has ever barhopped with one.

uhm Marmite, Lamb, and a national Health Service. Ha

our wonderful National Health Service in England - the values and principles of the

Our national health service is shocking

National Health Service, your Mr. President is pushing in the right direction in my view, just too many people saying no...

crazy! You managed to get some dinners of the national health service otherwise known as the NHS

A national survey of health service infrastructure and policy impacts on access to computerised CBT in Scotland:...

UK govt. cuts to take toll on NHS: Cracks are beginning to appear in the National Health Service (NHS) as waitin...

National Health SERVICE. It should be a service and not a Stasi.

issues of changes to health service linked very closely to politics in Wales- local issues are often national political issues

On BBC Radio 4. "Ukulele's should be on the national health service, it cheers you up" Sounds effective.

OHRN staff en route to national Liaison and Diversion conference in Manchester - should be a useful update of service developments underway

Will be with you in spirit if not in body. Good luck with the message we need a NATIONAL health service.

Our national health service has become the international health service for free

You can thank Tommyy Douglas for that! RTCanada takes pride in its universal hc system!

Coalition threatens founding principles of National Health Service - Speaking at the Green Party national...

Allow people to opt out of paying the salaries of National Health staff who do NOT provide service!!

I'm calling you out on Teddy Roosevelt: he was pro-foreign intervention, pro-National Health Service, & for progressive taxes.

Week today the conference. Be to be a nurse and to work in the national health service. to nurse.

Italian National Health Service may cease to exist.

I've got a better idea. Lets turn the national health service into the international HS like you did in July. Imbecile.

Italian PM Mario Monti: Future sustainability of Italy's national health service can't be taken for granted

We speak to National Director for and Transformation Jim Easton about the need to embrace

In actual fact all of the EU and most of Europe is covered by a National Health Service.

So the 1948 idea of a National Health Service is "plain daft" is it? Hardly an evidence based opinion.

Canada takes pride in its universal system!

Italian National Health Service "at risk", according to PM Monti. Kind of heavy news.

Vets : underrated. More important that doctors. I vote for ANHS - Animal National Health Service.

one less scapegoat after today - head of Metro North Health McNeil bails for a UK post

Have always been a big advocate of the National Health Service in the UK, however, to see a local doctor you have to wait 8 days. Pathetic to say the least.

Interested in a career in public health? Tuesday, Nov. 27 @ 3:30 p.m. Ms. LaToya Clark from the National Health Service Corps will speak on primary health care opportunities and how students can have their health education financed through NHSC. This is a free event at the Dale Mabry Campus in DLRC 106, Learning Resources Center Auditorium 106.

The ongoing offensive against the National Health Service (NHS) has led to 28,500 health workers losing their jobs since the Conservative Party/Liberal Democrat coalition came to power in 2010.

Are you tired too? Bill Cosby speaking at Riverside Church in NY: "I'm 74 and Tired" Worth reading... I'm 74. Except for brief period in the 50's when I was doing my National Service, I've worked hard since I was 17. Except for some serious health challenges, I put in 50-hour weeks, and didn't call in sick in nearly 40 years. I made a reasonable salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, it looks as though retirement was a bad idea, and I'm tired. Very tired. I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it. I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian ...

Like Sankeys? Love your National Health Service... on the 7th December combine the two as Sankeys and Manchester SU come together to fundraise for the Save Our NHS campaign! Go see your Campaigns exec Khalil Secker for info on how to get involved and for Save Our NHS merchandise Keep the date free and see you there!

I work for the National Health Service in the UK. I support patients with Bladder, Prostate and Skin cancer. This new Business is my dream

If you want a REAL life glimpse into the world under socialised medicine (whoops, I've been writing in the UK style too long, I'm spelling like they do now!), go read up on it under any UK NHS (National Health Service)website. I am working on tenders (grants) for NHS and it is God awful the complexity of it all!!! Rules for this, regs for that - look out, we're next!

UK's National Health Service cutting back on face-to-face dr's visits.

How does it feel to be popular? David Cameron will have enjoyed this morning's coverage of the Brussels summit. Our newspapers are taking a straightfor

Who the *** am I? READ MY BIO. And by NHS do you mean the National Health Service?

Coming to America: British doctors have been asked to designate one percent of their patients who will likely die this year and offer them immediate "end of life " treatment in order to save their National Health Service $840 million dollars a year!

no, It's national health service, not national vanity service

Hope the people over the pond enjoy their Thanksgiving. But we have a National Health Service, so we still win!

Great Speech. Stuart Patterson Lecture 2012 What is wrong with Health Care: The 3 M’s (Speech for Australian RACGP Conference) Dr Clare Gerada Thank you for inviting me to talk to you today. It’s a great honour for me, and also for the Royal College of General Practitioners, whose chair I’ve been for the last two years. You’ll probably be aware that my time in office has coincided with a series of monumental health reforms in England. I know you’re going through changes yourselves. Today, as well as the reforms I want to also talk about the deeper questions that the reform process has raised for me over the past year or so. Questions about the nature of general practice and our role in caring for patients. So a talk in two parts: 1. NHS and recent upheavals 2. What matters most to patients? Let me start then by telling you about our health service reforms. Have you heard of them? The medical profession was almost unanimous in its opposition to the Government's bill, which was passed this year. A ...

Regional pay will mean skilled staff leave area or role & patients will suffer. How will it be a NATIONAL Health Service then?

More great news about our daughter HIlary. She is home from hospital and sleeping in her own bed. She had 6 weeks in hospitals with her back pain and surgery. However eventually the National Health Service came good and she had good quality treatment after the operation on the cancer in her back. She still has not had the final biopsy results. Only then can the oncologist decide on the next stage of treatment. She is very glad to be home and we are helping out around the house.

Functioning Victorian lavatories are becoming rarer in Britain than NHS dentists. (National Health Service)

Figures show 343 operations were performed on girls aged 14 or under in the last six years, possibly for cosmetic reasons.

Jeez. No wonder there's no national health service there!

National Testing Week starts tomorrow! Click the link for test locations in

England’s: NHS (National Health Service) will always face a crisis when run by half-witted British government (cont)

Once upon a time it was resolved to have a boat race between a Japanese team and a team representing the British National Health Service (NHS). Both teams practised long and hard to reach their peak performance. On the day the Japanese team won by a mile. Afterwards, the NHS team became very discouraged by the result and morale sagged. Senior Management decided that the reason for the crushing defeat had to be found and a working party was set up to investigate the problem and recommend appropriate action. Their conclusion was that the Japanese team had eight people rowing and one person steering, while the NHS team had one person rowing and eight people steering. Senior Management immediately hired a consultant company at great expense to do a study on the team’s structure. Millions of pounds and several months later they concluded at a press conference that, “Too many people were steering and not enough were rowing.”To prevent losing to the Japanese team next year the team structure was changed to ...

After experiencing the discomfort and embarrassment of a prostate test by the National Health Service, a bloke decided to have this next test carried out while visiting friends in Thailand, where the beautiful nurses are allegedly much more gentle and accommodating. As he lay naked on his side on the table and the nurse began the examination. "Don't worry, at this stage of the procedure it's quite normal to get an erection" said the nurse. "I haven't got an erection" said the man. "No, but I have" replied the nurse.

UK: 28 yr old man w/ cerebral palsy dies from national health service incompetence, MD fakes DNR for "person like that"

I am Mr Paul Green, Managing Director of Solutions Property Maintenance and Partner in Horse Care Solutions. My Partner, Katie Robinson and I are making an urgent appeal to help save the life of a new born baby. Kristian Loren Veniger was born two months premature, in the city of Baia Maria hospit...

Preparing for the stupid presentation about the national health service.

Psychiatrist Peter R. Breggin, MD in the second of his series: Simple Truths About Psychiatry: How Do Psychiatric Drugs Really Work? Further information may ...

NHS: Condition critical. Prescription: mass action to end all cuts and privatisation

Intense one to one problem solving in Project Management with delegate from National Health Service. What challenges do you face?

Thankful for so many things and in particular today the National Health Service in England for taking care of my dad.

"Prescribing data for a healthier National Health Service"

19 pills a day at the last count.Think I am definitely using my National Insurance contribution.Thank God for the National Health Service.

UK's NICE clears EEG-based Depth of Anesthesia Monitors by Covidien and GE for use by National Health Service:

The idea, common in popular culture, that a high-protein food such as turkey will raise brain tryptophan and serotonin is, unfortunately, false. Another popular myth that is widespread on the Internet is that bananas improve mood because of their serotonin content. Although it is true that bananas contain serotonin, it does not cross the blood–brain barrier.

Coca-Cola, one of the planet’s giant corporations, is to be unceremoniously booted out of Bolivia. The announcement was made by Bolivian Minister of External Affairs, David Choquehuanca, who ...

Kill is a strong word. “Very few will equal death, & very few caught will be reproducing females.” -NOAA

Wow I don't work for the National Health Service ... I work for the National Sickness Industry ... Reactive not proactive

we could choose either the national health service in uk or European Union i chose European Union xD

Friends and family of a Texas woman convicted of murder after a fire at her home day care killed four children who had been left alone testified Friday that she was a good person who loved kids and would never intentionally harm them.

Makes sense to me. I would also like to add compulsory national service (including non-military), with deferments (though those who have had deferments would be prohibited from holding national office including cabinet or diplomatic posts). National service works for many of our European and our Israeli allies.

Well just had a niece dinner and now I really want another cake ! But it will be my third one. Devils saying yeah go on and thre otheres saying noo think of ur health. The national health service. Has anoth jobs too doo!

Conclusion - Light, Good Diet, Exercise are essential to Happiness.

Now this is the kind of communication you want from a National Health Service

Its a national health service not a bloody car warranty. Sorry mr smith your heart is a friction part and is not covered by NHS warranty.

If I translate this properly it says get outside, exercise, eat better, and think more positive thoughts.

Health and Information Quality Authority (HIQA) recommends new national DBS service

It's National Healthy Skin Month! Do you know how your hormones impact the health of your skin?

know that feeling alright! You can count on the national health service to thrive in a recession! Or at least get busier!

Would mental health service user involvement be more effective if it was coordinated by one national organisation?

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I think the national health service should give away free winter sun holidays for us Seasonal affective disorder (SAD) syndrome sufferers, look how much money they would save in the long run on depression tablets!

"To destroy this invisible Government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day." --The Progressive (Bull Moose) Party Platform of 1912 (You know, Teddy Roosevelts group.) Strange how, 100 years later, things may have changed - but they *** sure are pretty much the same. More from the Progressive Platform of 1912 (just so you can see how much things change and yet remain the same): A National Health Service to include all existing government medical agencies. Social insurance, to provide for the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled Limited injunctions in strikes A minimum wage law for women An eight hour workday A federal securities commission Farm relief Workers' compensation for work-related injuries An inheritance tax A Constitutional amendment to allow a Federal income tax Women's suffrage Direct election of Senators Primary elections for state and federal nominations The recall election (citizens may remove a ...

each National Health Service "Primary Care Trust" is localised to serve a large town or a small city alone

or even, on smaller localities covering a city or a group of towns - we might have a "National Health Service" but it is localised in towns

Draft recommendations from the US Preventative Service Task Force on HIV testing guidelines:

I could say so many things about the national health care service. In summary, it needs (it seriously needs) to get better.

I'm watching One Born Every 4 Seconds, as ever I'm proud of our National Health Service wish more of the world had similar care.

Canon 6711 As the Parliament of the United Kingdom since 1948 is the parliament of the political franchise known as the National Health Service (NHS) trading as the United Kingdom, all laws, acts and repeals since 1948 only apply to citizens of the United Kingdom (National Health Service) and not citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland as constituted prior to 1948

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Read the other day the UK is investing millions of pounds for space exploration.in my opinion that is an appalling waste of money. How about building new hospitals, social care etc? Look at America, they conveniently can't afford a national health service, but can afford to spend billions on buidling a space rocket. Maybe we should use Cameron's wages to fund space travel...see how he likes that...

Psychiatrist and journalist win prize for defending science - In recognition of their efforts to champion science despite extreme opposition, a science journalist and psychiatrist have both received the 2012 John Maddox prize. Becky McCall reports. Last week, the inaugural John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science 2012 was granted to UK psychiatrist Simon Wessely for his work on chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) and Fang Shi-min, a freelance journalist from Beijing, China, for revealing clinics using unproven medicine. The prize is a joint initiative from the journal, Nature, and the charity, Sense About Science, with some support from the Kohn Foundation. The four judges were Philip Campbell, Editor, Nature; Tracey Brown, Director, Sense About Science; Brenda Maddox, wife of the late John Maddox who was an editor at Nature for 22 years and a founding trustee at Sense About Science; and Colin Blakemore, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Senses at the University of London's School of Advanced St ...

"[is] really a national service — the value of which has been documented.” - John Migliaccio

Please read this because it says many things about how the world is today and where it is headed!

The Human Resource Management Association of Jamaica (HRMAJ), formerly The Jamaica Association of Training and Development (JATAD) saw its genesis...

Concern re varying cost for medical supplies in the NHS. Why not just have 1 procurement dept, you know, a NATIONAL Health Service?

What was life like for ordinary women living in Britain before the development of a national health service .. …

it was technically OHs appointment so blah. Get used to waiting for our national health service. Receptionist knows my name ha x

Trip shows we can learn much from each other for mental health: National Mental Health Service User and Carer panel member Carina Edw...

Signatures increasing for the petition to hold an inquiry into NHS whistleblowing

WOW!!! Does anyone think Mr. Cosby is reading our posts??? If nobama loses guys like this he might want to re-evaluate??

Figures uncovered in an investigation by The Mail on Sunday reveal mounting delays for 999 patients at hospitals across the country as casualty units struggle to cope with Government cuts.

A landmark case in Gloucestershire illustrates how short-sighted government policies have damaged the NHS.

45 YEARS AGO I babysat for this "Young lady" who is now a grandmother... Please read her post and then share Dear Friends, Once again I find myself in the unwanted position of "war correspondent" bringing you my impressions of the current situation. My mother informs me that the press in the US is not painting Israel in a very positive light so please feel free to forward this message and give people the view from the other side. For the past several weeks there have been numerous rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza. These attacks were unprevoked by Israel, and were only due to the fact of our very existance. Most did not affect me directly; but, for example, last Saturday night, my son and daughter in law were shopping in a shopping center 7 minutes away from my home,when they were interuppted by the heart stopping wail of air raid sirens. Another of my sons and his wife were at the movies in Ashkelon when the sirens went off; and on their way home were informed of a second siren in their home of Gedera . ...

Y Gododdin 1: The Reciter's Prologue Gododdin, in throes of grief, I sing -- Grinding words, bold and grim, among the throng -- The song of Dwywai's son. Str...

These are sentences exactly as typed by medical secretaries in NHS (National Health Service) Greater Glasgow: 1. The patient has no previous history of suicide. 2. Patient has left her white blood cells at another hospital. 3. Patient's medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a 40 pound weight gain in the past three days. 4. She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night. 5. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. 6. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it disappeared. 7. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed. 8. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993. 9. Discharge status: Alive, but without my permission. 10. Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert, but forgetful. 11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch. 12. She is numb from her toes down. 13. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated ...

Somebody asked liberals how come it is greed to want to keep the money you earned, but not greed to take someone else's money away from them, and give to someone who didn't earn it. So far as I know, there's not a single, solitary liberal who has even offered an attempt to answer to that question. hee, hee God bless! ~Bobby

Charles C.W. Cooke, a British-born writer: Many had hoped that Tuesday would be 1980 revisited. It was not. Instead, in its effects at least, it was more like 1945 in Britain, in which year the Labour Party was elected and began to put into place the foundations of a government-owned and -run health-care system that would quickly displace the established church as Britain’s national religion. (If you question the believers’ zeal, take a look at the frenzied NHS worship at the Olympic opening ceremony.) As Mark Steyn has correctly observed, in Britain as elsewhere, the National Health Service paved the way for a “permanent left-of-center political culture” that obtains regardless of who wins office.

Defence of the National Health Service demands a new socialist strategy: The Socialist Equality Party in Britain...

Ethan Coley - I really don't want to make any sort of status regarding the election.. But I feel obligated to. Just two main things I want to talk about. First; anyone saying they want to move to Canada, England, etc, etc, that's a load of crap. Most of those are more socialist and democratically inclined than the US is (if you think the US has socialized healthcare, just look at the National Health Service), and if you'd be moving there to retain Christian values, then you're out of luck. The US (the South especially) is immensely more pious than the vast majority of Western nations, including traditionally Catholic nations such as Ireland and Italy. Second (probably going to make a few enemies for this): to those who completely support Romney's position on social policy, and this is a driving factor in your choice of candidate. I implore you to take a minute and genuinely think about this (and maybe even watch this [if you have time). If your religion suggests you live life a certain way, and that doing ...

Most promising late stage breast cancer drug will be denied to patients under Obamacare due to its cost. "The government may declare certain prescription drugs off limits for consumers if they are too costly. Section 3307 requires the HHS Secretary to identify “categories and classes of drugs for which the Secretary determines are of clinical concern.” This is the same rhetoric used by the National Health Service (NHS) to disallow costly drugs to British citizens. At the start, their rationing board claimed they were only going to make recommendations based on "clinical" concerns. However, that idea changed dramatically when health care costs increased. This is the same plan under Obamacare, and we are already seeing evidence of a change in thinking in the U.S.: Recently, the U.S. FDA recommended withdrawal of the blockbuster cancer drug, Avastin, for its indication in the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, July 20, 2010. It is often the only treatment available for late stage breast cancer, and h ...

this is why I am proud to be British and proud of our national health service (nhs) over here its not perfect,but works

The British Broadcasting Corporation is an organisation as central to life in the UK as the National Health Service. While it is not in the strict...

5,000 account credentials allegedly stolen from the National Institutes of Health IT Service Help Desk app.

Every says Obama hasn't prduced a budget , but, I going to tell you he has, a zero based budget: "With zero-based processing one can forget about last year, pretend that the program is brand-new, and see if one can provide a detail of expenses for what one would need to fully accomplish the program. This technique will help one to develop a complete picture of what the program actually needs to cost and not just what it has been costing. The original meaning was confined to systems in which the government operates health care facilities and employs health care professionals. This narrower usage would apply to the British hospital trusts and health systems that operate in other countries as diverse as Finland, Spain, Israel, and Cuba. The United States' would also fall under this narrow definition. When used in this way, the narrow definition permits a clear distinction from , in which the government finances health care but is not involved in care delivery. The first system of socialized medicine based on ...

On the 1st day of being in america, my dad got in an argument with a stranger on the subway about the national health service

"Our policy is to create a national health service in order to ensure that everybody in the country, irrespective of means, age, sex, or occupation, shall have equal opportunities to benefit from the best and most up-to-date medical and allied services available." Winston Churchill in a speech to the Royal College of Physicians. 1944

The Coalition: taking the National out of The NHS since 2011. and the Service, and the Health

New Report into "Competition" in the UK's National Health Service warns that Competition may kill patients.

I’m horrified by what the coalition is in the process of doing to the NHS and I intend to do something about it. Reforms fleetingly mentioned in the pre-election manifesto, but backed by the ...

Public Sector Managerial Effectiveness: Theory and Practice in the National Health Service: This text examines t...

"Three of the remaining publicly owned British institutions not yet sold off to the private sector--the National Health Service, the police and the BBC--stand accused of turning a blind eye to his (Jimmy Savile) crimes." -today's IHT

the good old National Health Service is caring for me. I have no fruit as yet

Do you believe in it? - Our National Health Service via - closing down sale, everything must go

National health service corps loan repayment is looking appealing

National health service should be called national baqwaas service.

Dr says a national health service is part of our sense of social solidarity

They did not want to wait for Obama-NO-care to get these SINISTER SHOTS started. If you could trust your Govt. that would be great but that is why the Constitution has set up checks & balances that Obama has ignored signing 923 Executive Or ders all the other Presidents have only had approx. 4 Executive Orders! Search Depopulation & see Obama's good friend Bill Ayers explain how over 6 Billion deaths across the world will be good! SINISTER & EVIL! CDC brazenly tries to poison all pregnant women with whooping cough vaccines that we know don't even work!

If America had a national health service none of BREAKING BAD would've happened.

I am very proud to work for the National Health Service, and very lucky to have it there to care for me regardless of my income

Needs a new c spine. Clearly working for our national health service comes with its drawbacks. :-(

Great-grandfather Jack Bland, 85, from Blackburn, injured his lower spine after falling on a seaside day trip in February 2006.

Let down by the NHS... I'm glad we have a national health service, but the system doesn't work...

Department of health developing a national proton beam therapy service. Sounds like something from

bloody stupid DOCTOR has stopped my medication and I can't even buy it on line National intellectuLLY IMPAIRED HEALTH SERVICE

Drugs watchdog Nice grants draft approval for use of Zelboraf, which is said to melt tumours away within weeks

This sudden policy change follows a similar decision by the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) to begin pushing pregnant Britons to get vaccinated for whooping cough as well, which is the only other vaccine besides influenza that health authorities now recommend for pregnant women. It also comes about one year after ACIP made a contradictory recommendation to begin administering the vaccine during pregnancy only to women who had not previously been vaccinated for the disease.

If we had unified public health services and railways, we could call them the National Health Service and British Rail. What a good idea.

Corruption in national health service: Catalans fight libel fine with YouTube videos

This blog has some interesting stats about creeping National Health Service privatisation -

The National Health Service is a wonderful thing & there are so many special people working within it.

Key points at end of article about impact of aging on health spending - more like a glacier than tsunami

I had the chance to visit with a young man from Canada on the flight from Denver to LA this afternoon. I asked him what he thought about Canda's national health care system. He said, "I have broken nearly every bone in my body at one time or another, and have never had to wait for care. This care never cost me a dime. We love our national health service." I wondered out loud why the US cannot seem to provide the same sort of service to its citizens. His take on was . "CORPORATE GREED". I think he has a point. He was absolutely HORRIFIED when I told him what my deductible is for my insurance. It's $17,000.00/year. My deductible is that much because I have a pre-existing condition. Mind you, I have ALWAYS had insurance coverage, but in order to afford insurance AT ALL, I must carry this catastrophic deductible. My health insurance is WORTHLESS, and I have paid a premium price for it all these years out of fear of what could happen if I was really sick.

And also I must mention good old Claire Rayner,who said she'dcome back and haunt them if they touch her beloved national health service !!

National Health Service hospitals in England get financial rewards helping to end life.

LCC ran some hospitals in London, a far cry from a NATIONAL Health Service. US has VA, far more cognate to nat'l public option.

I will convert to a David over Ed fan if he suggests an American National Health Service. He won't.

When USA gets its national health service it will be flooded with foreigners just like UK

you mean National Hurricane Centre rather than the National Health Service, right?

The UK National Health Service gets paid millions to put patients on "The Pathway" to death. Cheaper to let the ill die. This is what you get with nationalized single-payer healthcare.

I hope they contact the National Health Service and warn them too. ;)

Good grief! Who cares? Obviously the parents are not doing anything or all the pregnant girls wouldn't be pregnant in the first place!!! Silly stuff! Thank goodness for the common sense of the national health service!

- yeh, almost as good as saying the National Health service is safe in Tory hands.

Of course, November is also National Home Care month. We didn't forget about this critical health care service that is important to so many.

I will never forgive Lansley and the LibDems for what they have done to our National Health Service.

1.8 Million patient records lost in a year, by National Health Service bodies in UK...wow!

Sitting in a hospital in Birmingham waiting to see a Dr.I've got nothing but pure love for our NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE!

There's some tablets here called Mebeverine. I think taking them will result in starting a National Health Service.

"On every indicator, the national health service in Scotland is performing at record levels" says Salmond. Simply not true.

HMH to offer free texting service for new mothers: Hardin Memorial Health has partnered with a national textin...

Our National Health Service via written on the train y'day after Monday's C4 Dispatches

For such a prosperous country, the ills facing Americans stand out on international rankings. That reflects past choices, but others are available.

interesting day today...spent the better part of 5 hours with the National Health Service. Without argument, the peak was having the doctor extol the virtues of heroin as a cough suppressant. Thankfully, he reminded us that there are some downsides.

I boldly predict that United's remaining fixtures will feature over 300 goals, at an estimated cost of £57m to the National Health Service.

The people in the Dept. of health are completely insane as recently when they were told that the Vietnamese government had introduced into their national health service a curative drug treatment that worked with no side effects such as 'cold turkey' and where it detoxified hard drug addicts on average in 72 hours, they simply did not want to know. Norman lamb with his senior civil servants should hold their heads in shame and it is clear that they have in reality no empathy with society. The treatment takes 1 week to complete and where it is non-addictive as it comprises of 13 naturally growing non-toxic plant extracts, unlike methadone which is officially more addictive than heroin. Now they have dispatched hundreds of thousands of addicts in the UK to further untold health and social problems. It is another fine example that ministers and civil servants are all talk and when something happens that can really solve a great deal of the addiction problem through a treatment system that works and the only o ...

My last post taken from the article originally posted in a NYC paper, written by a retired British doctor about the National Health Service in Britain. Let's all heed these warnings when deciding who will get our votes next week! "In a centralized system, the setting of targets can lead to organized deception as well as distortion of effort. For example, when the British government decreed that every patient arriving in the emergency room should be admitted to a hospital ward within four hours, if admission was necessary, (and that hospitals would face fines if they failed to achieve this goal), traffic jams of ambulances formed outside one hospital, with patients prevented from entering the ER until the hospital could comply with the directive. Other hospitals designated corridors as wards so they could claim that patients on stretchers had been admitted on time. In the United States, after President Obama's health-care law proposed fining hospitals that readmitted too many patients within 30 days of dis ...

from ENGLAND comes this: The altra right in UK are quietly dismantling our National Health Service in order to privatize most of it. Like Adolf Hittler, everything will be privatized and owned by the super rich of which Romney is one. And in the UK the cabinet contains many very rich men, a great number of whom have a direct financial interest in a privatized NHS. It is a f-g disgrace! Trickle down economics doesn't work and de regulating the banks will only lead to bankers getting even greedier. Watch out America, if Romney wins in USA there will be war and great poverty.

My moron friends. Who think that with obamacare all will be so wonderful. That everything will be as it is now! They are taking 716 billion (that's 716 thousand million dollars) out of medicare to help pay for it! It's not about paying for your pills and doctor visits. By the way my doctor shut down his very success practice and retired rather than deal with obamacare. I delivered a new car to a successful surgeon in Lake Havasu and he said "Me and all my friends(other doctors) have pretty much the same plan. We are going to work less and retire a lot sooner!" Under obamacare this is where the rubber meets the road: When you get really really sick with something expensive and are over 65 you better have money and a passport so after your turned down by the board (deathpanel) you better be able to go somewhere in the world to save your life. How can they justify spending say $600,000 to save you when you 70? They will NOT NOT NOT NOT do it. Hear about the 29 yr old in England with Systic Fibrosis ...

If you were the head of your company and the employees refused to work to save the company you would have the option to remove them!

Asylum Seekers Blocked At Border - Eritreans Pushed Back to Egypt, Despite Risk of Abuse Jerusalem — The Israeli military has since June 2012 prevented dozens of asylum seekers, most of them Eritreans, from crossing Israel's newly constructed fence on its border with Egypt, Human Rights Watch, the Hotline for Migrant Workers, and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel said today. Israel has also unlawfully deported dozens more back to Egypt, the three groups said. Israel should stop rejecting asylum seekers at the fence unless its officials determine in a fair procedure that they do not face threats to their lives or freedom or inhuman and degrading treatment because of that rejection. In forcing asylum seekers and refugees to remain in Egypt and in deporting others, Israel is putting them at risk of prolonged detention in Egyptian prisons and police stations, where they cannot claim asylum, of forcible return to Eritrea, and of serious abuse by traffickers in the Sinai region. Israeli officials' claims t ...

"Hi Zev Glad we spoke this evening and that you are well. In Canada we get all the stations and it spent a long time on the fires in Brooklyn. And then you have an election. Let me tell you as a Canadian who worked for Jimmy Carter and knows the US health care NON system pretty well -- we DO NOT wait in line for surgeries at ant level. We ALL have family doctors who work for us, as patients, and NOT for insurance companies. Personally I pay with my husband $116 per month for our health insurance. I can show up any day at my doctors office or at hospital and be given the same level of treatment as anyone else. We also pay a portion of our taxation base to health care, education and social services" A old friend from Canada sent me this that should have been sent to Obama before he enacted Obamace. It sholuld also be sent to those Republicans, Conservatives and Tea Party "Know Nothings" that perpetuate the fear of a national health service.

The National Health Service has been criticised for being “grossly irresponsible” after launching an explicit sex education website encouraging sexual experimentation among children as young as 13.

Health care in Canada is delivered through a publicly funded health care system. Healthcare in England is mainly provided by England's public health service, the National Health Service, that provides healthcare to all permanent residents of the United Kingdom that is free at the point of use and paid for from general taxation. The health care system in Japan provides healthcare services, including screening examinations, prenatal care and infectious Disease Control, with the patient accepting responsibility for 30% of these costs while the government pays the remaining 70%. Health care in Israel is universal and participation in a medical insurance plan is compulsory. All Israeli citizens are entitled to the same Uniform Benefits Package regardless of their financial means. And in the US ? What do my American fb friends think, is healthcare like clean water and education a fundamental right of all citizens ?

Information from the National Health Service on conditions, treatments, local services and healthy living.

Advocates of Obamacare often point to Great Britain's National Health Service as an example of a national health care system that works. But all is not rosy across the pond, as England is beginning to ration treatments for non-urgent conditions such as hip replacements, cataract surgery and tonsil r...

I'm not one to usually have issues with immigration but just walked into a walk-in centre in Leeds to see a doctor been quoted an one an half hours wait I look around the waiting room and I'm the only white British person in the room and I only speak English so won't be making much conversation as I can't speak the languages that everyone is speaking welcome the the Great British National Health Service! Time to try n get comfy!

A National Health Service (NHS) trained doctor is under suspicion for being part of a British-led jihadist kidna ...

Malala Yousafzai arrived yesterday for treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital here in Birmingham — a National Health Service hospital having a specialist major trauma center for patients of serious injuries. I along with a few Christian church ministers will be visiting her this evening.

the people don't want a government that privitises their National Health Service -arguably the greatest socialist achievement

United Kingdom See Healthcare in the United Kingdom for a description of the services from the user perspective. The National Insurance Act 1911 created a system of medical and unemployment insurance for all male workers of 16 years of age or older.[77] The system, funded through four pennies per week from the employee, three from the employer and two from the government (Lloyd George's so-called "ninepence for fourpence") was at first received with some trepidation by the medical profession but was eventually seen to have been a generally good thing.[78] In 1948 the system was extended to the entire population and a new service, the National Health Service or NHS was established.[79] Today it is the world's largest publicly funded health service.[80] It was set up on July 5, 1948 to "provide healthcare for all citizens, based on need, not the ability to pay." It is funded by the taxpayer and in England it is managed by a government department, the Department of Health, which sets overall policy on health ...

“Co-operation, compassion and care. That’s why the British people love our National Health Service.” – Ed Miliband

For those of us eagerly awaiting the return of Downton Abbey, and who wish we had our own National Health Service...

According to an article in the Express, the National Health Service in Fife, Scotland is set to impose new rules by which couples will be denied...

This message is special for you. JESUS IS NEVER LATE, AND HIS TIMING IS ALWAYS PERFECT! Many people have paid the high price for being late. We have all been there! Being late for your flight can be a painfu l experience; it can cost you more than a change fee! Medical experts also tell us that, the earlier a diagnosis is made and treatment is started, the greater the benefits. Late diagnosis and treatment can cause irreparable damage. For example, it is estimated that every year, there are around 10,000 deaths in England, caused by Cancer being diagnosed late, according to a report by the National Health Service (NHS) body, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) entitled, "Delayed diagnosis of Cancer: Thematic review; dated March 26, 2010. Another example of the consequences of late treatment is the untimely death of the great visionary and creative genius Steve Jobs, the mastermind behind Apple's iPhone, iPad, iPod, iMac, and iTunes; who died on October 5, 2011. According to Steve Job's biographer Wa ...

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