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Jeremy Hunt’s message on dementia should have been ‘screened’ for damaging myths
My presumption is that I wish to be extremely positive about HM Government’s own volition about leading the G8 with the subject of dementia. Also, the “Prime Minister’s Dementia Challenge”, which sets...
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Living well with dementia: diet not drugs?
There is no cure for dementia currently. The available treatment strategies offer mainly symptomatic benefits. Thus, strategies to prevent or delay onset of dementia by changes in lifestyle factors,...
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Why I wrote ‘Living well with dementia’
“Living well with dementia: the importance of the person and the environment for wellbeing” is my book to be published in the UK on January 14th 2014. I have written it on my own, but I have drawn on...
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Concerns about the paired associates learning test for dementia
To begin to understand how a cathode-ray TV set works, I could remove one component called the “transistor”, and the picture disappears. It would be an incorrect conclusion to say that the purpose of...
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Andy Burnham needs a mandate to secure the future of the NHS
The media are obsessed about making immigration a make-or-break issue for political parties. Column inches are devoted to UKIP totally disproportionately to the number of MPs they actually have....
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Labour can make political weather on the NHS, but it shouldn’t be thrown off...
Political decisions will always be made, but are unlikely to be representative if certain people don’t wish to be part of the political process. It is hard to know what has caused a decline in...
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Burnham announces plans to implement a National Health and Care Service over...
The Constitution of WHO (1946) states that good health is a state of complete physical, social and mental well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. The Shadow of Secretary of...
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The ‘NHS Five Year Forward Plan’ is a clever marketing stunt, and is barely a...
There’s no “magic money tree”, except when you’re signing off HS3 on a ‘nod and a wink’ for £7 billion, or interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan for £30 billion. As a piece of marketing, for Simon...
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The general public have never needed the NHS campaigners as much before. The...
“The past is a different country. They did things differently there.’ One of the favourite weapons in the armoury of supporters of the present Coalition is that the warning claims over the NHS have...
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The Liberal Democrats and UKIP should pledge to repeal the Health and Social...
Ed Miliband, Andy Burnham, and the whole of Labour have pledged robustly that a direction to repeal the Health and Social Care Act (2012) will be made in the first Queen’s Speech of a new Labour...
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