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NHStress?
Tuesday, 3 Nov, 2009 – 14:21 | No Comment
NHStress?

(c) Scottish Government
Last week, a friend told me that having fainted on the rugby pitch at aged twenty-three, he’d had his first experience of an NHS hospital. It made me think about what, at aged …

Healthcare systems and life expectancy
Thursday, 3 Sep, 2009 – 11:15 | 5 Comments
Healthcare systems and life expectancy

(c) The National Guard
Like this article, I had originally intended to write about how the NHS was a dinosaur of a bygone era and in need of desperate reform.
Then after doing my preliminary research, I …

Oh, America, how you fail to woo me with your healthcare system
Monday, 17 Aug, 2009 – 9:51 | One Comment
Oh, America, how you fail to woo me with your healthcare system

(c) Comedy Nose
‘Just look at their teeth,’ said the American guy. Frankly, his teeth were hardly award winning, and I’m convinced Amanda Holden would beat him in a shiny teeth competition. The row over the …

The thankless task of healthcare rationing
Friday, 17 Jul, 2009 – 16:30 | 2 Comments
The thankless task of healthcare rationing

(c) Shutr
Within its work to decide what we can and cannot afford on the NHS, The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) tackles some of the most difficult public policy decisions that we face as …

The meaning of death
Friday, 10 Jul, 2009 – 10:00 | No Comment
The meaning of death

(C)unusualimage
In the Western world death has – with the progress of medicine and the improvement of healthcare – retreated from the private sphere. Death isn’t something most of us have to deal with as much …