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Stress and drugs and rock n’ roll
One by one the vices that relieved stress for the poor are being denied them. Fags, booze and now food are in the firing line, writes Simon Stevens In this article I would like to explore something I...
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Social Care and NHS Reform: Good practice, bad management and old motorcycles
by Peter Beresford It’s a long way from old British motorbikes to social care and the National Health Service – or is it? This is the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the NHS, the organisation...
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Prevention is the key to better youth justice and health services
by Joe Levenson While there is wide acknowledgement that preventive services are the way forward, health and youth justice are lagging behind This year marks two major anniversaries relevant to...
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Health inequalities for black and minority ethnic people with learning...
by Andrew Holman At last night’s meeting of the All Party Parliamentary Group on learning disability, I got the chance to ask Sir Jonathan Michael a question about his report on the health of people...
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NHS principles in conflict
by Peter BeresfordAlthough many have welcomed plans for NHS personal budgets, they raise some wider questions about universal entitlement. The extension of personal budgets to the NHS has been...
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Washing away our woes?
writes Nigel LeaneySocial care staff need to address poor hygiene of service users: it can be a sign of a lack of self-care or an expression of eccentricityOne of the difficult areas that social care...
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by Kaarina Elisabeth Harriet Harman believes that unless women are guaranteed positions in government, we won’t get good government. She advocates positive discrimination, already employed for race and...
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Liking sex is not a disorder, but endlessly expanding psychological diagnoses...
by Dr Michael FitzpatrickEarly commentary on the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and StatisticalManual (DSM V) of the American Psychiatric Association – due forpublication in 2013 – has focused on the...
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If we are eating so badly, why are we living so long?
by Dr Mike Fitzpatrick The history of medicine reveals that doctors resort to recommending diets when they have no effective treatments – a state of affairs that prevailed from antiquity until the...
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Why early intervention undermines resilience and pathologises communities
by Hackney GP Michael FitzpatrickThe old medical adage “prevention is better than cure” has been extended from infectious diseases to diverse social problems, such as obesity, teenage pregnancy,...
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