DFNHS strongly supports proposals from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smoking to introduce some to enhance tobacco control. (more…)
BMJ Essay prize winners
We asked. They answered. The entrants for the first ever essay prize, run jointly with the BMJ, impressed the judges with their thoughtfulness and effort. The standard was very high. But there had to be a winner. Very well done, Rose Penfold. The Top 10: (more…)
The Doctors for the NHS Essay Prize
In collaboration with the BMJ £500 first prize £200 second prize Open to all doctors in training (more…)
Let there be hope – the patient is still alive
Dare we hope? A string of celebrations mark the NHS’s 70th anniversary later this month. The government has backtracked on allowing doctors into the UK from non-EU countries, and a few days ago promised more cash for the NHS – with the added rarity of a serving Conservative government openly admitting this funding would come….
Health Select Committee: More Support
Some of our biggest concerns about ACOs received very welcome endorsement from Parliament’s Health Select Committee in their report Integrated care: organisations, partnerships and systems published this week. (more…)
Judge orders costs to be capped in judicial review of ACOs
The High Court has enabled the judicial review[1] of the policy on accountable care organisations to go ahead by capping the Secretary of State’s and NHS England’s costs – i.e., the costs they can ask the claimants to pay if, at the end of the day, the claimants lose. In an important judgment, Mrs Justice….
Judicial Review on ACOs granted: Might there be hope?
The High Court on 26 January granted permission to Professor Stephen Hawking, DFNHS Chair Dr Colin Hutchinson, Professor Allyson Pollock, Professor Sue Richards and Dr Graham Winyard to bring a judicial review against the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Jeremy Hunt, and NHS England to challenge the introduction of accountable care organisations….
AGM 2017: Justin Madders to speak
Justin Madders, MP, will be speaking to DFNHS members at this year’s AGM in York, on Saturday 7 October. (more…)
We Were Legions! NHS Demonstration Draws over 200,000
The ‘It’s Our NHS’ march on 4 March drew at least 200,000 people to central London to call for the destruction of the NHS to stop. Doctors for the NHS was there, setting out from BMA House to be part of the multitude. On a day that saw the weather hold back the rain until….
4 March, London: Let Us Stand
There is going to be a very large gathering of determined people this Saturday, 4 March, in London. The ‘It’s Our NHS’ demonstration, organised jointly by Health Campaigns Together and the People’s Assembly, promises to have a turnout out well into the thousands – there have been reports of coaches coming from all over the….