Too busy building snowmen to check Twitter? Here’s our summary of what you might have missed from the world of health.
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A 10 year plan on health is not the key to No10 for Labour, argues Mike Birtwistle. - Yet more polling (this time by Ipsos MORI) showing a surge in public concern about the NHS.
- The NHS 111 referral rate to A&E has actually fallen, but there has been an surge in calls to it.
- The WHO may recommend not vaping indoors, but MPs are now allowed to puff e-cigs in Parliament.
- An important reminder by the IFS that less financial pain in health means more elsewhere in the public sector.
- The doctor-doctor relationship and how it can harm patients: “the hidden shame of medicine.”
- Bristol is piloting smokefree outdoor spaces.
- Paul Burstow and Andrew Gwynne referred to our work on cost impact of earlier cancer diagnosis. We can save lives & money!
- Francis two years on – a cancer perspective by Jagtar Dhanda.
- Detecting eye cancer through flash photography – an amazing story.
From America:
- Should restaurant workers have to wash their hands?! Is it such a fine line between nanny state and no state?
- America tops the international league table for sugar consumption.
- Why politicians should be careful in weighing in on public health issues.
- Younger age, not political affiliation, is associated with opposition to vaccines in America.
- A reminder from Benjamin Franklin about the importance of vaccination…
- The New Yorker has a rather blunt take on the measles outbreak in America.
- Why is it getting worse to die in America?
- Heartless: the tale of perverse consequences from the publication of cardiac surgery rates in New York.
- Physician burnout by specialty.
And finally…
- Jacob Rees Mogg wants to legislate to prevent a nanny state.
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