#NHS #MENCAP : Kingston Hospital - Staff Let 23 Year Old Martin Ryan Starve To Death(2005) Little Has Changed When It Comes To The Care Of Stroke Patients In 2012 At Kingston Hospital. No More Night Nurses Instead Agency Staff Who Could Give A Damn !

http://www.mencap.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/2009-03/martin_briefing2.pdf

#HSE #DUBLIN :St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital, Grangegorman In North Dublin EXPOSED BY Louise Bayliss

Well done Louise we need more Hero's like you. God Bless You. I could not find a song for Louise but hope you like this you are one special lady. AND reinstate Luoise, how can anyone possibly fire a person for caring about her patients !

A Whistleblower who revealed psychiatric patients in an open ward were being forced into a locked unit over the festive period due to staff shortages has lost her job.


Louise Bayliss spoke out after she discovered that female patients at St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital, Grangegorman in north Dublin, were being moved to a "lock-up" ward for Christmas. But after her story appeared on page one of the Sunday Independent, Ms Bayliss wasn't allowed to return to the HSE wards where she worked as an advocate worker on behalf of mentally ill patients.

The separated mother of two, who also spoke out on Joe Duffy's Liveline show, has since lost her job with the Irish Advocacy Network (IAN) which is part funded by the HSE.

There is now intense pressure to have her reinstated, with Health Minister James Reilly asked to personally intervene.

Ms Bayliss, who had a six-month contract to act as an advocate for patients at various hospitals around Dublin, says she has no regrets.

"They recognised my voice on Liveline and I used my first name on the programme. I was easy to identify" she said. Speaking to the Sunday Independent, Ms Bayliss said she felt that she was acting in the true spirit of advocacy by speaking out on behalf of the five patients.....read more


http://www.independent.ie/national-news/whistleblowing-mental-health-worker-loses-job-2996304.html

#BigPharma And Paula Deen Hawks

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I generally don't believe in skewering people, even celebrities, for their health problems and/or how they deal with them. So at first I hesitated to join the chorus lambasting Paula Deen for waiting three years to disclose that she has been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. But Deen's stubborn insistance on using her Food TV forum to promote unhealthy food, and her long-time role as a paid shill for industrial-meat giant Smithfield, tempted me to comment on her announcement. (Evidence is mounting, by the way, that industrially raised meat contributes to diabetes risk.)....read more

http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/paula-deen-promotes-dubious-diabetes-drug

#NHS : Doctor Ignores Medical Advice To Complete Bevan's Run

Two doctors have completed the last leg of a 160 mile run from Cardiff to London to highlight opposition to the Government's proposed NHS reforms, even though one needed treatment for a knee injury.

Dr David Wilson and Dr Clive Peedell, both cancer consultants at James Cook Hospital, Middlesbrough, completed the run – which started at the statue of NHS founder Aneurin Bevan in Cardiff and took them six days – with RCGP chair Dr Clare Gerada joining them for the last leg to central London.

The doctors decided to embark on the epic run in an attempt to highlight opposition to the Government's proposed NHS reforms. When they arrived in central London on Sunday, they delivered a mock postcard from Mr Bevan to 10 Downing Street.

The run was almost cut short for Dr Wilson, as five miles short of completing the final leg of the long-distance Bevan Run a knee injury threatened to force him to stop..read more

http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/13298037/doctor-ignores-medical-advice-to-complete-bevan-s-run

#NewsCorp :Cameron's Pal Matthew Freud Picks Up £1m-A-Year Contract With Department Of Health

Whitehall awards public health campaign contract to Freud Communications, whose clients include Pepsi and KFC

Matthew Freud, owner of Freud Communications, is the son of writer Sir Clement Freud and husband of Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth. Photograph: Rann Chandric/Rann Chandric /eyevine

 

The Chipping Norton set might not be getting together for the festive season this year, but Christmas came early for one of its main movers yesterday, courtesy of a £1m a year contract with Whitehall.

The Department of Health announced that from January, its entire public relations work on public health would be handled by Matthew Freud's communication agency, which lists several fast and snack food producers among its clients.

Distinct strands of public health work – such as obesity and smoking – were handled as separate accounts managed by different agencies, but now all the work will be rolled up into a single account for MEC managing all the media planning and Freud Communications, the firm founded and largely owned by Rupert Murdoch's son in law. Freud is married to Elisabeth Murdoch.,

The contract was awarded after a formal tendering process. The DoH said the single campaign would increase efficiency, by streamlining all communications: "Too often the department has held separate conversations with the same people, one day talking to them about their diet, the next about their alcohol consumption without recognising the linked behaviours."

Sheila Mitchell, the Department's Head of Marketing, added that: "Freud Communications delivered a really exciting pitch. They have some big ideas that we believe will not only promote good health but will really change people's behaviour".

But public health experts expressed scepticism about the government's real commitment to public health.

In the wake of the announcement, Professor Helen Ward of Imperial College said last night: "There may be some merit in approaching health promotion in a generic way, but this comes as part of an overall government strategy which has focussed on deals with big business at the exclusion of the multilayered approach which is required. That would go beyond campaigns to nudge people into changing behaviour, and include regulation – something business always resists".

Other Freud clients include Pepsi, KFC, Walkers Crisps and the premium drinks company, Diageo. Public health lobby groups, including Diabetes UK and the British Heart Foundation, previously refused to sign up to health secretary Andrew Lansley's "responsibility deals" with food and alcohol producers, amid fears about vested interests.

Professor Graham MacGregor, chair of the salt-reduction campaign CASH, said: "Andrew Lansley inherited a plan on salt which was leading the world, but this has now given way to confusion. The reliance on PR people with deep links to the food industry deepens the anxieties about public health in the UK."

Freud handled the anti-obesity Change4Life campaign, which brought in fees of £45,000 a month; it is thought the combined campaign will earn about £85,000 a month, or £1m a year.

Mitchell said that a percentage of this will be forfeited if the new campaign does not achieve its targets.

Industry insiders said this was the biggest Whitehall PR contract awarded since the election.

Diane Abbott, shadow public health minister, said: "It is really creepy. Big business is now completely in the driving seat of the country's public health policies. Big fast food firms and drinks companies are writing the policy, and corporate lobbyists are delivering the message"

Freud PR said that the firm had no immediate conflicts of interest because the health department contract took in work about smoking and the early diagnosis of cancer in old people.

It is understood that the company does not represent any tobacco or pharmaceutical clients.

Insiders said that the pitch process was "pretty robust" and that given the family links to News Corp, that had to be the case.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/20/matthew-freud-contract-department-health

NHS Consultants Run 160 Miles In Protest At Government Health Bill

Clive Peedell and David Wilson deliver mock postcard from NHS founder Nye Bevan to prime minister at end of six-day run

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The NHS consultants ran six marathons in six days taking them from a statue of NHS founder Nye Bevan (pictured) in Cardiff to Whitehall to urge the government to drop the health bill. Photograph: PA/Empics Sports Photo Agency

"The NHS will last as long as there are folks left with faith to fight for it," Nye Bevan said of the organisation he founded in 1948.

Two NHS consultants took that message to the coalition government on Sunday by completing a 160-mile run, from a statue of Bevan in Cardiff to Whitehall, aimed at fighting plans to reform the NHS.

Clive Peedell and David Wilson, both cancer specialists at James Cook University hospital, in Middlesbrough, finished the equivalent of six back-to-back marathons in as many days to protest against the government's health and social care bill.

At the end of Bevan's Run, as it was dubbed, Peedell and Wilson delivered a mock postcard from Bevan to No 10 urging the government to drop the bill.
"It was a symbolic message to David Cameron and Andrew Lansley, that Nye Bevan would not have approved of what they are trying to do the NHS. He would have been appalled by it," Peedell said at the end of the final run.

Along the route Peedell delivered a similar postcard to Cameron's constituency office in Witney, Oxfordshire.

Peedell and Wilson completed the run wearing T-shirts bearing Bevan's quote. They were greeted by up to 300 campaigners outside the Department of Health headquarters.

"When we saw all the people at Richmond House it was a real lift. It was a fantastic feeling to finish," Peedell said.

"We did it to highlight opposition to the health and social care bill, which would increasingly privatise the NHS and undermine its founding principles which Nye Bevan outlined."

In a blogpost en route, Peedell wrote: "Cameron and Lansley cannot be trusted on the NHS. Their ideology is neoliberal, with an uncritical faith in markets and the drive for a minimal welfare safety net."

Peedell, who is co-chairman of the NHS Consultants' Association and had never completed a marathon before, said there was no support for the proposals. "We must fight them tooth and nail to stop this bill becoming law."

Wilson, who is an experienced runner, said: "Our greatest and most popular national institution is being stolen away from under our noses."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/15/nhs-consultants-run-protest-heath-bill

The Disabled Without Wheelchairs AND The Queen Want's A Yacht - Take It Away Taxi Driver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPJq8-AQXT4