No I've had to request, and pay for copies of everything since at least the early 2000s, and that is across 2 GP practices and 3 hospital trusts.
After more than 30 years I'm still haunted by standing in the front hall of the kid's school on Monday morning, a seven year old and four old on...
We can only state what the legal position is and hope that anyone dealing with application, appeal etc can make use of it. At a rough count I've...
I'm not sure if the wording is different for ESA/UC but the guidance on PIP makes it very clear that explicit diagnosis of various bits of...
I don't think there ever was a legal basis for refusal on those grounds, though I'm sure it happened. There was a conflation of (at least) two...
The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine - as of 06/11/21...
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With the vague thought that it might be useful to have a breakdown of UK services I started going through the MEA specialist list - I soon found...
Surely not, not from the man who: When he was 50 he published his first book, How We Are. This is the first part of the How To Live trilogy. The...
I didn't read it as that was what was being promoted - rather that patients with a symptomatic condition which would previously have meant they...
I suspect the motivation, at least in part, is the sense of services being overwhelmed by the obesity/heart disease/type 2 diabetes epidemic. The...
MEA email Newsletter includes the following:
Within the UK/NHS context - I don't know enough about other countries/cultures systems - the divorce between on the one side what politicians and...
I suspect that there is always some level of compromise in every NICE Guidance between the provider and patient interest. What's notable about the...
Not a complaint but it seemed more like a recruitment and funding campaign than a genuine inquiry about what is important. It's not exceptional...
Absolutely agree about templates. Doing things informally is difficult for a legally constituted body - every time you encourage someone to do...
I think there may be reluctance to do this. The legal and financial and administrative issues present a lot of potential problems. Even just...
Yes, it needs to have a common presentation that is adaptable (within strict limits) to the local commissioning area but the commissioners also...
Yes it means that things are heavily weighted towards continuing with the status quo, so keeping nothing where there is currently no service, and...
Well you certainly seem ahead of the game ! It was the co-ordination across the UK I was thinking of, unfortunately there doesn't seem anything...
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