Embed from Getty Images Over the last few years, we’ve seen rise after rise in English prescription charges. Yet the list of illnesses giving you free prescriptions was set in the 1960s, with cancer being the only recent addition. Shockingly, it excludes mental health outright. At this autumn’s South Central Regional Conference, a motion […]
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Profound Brexit implications for the UK’s Life Science industry
Embed from Getty Images Last week I was hoping to hear Liam Fox speak on ‘Maintaining the UK life sciences’ leading position’ at a Royal Society of Medicine symposium ‘Brexit; the Implications for the UK’s Life Science Industry’. He cancelled (what an (un)surprise). The implications for academia, industry and the NHS are profound. Already universities, […]
Profound Brexit implications for the UK’s Life Science industry
Embed from Getty Images Last week I was hoping to hear Liam Fox speak on ‘Maintaining the UK life sciences’ leading position’ at a Royal Society of Medicine symposium ‘Brexit; the Implications for the UK’s Life Science Industry’. He cancelled (what an (un)surprise). The implications for academia, industry and the NHS are profound. Already universities, […]
Profound Brexit implications for the UK’s Life Science industry
Embed from Getty Images Last week I was hoping to hear Liam Fox speak on ‘Maintaining the UK life sciences’ leading position’ at a Royal Society of Medicine symposium ‘Brexit; the Implications for the UK’s Life Science Industry’. He cancelled (what an (un)surprise). The implications for academia, industry and the NHS are profound. Already universities, […]
Lord Malcolm Bruce writes… Liberalism revitalised
I want to respond to the challenges issued by Paddy and Vince during our conference. Paddy said the party was “intellectually dead.” Vince said our position on another referendum was disrespectful to the electorate. Let me take on Vince first. We and our predecessors supported UK membership of the European Community from its inception. The […]
Lord Malcolm Bruce writes… Liberalism revitalised
I want to respond to the challenges issued by Paddy and Vince during our conference. Paddy said the party was “intellectually dead.” Vince said our position on another referendum was disrespectful to the electorate. Let me take on Vince first. We and our predecessors supported UK membership of the European Community from its inception. The […]
What happened to sending £350million a week to the NHS?
Embed from Getty Images It’s been seven weeks since the British public were visiting polling stations to make the biggest vote of their lifetime. Seven weeks since naïve Brexit supporters believed that £350 million a week would be spent on the NHS if their vote won. I’m from a small market town in Lincolnshire, […]
What happened to sending £350million a week to the NHS?
Embed from Getty Images It’s been seven weeks since the British public were visiting polling stations to make the biggest vote of their lifetime. Seven weeks since naïve Brexit supporters believed that £350 million a week would be spent on the NHS if their vote won. I’m from a small market town in Lincolnshire, […]
What happened to sending £350million a week to the NHS?
Embed from Getty Images It’s been seven weeks since the British public were visiting polling stations to make the biggest vote of their lifetime. Seven weeks since naïve Brexit supporters believed that £350 million a week would be spent on the NHS if their vote won. I’m from a small market town in Lincolnshire, […]
Mental health awareness was one of the reasons I became a Liberal Democrat
In 2013, I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after a long-lasting period of depression; a few weeks ago, I was discharged as an out-patient after spending several weeks under a mental health home treatment team, having suffered a manic episode crammed with delusions, little sleep and a somewhat adamant neglect of both food and hygiene […]