a balanced budget

The medical model and prescribed drugs

Author: Editorial 28th February 2018 0 Comments

As relevant to the medical model of mental healthcare and the issue of prescribed drugs … Three articles in the Daily Telegraph (June 30th and July 2nd 2016) have reported on how: 1) “More than one in three members of…
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Daily Telegraph, NHS officials, NHS’s procurement of medicines, pharmaceutical drugs, pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry

Opinion: changing the NHS spending ratio

Author: Editorial 19th March 2017 0 Comments

Mental illness is now nearly 50% of all ill health suffered by people aged under 65 in Britain, and accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. [1] At any one time, about 16% of adults and 10% of children…
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materialism, NHS budget, NHS spending, Opinion, Richard Oldfield

Author: admin 31st October 2016 0 Comments

Our vision is of a budget more fairly divided between biophysical and mental & emotional healthcare. The NHS in England spends roughly seven times more on biophysical healthcare than on mental and emotional healthcare. The primary reason for this imbalance is that biophysical…
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a balanced budget

NHS, NHS budget, NHS spending