A new report from the Rarer Cancers Forum suggests that 16,000 people in the United Kingdom have been denied cancer drugs by Great Britain’s government-controlled National Health Service (NHS).
Key findings:
Although progress has been made in gaining access to treatment, with 8,750 more patients being given vital treatment, 16,000 have
Multi-Year Price Determination 2010/11 to 2012/13 (MYPD 2)
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Yet another study finds that the United States new health care law (“ObamaCare”) is going to increase costs. And this one wasn’t issued by an opponent of the Democrats’ reforms. In fact, one of its authors is an ObamaCare apologist, says Investor’s Business Daily.
In an effort to determine how ObamaCare
Media release from the Free Market Foundation
13 June 2012
Next step to a nanny state: tougher anti-smoking laws
By the end of June, the Minister of Health may succeed in installing new unrealistic anti-smoking regulations that will prevent anyone from smoking in any building, outdoor venue, public or private beach, outdoor drinking
Germany’s well-trained but frustrated young doctors are leaving the country for higher pay in ever greater numbers, leaving some hospitals struggling to fill positions.
More than 12,500 German doctors are working abroad already, and 2,300 left the country in 2005 alone, according to the doctors’ association, the Marburger Bund. The Netherlands,
Doctors who quit their jobs are being routinely forced to sign “gagging orders” despite legislation designed to protect whistleblowers in the National Health Service (NHS), Great Britain’s government-run health care system, says the Independent.
Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money are being spent on contracts that deter doctors from speaking out
In the Economic Freedom of the World: 2009 Annual Report released today by the Free Market Foundation, SAs rating improved slightly from 7.03 to 7.06 (out of 10) and is ranked 57th out of 141 countries.
This means that SAs ranking has declined from 54th in the 2008 report
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Tuesday, 10 July 2012
Substantive law-making should not be left to the Executive
Law Review Project on proposed ban on smoking in public
The Department of Healths draft regulations on tobacco control may be unconstitutional on the basis that substantive law is being made by executive decree rather than through parliamentary legislation with
