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Sugar tax needed, say US experts

From the BBC. Sugar is as damaging and addictive as alcohol or tobacco and should be regulated, claim US health experts. According to a University of California team, new policies such as taxes are needed to control soaring consumption of sugar and sweeteners. Prof Robert Lustig argues in the journal Nature for major shifts in [...]

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So that’s OK then….or is it really excellent?

By alun | October 23, 2008

An excellent post from Mike Denham at the Burning our Money blog

The boxes are ticked, the targets are hit, so all is well.

GPs are incentivised to keep sick people away from hospitals, Junior hospital doctors are short of experience. Elderly patients are suffering from malnutrition or hospital acquired infections because there’s no one to look after them.

The de-skilling & dumbing-down continues, yet dentists who are brave enough to take the step away from the NHS regulations in order to provide the very best that they can are castigated by people who have been told repeated lies about the quality of NHS care by governments.

Copying from one person is plagiarism, copying from more than one is research. I must admit to re-writing a lot of this from NHS Blog Doctor.

 

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