Over 70 top public health experts recently published an open letter in The Times (subscription), defending the benefits of EU membership for the UK’s health care. They talked of the NHS’s staffing requirements, the need of international cooperation to tackle cross-border health issues, access to health research and new medicines and how reliant our public … [Read more…]
With the likes of Farage, Gove and Johnson using scaremongering tactics to instil fear into British citizens, coupled with cries for us to make our “own laws” in a bid to preserve British sovereignty, it is easy for us to forget the many areas where shared decision-making at the EU level has a very positive … [Read more…]
Despite the Department of Health telling them off a couple of months ago the Leave campaign is again using the NHS logo illegally in order to make it seem like they are strongly ‘in’ with our public health service. In recent photos of their ‘battle buses’ you can clearly see them using the NHS logo … [Read more…]
Today, 4th April 2016, Healthier IN had a letter published in The Times, defending the EU as an overall benefit to UK public health, the NHS and health research. Through its collection of co-signatories, it brought together health professionals of every sort, from medical students to medical peers, doctors, nurses, other health professionals, supporters of all … [Read more…]
The major threats to health pay no attention to national borders. Even the most convinced supporter of Brexit must realise that the UK could not hope to quarantine itself in the face of a flu pandemic. We need effective surveillance systems, monitoring the emergence of new disease outbreaks in real time, putting the information together, … [Read more…]