Health Services Bill opens in Lords

The Health and Social Care Bill: 10 things for the Lords to consider.

666 BMJ | 1 OCTOBER 2011 | VOLUME 343 After a third reading and heated debate in the House of Commons, the Health and Social Care Bill was passed by 316 votes to 251 on 7 September. It received its first reading in the House of Lords, little more than a formality, the next day but will be subject to far more rigorous debate at its second reading in October. Despite more than 1000 amendments in ...

Mental Health Bill

1) Role of E C T in schizophrenia is a controversial issue which is yet far from settled. Various workers have often made contradictory claims. Our findings are to be interpreted in this context, i.e. our observations and conclusions are restricted on to our study and should not be regarded as definitive or as the last word on the role of ECT in schizophrenia. We are aware that while some studi...

A cleaner bill of health.

The Bioinformatics Links Directory, http:// bioinformatics.ca/links_directory, is an actively maintained compilation of servers published in this and previous issues of Nucleic Acids Research issues together with many other useful tools, databases and resources for life sciences research. The 2007 update includes the 130 websites highlighted in the July 2007 Web Server issue of Nucleic Acids Re...

Ethics in family planning/reproductive health services

No Clean Bill of Health for Csg

The Queensland Government’s Health Report, ‘Coal seam gas in the Tara region: Summary risk assessment of health complaints and environmental monitoring data, March 2013’, [Health Report] and the reports on which it is based, do not provide a comprehensive investigation of the potential impacts of coal seam gas (CSG) activities on the residents of Tara. The Health Report should not be used by go...