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The report says that within two decades, most NHS services and health service research and development, may be carried out by licensed non-public service providers.
"It is conceivable that the NHS in 20 years time will concentrate on the developmental aspects of health care and on the use of its brand name to permit a range of carefully chosen organisations to provide specific services to explicit quality standards," says the report.
But the report, which builds up a picture of UK healthcare in 2020, also believes the essential principles of the NHS - of universal care free at the point of delivery - will survive, not least because of because its value to the UK economy.
"The opportunities for society in terms of physical, mental and economic health offered by comprehensive health care are clear," the report adds.
"A comprehensive national system with universal coverage and registration such as the NHS offers great potential advantages, particularly in terms of access to health care and equity of outcome.
"This will be increasingly important as new growth areas, such as genomics and informatics, risk exacerbating disparities between individuals and groups in society."
I am quite sure that most of us have seen television commercials where a senior citizen addresses a group of other seniors promoting a medication that helps relieve any number of issues. The pharmaceutical industry spends millions of marketing dollars publicizing a plethora of ailments anyone of us might just have.
Recently, I saw a commercial that was intended for people who may suffer pain and discomfort from rheumatoid arthritis. This particular commercial and its timing interested me because, not long ago, I accompanied a client to a medial appointment to address concerns of their rheumatoid arthritis. Sitting with my client ...
Listening to doctors ask their patients medical and health questions is always educational for me. Often, I pick up bits and pieces of information that may relate to other clients. During this office visit, not only did I become interested in the questions the doctor posed to her patient about oral hygiene, but my inte...
Unable to contain my curiosity any longer, I asked the doctor why she was addressing the patient’s oral hygiene. Her response was that people with rheumatoid arthritis quite frequently have oral hygiene issues.
For anyone who does not know much about rheumatoid arthritis, it is an autoimmune disease where the immune system triggers inflammation, even though there are no foreign invaders such as viruses and bacteria to fight off. When this happens, the body’s immune system mistakenly attacks the joints and soft tissue througho...
The connection between gum disease and rheumatoid arthritis becomes quite clear when you consider that almost three-quarters of the people who have rheumatoid arthritis have gum disease and/or accumulation of oral bacteria — specifically, a bacterium called Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans (Aa). Conversely, accord...
Obviously, we all should practice sound dental care to protect tour teeth. However, for people who have rheumatoid arthritis, additional attention should be given to their dental hygiene. While not always the case, often people with rheumatoid arthritis have greater difficulty cleaning their teeth because of jaw joint ...
• Visit your dentist with greater frequency, as he or she is able to give your teeth a thorough clean and remove any hardened plaque.
• Experiment with new types of floss. Try floss holders, floss picks or threaders.
• Make the most of mouthwash. Buy one with fluoride to protect your teeth from cavities.
• Don’t light up. Smoking is a big risk factor in developing gum disease, and it can interfere with the success of some treatments.
• Speak to your dentist. Tell your dentist about your rheumatoid arthritis issues and condition.
While researchers are unsure as to the cause of rheumatoid arthritis, we do know that there are certain medical conditions that have association. Oral hygiene is one such association. If you have bleeding gums, toothache and biting difficulties, then you may want to inquire if such conditions may leave you vulnerable t...
As with many illnesses and diseases, research continues every day. With the discoveries of new treatments constantly being developed, hope is building for long-time suffering rheumatoid arthritis patients to experience some relief from this disease.
Describing his work as a bit sketchy could not be further from the truth.
In fact, for cartoonist Brian Adcock, of Sprowston, he has become something of a perfectionist when it comes to his art.
And now the married, father-of-one has proven his talent by scooping a hat-trick of national awards for his work.
Mr Adock, who creates cartoons for the Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday and the Independent, was recently awarded cartoonist of the year for the third time at this year’s Scottish Press Awards, set at Glasgow’s Radisson Blu Hotel.
The former Great Yarmouth High School pupil, who remembers drawing all the time as a child, has also been the runner-up for the same award four times.
His career began in 1999 when he moved to Prague and met wife Hana. Although he tried to pursue a career as a cartoonist there it did not work out and the couple returned together to Norfolk in 2001, where they had their daughter Isobel, now aged 13.
It was then Mr Adcock, of Lone Barn Road, finally got his first big break and started doing a cartoon strip and political cartoons for the Prague Post.
Admitting that he was “nervous” about tackling politics, he said, 14 years on, he was pleased he was thrown in at the deep end and added that it took him six hours from idea to page to create each cartoon.
“I really like doing the characters and seeing them come alive,” he said. “I’m always amazed how the characters conjured themselves.
From shutting himself away for hours at the weekend, to finding inspiration from meditating and people watching, Mr Adcock said it was an industry he loved working in.
• Have you won an award recently? Contact reporter Donna-Louise Bishop on 01603 693892, email donna-louise.bishop@archant.co.uk or follow on Twitter @donnaloubishop.
Food, Inc. exposes America's industrialized food system and its effect on our environment, health, economy and workers' rights. See the incredible film, learn about these issues and take action.
Anti-whistleblower legislation across the country threatens to criminalize individuals who make undercover videos or photographs at agricultural facilities. Imagine, if these laws were enacted in every state, it would be impossible to make an investigative documentary like Food, Inc. Ag gag laws give agribusinesses fre...
By signing this petition, you’re taking a stand for a transparent food system that safeguards consumers, not corporations. Demand action today!
Find locally grown produce, Community Supported Agriculture programs, and even great organic restaurants with the Eat Well Guide. Type in your zip code and find out what’s in season near you. Find out more at EatWellGuide.org.
Nearly all of the approximately 10 billion animals raised and killed in the US annually suffer inhumane conditions at industrial farms. Not to mention the workers and surrounding communities that are affected by the unsafe conditions. Find out more at HumaneSociety.org.
Cancers, autism and neurological disorders have all been associated with the use of pesticides. Learn about what pesticides are in your food and their effects. Find out more at WhatsOnMyFood.org.
Did you know that the average food product travels about 1,500 miles to get to your grocery store? And that transporting food accounts for 30,800 tons of greenhouse gas emissions every year? Find out more at CoolFoodsCampaign.org.
Hungry for change? Take these simple steps right now! Find out more.
Fall is upon us and yet there are no cold chilly days, gusts of wind, and dreary clouds hanging in the sky. The weather lately has been unusual compared to the stereotypical Autumn that we are used to.
As students shed their layers of sweaters and jackets during lunch, they are left wondering “what is going on with this weather?” The past week’s weather forecast has consisted of mid-seventies and cloudless skies. This is not expected as we near the end of October; a whole month and a half of Fall already gone by.
We only received one week of rain though the rest of the days resulted in t-shirts and shorts.
Some have enjoyed this change towards warmer weather, like Olivia Ong who prefers Summer temperatures. Others dislike their prolonged wait for cooler temperatures and the cozy comfort of huddling by the heater.
But why could this year’s weather conditions be so odd? Some scientists blame global warming; others claim it is merely not average. Whichever the reason, the majority of the population is trying to enjoy it while they can.
The upcoming averages for November, according to Weather.com, decrease into temperatures around the mid-sixties. So break out your pea coats and scarves, cold weather is in the future. We will soon see the regular patterns of Autumn weather transitioning into or chilly Winter in December.
Wed., Oct. 13, 2004, 9:03 a.m.
Since I don't have the time -- or the dependable blog today -- I'll leave you with Michelle Malkin's blog comments. They're superb today. She talks of the 30 Chechen terrorists who have entered the U.S. through our vulnerable southern border, national Demo bigotry and another Lefty cartoonist who makes Condi Rice the t...
Posted Oct. 13, 2004, 9:03 a.m.
It is becoming common practice for governments to intercede with their legal powers whenever politicians believe that private firms need to be bailed out after their imprudent business decisions have lead them to the brink of disaster. Interestingly, such practices are justified by the cheerleaders of government interv...
Of course, as Aristotle taught us many moons ago, one swallow does not a springtime make. Bailouts provided by the government cannot by any means be guaranteed to rescue every faltering business. So even if this justification had any moral force, it isn’t clear at all that it supports bailouts as government policy.
Even apart from the economic imprudence of bailing out companies that cannot succeed in a free marketplace, there is also the moral consideration that government isn’t authorized, either ethically or legally, to carry out such bailouts. When it does so, it acts without proper authority.
Arguably, whether it has the legal authority to engage in bailouts is difficult to establish in a jurisprudential atmosphere in which the Constitution is widely regarded as a living document, something infirm, flexible, malleable, and largely dependent upon the ideology of sitting justices. In such a legal environment ...
As to morality, if one could show beyond any reasonable doubt that governments have authority to provide bailouts, then arguably bailouts might be morally acceptable. They would be policies not unlike those that government carries out when it protects the rights of the citizenry, namely, they would be policies authoriz...
However, bailouts are very far from resting on such legitimate authority. Although they aren’t the sole public policies today that lack a sound basis, it is important to know why they, too, are wrong.
The political philosophy of the American system of government was established in the Declaration of Independence. This was a philosophical statement, not a legal document, but as Abraham Lincoln, among others, observed, it provided the foundation for the U. S. Constitution. This is why for many decades after our foundi...
In the Declaration the task of government is identified quite unambiguously — it is “to secure rights,” the rights listed in the Declaration and ones that can be shown to derive from them. So when we consider what is justified for government to do (i.e., what just powers government possesses), the first place to seek g...
Simply put, one needs to ask whether bailing out faltering commercial enterprises amounts to securing the rights of the American citizenry. It does not. Such a public policy reaches far beyond the scope of the legitimate, just powers of the government of a free country.
Some may raise some objections to this line of argumentation based on the fact that even back at the time of the founding of our republic there were those who argued for more extensive governmental powers than what would be authorized in the terms of the Declaration of Independence. That is true. However, those were th...
It is a bit more difficult to rely on the Constitution, even as originally written, because it is a document resulting from considerable political compromise. Still, if one adheres to the Bill of Rights, it is clear that the kind of taking from innocent citizens that a bailout involves is not sanctioned there. Private ...
For some people the considerations summarized here will appear quite orthodox, but that is because they already accept moral and political relativism, the view that there are no stable principles by which human beings, including institutions such as a government, ought to conduct themselves. However, this view is ultim...
In conclusion, for the reasons outlined above, it is beyond any reasonable doubt and quite certain that bailouts of the type being perpetrated routinely by the federal government of the United States are unjust, and proceeding with them is a violation of the oath of office of our political representatives.
– Tibor Machan holds the R. C. Hoiles Chair in Business Ethics & Free Enterprise at Chapman University’s Argyros School of Business & Economics. He is a member of the Board of Scholars of the Virginia Institute for Public Policy, an education and research organization headquartered in Gainesville.
Both the content and strategic knowledge used in phylogenetic tree construction are described to account for novice performance. A review of the literature is used to place this research with respect to studies in: problem solving studies (both expert, and novice), the history and practice of evolutionary systematics, ...
Each of the five research problems consists of an encoded matrix containing phylogenetic data organized by taxa and characters. Twelve participants (high school students) volunteered to solve the research problems, on their own time, before and after school. Each participant generated three sets of data: (I) an audio t...
A procedural model of novice performance for phylogenetic tree construction is described with the associated strategies needed to do so. There are four activities that make up the procedural model of novice performance. Those activities are: matrix analysis, building a tree topology, character assignment, and checking....
Brisbin, Terrance E., "An Account of Novice Phylogenetic Tree Construction from the Problem-Solving Research Tradition" (2000). Dissertations. 1439.
Bradshaw played in 34 games in his big-league career, and once made a trip to Pittsburgh. Guess what happened? While Bradshaw was staying at the Cardinals’ team hotel in 1996, he had contact lenses shipped to him. Someone in Pittsburgh added a special message on the package for Bradshaw.
“They’d written all over it, ‘Great job in the Super Bowls.’ ‘We love you, man.’ ‘Thanks for the four Super Bowls.’ They thought it was the quarterback,” Bradshaw told Kaegel.
During that trip, Bradshaw had a four-hit game against the Pirates at Three Rivers Stadium.
“And at the bottom of the scoreboard, they put, ‘And not the quarterback,’ ” Bradshaw told Kaegel.
April 17 (UPI) -- About 90 percent of children in an early trial for oral immunotherapy against peanut allergy safely made it to the maintenance phase of treatment, researchers report.
April 17 (UPI) -- Metformin could reverse left ventricular hypertrophy, the thickening of the heart's muscle that can cause heart disease.
Mistaken beliefs about sleep are common -- including five hours are necessary, snoring is harmless or a drink before bedtime helps you fall asleep -- and pose a significant health threat, a new study warns.
April 16 (UPI) -- A new comic-style brochure helped patients reduce stress by explaining cardiac catheterization, a procedure that inserts a stent to open a narrowed artery to increase blood flow.
April 16 (UPI) -- After two years of treatment with statins, about half of patients in primary care still don't hit healthy cholesterol levels.
One thing’s for sure: in 20 years, people will still complain about the weather. Other than that, death, and taxes, pretty much anything goes.
One key theme is that the future is so much bigger than any particular sector or industry. Ask leaders to think decades down the road, and they bring up societal issues like privacy, geographical trends in business clusters, and what the enterprise of the future will need.
An obvious point is that Boston’s future in particular has a lot to do with life sciences and healthcare—currently the top strength of the region, especially compared to other geographies—so any discussion of local innovation must account for that in a big way.
Other important strengths of the area lie in education and enterprise IT. The leaders we’ve talked to recently have addressed all of the above.
Ashley Gentile contributed to this report.
Rare's Nintendo 64 shooter Perfect Dark gets a high-definition makeover for Xbox Live Arcade, the lovely and talented special agent Joanna Dark looking ten years better than she did in her first-person shooter debut. Is Dark still "perfect"?
Perfect Dark for XBLA doesn't attempt to modernize the decade-old original beyond improving its visual fidelity and taking the offline game to Xbox Live, a chance for players of the split-screen original to test their special agent skills online in competitive and cooperative modes. The 4J Studios-developed upgrade pac...
The console first-person shooter has evolved leaps and bounds since Perfect Dark first demanded Nintendo 64 owners plug in their Expansion Paks two generations ago. Is it worth going Dark one more time?
Perfectly Quaint: Amidst the endless, detached killing of DataDyne soldiers and the run-ins with otherworldly lifeforms, the junk food blast that is Perfect Dark is still surprisingly fun to play. It can hardly be taken seriously anymore, with its outdated voice-acting and ham-fisted visuals—everyone in Perfect Dark is...
Bang/Buck Ratio: There are few first-person shooters are Xbox Live Arcade, even fewer that offer something for the single-player fan, the multiplayer enthusiast and the something perfect for your four-player split-screen gamer. Perfect Dark HD is swimming in modes, maps, weapons and gadgets. Throw in Counter-Op mode, w...
Nostalgia Bankruptcy: If you don't harbor fond feelings for Rare's Perfect Dark of old or even Goldeneye, as I don't, expect the appeal of the XBLA version of Perfect Dark to be easily lost on you. The game has its glaring faults, from laggy online multiplayer to a hilariously outdated cinematic presentation to floaty ...
First-person shooters rarely age well, as the Xbox 360 re-release of Perfect Dark helps to emphasize. The high-definition coat of paint can't obscure the now-antiquated mechanics and game design that wowed the game-starved Nintendo 64 fan looking for a Goldeneye replacement in 2000. But even for the first-person shoote...
Perfect Dark was developed by 4J Studios and Rare and published by Microsoft Game Studios for Xbox Live Arcade on March 17. Retails for 800 Microsoft Points. A copy of the game was given to us by the publisher for reviewing purposes. Played through single-player missions on Agent difficulty, tested all online multiplay...
Two years ago yesterday, the lives of Frank and Lucy Barnak's family changed drastically and unalterably.
Yesterday, 37-year-old Lawrence Stankey of Kempton R.1 pleaded guilty to wreaking the terrible changes: the 60-year-old Lucy Barnak's death that night in a two-car crash in Lehigh Township, and her 63-year-old widower's death some seven months later in a nursing home.
Stankey pleaded guilty before Northampton County Judge Jack A. Panella to two counts of homicide by vehicle for the Barnaks' deaths, and to drunken driving as a first offense.
The judge sentenced him to 1-1/2 to five years in Northampton County Prison, fined him $5,000 and gave him 60 days to put his affairs in order before reporting to the facility.
Withdrawn in the negotiated plea accepted by Panella and approved by the Barnaks' three children were two charges of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol, a charge that carries a mandatory 3-year state prison sentence.
Stankey also was seriously injured in the head-on crash at Route 946 and Blue Mountain Drive in Danielsville. He lost an eye, as well as his senses of taste and smell, and underwent considerable plastic surgery, according to his defense attorney, Gary Asteak.
Stankey, who apologized directly to the Barnak family, "sometimes wishes that he had died in that accident, too," Asteak said.
Stankey said he and a brother-in-law had been drinking beer that night at a tavern. But because a blood sample was drawn too long after the crash, its .11-percent alcohol content could not be related to Stankey's degree of intoxication at the time of the collision.
According to Lehigh Township Police Chief Jeffrey Schuler, the Barnaks, who lived on N. Kearney Street in Allentown, were headed west on Route 946 and had stopped at the red light at Route 946 and Blue Mountain Drive.
Stankey, heading east on Route 946, drove through the red light, crossed the center line and collided with the Barnaks' car.
Lucy Barnak, a clerk in the Lehigh County Orphan's Court, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her husband, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and retired Mack Truck supervisor, had to be extricated from the driver's seat of the car. He died July 12, 1992 in a nursing home.
Their children, Thomas and Debra Miller, and Bonita Harter, all spoke quietly and briefly to acknowledge their understanding and acceptance of the plea.

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