Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 2007

ON THE STATE OF PUBLIC HEALTH: ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER 2007

Contents

“On the State of Public Health

Progress Check

Under Their Skins: Tackling the health of the teenage nation

While You Were Sleeping: Making surgery safer

Jenner’s Legacy: Creating vaccines for the future

A Pathological Concern: Understanding the rise in oesophageal cancer

On Equal Terms: Achieving racial equality in medicine

The Regions: Health problems and initiatives

References

The Witch Doctor’s Offering

THE ORIGINAL WITCH DOCTOR

Round about April Fool’s day last year, The Witch Doctor was asked by The Oldest Sage Witch to find out what the hell was going on in the UK regarding something called MTAS. She felt it was more that just a fiasco affecting junior doctors’ job prospects. She felt it was a symptom of very deep rooted and far reaching changes in UK Healthcare. The Oldest Sage Witch was fuming because these changes, regarding the healthcare of a nation, were being imposed without any valid consultation process.

The Oldest Sage Witch had every right to fume!

And so,“The Witch Doctor” blog began in the spring of 2007 at the time of the MTAS fiasco. The Witch Doctor was appalled at how these young doctors were being treated by a government whose main aim seemed to be to demoralise the medical profession prior to carving up the NHS for the benefit of large multi-national companies. What appalled The Witch Doctor even more, was that most of the medical profession seemed to be oblivious to the magnitude of the problem, and the fact that there were attempts to replace professionalism with a morass of tangled competencies.

THE WITCH DOCTOR’S OFFERING

This site, on the other hand, is an attempt to organise information. It is one of The Witch Doctor’s many Aide Memoire’s - relating to the future of the NHS and practice of medicine in the UK today.

I offer it to you if you think you might learn something.

You probably won’t.

After all, it’s just for me.

A very personal thing.

Intended to try to organise a complex, meandering, messy witch’s brain.

Not really suitable for The Humankind!

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