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At the core of the James Lind Library are pages illustrating the evolution of fair tests of medical treatments. These pages contain examples from nearly a hundred books and journal articles, illustrated by images of the key passages of text. New records are being added continuously, as well as biographical material, portraits, translations, commentaries, and other relevant material.

Introduction to Well connected. David Brindle, editor Wednesday February 11, 2004

Books on failures in the Health Service and on the unaccountable exercise of power and on remedies

Government Sources

• The new NHS: Full Version - December 1997 and our response.
• Our Healthier Nation: Full text - February 1998 and our response.
• Health and Social Care Act 2001
• National Health Service Reform and Health Care Professions Bill and explanatory notes
• Involving Patients and the Public in Healthcare.  Department of Health link to several documents at stages in consultation up to November 2001 and our response in December 2001.
• A Healthy Outlook - Local Authority Overview and Scrutiny of Health: Audit Commission Management Paper
• Derek Wanless today published for consultation ‘Securing Our Future Health: Taking A Long-Term View’, his interim report on the long-term trends that will affect the health service over the next two decades.  HM Treasury 27 November 2001
• Postgraduate Medical Education and Training: The Medical Education Standards Board: A Paper for Consultation.  Department of Health November 2001 and our response December 2001.
• Handling complaints: monitoring the NHS complaints procedures. England, Financial Year 2000-01.  National Statistics December 2001.
• Hospital Inpatient Data based on Hospital Episode Statistics.
• Withholding Treatment from Violent and Abusive Patients in NHS Trusts.  Health Service Circular Series Number: HSC 2001/18
• National Library of Health. Navigate change in NHS, with a new information resource launched. A comprehensive collection of current knowledge and evidence about NHS reforms is available in the Health Management Specialist Library run by the King’s Fund on behalf of the National Library of Health. The collection was launched at the NHS Confederation conference in London where the King’s Fund is running a series of discussions on NHS reform. Managers, researchers and students will be able to access, free of charge, all the latest information on key system changes that have taken place over the last 10 years of Labour government, including:  Alternative providers,  Patient Choice,  PCTs as commissioners,  Foundation Trusts,  Payment by results,  Practice based commissioning,  Regulation. The aim of the Health Management Specialist Library is to provide a unique on-line resource of the latest healthcare knowledge. Each topic has links to guidelines, secondary research and primary research. In this new strand on NHS Reforms, each topic is introduced by an article written by King’s Fund’s policy team. The aim of this new resource is to help managers, researchers, students and journalists to more easily navigate the complexities of NHS reform. Care & Health 21 June 2007

 

Contact Information

The campaign is a network of people and groups all over the country sharing the aim of making health service professionals accountable to local bodies whose members are democratically elected through direct elections.

• ACHCEW (website of the former Association of Community Heath Councils for England and Wales with numerous links on the abolition of CHCs and the debate leading up to the new arrangements for patient and public involvement in health)
• Action against Medical Accidents, 44 High Street, Croydon, Surrey, CR0 1YB, telephone 020 8686 8333. Email admin@avma.org.uk
• Alzheimer's Society, Gordon Hose, 10 Greencoat Place, London, SW1P 1PH. The Alzheimer's Society is the leading care and research charity for people with dementia. It provides information and education, support for carers, and quality day and home care. It funds medical and scientific research and campaigns for improved health and social services and greater public understanding of dementia Email info@alzheimers.org.uk
• Anti Acute Services Review - Coventry and Warwickshire
• Bully Off, a site new in October 2005 initially concentrating on school bullying.
• Bully Online, combating bullying by enriching interpersonal and behavioural skills, founded by the late Tim Field.
  • The Serial Bully
  • Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
• CamAir - Campaign to Stop the redevelopment of Barrington Cement Plant
• Campaign Against Unnecessary Suspensions and Exclusions in the NHS (UK) - CAUSE (UK)
• Care & Health. Wide range of information. Membership required.
• Centre for International Public Health Policy - Director: Prof Allyson Pollock (updated 13 September 2007)
• Charter 88.  Campaign for a modern and fair democracy.
• CJD Foundation. Very informative site for victims, families and the general public. Run by Dr Harash Narang, former UK PHLS virologist.
• Concern for Health in East Kent - Kent & Medway
• Defending Health and Social Care: Rediscovering the Socialist Alternative. The DHRSA website aims to draw together key references and resources for the struggle against the neoliberalisation of health and social care services.  (updated 1 June 2007)
• Democratic Health Network,  Fiona Campbell (Co-ordinator), 22 Upper Woburn Place, London, WC1H 0TB. Telephone 0207 554 2800/2820.
• Dignity at Work Now (DAWN) Anti-Bullying in the Workplace Support and Campaign Group
• Dr Ray's focal spot, a blog on NHS issues.
• Emma Candy's Diary of treatment for ovarian cancer up to her death.  See also Monday February 16, 2004 The Guardian
• Freedom to Care promotes the right and duty of employees to raise workplace concerns in the public interest and the right of all citizens to open, honest and accountable treatment from large organisations, public or private. Email Freedomtocare@aol.com
• Ian Perkin's website covering falsification of statistics at St George's Hospital, Tooting, and anomalies in the NHS's finances, some of which will make the Government's proposals for Foundation Hospitals unworkable. http://www.nhsexpose.co.uk
• Health Concern, a political party formed in response to the virtual closure of Kidderminster Hospital to make financial savings to pay for a grandiose PFI scheme in Worcester. Health Concern held the balance of power on Wyre Forest District Council and nominated Dr Richard Taylor who was elected member of parliament for Wyre Forest in the 2001 and 2005 General Elections.
• Health Matters: Lively reporting and critical analysis of today's health service and public health issues
• Just Fight On, Against workplace bullying and abuse
• Keep our NHS Public - a campaign group launched in October 2005.  By December 2005 it has a detailed survey of health related stories in both national and local press, arranged by date.  Some of these summaries and links have been picked up on this website, especially in Diagnostic and Treatment Centres Sources and Withdrawal of Local Facilities and in the pages for strategic health authorities.
• Let's Fix Britain promotes public accountability from a citizen's or service user's perspective.  As such its values are compatible with the Campaign for Health Service Democracy.  It may also promote or oppose specific views on policy that will need to be evaluated individually
• Medical Corruption - a new Canadian website with some international links.
• NHS bullying of Doctors - a small website receiving reports of bullying and analysing what targets and whistleblowers can expect.  Cases are not published (May 2007).  The site seems to be run by CRE.
• NHS-Exposed founded by Dr Rita Pal, a whistle-blower about compulsory euthanasia in the NHS, exposes abuses within the NHS. Email enquiries@nhs-exposed.com
• NHS Support Federation - founded in 1989 in response to the market based reforms proposed by the Conservative Health Secretary Kenneth Clarke
• http://www.nhs-whistle-blowers.org/   The site is a directory of other sites, including this one.  
  "Here are some links to other expressions of public concern. The sites have withstood the hostile attentions of the legal profession for some time, so it is presumed that they must have some credibility."
• The Patients Association is a charitable organisation providing patients with an opportunity to raise concerns and share experiences of healthcare.
• Patient and Public Involvement Forum Organisation :  An independent body seeking to represent PPI forums.
• PPeyes: a website established by Mike Cox seeking to reform patient and public involvement in health.  This has been taken offline following warnings of libel action by the Commission for Patient and Public Involvement in Health (CPPIH).  If it is a democratically accountable public body, CPPIH is probably debarred from using the courts for libel action in view of the House of Lords' judgment in Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers Ltd (1993).  See http://nosenears.modblog.com/ for an update and some of the previous content.
• PatientProtect. Protecting NHS patients from neglect and abuse. Contact info@patientprotect.org or call 01227 713661 or fax 01227 711876 for more information or to report neglect.
• PRIVATE HOSPITALS IN BRITAIN A Critical Examination of the Private Healthcare System founded by Richard Ennals after his father died in a private hospital. The hyperlink is to a search for Richard Ennals within "Health Matters"  Specific Articles:
  • Look behind the mask
  • A very messy business
  • Getting a cut of the action
• Red Pepper, independent magazine of the green and radical left.
• Rugby in Plume - Rugby residents against the co-incinerator.  See also Rugby Town ... (Much more than just cement)  for more recent material from Lilian Pallikarapoulos.
• Self-Help Organisations Directory. A list of other self-help organisations in all walks of life, inc. health.
• Socialist Health Association.  Democracy and Accountability in the NHS
• SUFFERERS of IATROGENIC NEGLECT. Iatrogenic = Medically Induced Damage . SIN is a pressure and support group for victims of poor medical care and their relatives who wish to improve standards in the NHS.
• UK Self Help Groups .  A freely downloadable directory of a large number of organisations classified by subjects such as names of diseases and types of risks and social conditions.
• Walking with Oxygen Campaign by Kathy Dobbin whose oxygen supplies have been disrupted by the new contractual arrangements.

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Sheila Porter-Williams
Campaign for Health Service Democracy
Green Haven, Halfway Lane
Dunchurch
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sheilaCHSD@porter-williams.freeserve.co.uk