Podcasts about british national health service

A new article from the Washington Post claims Millennials aren't having children. We discuss this and the latest “death order” from UK courts against disabled children, New York's war against pregnancy resource centers, and double uteruses?! Topics Discussed:Millennials Aren't Having KidsWoman With Double Uterus Pregnant In Both UterusesCanadian Prime Minister Says ‘Killing of Babies' Must StopUK Judge rules to remove life support from 7-month-old baby against parents' wishesCourt instructs New York officials to leave the Nuns alone Links Mentioned:Millennials aren't having kids. Here are the reasons why. - Washington PostPro-Life America Podcast Episode 46: The Alarming Decline of Birth Rates WorldwideStatistics: Percentage of the U.S. population who have completed four years of collegeMore Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy. - New York TimesWhat the data says about abortion in the U.S. - Pew ResearchUS woman with rare double uterus expecting babies in both - Insider PaperInfo on Uterus DidelphysCanadian PM tells Israel ‘killing of babies' must stop - Insider PaperIndi Gregory: Judge rules to remove life support from 7-month-old baby against parents' wishes - Christian PostA terminally ill baby at the center of a legal battle in Britain and Italy has died - AP NewsCourt instructs New York officials to leave Sisters of Life alone - Live Action NewsRate & Review Our Podcast Have a topic you want to see discussed on the show? [Submit it here.]To learn more about what Life Dynamics does, visit: https://lifedynamics.com/about-us/Support Our Work  

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/medicine

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/public-policy

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The British National Health Service - free for all - used to be the envy of the world. But today the NHS is malfunctioning. More and more people are resorting to private care – is not unusual now for Brits to travel to Turkey or Lithuania to get hip replacements and the like – so should Britain now give up on the NHS and move to a European model of healthcare… Dr Gavin Francis has just written a book on the NHS: Free For All: Why the NHS is Worth Saving (Profile Books, 2024). Listen to him in conversation with Owen Bennett Jones. Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

The seventy-fifth-anniversary celebration of the British National Health Service masked the real failures of this system, one that only can become worse over time. Original Article: "The British NHS More Resembles a Statist Cult Than Advanced Healthcare"

The seventy-fifth-anniversary celebration of the British National Health Service masked the real failures of this system, one that only can become worse over time. Original Article: "The British NHS More Resembles a Statist Cult Than Advanced Healthcare"

Greed should not be a factor in patient care, and yet more and more it seems to be. Dr. Donald Berwick has a wonderful article titled Salve Lucrum in JAMA, and I highly recommend it. He touches on how his father inspired and inspires him, the importance of community and connection, and the small steps we can take to fight greed. Dr. Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. He is former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Trained as a pediatrician by background, he has taught at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and he has served on the staffs of Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He was Vice Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "independent member" of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the Institute of Medicine. Recognized as a leading authority on health care quality and improvement, Dr. Berwick has received numerous awards for his contributions, including from the British National Health Service in 2005, when he was appointed "Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire" by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II. Dr. Berwick is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific articles and six books. He currently serves as lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School.  He has a new podcast in spring, 2023 called Turn on the Lights.

The British National Health Service (NHS) Serial Murderers (Part1) - Lucy Letby & so many others    The Black Spy Podcast Season 9, Episode 0001 This week's Black Spy Podcast discusses the unbelievable number of murders committed by on duty NHS medical staff in the UK. Furthermore, the Black Spy discusses the fact that even though these murders are frequent they receive very little overall press analysis and unlike the hounding received by the police for one (1) murder (performed by an off duty officer), the institution of the NHS is seldom challenged by established British mass media!  So what is the frequency of murders by on duty NHS staff and why  do the British media treat the two public bodies so differently?  In an insightful, interesting and powerful discussion by the Black Spy, Carlton King and his regular journalist podcast partner, Firgas Esack, the present case of Lucy Letby accused of allegedly murdering 10 babies and attempting to murder a further 7, is put under the microscope.  So, when I say NHS murders, the NHS murderers below are an example of this literally unbelievable phenomena of UK medics murdering their patients whilst on duty in hospitals etc, over the last two decades.  Carlton asks Firgas, why no great hue and cry in media(TV, radio or printed press) or demonstrations from pressure groups about these NHS murders?      •    Nurse Beverley Allitt murdered 4 infants, at Grantham hospital, attempted to murder three others and caused grievous bodily harm to a further six infants no demonstrations were held and no great inquiry was sought into the NHS or its leadership!     •    Nurse Lucy Letby's alleged murders of 7 babies and a further attempted murder of 10 more happened at the same time as Sarah Everarad's murder by a police officer.  This single murder by a police officer totally and utterly gains practically all of the press coverage. Letby's 7 murders and 10 attempted murders of babies, are seemingly all but overlooked by a police bating British press! In this case babies seem not to matter too much to the press and definitely the press seems totally unwilling to hold NHS leadership, even at the most junior level of hospital management, to account.     •    Nurse Colin Campbell Norris murdered 10 of his patients and attempted to murder at least one other.     •    Nurse Benjamin Geen  murdered at least 2 patients in an Oxfordshire hospital where many other victims did not die, but sustained grave life threatening symptoms at his hands.     •    Nurse Victorino Chua of Stockport  Stepping Hill hospital murdered 2 of his patients and 21 others potential murder victims suffered life threatening hypoglycemia attacks at his hands.      •    Dr Harold Shipman, from his Manchester surgery, murdered at least 250 of his patients. Yet it is though that over a decade he might well have murdered up to 500 patients.     •    Surgeon Simon Bramhall regularly signed his initials on patients livers as he operated on them.      •    Surgeon Ian Patterson was found guilty of operating on countless patients, mainly women, for seemingly no reason. He disfigured his patients by removing their breast etc., which was allegedly done for financial gain according to the relatively little press there was in comparison to the David Carrick police case.  Note there is no suggestion that doctors and nurses can not be trusted despite the gravity of the offences and multiple serial murders undertaken by the above medics performing their daily duties.  Also, at no stage have NHS chiefs appeared on TV, radio or written in periodicals apologising for the the ‘canteen culture' of their profession, that keeps allowing mass murder in hospitals and via doctors surgeries.  Once again, we hope listeners will learn from today's podcast whilst also being entertained!  Don't forget to subscribe to The Black Spy Podcast to never miss an episode.     To contact the Black Spy or donate to The Black Spy Podcast utilise the following: To donate - Patreon.com/TheBlackSpyPodcast Email: carltonking2003@gmail.com Facebook: The Black Spy Podcast Facebook: Carlton King Author Twitter@Carlton_King Instagram@carltonkingauthor To read Carlton's Autobiography: “Black Ops – The incredible true story of a British secret agent” Click the link below: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/BO1MTV2GDF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_WNZ5MT89T9C14CB53651 Carlton is available for speaking events. For this purpose use the contact details above

In this episode I speak with Dr Bob Gill. He is a medical doctor working within the British National Health Service and long time campaigner against health service privatisation.  In the hour he talks about media decepitons over health policy, the treacherous role of the health union leaders and the identical nature of the NHS policies promoted by both labour and conservative parties. Be sure to follow Dr Gill on twitter @drbobgill

The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War, is a book that sprang from the hit 10-part BBC podcast series of the same name, which our guest today, Geoff White, co-hosted and which immediately ranked number one in the UK Apple chart and within the top 7 in the US. Season 2 of the podcast will be out in late 2022.About The Lazarus HeistMeet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. It's claimed that they form one of the most dangerous criminal enterprises on the planet, having stolen more than $1bn in an international crime spree. Their targets allegedly include central banks, Hollywood film studios and even the British National Health Service. North Korea denies the allegations, saying the accusations are American attempts to tarnish its image.In this staggering, global investigation, award-winning journalist Geoff White examines how the hackers have harnessed cutting-edge technology to launch a decade-long campaign of brazen and merciless raids on its richer, more powerful adversaries. It's not just money they're after. The Lazarus Group's tactics have been used to threaten democracies, gag North Korea's critics and destabilize global peace.From the bustling streets of Dhaka, to the glamorous studios of Hollywood, to the glittering casinos of Macau and the secretive dynastic court of Pyongyang, this shocking story uncovers the secret world of the Lazarus Group, their victims and the people who have tried - and ultimately, so far failed - to stop them._____________________________GuestGeoff WhiteAuthor, speaker, investigative journalist and podcast creator who has worked for the BBC [@BBC], Audible [@audible_com], Penguin [@penguinrandom], Sky News [@SkyNews], The Sunday Times [@thetimes] and many moreOn Twitter | https://twitter.com/geoffwhite247On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffwhite247/On YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/user/c4newstechnology_____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlue Lava: https://itspm.ag/blue-lava-w2qs_____________________________ResourcesBook | The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447/447163/the-lazarus-heist/9780241554258.htmlBook | Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global: https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Dot-Com-Viruses-Rigging/dp/1789142857MITRE ATT&CK Entry for The Lazarus Group: https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0032/Article: https://www.nccgroup.com/us/the-lazarus-group-north-korean-scourge-for-10-years/Previous Episode: https://itspmagazine.simplecast.com/episodes/the-hacker-journalist-dance-the-need-for-trust-transparency-and-storytelling-in-cybersecurity-a-conversation-with-geoff-white-and-jake-williams_____________________________For more podcast stories from Audio Signals: https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signalsFor more about Black Hat and DEF CON  in our event coverage podcasts, visit: https://www.itspmagazine.com/black-hat-2022-and-def-con-hacker-summer-camp-las-vegas-usa-cybersecurity-event-and-conference-coverageAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?

The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War, is a book that sprang from the hit 10-part BBC podcast series of the same name, which our guest today, Geoff White, co-hosted and which immediately ranked number one in the UK Apple chart and within the top 7 in the US. Season 2 of the podcast will be out in late 2022.About The Lazarus HeistMeet the Lazarus Group, a shadowy cabal of hackers accused of working on behalf of the North Korean state. It's claimed that they form one of the most dangerous criminal enterprises on the planet, having stolen more than $1bn in an international crime spree. Their targets allegedly include central banks, Hollywood film studios and even the British National Health Service. North Korea denies the allegations, saying the accusations are American attempts to tarnish its image.In this staggering, global investigation, award-winning journalist Geoff White examines how the hackers have harnessed cutting-edge technology to launch a decade-long campaign of brazen and merciless raids on its richer, more powerful adversaries. It's not just money they're after. The Lazarus Group's tactics have been used to threaten democracies, gag North Korea's critics and destabilize global peace.From the bustling streets of Dhaka, to the glamorous studios of Hollywood, to the glittering casinos of Macau and the secretive dynastic court of Pyongyang, this shocking story uncovers the secret world of the Lazarus Group, their victims and the people who have tried - and ultimately, so far failed - to stop them._____________________________GuestGeoff WhiteAuthor, speaker, investigative journalist and podcast creator who has worked for the BBC [@BBC], Audible [@audible_com], Penguin [@penguinrandom], Sky News [@SkyNews], The Sunday Times [@thetimes] and many moreOn Twitter | https://twitter.com/geoffwhite247On LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoffwhite247/On YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/user/c4newstechnology_____________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlue Lava: https://itspm.ag/blue-lava-w2qs_____________________________ResourcesBook | The Lazarus Heist – From Hollywood to High Finance: Inside North Korea's Global Cyber War: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/447/447163/the-lazarus-heist/9780241554258.htmlBook | Crime Dot Com: From Viruses to Vote Rigging, How Hacking Went Global: https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Dot-Com-Viruses-Rigging/dp/1789142857MITRE ATT&CK Entry for The Lazarus Group: https://attack.mitre.org/groups/G0032/Article: https://www.nccgroup.com/us/the-lazarus-group-north-korean-scourge-for-10-years/Previous Episode: https://itspmagazine.simplecast.com/episodes/the-hacker-journalist-dance-the-need-for-trust-transparency-and-storytelling-in-cybersecurity-a-conversation-with-geoff-white-and-jake-williams_____________________________For more podcast stories from Audio Signals: https://www.itspmagazine.com/audio-signalsFor more about Black Hat and DEF CON  in our event coverage podcasts, visit: https://www.itspmagazine.com/black-hat-2022-and-def-con-hacker-summer-camp-las-vegas-usa-cybersecurity-event-and-conference-coverageAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?

Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP, President Emeritus and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is also former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. A pediatrician by background, Dr. Berwick has served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and on the staffs of Boston's Children's Hospital Medical Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. He has also served as Vice Chair of the US Preventive Services Task Force, the first "Independent Member" of the American Hospital Association Board of Trustees, and Chair of the National Advisory Council of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He served two terms on the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Governing Council, was a member of the IOM's Global Health Board, and served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. Recognized as a leading authority on health care quality and improvement, Dr. Berwick has received numerous awards for his contributions. In 2005, he was appointed "Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire" by Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is the author or co-author of over 160 scientific articles and six books. He currently serves as Lecturer in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. Follow Don on Twitter Nana Twum-Danso, MD, MPH, FACPM, ​Senior Vice President, Global, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), leads all global strategy and client development, with top-line revenue responsibility. Previously she was Managing Director for Health at The Rockefeller Foundation, overseeing a strategy designed to transform the practice of public health through data science. She is a public health and preventive medicine physician with 20 years of experience in health policy, practice, strategy, monitoring, learning, evaluation, research, and philanthropy at local, national, and international levels. Dr. Twum-Danso is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She worked at the Task Force for Global Health in Atlanta, Georgia; was Director of IHI's nationwide CQI initiative in Ghana; Senior Program Officer in the MNCH Department at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; independent consultant; and Founder and CEO of MAZA, a social enterprise that provided on-demand health care transportation for pregnant women and sick infants in remote areas of Ghana. She also served on technical advisory committees for the World Health Organization, the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and the Canadian International Development Research Centre. Dr. Twum-Danso received her undergraduate and medical education from Harvard University and her public health and preventive medicine residency training from Emory University.  Follow Nana on Twitter.

My introduction reveals that I am currently facing a health condition that most of us have come to dread for quite some time: Coronavirus. Luckily, my symptoms are currently mild, but the emotional impact has been greater than expected because of the ongoing after-effects of the drug I was given to combat prostate cancer—Prostap-3—so I go on to discuss the impact of this on not just my life, but those of other sufferers too.The main interview is with Anne Goodwin, a novelist and short story writer who had a long career in the British National Health Service as a clinical psychologist. She spent a large portion of that career in a long-term psychiatric hospital, and she provides some fascinating insights into that work before going on to talk about her novels and the way she weaves her knowledge of psychiatry into her stories.We cover the history of mental health institutions and how they first came into being during the 19th century, but also how they ended up growing to become far too large to provide the kind of care that was really needed, with both the patients and staff becoming 'institutionalised' in a way that was actually detrimental to mental health.During Anne's time working with the NHS, these large hospitals were gradually dismantled, with the emphasis shifting to providing 'care in the community', which has had its own set of challenges. But Ann is something of an activist on behalf of the benefits of good mental health care, as well as criticising bad practices, and is particularly motivated to support early intervention, where parents are given the best possible chance to raise young children in a nurturing environment.Ann then talks about her three novels, Sugar and Snails, Underneath and Matilda Windsor Is Coming Home, and the way in which they are informed by her work as a psychologist, which makes her characterisation especially strong and believable! Finally, the Relaxation on the Beach meditation explores how to allow thoughts to come and go during practice, before focusing on the value of close friendships and ensuring that we express our gratitude for them. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Guests English National Opera Josh Wilda, Chief Information Officer, Metro Health – University of Michigan Health Doug Lang, Vice President for Client Growth, Health Recovery Solutions José Domingos, President and CEO, ACHC If there has been a silver lining to the pandemic, it's the innovative solutions that people have found to maintain connection. In this episode of Beyond the Standard, we share the collaboration between the English National Opera and the British National Health Service to support post-acute COVID patients as they learn to manage respiratory symptoms and anxiety using vocal technique inspired by professional singers. Angela FitzSimmons also speaks with a hospital CIO about his approach to digital strategies to increase patient access to care, an executive with a company focused on remote patient monitoring, and ACHC's CEO on recognition for telehealth programs. Key topics Opera and telehealth 0:40 “Remember to breathe.” 3:28 Sheeba and Richard share lessons learned 4:40 “Our relationship with HFAP has always driven what we need to be.” 6:54 Telehealth success with COVID 12:19 HRS origin story 25:45 “A great way to stay engaged and ultimately lower hospitalizations and readmission rates.” 27:45 HRS/ACHC partnership 30:45 “The best and quickest medical experience I've ever had.” 34:05 The impact of COVID 36:52 Implementation of virtual surveys 39:53 Benefit to patients 41:07 Accreditation can have a significant impact on telehealth 42:26 “Organizations that are doing it right stand out.” 44:48 Learn more at achc.org and at hfap.org

Vincenzo Passante is a psychologist who lives in London but hails from Trieste, Italy.  He was raised and educated in Trieste, which gives him a unique vantage point to contribute given the mission of this podcast.    In this conversation,  we compare and contrast the system in Trieste against the vision behind mainstream mental health care in the UK. Vincenzo left the British National Health Service after two years of disillusionment. He worked in a crisis service and then, briefly, for a psychotherapy service. While in both settings there were amazing, talented professionals, the structure of the service was organized around deeply institutional rules which left very little space to the value of human subjectivity, a key ingredient in the Trieste system. Astonishingly for him, during this period he found out that virtually nobody there knew about Trieste and the possibility of helping people in a different way. Vincenzo – who speaks both English and Italian fluently – has had the benefit of not only studying  philosophy in high school and during his Psychology degree at university, which adds an intellectual bent to his view of the world, but he is quite knowledgeable about the writings of Dr. Franco Basaglia.  As Basaglia sought to close the asylums in Italy, he had a clear vision for a community-based system of care which focused upon the wholeness and dignity of the  people who depended upon that system for treatment and support.   He has also been able to read some of Basaglia’s  seminal writings that have yet to be translated into English.  So, this conversation affords us the opportunity to do a deeper dive into Basaglia.  Vincenzo started a podcast in 2019 to spread awareness about Basaglia’s views and their practice in Trieste (and elsewhere). He wanted people to know how health and illness can coexist dialectically within people and society, without the need for separate institutions to exclude those who do not fit.  The podcast -- called A Place of Safety?  --  because that is how the  British system describes institutions who exclude people from society, affords him the opportunity to challenge the British approach to mental health treatment and educate people about a better way.  Perhaps, he thought, a good way to start is to reclaim the meaning of words and talk about a vision of “safety” that does not endorse violence and exclusion. ArticlesAn intellectual emergency in UK mental health services by Vincenzo Passante Spaccapietra - Asylum MagazineSocial mediaFacebook Twitterhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UChIqzfr0zDkGO63SidfDwOA

Dr. John Goodman of the Goodman Institute for Public Policy Research joins us for an insightful conversation on healthcare economics, which he states virtually no one understands because of its complexity and disconnect from normal market forces. He submits that one cannot approach healthcare delivery with supply and demand curves so instead, he focuses on incentives. Indeed in his acclaimed 2012  book entitled "Priceless - Curing The Healthcare Crisis," he suggests that our current system begs the wrong question, e.g., "How can I [the provider, hospital administrator, etc] squeeze more money out of the payment formula today?" Clinicians should be asking "How can I make my service better, less costly, and more accessible to patients today?" And so his focus is on creating good incentives as a solution to many of the issues we face.  Dr. Goodman further explains how the suppression of normal market processes has not helped any of us be it, physician or patient. He suggests that we are really no different from the Canadians or Europeans because we have been enamored by the idea that no one should have to choose between healthcare and other uses of money. Underscoring all of this is the notion that we primarily pay for healthcare with time and not money.  We are in essence paying only a fraction of an inflated price since employers or the government are typically picking up a majority of the tab either via direct payment for premiums or via subsidies or Medicare etc. We ultimately have a bureaucratic system in play that not only suppresses pricing information but also creates these non-market barriers to care such as waiting times and an endless myriad of rules and regulations that impede the delivery of care. We discuss the success of telehealth initiatives ushered in under the Trump administration and other efforts to deregulate the industry which highlight how market forces can fulfill a market need – although it took tremendous political will to make these changes. Despite these wins, we still must contend with entrenched beliefs and existing stakeholders for whom vested interests oftentimes stifle innovation. Indeed, the politics of medicine has constructed a system that mirrors the British National Health Service in many ways. The focus is to spend money on healthy people. In Britain, it's quite easy to see a physician but if you need diagnostics and specialty services you will likely encounter long waiting lines and denied care. Here, stateside, we are facing the same pressures. Case in point - ACA plans are not accepted at some of our nation's leading centers such as the Mayo Clinic, MD Anderson, Cleveland Clinic, or UTSW to name a few. It's ultimately a race to the bottom. What we in large part have for insurance is high deductible Medicaid for the worried well.Dr. Goodman is concerned that we lack the political will to reform the system which is unfortunate given some of his ideas on how to best address and finance care for the chronically ill and more. He discusses some of the lessons we can learn from Medicare Advantage plans which allow for risk adjustment – so physicians actually get paid more per visit with higher acuity patients. He would like to see the role of HSA accounts expand and highlights Medicaid's Cash and Counsel program for the homebound disabled. They are actually given accounts and can choose who will provide their care. It puts control into the hands of the disabled who are incentivized to use their dollars wisely. The program has a satisfaction rating of 90%. As we continue to discuss and think about ways to improve healthcare delivery in the U.S., Dr. Goodman advocates for market solutions, such as Direct Primary Care.You can order his newest book entitled “New Way to Care: Social Protections that Put Families First” by visiting the goodmaninstitute.org. 

Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds, your daily dose of hope, imagination, wisdom, stories, practical tips, and general riffing on this and that.What started out as a family joke to encourage their father and grandfather to continue exercising after hip surgery and maybe raise some money during COVID became a resolute labor of love. On April 6, 2020, Tom Moore, a 99-year old WWII veteran began to walk 100 laps around his garden patio to help raise £1,000 for Britain’s National Health Service by his 100th birthday. He said he wanted to support Britain’s medical workers during the pandemic, just as the country had backed him during his army days.Over the 24-day course of walking laps and 2 weeks before his 100th birthday Mr. Moore raised £32.79 million (worth almost £39 million with expected tax rebates). “The first step was the hardest,” he said in May 2020. “After that, I got into the swing of it and kept on going.” Ironically, the man who did so much for so many himself died from COVID on February 2,2021.  Practical Tip: "Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done." [Amelia Earhart]This is the place to thrive together. Come for the stories - stay for the magic.  Speaking of magic, I hope you’ll subscribe, share a nice shout out on your social media or podcast channel of choice, and join us next time! You’re invited to stop by the website and subscribe to stay current with Diane, her journeys, her guests, as well as creativity, imagination, walking, stories, camaraderie, and so much more: Quarter Moon Story ArtsProduction Team: Quarter Moon Story ArtsMusic: Mer’s Waltz from Crossing the Waters by Steve Schuch & Night Heron MusicAll content and image © 2019 - Present: for credit & attribution Quarter Moon Story Arts

For the past 30 years, Donald Berwick has been one of the nation's leading authorities and innovators of quality and improvement in the U.S. healthcare system. A pediatrician by training, a professor at both Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health, and a top health care administrator during the Obama Administration, Berwick challenges administrators, policy makers, and doctors to go beyond the standard discussion of systems, strategies, and statistics to something more essential, more human—something he considers moral. The secret to improving quality in medical care, he argues, is love.  “Healthcare is more about love than about most other things,” Berwick says. “It’s not just the quality of mercy, it’s the mercy of quality.” He believes no one should be left behind. Berwick was deeply influenced by his Jewish upbringing, which taught him about the importance of being a steward of society and the world at large. In addition to Judaism, he has been greatly influenced by the Dalai Lama. Both Judaism and Buddhism remind him we’re all in this together and therefore have to help each other. “If there isn’t at the core two human beings who have agreed to be in a relationship,” he says, “where one is trying to help relieve the suffering of another, which is love, we can’t get to the right answer.” In addition to teaching, he serves as President Emeritus and Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement and was the former Obama-appointed Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. He is also on staff at Boston's Children's Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Among his numerous awards and honors, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2005, in recognition of his work with the British National Health Service. Dr. Berwick is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific articles and six books. Berwick is further impassioned by his grandchildren. He wants to hand them “a planet that is really thriving.” So he looks at the greater contexts outside traditional definitions of healthcare that nurture or impair our collective health—social factors such as racism, for example. He calls for an attack on these social determinants of disease, combined with an embrace of the moral determinants of health, which requires solidarity. Join Pavi Mehta and Andrew Kim for a conversation with this visionary doctor and conscience in modern healthcare. 

Welcome to Episode #104 (Season 4) of Creating a New Healthcare. I’m delighted to welcome back to this podcast Dr. Don Berwick - one of the leading authorities on healthcare quality & improvement over the past few decades.  Dr. Berwick is President Emeritus and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), an organization that he co-founded and led as President and CEO for 18 years. In July 2010, President Obama appointed Dr. Berwick to the position of Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which he held until December 2011. An elected member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), Dr. Berwick served two terms on the IOM’s governing Council, and was a member of the IOM’s Global Health Board. He served on President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry. His body of work & contributions to the field of healthcare quality & safety are unparalleled, including two classics: the 1999 IOM report, ‘To Err is Human’ and the 2001 IOM report, ‘Crossing the Quality Chasm’. In 2005, he was appointed “Honorary Knight Commander of the British Empire” by Queen Elizabeth II, the highest honor awarded by the UK to non-British individuals, in recognition of his work with the British National Health Service. To say that Dr. Berwick brings a seasoned perspective on the current state of our healthcare system and the challenges we face as a nation is, to put it mildly, an understatement. What distinguishes Dr. Berwick even more than his record of accomplishment or his brilliant mind is his tireless reminders of the ethical responsibility we have to attend to the health of the American public - especially for those of us who are providers, administrators, policy makers, health insurance companies, as well as pharmaceutical and device manufacturers. A relevant quote from one of Dr. Berwick’s recent articles underscores this responsibility;  “Fate will not create the new normal; choices will.”  In this episode, we’ll cover a range of topics, including the following:Dr. Berwick’s recent article, Choices for the “New Normal” - which is a call-to-action and a leadership roadmap outlining crucial choices in six critical domains that will play a significant role in determining the future of healthcare delivery.Inequality and Inequity -  the relative lack of social support services provided in the US as compared to other developed nations; which Dr. Berwick describes as “the most notable wake-up call”.An ethical reframing of the social determinants of health, described in his recent article, The Moral Determinants of Health; along with some shocking statistics on inequities related to poverty, hunger, homelessness, social isolation, and the uninsured.The tragic and insidious institutional racism that is embedded in our healthcare delivery system, as well as in other institutions such as our criminal justice system.A critical reframing of healthcare that Dr Berwick refers to as “What Matters to You Medicine”; which he suggests should disrupt and replace the legacy “What’s the Matter With You” paradigm.Dr. Berwick is one of the greatest healthcare humanitarians and transformational leaders of our era. He is the quintessential example of empathic ethical leadership. We need more leaders like this in and around healthcare. Dr. Berwick’s recent publications are seminal. In these articles, he courageously cuts to the stark realities of our healthcare system. He not only lays bare the truth for all to see but also outlines the crucial leadership choices of our time. And even beyond that, he lays out a pathway for positive action. Dr. Berwick writes, speaks & acts with intellectual integrity, academic rigor, and with a disarmingly insightful and honest authenticity - as well as with a powerful voice based in morals and compassion. At times, it’s unsettling, uncomfortable and inconvenient. Make no mistake about it, Dr. Berwick’s message is not an academic treatise. It is a call for ethical action.Until next time, Be safe and be well.Zeev E. Neuwirth, MD

Over the years, Prof. Brett Kahr has worked in numerous settings, ranging from the British National Health Service, to various universities, to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he served for many years as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2, broadcasting to 15,000,000 people weekly and chairing the B.B.C.’s mental health campaign.  He has also held appointments as Special Media Adviser to the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and he is the current Chair of the Media Advisory Group for the British Psychoanalytic Council as well as the Chair of its new Academic Membership Committee. Author of 14 books and series editor of more than fifty-five additional titles, his publications include D.W. Winnicott:  A Biographical Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography; Sex and the Psyche – a study of the traumatic origins of sexual fantasies – which became a Sunday Times best-seller; as well as Tea with Winnicott, chosen as a “Book of the Year” in The Guardian; and, also, Coffee with Freud.  Most recently, he has published How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist.  Recent books include include Bombs in the Consulting Room:  Surviving Psychological Shrapnel and, also, Celebrity Mad:  Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame. Upcoming books include: Corona Cannot Kill the Unconscious: Therapy on the Virtual Couch and Dangerous Lunatics:  Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy. Sign up for 10% off of Shrink Rap Radio CE credits at the Zur Institute

In this episode Mark discusses one the most amazing institutions in the world: the great British National Health Service - one of the wonders of the modern age - and the people of the N.H.S. who have cared for and who saved countless lives since its establishment, including some of the people in Mark's family. Mark recites his poems "God Bless the N.H.S", "An Angel In Blue Scrubs", and "Nightingales". And Mark discloses some of his and his family's most recent experiences with the great men and women who make up the N.H.S. and what it means to him. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/markthepoet/message

Kit speaks with Andrew Seaton about the roots of the British National Health Service in a bid to explain our relationship with it today. Andrew is a historian of Modern Britain and Europe and is currently writing a Ph.D. at NYU on the NHS. Claps for carers. Rainbow signs in windows. #SaveOurNHS. These are today's symbols that mark Britain's very deep and complicated relationship with its health service. Employing over 1.5 million people, the NHS is the world's 5th largest employer. Its importance to British identity is paramount and there has been no better time to discuss its origins.

Over the years, Prof. Brett Kahr has worked in numerous settings, ranging from the British National Health Service, to various universities, to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he served for many years as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2, broadcasting to 15,000,000 people weekly and chairing the B.B.C.’s mental health campaign.  He has also held appointments as Special Media Adviser to the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and he is the current Chair of the Media Advisory Group for the British Psychoanalytic Council as well as the Chair of its new Academic Membership Committee. Author of 14 books and series editor of more than fifty-five additional titles, his publications include D.W. Winnicott:  A Biographical Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography; Sex and the Psyche – a study of the traumatic origins of sexual fantasies – which became a Sunday Times best-seller; as well as Tea with Winnicott, chosen as a “Book of the Year” in The Guardian; and, also, Coffee with Freud.  Most recently, he has published How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist.  Recent books include include Bombs in the Consulting Room:  Surviving Psychological Shrapnel and, also, Celebrity Mad:  Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame. Upcoming books include: Corona Cannot Kill the Unconscious: Therapy on the Virtual Couch and Dangerous Lunatics:  Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy.

Sometimes the way we want to live influences architecture, sometimes architecture influences the way we live. There are still older blocks dotted around Sydney’s harbour suburbs where someone who wanted a penthouse with a view, constructed several floors of units for rent to support (in so many ways) the fabulous pad on the roof. Some original apartment blocks in our inner-cities have tiny kitchens because they originally had restaurants and dining rooms on their roofs (and dumb waiter pulley systems to deliver meals to those who didn’t want to leave their apartments). In this week’s Flat Chat Wrap, Sue Williams discusses a feature she’s written that examines the effect of the current lockdown on the way apartments will be designed in the future. With more people working from home, two trains of thought are in motion.  One, working from home can be a great thing, either permanently or part-time. Two, our homes aren’t ideally set up to allow us to do that. Architects whom Sue has interviewed predict popular demand for proper studies, balconies and shared open spaces, as well as more clearly defined separate areas within the apartments so that residents can get away from each other when they need to. Even two-story apartments could be the next big thing. Home working injuries Sue also raises the issue of workplace injuries in the home – apparently your employer is responsible for your workplace safety, even when you are working off your own dining table. With that in mind, Jimmy explains how squeezing an invisible orange can help your posture, especially when you spend hours hunched over your laptop on a coffee table. A strata lawyer speaks Also in this week’s podcast Jimmy and Sue chat with specialist strata lawyer David Sachs of Sachs Gerace Lawyers about the new short-term letting by-law provision in NSW and the ability of owners corporations to hold general meetings electronically, despite the Catch-22 of not being able to hold the meetings required to permit electronic meetings. Jimmy pats himself on the back for coming up with the one-person EGM plan which David says is perfectly legal, but suggests holding a plebiscite first, to show that the majority of owners want approval for electronic meetings. FYI, since this podcast was recorded, the Queensland government has announced that all body corporate meetings can now be conducted remotely, via electronic interfaces and voting, without requiring prior approval of owners. Surely NSW and Victoria can’t be too far behind, and avoid the one-person EGMs that Jimmy suggested. One interesting observation from David is that  owner corps often “push the envelope” with their decisions to achieve a specific outcome, and they can operate for years until someone who wants something different decides to challenge them at a tribunal. Coronavirus guide Later, Jimmy explains why the NSW SCA guide to dealing with coronavirus is really good but also just a bit too much.  Should information for strata managers and building managers be lumped in with essential advise for owners, committees and other residents? As in this post, he says no. Sue’s “Hey Martha!” is about how Captain Tom Moore raised $55 million for British National Health Service charities … and got to top of the pops. And Jimmy chooses a video showing how a deaf dog discovers it’s time for “walkies”! Listen here

Page advises us to tend the soil of our body and says, “Your soil is made up of your belief systems, your perceptions.” She believes illness isn’t just a physiological episode and tells us to listen to the intuitive messages from our soul telling us it is time to change. When we keep ignoring these messages, our bodies will stop us in our tracks by getting sick. Christine Page, M.D. received her medical degree from the University of London in 1978. She’s an international seminar leader on healing and empowerment. In 1984, she founded one of the first integrative health centers within the British National Health Service, followed by a highly successful holistic private practice which included homeopathy, counseling and energy-related medicine. She also began a 10-year educational career, teaching doctors, nurses and other medical personnel about complementary therapies including mind/body and energy medicine. She became a well-known bridge builder and played an important role in the acceptance of alternative therapies in the British Health System. She is the author of Frontiers of Health (Rider 2010) and The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman: Health, Creativity, and Fertility for the Soul (Bear & Company 2013) Interview Date: 11/13/2013       Tags: MP3, Christine Page, breast cancer, reading energies, cancer, illness, beliefs, belief, guilt over being ill, divine feminine, menstrual cycles, moon time, princess Diana, Queen Bee metaphor, Mother Cow metaphor, Dragon Queen metaphor, Goddess, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Women’s Studies, Community, death & dying

Page advises us to tend the soil of our body and says, “Your soil is made up of your belief systems, your perceptions.” She believes illness isn’t just a physiological episode and tells us to listen to the intuitive messages from our soul telling us it is time to change. When we keep ignoring these messages, our bodies will stop us in our tracks by getting sick. Christine Page, M.D. received her medical degree from the University of London in 1978. She’s an international seminar leader on healing and empowerment. In 1984, she founded one of the first integrative health centers within the British National Health Service, followed by a highly successful holistic private practice which included homeopathy, counseling and energy-related medicine. She also began a 10-year educational career, teaching doctors, nurses and other medical personnel about complementary therapies including mind/body and energy medicine. She became a well-known bridge builder and played an important role in the acceptance of alternative therapies in the British Health System. She is the author of Frontiers of Health (Rider 2010) and The Healing Power of the Sacred Woman: Health, Creativity, and Fertility for the Soul (Bear & Company 2013) Interview Date: 11/13/2013 Tags: MP3, Christine Page, breast cancer, reading energies, cancer, illness, beliefs, belief, guilt over being ill, divine feminine, menstrual cycles, moon time, princess Diana, Queen Bee metaphor, Mother Cow metaphor, Dragon Queen metaphor, Goddess, Health & Healing, Personal Transformation, Spirituality, Women’s Studies, Community, death & dying

Transcript Over the years, Prof. Brett Kahr has worked in numerous settings, ranging from the British National Health Service, to various universities, to the British Broadcasting Corporation, where he served for many years as Resident Psychotherapist on B.B.C. Radio 2, broadcasting to 15,000,000 people weekly and chairing the B.B.C.’s mental health campaign. He has also held appointments as Special Media Adviser to the United Kingdom Council for Psychotherapy, and he is the current Chair of the Media Advisory Group for the British Psychoanalytic Council as well as the Chair of its new Academic Membership Committee. Author of twelve books and series editor of more than fifty-five additional titles, his publications include D.W. Winnicott: A Biographical Portrait, which won the Gradiva Award for Biography; Sex and the Psyche – a study of the traumatic origins of sexual fantasies – which became a Sunday Times best-seller; as well as Tea with Winnicott, chosen as a “Book of the Year” in The Guardian; and, also, Coffee with Freud. Most recently, he has published How to Flourish as a Psychotherapist. His most recent books include Bombs in the Consulting Room: Surviving Psychological Shrapnel and, also, Celebrity Mad: Why Otherwise Intelligent People Worship Fame.       

- Two MPE documentaries available to stream online - British National Health Service faced with a DNA quandary - Who was Florence Crittenton? - @joolsjackson looks for connections to Anne Fessler - Kulap Vilaysack (@Kulap) discusses her MPE and her new documentary originstorydoc.com Please subscribe, rate and review.  AND SHARE!

In the Summer Olympics of 2012, Oscar-winning film director Danny Boyle assembled an opening ceremony to celebrate the British National Health Service. Inspired by this occurrence, this episode introduces the comparison of four other countries’ health care systems to that of the U.S.

Eva Galperin, Maya Indira Ganesh Over the last year the world has witnessed a series of security breaches that have compromised massive repositories for personal information: the Equifax hack that compromised the should-be-secret social security numbers of over 140 million Americans; a breach of India's Aadhaar biometric ID database of  1.2 billion citizens; the hack of the South Korean ID database; the 2015 US Office of Personnel Management hack; the effects of WannaCry on the British National Health Service; of vulnerabilities in Estonia's ID chip card. And there is no guarantee there won't be more in the future. The breaches and hacks of these databases tend to be discussed in terms of implications for personal privacy, and cybersecurity since data is viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold. Many of these databases are in fact public assets. How does the notion of ‘critical infrastructure' scale beyond physical assets like bridges and roads or water supply systems? How do we rethink design, ownership, liability and security when large national databases are viewed as critical social and public infrastructure? As a national ID number is used to access a variety of services, we seek to show how this layer of ‘social infrastructure' creates challenges for a variety of industries, social and public systems. We will parse tensions - and competing interests - at different levels of the infrastructure stack. Panelists will map the technical, social and personal impacts of database compromise, and in doing so will look at the role of various stakeholders and response strategies, as well as address what governments and individuals can do to take preemptive security measures.  As these systems do not offer citizens a way to ‘opt-out', discussion will discuss philosophical notions of privacy and security, and try to rethink ethics and accountability in these contexts. The panel will also  assess the new challenges these large hacks have for digital security trainings and infosec best practices at the individual and organizational level given the increasingly asymmetrical power dynamics between citizens, states, corporations, and large digital artifacts like databases

Eva Galperin, Maya Indira Ganesh Over the last year the world has witnessed a series of security breaches that have compromised massive repositories for personal information: the Equifax hack that compromised the should-be-secret social security numbers of over 140 million Americans; a breach of India's Aadhaar biometric ID database of  1.2 billion citizens; the hack of the South Korean ID database; the 2015 US Office of Personnel Management hack; the effects of WannaCry on the British National Health Service; of vulnerabilities in Estonia's ID chip card. And there is no guarantee there won't be more in the future. The breaches and hacks of these databases tend to be discussed in terms of implications for personal privacy, and cybersecurity since data is viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold. Many of these databases are in fact public assets. How does the notion of ‘critical infrastructure' scale beyond physical assets like bridges and roads or water supply systems? How do we rethink design, ownership, liability and security when large national databases are viewed as critical social and public infrastructure? As a national ID number is used to access a variety of services, we seek to show how this layer of ‘social infrastructure' creates challenges for a variety of industries, social and public systems. We will parse tensions - and competing interests - at different levels of the infrastructure stack. Panelists will map the technical, social and personal impacts of database compromise, and in doing so will look at the role of various stakeholders and response strategies, as well as address what governments and individuals can do to take preemptive security measures.  As these systems do not offer citizens a way to ‘opt-out', discussion will discuss philosophical notions of privacy and security, and try to rethink ethics and accountability in these contexts. The panel will also  assess the new challenges these large hacks have for digital security trainings and infosec best practices at the individual and organizational level given the increasingly asymmetrical power dynamics between citizens, states, corporations, and large digital artifacts like databases

In this episode we discuss SuperNerd’s new Tiny Princess — which is why we didn’t have a podcast last week — her diagnosis of holoprosencephaly, and explore the world’s flawed notions of which lives are of value, including the case of Baby Alfie whom the British National Health Service would like to sacrifice on the altar of naturalism, materialism and utilitarianism (in other words: freemasonry). And a collection of tangents where we tried not to linger around the stale Big Macs as we talked about Trump and the FBI, the martyred president of Ecuador (not Colombia) Gabriel Garcia Moreno… Links, reading, and YouTube: Tiny Princess Update (from April 11) Holoprosencephaly (as understood by Wikipedians) Baby Alfie vs. the British NHS Saint Augustine’s City of God President Gabriel Garcia Moreno: Murdered by freemasons Feedback: please send your questions and comments to podcast@barnhardt.biz The Barnhardt Podcast is produced by SuperNerd Media; if you found this episode to be of value you can share some value to back to SuperNerd at the SuperNerd Media website. You can also follow SuperNerd Media on Twitter and Facebook.

In this 18-minute episode, I analyze three new California laws in-depth. The laws have to do with hiring, paid maternity leave, and gun ammunition restrictions. Additionally, I take a look at the British National Health Service crisis: More than 50,000 non-critical operations have been cancelled. … More Ep. 23: New Laws in California and Britain’s Holiday Health Crisis

In this 18-minute episode, I analyze three new California laws in-depth. The laws have to do with hiring, paid maternity leave, and gun ammunition restrictions. Additionally, I take a look at the British National Health Service crisis: More than 50,000 non-critical operations have been cancelled. … More Ep. 23: New Laws in California and Britain’s Holiday Health Crisis The post Ep. 23: New Laws in California and Britain’s Holiday Health Crisis appeared first on The Edge of Ideas.

Hailed as one of the best British novelists writing today, Sarah Moss is our very special literary guest on TRD this week. She joins Ray to explore the intersection between fiction and health, and to talk about the doctors, patients, parents and families she portrays so vividly in her five highly acclaimed novels. The role of the writer, Sarah says, is to ‘ask hard questions beautifully'. She certainly does this through her own exploration of individual lives and struggles within clearly defined social structures past and present. From the first female doctors to forge careers against incredible odds in the 19th century to the challenges of working mums and stay-at-home dads in the 21st century - the terrain she covers is immense. Here she talks to Ray about the research and reflection that goes into illuminating both historical and contemporary medical worlds that share common themes and raise critical questions about the way we live today. Her comments on the British National Health Service (the NHS) are timely and heart-felt. She also shares her thoughts on the diverse origins of her storylines, which include both her personal experiences of early motherhood and her political response to news reports from warzones around the globe. Sarah's novels include The Tidal Zone (Granta 2016), Signs for Lost Children (Granta 2015), Bodies of Light (Granta 2014), Night Waking (Granta 2011) and Cold Earth (Granta 2009). She also published a non-fiction book called Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland (Granta 2012), which explores her experiences as a resident of Reykjavik. For a full transcript of this episode visit https://australia.cochrane.org/podcast/sarah-moss-interview-transcript

In this episode Brian interviews several stellar individuals in the Right to Life movement at the 2017 National Right to Life convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He also has an in-depth analysis of the Charlie Gard story and why it is significant in an era of socialized medicine. Finally, “Wordsworth” examines a new concept in medical ethics “futile care,”and what it really means. Wesley J. Smith discusses his new book: Culture of Death: The Age of Do Harm Medicine, and how medical ethics has now been inverted. The average individual who does not understand this change will be at great risk when they are subject to the whims of a medical situation. Bobby Schindler discusses his work on behalf of medically vulnerable individuals who are in danger of being killed in the same manner as his sister, Terri Schiavo. Brian goes into greater depth regarding the Charlie Gard case, where parents who are willing and able to pay for a treatment to help their son live are prohibited from doing so by the British health service. The British health service has proven itself inadequate in addressing truly serious cutting-edge medicine. Even though Charlie’s parents have raised the funds to send him to the United States, the British National Health Service insisted they have the authority to decide what happens to Charlie, and their intention was that he should, “die with dignity.” Dignity is the adjective most commonly used when someone who wants you dead desires to sell the method of killing. It is a word that has come to mean whatever the speaker intends. ”Wordsworth" examines a popular new adjective in medical ethics, “futile”. The adjective implied refers to the care provided to the patient, but in many ethical settings the adjective is actually being applied to the human being in someone’s personal judgment of the value of their ongoing life. “Futile care”, is a phrase regularly used to intentionally deny all food and water thus ending the life of someone who is not actually terminal.

LONDON—More than seventy years after he began work in public health, and just a few months short of his 100th birthday, Professor Jerry Morris—one of the 1930s pioneers of the British National Health Service—is hard at work in the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine investigating factors which keep ordinary people in the community alive longer. His research team has already established that a threshold of income is needed for a minimum standard of health. In discussions with Peter Goodwin he urged the need for acceptance of minimum wages around the world on the basis of the health criteria which he and his co-workers have defined.

LSHTM Audio News British National Health Service is 60! July 5th, 2008 is the 60th birthday of the British National Health Service. Peter Goodwin talks to four experts at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine to find out how it achieved the almost universal approval it enjoys in the UK, while asking what the future holds in store.