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Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Inequalities in the NHS

The BBC were pushing the attack on this government's NHS reforms yesterday. Here's what they didn't tell you about one of the signatories:
'"Signatories include Sir Michael Marmot, one of the world's leading experts on health inequalities..."

Might it not have been informative to also tell their readers this:

"On 6 November 2008, Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced that the Secretary of State for Health Alan Johnson had asked Sir Michael Marmot to chair a Review of Health Inequalities in England..."

Now, that doesn't in itself make Mr Marmot wrong, but is surely relevant context to give.'
To the BBC, the background of former Labour associates is of no relevance; I wonder why?


Thanks to Roland Deschain at Biased-BBC for the spot.
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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous6 October 2011 at 11:01

    Reform of the NHS needed?
    Of course it is as events have moved on drastically and it is critical to change their culture as it is with the BBC.
    I fully recommend whatching the award winning Romanian film "The Death of Mr Lazarescu" whereby a terminally ill person is shunted from hospital to hospital with varying degrees of compassion.
    A lesson for the NHS.
    As for the BBC, their biased rendition of events and facts is getting more surreal every day.
    They moaned constantly this morning of the 20% cuts yet the "top dogs" will feel no pain, only their "lower caste" and the public.

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