Let's do away with postcode lottery healthcare
07/07/2008
All residents in the United Kingdom should have equal access to life saving drugs, where ever they live in the United Kingdom, and what ever there income.
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You're right - hospital parking charges are a disgrace
Hospital parking is indeed a mess as suggested by your readers, and steeped in bureaucracy and hypocrisy.
What price for your doctor's signature?
It is becoming apparent that some doctors are charging extortionate fees for signing documents such as application forms for Blue Badges and passports. Fees of £25 or £30 a time have been mentioned. The NHS Primary Care Trusts have refused to intervene, stating that the doctors mentioned are running private businesses and the fees are outside the NHS.
End of life care: we need love as well as dignity
The article by Alison Davis about voluntary euthanasia (MT, April 2008) really made me think. I am very supportive of Dignity In Dying, but Alison very eloquently put across arguments for the other side. Yet somehow what she said was defeated by her very last sentence: "what we really need is assistance and encouragement to live with dignity until we die naturally."
An insight into care
I would like to advise MT readers to be wary regarding personalized budgets for care. I worked for Social Services for 20 years, and became very aware of how the so-called 'benefits' actually benefitted the Local Authority - because it was a cheaper option for them.
I survived a brain aneurysm - thanks to a scan
After having an MRI scan which revealed multiple brain aneurysms, I feel people need to have the opportunity to protect their health, by screening and good clear information on risks so they have a choice.
Stop sex discrimination - against men!
There is an official screening policy for women for breast and cervical cancer but, as far as I am aware, the official policy for men is that there is NO screening for prostate cancer - which is also a killer.
"We must stop the threat of eviction from care homes"
A Mature Times reader is appealing for your support to stop disabled, frail and vulnerable elderly people being evicted from their care homes.
The dangers of HRT
I have just read your piece about the dangers of HRT (Mature Times, October 2007) and would like to tell you of my experience.
The dangers of HRT
Following several articles in MT regarding HRT, one reader shares her experiences.
Who’s to blame?
With regards to your various articles about prostate cancer, my doctor has retired now, and I called in to see my new doctor about having a PSA test. He reluctantly did it, saying that it wouldn't prove anything. As there is no screening programme for this type of cancer, why keep blaming men for leaving it too late? Surely it's time there was a screening programme for all men over 60?
G. Jenkins, Barnoldswick
It serves no-one to let someone go blind
My mum is 87 and has suffered from dry macular degeneration in both her eyes for the past five years. She has just been diagnosed with wet macula degeneration (AMD) in the right eye. But because she only had an eye test once a year, the wet macular condition has been allowed to develop.
Who should pay for our health?
Why should people with self-inflicted illnesses like obesity, liver problems through excessive drinking, drug addicts and the like have free treatment, when unlucky people, through no fault of their own, who get diseases like Multiple Sclerosis, Alzheimer’s or AMD cannot get the treatment they need?
NICE!
Only a Labour Government could pour millions of extra cash into the NHS, then create an organisation to prevent them from spending it ! A comment often used by Onslow in "Keeping up Appearances" comes to mind......NICE !
"HRT should carry a health warning"
I was very interested to read Maryon Stewart's interview on HRT in the Mature Times. My sister Marianne has been on Hormone Replacement Therapy for 10 years - with dire and drastic consequences.
