Why it’s unfair to blame the poor!

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need http://www.deepermind.com/20maslow.htm Behind everything thing we do is a need that wants to be satisfied. We have instincts that keep us alive and continue our species.  But there are other needs that go beyond our body’s instincts. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs starts at the basic physiological needs we need just to stay […]

Hunger kills more than Ebola…

Hunger kills more than Ebola but is not viewed as a threat because the rich don’t die from it!

We find greatest joy…

“We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are…Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get […]

SOCIAL HOUSING

Secure, permanent, affordable housing is necessary for a person’s mental health.  It’s time that governments realised this and reverted back to the days when they provided this essential need.    

NHS too quick to rescusitate acutely ill people

1 June 2012  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18278110 Some of the most frail elderly patients are suffering “distressing” deaths because hospitals wrongly try to resuscitate them, a watchdog says. The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death reviewed the care given to 585 acutely-ill patients who ended up having a cardiac arrest. The watchdog concluded that cardiopulmonary resuscitation […]

NHS ‘should carry out fewer ineffective procedures’

By Branwen Jeffreys Health correspondent, BBC News 13 April 2011 The NHS in England could save money by carrying out fewer less effective procedures, a report has concluded. The Audit Commission says cutting spending on treatments that work less well could save up to £500m a year. In a separate report, The King’s Fund says […]

Health expenditure over $100 billion!

Australia’s health 2010 http://www.aihw.gov.au/publication Summary  released 23 June 2010 Key points General Life expectancy and death Australia’s life expectancy at birth continues to rise and is among the highest in the world—almost 84 years for females and 79 years for males. Death rates are falling for many of our major health problems such as cancer, […]