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Fisk's Mutterings, Health
A ‘Healthy’ Conference!
So the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference has backed Nick Clegg’s plans for NHS reform.
The current government is obsessed with Top Down micro managment. It does not work and it wastes vast amounts of taxpayers’ money.
The New Lib Dem guarantee will ensure patients get treated even if the NHS cannot provide the service at the required […] -
Fisk's Mutterings, Environment, Health
The “Green Health” agenda
Liberal Democrats sometimes like to put policy into nice little boxes, roughly corresponding to government departments.
Other parties do this too, but sometimes it is necessary to ‘think outside the box’ as it were.
With the growing environmental awareness in soceity these days the Party has tried to link its ‘green credentialls’ with the whole gamut of […] -
Fisk's Mutterings, Health
Nick Clegg on mental health
Nick was talking about Mental health today in PMQs (Prime Ministers Questions) and raised the good point that some patients wait 3 or more years to get a therapist.
Well I agree this is wrong and Labour has done an inadequate job of improving the Mental Health provision in the NHS. Same old story, not enough […] -
Fisk's Mutterings, Health
Are we drinking ourselves to death?
What is the cost of Alcohol?
Every Friday and Saturday the NHS is swamped with what I call ‘alocohol abusers’… People in their 20’s are being treated for liver disorders caused by Alcohol. A whole generation is being scarred by this ‘recreational drug.
I am a Liberal and I do believe in choice, but sometimes the state […] -
Fisk's Mutterings, Health
Exercise is good for the mind
Sunshine and fresh air are good for mental health as well as physical wellbeing.
It’s not ‘Rocket Science’ (I just love that phrase… I should know!) but even these days many people don’t understand the link between the body and the mind.
MIND (the mental health charity) has recently campaigned on the subject of ‘ecotherapy.’ A good […] -
Fisk's Mutterings, Health
The drugs don’t work….
Well they do for some.
Nick Clegg rightly identified the issue of Mental Ill Health in our society. 1 in 4 people will suffer mental illness during their lifetime. 1 in 6 of us is ‘Mentally ill’ now….
Nick talks about Britain being a “Prozac Nation” and by this he means the ease at which […]
Andrew Fisk
Liberal Democrat Town Councillor for Stroud Central-
Andrew Fisk
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