Simon Butt
Stakeholder Relations & Campaign Manager, Nottingham, United Kingdom
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The Health and Social Care Bill and the ‘Kidderminster effect’: a classic study
March 20, 2012
As an Emergency Debate on the Health and Social Care Bill begins in the House of Commons, Professor Ian Shaw, Professor of Health Policy at Nottingham’s School of Sociology and Social Policy, gives his professional view of the bill’s bumpy ride this far – a case study of failure that does not bode well for proposed reforms. …
Exercise assumptions challenged by science
March 1, 2012
In the office we have been talking about Tuesday night’s BBC Two programme Horizon: The Truth About Exercise. “Did you know you can get away with doing just three minutes of exercise a week?” (Cue frowns and disbelief from those who spend hours running or sweating in the gym and glints of hope from the rest …