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This article features in the latest BMJ. It has been made open access and is copied in full below. I campaigned for Scotland to introduce Sunshine legislation. I did so … Continue reading Academy of Royal Medical Colleges: 4 years on and where is the response to the Cumberlege Review?
This report by Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary Group has just been published and can be read in full here. What follows are the opening pages including a list of contents … Continue reading ‘A Call for an Overhaul of the Mental Health System’
As published in The Independent on 11th May 2024: Exclusive: The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is to look at the effectiveness of side-effect warnings in relation to the … Continue reading Prescribed drugs: ‘to be probed over link to suicide and self-harm’
I was recently shared a letter sent to Dr Jane Raine, CEO of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency [MHRA] in relation to her impending intention to ‘step-down’. The … Continue reading Acting as first line of defence for the pharmaceutical industry
As printed in the Dundee Evening Post, Thursday 24 January 1901:
This rapid response by Dr Peter J. Selley was recently submitted to the BMJ. It would be helpful if those involved at a senior level in National Suicide Prevention strategies … Continue reading 150 reports of possible cases of self-injury and suicidal thoughts
The MHRA has failed us all. Long and weary, it has been saturated by competing financial interests. Why on earth are we not following through on the very carefully considered … Continue reading MHRA [our Medical Watchdog]
A passage from ‘The Remains of the Day’ by Kazuo Ishiguro.